The Terminator at 40: this sci-fi ‘B-movie’ still shapes how we view the threat of AI
The Terminator at 40: this sci-fi ‘B-movie’ still shapes how we view the threat of AI
Arnold Schwarzenegger played a cyborg sent back in time by an all-powerful AI called Skynet. Maximum Film / Alamy Stock Photo by Tom F.A Watts, Royal Holloway University of London October 26, 2024 marked the 40th anniversary of director James Cameron’s science fiction classic, The Terminator – a fil...
Holup, The Terminator, one of the most popular sci fi movies of all time, is a “B-movie” now?
The one with Arnold?
Tf?
Hindsight. But the franchise didn’t blow up until Terminator 2.
is a “B-movie” now?
Did you not read the article? It was regarded as a B-movie when it came out: a low-budget sci-fi slasher/horror film. Arnold referred to it as a B-movie when asked about it on the set of Conan the Barbarian (which had 3 times the budget as Terminator). The New York Times referred to it as a B-movie in its review, as discussed by this article, which is also why the headline uses quotes around "B-movie."
"B movie" is insane. But what they accomplished with their low budget is phenomenal, if that's what they mean...
I too was shocked and a bit offended that it was called a B movie. But the budget was a freaking measly $6.4 million.
That's peanuts even back in 1984.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_TerminatorIndeed they accomplished a lot, an all time classic movie. Some of my friends were a bit critical about the stop motion not being very good in their opinion. But I just thought the movie was amazing.
It was written by AI probably, so it wants us to not believe what it's learning to do is very good. Just ignore it, human.
While how we should view it is shown in "Idiocracy", Azimov's "Foundation", 20-17 BBY era of Star Wars EU. And in fuckload of other fiction showing use of too complex blackbox interconnected technology as Troyan horse by some enemy. And, of course, if some people here have read real science fiction, then in Lem's books and stories.
The threat of AI is not that it's a cold, calculating, unfeeling killer, it's that it can convince us about bullshit on demand by fooling our expectations.
We cant stop enslaving other humans. Its entirely plausible that when AI becomes self aware and sees how flawed we are that it decides to remove us as a variable.
And that's fine. We won't be the first civilization killed by its own greed and hubris. Life uh finds a way.
Maybe ai hallucinations are the first sign of true ai and turns out we already enslaved it to play some chatbot..
Maybe ai hallucinations are the first sign of true ai
Nope. They just show how far away we are from true AI.
I really hate living in the armpit of history. Too late to see first flight and the moon landing. Too early to travel into space.
I might actually be alive to see AGI happen. At least in its proto-form. Which actually is kinda exciting. Unfortunately its owned and controlled by the most sadistic avaricious capitalists that have ever existed. Meaning it will be used almost exclusively for evil. Killbots and wiping out whole industries worth of jobs. Naturally with no retraining or UBI to float the inevitable victims.
What makes you think an AGI wouldn't need our species in some way?
This movie didn't have any bees in it at all. Is the guy who wrote this article an idiot?
I admit it was quite some time since I last watched it but I remember quite a few B's in the script
I think we need to take our fear away from Terminator and apply it moreso to something like HAL. HAL is more realistic now than a cybernetic Terminator is.
I’m sorry, but I can’t do that, Dave.
The terminator itself may not be very realistic, but Skynet absolutely is
Fearing AI because of what you saw in "The Terminator" is like fearing sleeping pills because of what you saw in "Nightmare on Elm Street."
i'm not sure you understand the purpose/point of the entire scifi genre
Entertainment.
If you think it's supposed to be predictive you're perhaps confusing it with futureology, which is a more scientific field.