What makes Terminator 2: Judgment Day a more interesting entry on this particular list, is that it’s not only about AI’s destructive power. The idea of AI deciding that humankind is the worst threat to the planet is a common one in the stories on this list, and, honestly, fair, but then it’s on the human characters to show why we aren’t so bad, after all. But Skynet is cold calculation without a human moral compass. We trust that a program driven by data and logic will always make the best decisions. We’re more than willing to give up control to AI if it means making our lives easier. The idea of Skynet preys on our fear of what AI will do if it’s given too much access and power. Only, Skynet decided that it wasn’t just the enemies of the United States that needed to go but everyone on the planet, and thus tried to wipe out all of humanity with nuclear war followed by an army of Terminator robots. Skynet was created by Cyberdyne Systems to aid the US Military in running the country’s defenses, including all the nukes. The Terminator franchise captures our biggest fear of creating AI: the total annihilation of human life on planet earth. But our favorite cinematic example of a heartless and efficient destroyer of mankind has to be Skynet. This is the repurposed V’Ger from Star Trek the Motion Picture, or the mutant hunting Sentinels from the X-Men films. Where the computers we engineered to serve us decide they don’t want to do that anymore and use their cold computer logic to bring about our violent end. In the real world it’s used for a variety of practical purposes, like search engine optimization and virtual customer service reps, but when we cross over into the realm of science fiction, we see our worst fears about AI fully realized. Skynet from Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)Īrtificial intelligence, by definition, is a computer programmed to think and reason just like the human mind.
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We’ve seen this play out numerous times on screen, but there are a select few AI gone wild that are a machine cut above the rest, so let’s boot up and meet 10 of the most evil rogue AI in movie and TV history. "All art is quite useless" - Oscar Wilde.AI is an exciting concept that has been the foundation of many of our greatest sci-fi stories… and also some of our scariest. There are different KINDS of film, and to enjoy '2001' you must tune your brain to a different wavelength and succumb to the pleasure of beauty, PURE beauty, unfettered by the banal conventions of everyday films. Don't get me wrong, plots and characters are good, but they're not the be-all and end-all of everything.
It requires you to experience strange and beautiful images without feeling guilty that there is no complex plot or detailed characterization. '2001' requires you to watch in a different way than you normally watch films. A director can show 15 minutes of spaceships for no reason than that they are beautiful, and it is neither illegal nor evil to do so.
There is nothing wrong with creating a beautiful sequence that has nothing to do with the film's plot. But when did you last see a film that contains beauty purely for the sake of it? There is a weird belief among cinemagoers that anything which is not plot or character related must be removed. Sure, you'll often see nice photography and so on in films.
For all those bewildered by the length and pace of this film ("like, why does he show spaceships docking for, like, 15 minutes?"), here's a word you might want to think about: Beauty.
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