效力于某知名搜索引擎公司的程序员加利·史密斯（多姆纳尔·格利森DomhnallGleeson饰）幸运地抽中老板纳森（奥斯卡?伊萨克OscarIsaac饰）所开出的大奖，他将受邀前往位于深山的别墅中和老板共度假期。在与世隔绝的别墅中，纳森亲切地接待了这位员工。事实上他邀请加利到来还有另一个目的，那就是协助他完成其所开发的智能机器人的测试。天才一般的纳森研制了具有独立思考能力的智能机器人伊娃（艾丽西亚·维坎德AliciaVikander饰），为了确认她是否具有独立思考的能力，他希望加利能为伊娃进行著名的“图灵测试”。似乎从第一眼开始，加利便为这台有着宛如人类般姣好容颜的机器人所吸引。　　在随后的交流中，他所面对的似乎不是冷冰冰的机器，而更像是一个被无辜囚禁起来的可怜少女……A: I got a question.B: - Okay.A: Why did you give her sexuality? An AI doesn't need a gender. She could have been a gray box.B: Actually, I don't think that's true. Can you give an example of consciousness, at any level, human or animal, that exists without a sexual dimension?A: They have sexuality as an evolutionary reproductive need.B: What imperative does a gray box have to interact with another gray box? Can consciousness exist without interaction? Anyway, sexuality is fun, man. If you're gonna exist, why not enjoy it? You want to remove the chance of her falling in love and fucking? And in answer to your real question, you bet she can fuck. A: What?B: In between her legs, there's an opening, with a concentration of sensors.You engage them in the right way, creates a pleasure response. So if you wanted to screw her, mechanically speaking, you could. And she'd enjoy it.A: That wasn't my real question.B: Oh, okay. Sorry.A: My real question was, did you give her sexuality as a diversion tactic?B: I don't follow.A: Like a stage magician with a hot assistant.B: So a hot robot who clouds your ability to judge her AI? A: Exactly. So...Did you program her to flirt with me?B: If I did, would that be cheating? A: Wouldn't it?B: Caleb, what's your type?A: Of girl? B: Yeah, of girl. What's your type of girl? You know what? Don't even answer that. Let's say it's black chicks. Okay, that's your thing. For the sake of argument, that's your thing, okay? Why is that your thing? Because you did a detailed analysis of all racial types and you cross-referenced that analysis with a points-based system? No! You're just attracted to black chicks. A consequence of accumulated external stimuli that you probably didn't even register as they registered with you.A: Did you program her to like me, or not?B: I programmed her to be heterosexual.Just like you were programmed to be heterosexual.A: Nobody programmed me to be straight.B: You decided to be straight? Please. Of course you were programmed. By nature or nurture, or both. And to be honest, Caleb, you're starting to annoy me now, because this is your insecurity talking. This is not your intellect. Come with me. You know this guy, right?A: Jackson Pollock. B: Jackson Pollock. That's right. The drip painter. Okay. He let his mind go blank, and his hand go where it wanted. Not deliberate, not random. Some place in between.They called it automatic art. What if Pollock had reversed the challenge? What if instead of making art without thinking, he said, "You know what? I can't paint anything, unless I know exactly why I'm doing it." What would have happened?A: He never would have made a single mark.B: Yes! You see. He never would have made a single mark. The challenge is not to act automatically. It's to find an action that is not automatic. From painting, to breathing, to talking, to fucking, to falling in love. And for the record, Ava's not pretending to like you. And her flirting isn't an algorithm to fake you out. You're the first man she's met that isn't me. And I'm like her dad, right? Can you blame her for getting a crush on you? No, you can't.A: Why did you make Ava?B: That's an odd question. Wouldn't you, if you could?A: Maybe. I don't know. I'm asking why you did it.B: Look, the arrival of strong artificial intelligence has been inevitable for decades. The variable was "when," not "if." So I don't see Ava as a decision, just an evolution.A: When you make a new model, what do you do with the old one?B: Well, I...download the mind, unpack the data. Add in the new routines I've been writing. And to do that you end up partially formatting, so the memories go. But the body survives. And Ava's body is a good one. You feel bad for Ava? Feel bad for yourself, man. One day the AIs are gonna look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons in the plains of Africa. An upright ape, living in dust, with crude language and tools. All set for extinction.A:"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."B: There you go again, Mr. Quotable.A: It's not my quote. It's what Oppenheimer said after he made the atomic bomb.B: The atomic bomb. Yeah, I know what it is, dude.A: Hey. I'd say we're about due a refill.B: Bottoms up.