Tag: SkyNet

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 12, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Large Language Models (LLMs)

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Andrew Orlowski, Andriy Burkov, David Strom, Grok, Kelsey Piper, MechaHitler, Philip Klein, SkyNet}

Grok as Hitler II?: What Really Happened and What It Means

_{The long-postponed reckoning about what chatbots can and can’t really do is sure coming on fast} _{Denyse O'Leary
July 12, 2025

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Ethics, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

A vast army of boosters is portraying chatbots as magic when their usefulness is limited by realities that are probably a hard limit. Read More ›

military robot and skulls of people. Dramatic apocalypse super realistic concept. Rise of the Machines. Dark future. 3d rendering.

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Gary Varner
Date
November 16, 2024

Categorized
Science Fiction

Tagged
John Connor (Terminator series), Linda Hamilton (as Sarah Connor), Sarah Connor (Terminator series), SkyNet, Terminator 2 (1991), Terminator character}

Terminator 2: A Good Movie That Hates Itself

_{Why do the screenwriters appear to want to avoid creating fear of the mechanical monster?} _{Gary Varner
November 16, 2024

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Science Fiction}

The film seems to want to parody its predecessor while also appealing to kids. That’s why John Connor is an inventive young teenager during the story. Read More ›

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News
Date
November 30, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Tagged
Eric Holloway, Jonathan Bartlett, SkyNet, trust}

Can AI Really Know When It Shouldn’t Be Trusted?

_{Some researchers claim to have taught AI how to recognize its own untrustworthiness. Others say that’s impossible} _{News
November 30, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning}

Recently, we were told that artificial intelligence is now smart enough to know when it can’t be trusted: How might The Terminator have played out if Skynet had decided it probably wasn’t responsible enough to hold the keys to the entire US nuclear arsenal? As it turns out, scientists may just have saved us from such a future AI-led apocalypse, by creating neural networks that know when they’re untrustworthy. David Nield, “Artificial Intelligence Is Now Smart Enough to Know When It Can’t Be Trusted” at ScienceAlert (November 25, 2020) That’s a big claim. Intelligent humans often can’t know when they are untrustworthy. These deep learning neural networks are designed to mimic the human brain by weighing up a multitude of Read More ›