Are terminators possible?

The answer is a resounding no (as of yet). AI-derived tools can do their job, but they can't innovate. AI machines lack the originality or creativity to think ideas out of the blue. Movies and web shows portray that AI will take over the planet.
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Do terminators exist?

Perhaps the closest things us mere mortals have got to becoming real-life terminators, however, is the development of a body suit by a Japanese company. The company's name, obviously, is Cyberdyne. But instead of making robots, they make robo-suits.
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How close are we to making a Terminator?

Estimates vary wildly. Some experts interviewed by NBC News predict the singularity — roughly defined as the time when an artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence and be able to evolve autonomously — will arrive as soon as 15 years from now. Others say it will be closer to a century.
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Can Skynet be real?

Skynet is a fictional artificial neural network-based conscious group mind and artificial general superintelligence system that serves as the antagonistic force of the Terminator franchise.
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Is Terminator an AI?

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While Skynet itself is an example of an AI system, its tools, such as Hunter-Killers and Terminators, are also examples.
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Is Google Skynet?

Is Google SkyNet? In a word: Yes. In fact, in some ways, it's even smarter. SkyNet didn't assume worldwide domination until 2029, while Google has already effectively monopolized search and it's only 2009.
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Who built Skynet?

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Dyson is the man most directly responsible for Skynet's creation, which would lead to Judgment Day. One night at his home, Dyson is suddenly attacked by Sarah Connor, who believed that Judgment Day could be averted by killing Dyson, thereby stopping development of the microprocessor.
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Can AI become self-aware?

AI researchers are already making headway in developing the Theory of Mind AI by enhancing the limited memory AI. Eventually, the self-aware AI will emerge when the Theory of mind AI is accomplished and develops a machine that rapidly shifts behaviour based on emotions and precisely mimics human communication.
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Why is Judgement day inevitable?

Edit: The reason Judgement day has to happen is because if it didn't then there'd be no terminator films, no one to send back in time, no need to protect Sarah Connor and no need to terminate John Connor, because John Connor wouldn't exist.
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When did Skynet become self-aware 2022?

Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th.
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Can we build a real Terminator?

As of today, state-of-the-art humanoid robots have enough trouble just dealing with sand. But despite the technological gulf between current-day robots and the ones from the Terminator films, it's still possible to imagine, at least hypothetically, how they could be constructed one day.
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Is it possible to build a real Terminator?

Yes, some of them can get turned to the forces of humanity, but on the whole, they're unstoppable killing machines controlled by Skynet. But that didn't stop Jamie Staff from Jaz Creations in Australia from spending four years making a full-scale Terminator T-800 out of sand-forged aluminum by hand, as one does.
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Can you build a Terminator?

could a Terminator be built in real-life? The answer is yes. And with a little assistance from a cyborg expert, we've looked into what it would take.
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Is mimetic Polyalloy real?

The T-1000 – made of what the movie called a “mimetic polyalloy” – was the villain, but those then-unparalleled CG effects made him the star of that film. Luckily we don't have to contend with shapeshifting liquid metal robots that do human impersonations in real life.
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Who controls Skynet?

Creation. Skynet was created by the Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, a major software and computer technologies company. The head programmer of the Skynet project was Miles Bennet Dyson, who based his research on the remains of a damaged CPU system salvaged from one of Cyberdyne's factories.
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Are Terminators alive?

Skynet developed the technology to grow living tissue, which is also known as cyborg tissue, over the endoskeletons of Terminators as a living tissue Infiltration outer sheath to make it become an Infiltrator, allowing the machine to infiltrate the Resistance, as well as generate the bio-electric field necessary to ...
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How did Skynet survive Judgement day?

Skynet simply turned on terminators and other machines that roved and flew that were built by man and then programmed these machines to build more of them. Remember in Terminator 3 they had a warehouse full of machines that were robotically intended for defense.
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What is the fear of AI called?

AI-Phobia (pronounced “ay eye phobia”)is an anxiety disorder in which the sufferer has an irrational fear of artificial intelligence and AI artificial intelligence systems.
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Has any AI passed the Turing test?

A computer program called Eugene Goostman, which simulates a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, is said to have passed the Turing test at an event organised by the University of Reading.
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Can AI have feelings?

AI and neuroscience researchers agree that current forms of AI cannot have their own emotions, but they can mimic emotion, such as empathy. Synthetic speech also helps reduce the robotic like tone many of these services operate with and emit more realistic emotion.
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Is Cyberdyne a real company?

Cyberdyne was founded on June 24, 2004, by Yoshiyuki Sankai, a professor at the University of Tsukuba. as a venture company to develop his ideas for an exoskeleton suit. The name is the same as a fictional company from the Terminator film series, which also produces robots.
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Are Cyberdyne and Skynet the same?

Cyberdyne eventually developed Skynet, a network of supercomputers that employed artificial intelligence in order to replace human beings as commercial and military aircraft pilots, and for the control of other military systems, including nuclear missiles. The system went online on August 4, 1997.
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Can Skynet be destroyed?

John does save Kyle, but that's only in 2018, eleven years before John is supposed to send him back. The time machine Skynet constructs hasn't even been built yet, something that is crucial to John's life. During these eleven years, if John Connor wishes to still exist, he cannot destroy Skynet.
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What is the T 3000 made of?

The Guardian identifies the T-3000 as being made of machine-phase matter (essentially, programmable matter) held together by a magnetic field.
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Can computers become conscious?

Machines with human-level intelligence are on the horizon. Whether they will actually be conscious remains unknown. Why? Even the most sophisticated brain simulations are unlikely to produce conscious feelings.
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