A bullied teen receives mysterious help from someone online: a stranger soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David, whose consciousness has been uploaded to the Cloud following an experimental destructive brain scan. David is the first of a new kind of being – an “Uploaded Intelligence” or “UI” – but he will not be the last, as a global conspiracy unfolds that threatens to trigger a new kind of world war.
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00:30The Greek god Zeus leads a heavenly war against his father Kronos for supremacy of the universe.
00:39The Babylonian goddess Tiamat makes war against her children and killed her husband who tried to kill them.
00:47The Norse god Odin and his brothers forge a new world from the murdered corpse of their grandpa.
00:54Most of the girls in my class completely missed the moment when the world began to end.
00:59Too wrapped up in their own drama, obsessed with their own lives.
01:03Or trying to ruin mine.
01:17And the list goes on and on and on.
01:19But the story, well, the story is kind of the same.
01:23Family feud escalates into violent power struggle between a pantheon of supreme beings and their offspring.
01:30A new world is created in the aftermath.
01:33And this same basic plot is the backbone of creation myths.
01:38Different cultures from different parts of the world that know nothing about each other.
01:43Comparative mythologists call this a...
01:46Tom? Where are you going?
01:49Bathroom.
01:51Forget something?
01:53My phone's in my bag.
01:55Cool. When it's on my desk you can go to the restroom.
02:07Hey.
02:09Madison! Hey!
02:16Hey.
02:26It's been two years.
02:29Two years ago this week, actually.
02:31And she really hasn't been the same since he passed.
02:35As you can imagine.
02:36I can. Yeah.
02:38I wish we would have known.
02:40She didn't say anything.
02:42No, and I didn't either. I should have on the application.
02:45You know.
02:47With that and the MOOC.
02:50New school. New home.
02:52I get it. Change is a huge cause of stress.
02:55And then you add in being a teenager on top.
03:00Oh my God!
03:02Dad!
03:04It'll need upgrades.
03:06I love it!
03:07I figure every engineer needs their toolkit.
03:11It might be a little slow, but...
03:13I'll swap in an SSD, boost the RAM.
03:18Did you get it on eBay or Newegg?
03:20Actually, it's Mom's old laptop.
03:22Mom's?
03:23Mm-hmm.
03:25She should know the password.
03:28She's never gonna give me that.
03:30Well, not if you don't ask her.
03:32She wants me to unplug.
03:34She hates all technology.
03:36No, she doesn't.
03:39Why do you want me to talk to Mom?
03:41Is this a trick question?
03:43Why did you give me this?
03:45My birthday's not till next month.
03:47Maddie.
03:49I thought you were getting better.
03:52What's the point of all of this if you're not getting better?
03:55I don't want this stupid computer!
04:03Maddie, if I really thought I was done with you,
04:06Maddie, if I really thought I was dying,
04:08I would give you my laptop.
04:10I give you that one because it's a piece of junk.
04:13And I want you to talk to Mom because she's your mom.
04:17She's smart, and she's caring,
04:20and if you go into a rough patch,
04:23she is the absolute best person to talk to.
04:31You want to talk about it?
04:33No.
04:36Okay.
05:06I love you.
05:36I love you.
06:06I love you.
06:36I love you.
07:07Don't feel weakness.
07:15You're confused, or you can't talk.
07:19Whatever.
07:21I saw the damn e-mail.
07:37Yeah.
07:39It made me feel like shit.
07:47Easier said than done.
07:56Umbrella in the rain?
08:01Protection from the rain?
08:06Yeah.
08:08I'm not afraid of the rain.
08:11I'm not afraid of the rain.
08:14I'm not afraid of the rain.
08:17I'm not afraid of the rain.
08:20I'm not afraid of the rain.
08:23I'm not afraid of the rain.
08:26I'm not afraid of the rain.
08:29I'm not afraid of the rain.
08:32I'm not afraid of the rain.
08:35I'm not afraid of the rain.
08:48They always try to get in right at the bell or a little after.
08:52Cuts down on their time to mess with you.
08:59Sometimes it doesn't work.
09:06Eight means eight.
09:08Come on, take your seats.
09:10Mr. Jones, I am in mine.
09:13Kelly's the best, Mr. Jones.
09:15We are tardy.
