Is terminator slowly coming true??

[mikephillips]

Ran across this one earlier today. Is this pointing towards the Terminator movies and Sarah Conner tv series coming true??

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/human-please-die-chatbot-responds-with-threatening-message/ar-AA1u6Qq6?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=91d3401c11ff4512f6a60aaedd56acee&ei=19

 

[Hamish Racing]

More like
i robot.

 

[Basil]

From the Godfather of AI. "one of the ways in which these systems might escape control is by writing their own computer code to modify themselves." We live in interesting times!

 

[mikephillips]

Who knows, if not Terminator then perhaps Cylons. The remake not the sort of clowny originals..

 

[NutmegCT]

February 11, 1938: BBC airs the first science fiction television program – an adaptation of Karel Čapek’s Rossum’s Universal Robots.

 

[Hamish Racing]

Ok then. Not to hijack this thread but to complement it
What early film tech came true

Eg star treks communicator became the Nokia flip phone.

 

[Basil]

Ok then. Not to hijack this thread but to complement it
What early film tech came true

Eg star treks communicator became the Nokia flip phone.

That star Trek big screen viewer sort of came true with the advent of big flat screens.

 

[NutmegCT]

Two-way flat-screen television imagined in the year 1900 -

 

[waltesefalcon]

Star Trek the Next Generation's PADS have become ubiquitous in the form of tablets.

 

[Basil]

Star Trek the Next Generation's PADS have become ubiquitous in the form of tablets.

I remember the original "Pads" used in TOS (The Original Series) looking like those wax-paper drawing pads we had as kids, but in a big bulky frame.

 

[waltesefalcon]

I remember the original "Pads" used in TOS (The Original Series) looking like those wax-paper drawing pads we had as kids, but in a big bulky frame.

That they did, I think that's probably why I went with the sleeker Next Generation ones. They really do look like Ipads.

 

[NutmegCT]

or maybe Etch-a-Sketch?

 

[Basil]

or maybe Etch-a-Sketch?

I had one of those when I was a kid. That was great fun.

 

[Hamish Racing]

How about Lt Uhura ear communicator

Early Bluetooth ear bud.

I believe you can buy them now as lookalikes that work with your phone

 

[NutmegCT]

or the 1964 Dick Tracy "wrist tv"!

 

[Basil]

or the 1964 Dick Tracy "wrist tv"!

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Apple Watch today.

 

[John Turney]

Everything old is new again.

 

[mezy]

the science fiction writers dream these things up, and the some clever chap thinks.
We can make that.

 

[JPSmit]

In the last two weeks my mother (93) had a new lense in her right eye/ a crown and a stent - so, obviously the bionic man/ woman.

 

[waltesefalcon]

or the 1964 Dick Tracy "wrist tv"!

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I have a friend who owns an apple watch, I always refer to it as her Dick Tracy watch.