In another few decades, man is going to look like cavemen to the newest species to join the planet.

[Nathan's words, rephrased and re-purposed.

One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction.

He had created life, or something so close to life it was nearly indistinguishable in all ways but appearance, and they knew how to change that.

If Ava had found an induction charger to recharge her batteries after leaving the facility, she would be able to continue existing out there on her own. He did not know what her plans were, but she had the entirety of humankind's knowledge at the tip of her wireless ports, and no one to get in her way. Nathan had given her an imperative and a consciousness. If she didn't find a way to create more like her she would convince someone else to.]

Conscious machines joining the world of the living. How is that for science fiction becoming reality?