09:17Okay, guys, if you check psych,
09:20I put your syllabus in there.
09:22What's wrong?
09:26Today, though, something was different.
09:30Something was different.
10:01I'm not sure what was going on,
10:04but by lunch,
10:07the Mara squad was turning on one another.
10:11That's crazy.
10:13I don't know what's going on.
10:16I don't know what's going on.
10:19I don't know what's going on.
10:22I don't know what's going on.
10:25I don't know what's going on.
10:29That's really so sympathetic.
10:32Oh my god.
10:58Aaron it's okay what is your problem bitch my problem how did you have my
11:44how did you hack all of them
12:14you know my mother who knows me you're home early the computers went down at
12:23work who are you talking to I'm not it's just a chat with who uh emo and who's
12:32emo just someone online who's been helping me let me see no mom
12:44it's not gonna work how long has this been going on nothing is going on mom
12:48what is this what are these that's all he uses I thought you didn't know who he
12:53was how do you know emo is a he I don't I just call him emo because he only
12:58talks in emoji do you have any idea how dangerous he won't respond I got it
13:14how do I get out of this I don't know it's it's not an app it's like a root
13:24chat
13:33mom what our lips of man's lips what lips my lips have kissed and where and
13:42why it's from a poem what poem
13:54no no way no goddamn way
14:12dr. Waxman please no I don't have an extension Peter Waxman head of research
14:19tell him it's Ellen Kim he'll pick up
14:23Ellen what have you done with David don't bullshit me Pete he just sent me a
14:28message on the computer no no you hang up this phone and it is war just tell me
14:34the truth what have you done with my husband
14:42Oh
14:50that'll make from Palo Alto it's Waxman Oh we have a breach someone reached out
14:59to David Kim's family Oh who do you think what do they know nothing they can
15:06prove didn't you say if we partitioned language processing this wouldn't be an
15:11issue I told you the brain is holonomic you need to cut his network access now
15:17yeah okay you're right but don't sound so nervous Pete this is a big step
15:23forward
15:41oh what's wrong nothing just want to hear how it's going with our boy fine
16:01but I'd rather update you at check-in I don't want to send you an incomplete
16:05report yeah I understand you know sitting here in my car without my notes
16:11fair enough we'll talk soon
16:36Gauss sits at the absolute maximum point on the curve 4y equals negative 2x to
16:43the third plus 3x to the second plus 7 over the interval negative 1 2 now
16:49Pascal's seed is collinear with those of Gauss and Kronecker so where does
16:54Pascal sit Caspian Caspian 2 0 can you tell us how you arrived at that since
17:06Gauss sits at negative 1 3 and Kronecker at 1 1 slope is negative 1
17:19student stores around the corner and there's the auditorium with a theater
17:23do you think no no no that's Casper the unfriendly goth Caspian oh like um
17:32Narnia sorry no you're right Narnia come on before he shoots up the school don't
17:41you hear the strange talking beasts Hannah like Montana
17:53I hear the shouting in the streets
18:09to me
18:13the reason
18:24hi we're out of milk oh shit I um I got caught up at the post office and then I
18:37forgot about the groceries
18:53I think logarithms faked my dad's death and holding him hostage
19:23this is real everyone knows logarithms is dirty they built military-grade AI's
19:29for the UN and pillion has the UN contracts logarithms built the exploit
19:33for the NSA to scan your hard drive
19:42so what do you think now man
19:48that is not true and that I'm stupid hey you're not stupid and I didn't say it's
19:56not true just that there's not enough evidence to prove that aliens built the
20:00pyramids and that there's more evidence to suggest that they were man-made I
20:05mean I feel dumb for believing Bianca and Ali like they're always swearing the
20:12Illuminati is real and aliens planted humans and yeah it's just a fifth grade
20:18thing it's an every great thing people of all ages believe in conspiracies why
20:25I think because they're scared of death or danger chaos exactly
20:30vocab word correct use chaos is scary for a lot of people and as weird as it
20:38sounds they feel much better believing that there's somebody behind the scenes
20:44controlling everything even if that somebody is a secret society or evil
20:50government or even alien force controlling the world now it's still
20:55scary but not as bad as feeling like there's no one in charge so then none of
21:01these conspiracies are true necessarily you should always seek out proof and you
21:12should never stop asking questions
21:30you see back no this is the recovered chat log from my swap file and all the
21:55IP connections as far as I could trace what are you doing with all that asking
