Paul Bettany

0:01Intelligent machines will soon allow us to conquer our most intractable challenges. To develop new methods for the early detection of cancer. To build a better future for all of us. Simply put, to save lives. Once online, its analytical power will be greater than the collective intelligence of every person born in the history of the world. So maybe we'll continue on that topic. Sure. Thinking about this movie after seeing it and you did a lot of research into it, your character is kind of skeptical about how AI is all going to go. Yeah. Learning everything that you learned preparing for this, how do you see it playing itself out when the event never does? I mean, I'm simply far too blonde and stupid to be the person that I asked that question of.

0:46But my research, you know, I humbly suggest in the research that I have done that it is absolutely inevitable and that our lives have always been on a collision course with machinery and it will just continue. I mean, computers growing in power exponentially and every year there is twice the power, computer power in the world, but there wasn't a year before. When Kasparov lost, you know, beat the computer at chess, he laughed and the next year he lost. I'm intrigued by this Caltech thing where the guy told you it would be 30 years before this happens, which is what Ray Kurzwell writes about as well.

1:33Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm not a science guy. So I wanted to ask. You just play one in the movie. Exactly. And you know, the reason I went was so that I didn't just, you know, kind of do this a lot, you know, this. And you know, whatever. Very good acting job. Thank you very much. So I went to, you know, to ask him what is the, you know, what is the, you know, how far fetched is this story? And he said 30 years and I said, wait, that you're talking about uploading a human consciousness into a computer with all of its thoughts, emotions, its feet, you know, its history and in infinitesimal detail. They said, yes. And we're, but that's immortality. And he went, yes.

2:19Now that was not a cook. You know, that's one of the foremost neuroscientists in the world telling me that it's inevitable. I got to let you go. But we do some call five questions. Five quick questions. One word answers. Oh God. Script or improv? Script. Staedra screen. Screen. Lettin or McCartney? Lettin. I knew you'd say that one. Hitchcock or Kubrick? In one word, transcendence. Shocking. Oh, it's a good one. So the Lettin or McCartney thing, just because you said there are two types of people, I think I read that quote, there are two types of people, there's a Lettin people and the McCartney people. You want to explain that? Well, you know, aim one is you get older, you become less definitive about all opinions.

3:09And that was something I said in my twenties. But I think what I was meaning was, you know, when Lettin and McCartney came back from India, Lettin wrote, Happiness is a warm gun. And Paul wrote, Oobla de Oobla da. You know what I mean? And who would you like to go and have a drink with?