Three researchers working on artificial intelligence use digitalized memories to create a self-aware and self-improving computer program. As this 'new mind' rapidly develops, it confronts existential problems of identity and morality, while engaging in a lethal power struggle between man and technology. 'I think thoughts in 10,000 dimensions ... I'm everywhere,' forewarns the chaotic, greater-than-human intelligence as it ultimately learns to kill or be killed.