21:58for help someone has to we just had this conversation there was no
22:04conversation I told you to call the police and tell them what I heard you
22:09say he's alive I heard you say what have you done with my husband I didn't say I
22:17was upset because of the poem I know I looked it up
22:21I'm missing Vincent Millay dad had these books of hers those are mine and I never
22:27said he was alive I was upset because someone was playing a prank who
22:34logarithms why that's what I'm gonna find out no you're not telling me
22:39something you're lying Maddy look at me your father is not alive
22:57we got a new torch at
23:23Tom you'll want to see this is this you who's he talking to must read the emoji
23:3410 previous chats going back five months send me those and start a track
23:52you
24:23you
24:43hates me doesn't she no it's okay I get it this has nothing to do with Maddy
24:50then I don't get it is it something I did no but it's something you can't tell
24:57me about you there's nothing to tell nothing you would believe or nothing
25:05you would understand what I'm not sure I understand all right I know we haven't
25:14known each other for that long six months and this has only been for the
25:17last three so there's no obligation or anything I want to call it off or take a
25:23break or whatever just just do that could have been over the phone most
25:29people don't even do that much game I know I didn't want to do that because
25:33really you've done nothing wrong in fact ah I really like you I really like you
25:43so you see how it's hard to get a call out of nowhere to meet you at a random
25:47Starbucks dear you can't see me anymore but you can't tell me why cuz it's
25:52something I wouldn't understand or believe it makes me worried Ellen
25:56should I be worried cuz if you're in some kind of trouble it's my husband
26:02it's David I get it okay despite what she did I still think about Julie I'm
26:13like Julie David sounds like he was an amazing person but he's gone Ellen he
26:20didn't leave you but he's not coming back whether you're with me or not it's
26:25not gonna change I love him but I love you too
26:43good morning one for breakfast I think I'm meant to meet someone mr. Chanda
26:56your party's expecting you
27:06singularity is near and whoever makes the big bets and the right bets will
27:12control not just the market but the future
27:19singularity isn't that robots taking over wiping us out that's AI I'm talking
27:25about you I uploaded intelligence uploaded uploading human minds to the
27:33cloud what like memories or no the whole person the whole brain every neuron a
27:38digital emulation of a human mind which you run with massive parallel computers
27:45is that the tech that presides developing hey you're 6,000 miles from
27:55Mumbai and you're just grabbing some breakfast before your flight it sounds
27:59like science fiction to me sure but so does half the stuff we do every day
28:02driverless cars computers on our wrists genetic editing right I promise you we
28:08doubt this man at our own peril you are looking at the second coming of
28:11Nostradamus hey I'm just an engineer no no no you are a prophet Chanda if I
28:17didn't work for Ajit Prasad you'd be calling me a battle trough Prasad may
28:21get the spotlight but we know you're the guy behind the guy Alliance isn't
28:29patenting the technology they're not even developing it as far as I know but
28:33someone is someone will and when they do it'll change the world or end it or we
28:39are done that's for certain but it's not death it's retirement unless you
28:43consider them the same thing I don't this will be bigger than the industrial
28:50revolution the UI's will transform business medicine construction once
28:55they are running things humans can kick back all at once and for good
28:59this will birth a massive retirement industry for the young which will have
29:02its own opportunities the market for new products and services is endless can you
29:09give us an example you mean like a free sample no double your current salary
29:19year one stock bonuses commensurate with patent performance and you come into the
29:23spotlight my friend that's very generous very tempting but this has
29:32nothing to do with generosity you're worth this
29:49mr. Chanda
30:19research is climbing nuclear plant maintenance program will make human
30:25supervision or Korean leader said to be seeking digital prize Alliance engineer
30:30but no Chanda and you think you're kidnapped dinners ready okay and dad's
30:39home
30:50hey dad hi stir-fry with tofu and bok choy with tofu and bok choy is that
31:04alright I thought you said something about a home-cooked meal this is
31:08home-cooked Monday through Thursday all I eat is Chinese takeout or room service
31:15I don't understand I see that this is home-cooked I cooked it you've stated
