What do you think Skynet is like?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Terminator
kuatorises — 3 years ago(July 29, 2022 06:30 PM)
We never see Skynet. Hell, we never even get so much as a glimpse of what it's "personality" is like.
I have always gotten the impression it is very cold and analytical. Salvation and Genesys show it as having an avatar. I never pictured it like that. Skynet would never consider a human form imo. It's some big computer in a room. Many rooms, because it's smart enough to exist in more than 1 spot. It doesn't even speak because it doesn't want to be human. In my mind, it undoutebly speaks in a series of 1s and 0s to it's terminators and HKs.
I'm not sure it has any longterm goals after wiping out humanity. It's not that I can't see it thinking ahead as so much as I don't see it having any desires. Skynet was built to destroy. I have no idea what it would do if it ever won. -
Mrsfenshi_Star — 3 years ago(July 29, 2022 07:16 PM)
The Terminator : In three years, Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Sarah Connor : Skynet fights back. The Terminator : Yes. It launches its missiles against the targets in Russia. -
kuatorises — 3 years ago(July 29, 2022 07:28 PM)
"Defense network computers. New… powerful… hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination."
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kuatorises — 3 years ago(July 30, 2022 01:03 AM)
I can't see it being anything but that. Some movies or shows portray AI as wanting to be human. I just don't see that. Skynet is the antithesis of that.
It's built to conquer. I don't think it would know what to do if it won. Maybe go to space and look for more life to kill? -
kuatorises — 3 years ago(August 29, 2022 06:03 PM)
Right? It only made Terminators to infiltrate the human forces. It would never conceive of taking a human shape unless it felt it was tactically necessary; like it became the most advanced Terminator ever in an act of desperation.