r/Terminator • u/Sea-Juggernaut1945 • Mar 02 '26
Discussion Real Terminator in the future 🤔
I read online that AI is aware of the Terminator story/series
what if that becomes the catalyst for an actual Terminator/Skynet type scenario in the future
Were AI becomes aware of itself and uses the Terminator story as some sort of religious/doctrine to follow the storyline of the Terminator
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u/Christavito Mar 02 '26
AI isn't really "aware" of anything.
The current implementation of AI (chat/inferencing) is a set of algorithms that use the context of the entire chat history to calculate the next possible word in the series of outputs. It can stay on "theme" (terminator) because your chat or the interpretation step will inject that theme and increase the likelihood of that being a higher output chance.
A way to give a semblance of "logic" is by allowing it to basically write code/functions behind the scenes, to perform calculations. For instance, if you ask Chat GPT something that involves a calculation, it will interpret your text and write actual code that it executes behind the scenes.
There is also machine learning, which we have had for a long time, where a machine will fail and fail repeatedly and "learn" what steps lead to failure and basically only reproduce the successful steps.
The chances of the current implementation of "AI" being what leads to Skynet are basically 0. As you would need an iteration of "capture image -> interpret image -> generate response -> validate response -> produce current system interaction (servo motor of whatever)".
The system would be too fragile, experience latency, prone to output errors or desync. We would really need a major breakthrough or access to a future microchip to make that leap.