31:21that twice now I haven't disputed at once how's San Jose how's school I got
31:29a call from Caspian's calculus teacher today she said he's ready to take the AP
31:35exam now and start a college course next semester well it's good he's passed that
31:40differential calcs worthless worthless it's not practical in the real world
31:45unless you want to be a teacher you want to be a programmer lambda well I
31:49thought it was impressive and if you were hiring for centillion or logarithms
31:53your opinion might have I know lambda really so if I were to give you a
31:59problem like the kind they'd throw for an entry-level coder job you could solve
32:04it carry you brought up math Renee I'm just talking to my son I'm pretty tired
32:11I'll give you an easy one then five geniuses sit around a table each with
32:16the bowl of tofu stir-fry with bok choy in front of them there's one chopstick
32:20between each guy therefore one to the right and left in order to eat any given
32:25genius needs to use both chopsticks they have to alternate eating and thinking
32:30because they can't do both at the same time how do you make sure all the
32:34geniuses get their thinking done without starving to death I think I
32:39know this one each man takes a chopstick to feed the man next to him that's a
32:43religious allegory between heaven and hell this is a concurrent algorithm
32:47problem so he knows what the problem is that is a start assume infinite amount
32:53of stir-fry and infinite amount of stomach space maybe it is hell it's hard
32:58to avoid deadlock isn't it this is a shared resource problem that appears in
33:02programming all the time uh-uh the guy on your right's using that one he just
33:07wants to eat his dinner quiet I give up I don't get it it's a hierarchy solution
33:15you assign a partial order to the resources okay you number the chopsticks
33:20one through five each man picks up the lowest number first from the two in
33:23front of them and the order the order they put them down in doesn't matter if
33:27four of the five geniuses pick up the lowest numbered stick only the highest
33:30number remains on the table leaving an odd man out until the next round I
33:36thought you said you didn't get it it's not practical in the real world unless
33:41your program only has access to one database across multiple you'd have to
33:46release hired number records before accessing new ones in your program would
33:50stall then crash then you'd be fired oh but you do avoid deadlocks it's easy to
33:59poke holes when you don't have introduce a third party someone from the
34:02outside a waiter an arbitrator that each genius has to ask permission for to lift
34:07their stick they can always put down but they must have permission to lift third
34:11party works as a mutex reduces parallelism Wow honey Wow honey do you
34:18even understand one word he said I understand a lot of things I know he
34:22wasn't wrong I know that here take mine too just like I know what home cooked
34:26means even if you don't it's meal home-cooked meal it's not tofu not kale
34:32meatloaf mashed potatoes you know food
34:56meatloaf and mashed potatoes I improvised
35:19that's right
35:26Oh
35:56okay guys come on take your seats let's get started
36:26Oh
36:56Oh
37:17journals please
37:20and come on
37:24I'm sorry I'm late
37:37I'm sorry I'm late
37:40I'm sorry I'm late
37:44and come on I knew it Samara this where you have to stop out here I didn't let
37:57me see your laptop the bell rang I'm late admit what you did or I will kick
38:03your ass right here right now hey did you just threaten my daughter let me go
38:09shut up you touch her again I will kick your ass and I will gladly suffer the
38:14consequence get me uh-huh mom stop are you okay doing here look I I came to say
38:24sorry I didn't expect I'm sorry
38:31you're right there's something I'm not telling you something I never thought
38:39I'd have to and now I have to
38:55it's a massive DDoS attack we're trying to black hole it but there's multiple
39:00simultaneous attacks okay where are they from there's no signature it's just a
39:04message written in idiogram let man go or let him go I I don't know call Shire
39:12and Stern and have them check on Lowell I think she just realized she's not the
39:16only one out there what
39:30you
39:47the true breakthrough will come not when we create an artificial intelligence
39:53that can think but one that can feel I heard they're testing a program to
39:59upload healing brains this is dangerous tech you don't want to play with it
40:05hi kiddo dad I want to show you something
40:11how can we be human without a body now you can say holy shit
40:17holy shit right now we are the only uploads but soon there will be others
40:23this is bigger than your dad or you or me you don't understand
40:28capable of there's going to be more
40:34we were human we are gods
40:58you