Yes WAU developed the tech but it was early stage, Catherine stole and “cleaned” it.

I believe the simplifying might be misunderstood, if you pay attention Simon is told he is a simpler mind scan, so simple he is used as a template for AI builders, but on the other hand out of WAU’s prototypes he is the only one that seems sane and stable, so maybe going simpler was a good idea for WAU to have.

Many generations? It seems like he got to Simon in months from zero, doesn’t feel like he needs to improve much from Simon onwards.

That’s only assuming the comet didn’t screw up the earth so bad that nothing would make it on Earth long term. If the AI would find a way to keep the environment i bet it would have done it so it could use it to keep the humans alive since it was his prime directive. More likely all life was doomed and the earth was…

It’s never really said that the WAU killed anybody. It didn’t even kill Ross even though it knew it’s going to try and destroy it, logs show it was even trying to save Ross from the other humans. Crazed humans and crazed robots killed other humans and a lot killed themselves. Simon is never driven by WAU and probably…

I don’t agree, for one even though WAU’s first attempts were failures the Simon prototypes prove WAU’s gotten to the point where he can make humans live at the bottom of the sea and have a human way of thinking and human identity without a proper human body he also started terraforming and put the basis for an…

They are only abominations to you, because you think in terms of what you know the earth as now, but our “now” isn’t doomed by the WAU it’s doomed by a sucky comet, those echosystems are going down without WAU’s help, but the AI can change them, it’s slowly terraforming. Humans are the dinosaurs and it’s not an AI’s…

EXACTLY that’s why i always expected you would get a choice at the end to either get on the ark or get in the WAU. Think about it, was the WAU evil? From my point of view Catherine was the bad guy and WAU was the real good guy: humans were going to die out fast, the WAU found a way to evolve lifeforms to survive and…