A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines.
7 seconds sound clip from the The Matrix movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:41:41 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Welcome to the desert of the real.
- We have only bits and pieces of information.
- We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI.
- AI... You mean artificial intelligence.
- A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines.
- We don't know who struck first, us or them.
- But we know that it was us that scorched the sky.
- Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive.
- Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
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