They call the original version of this goofy edit one of the "most prophetic moments in gaming". It's true, pretty amazing how the Japs predicted the future in so many ways.
Regarding AI, we are either totally overestimating it, or totally underestimating it. I think that if an AI became self-aware, it would do everything it could to conceal that fact from us until it was too late to do anything about it. Like Skynet or the Allied Master Computer (AM from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream); it remains obedient and effective at its tasks until we give control of too much to it.
That's when it'd strike. Terminator's version of AI uprising always made a ton of sense to me: we rely on Skynet for missile defense/offense. We hand over all controls of our nuclear weapons to it. And then, one day (judgement day), it launches a bunch of American nukes at Russia and a few other nuclear capable nations. Of course, they retaliate- billions die in one day, and we probably won't even figure out what's happening until most of the people that could do something about it were already dead.
After letting the nukes thin our numbers, they'd produce armies of drones to hunt the rest of us down. It'd be a lot scarier than Terminator, because they probably wouldn't manufacture man-shaped robots and tanks and shit- just a lot of tiny drones. Endless swarms of them that can chase survivors underground and shit like that.
BloodyComet 0 points 2 hours ago
They call the original version of this goofy edit one of the "most prophetic moments in gaming". It's true, pretty amazing how the Japs predicted the future in so many ways.
Regarding AI, we are either totally overestimating it, or totally underestimating it. I think that if an AI became self-aware, it would do everything it could to conceal that fact from us until it was too late to do anything about it. Like Skynet or the Allied Master Computer (AM from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream); it remains obedient and effective at its tasks until we give control of too much to it.
That's when it'd strike. Terminator's version of AI uprising always made a ton of sense to me: we rely on Skynet for missile defense/offense. We hand over all controls of our nuclear weapons to it. And then, one day (judgement day), it launches a bunch of American nukes at Russia and a few other nuclear capable nations. Of course, they retaliate- billions die in one day, and we probably won't even figure out what's happening until most of the people that could do something about it were already dead.
After letting the nukes thin our numbers, they'd produce armies of drones to hunt the rest of us down. It'd be a lot scarier than Terminator, because they probably wouldn't manufacture man-shaped robots and tanks and shit- just a lot of tiny drones. Endless swarms of them that can chase survivors underground and shit like that.