Technological Advancements In The Terminator

In today’s society, technology has been integrated into just about every nook and cranny of the economy, society and our personal lives. The world is surrounded by television, the Internet, computers, smart machines and so on. Society is reaping the benefits of technology in almost everything they do, and so it is practical to say that technology has improved our lives. Over the past few decades, however, there has been a significant advancement in the field of technology and science that has made it possible to improve greater productivity in the workplace and aspects of life through computers, robots and machines. These technological advancements led to the spread of fear that computers and robots would one day take over humans. According

At the same time, however, intelligent robots have been depicted as dangerous machines, capable of working against humans. In the movie, “The Terminator” the view of the future is more catastrophic than what humans could imagine. The series has been among the most successful films at introducing iconic sci-fi images and concepts to the culture at large. The first Terminator movie in 1984, is about a cyborg assassin known as a Terminator, that travels from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor and her unborn son. Sent to protect Sarah is Kyle Reese, who divulges the coming of Skynet; an artificial intelligence system that will spark a nuclear holocaust in the second Terminator movie “Judgment Day.” Skynet, is the worldwide computer network that decides humanity is a “threat” and instigates a nuclear war to wipe out the human

The creation of The Terminator shows that even in the years that technology wasn’t that advance, the film stream was aware of society’s fear of the future with such new technological advances. Nowadays, concerns about robots are so prevalence even Stephen Hawking, the renowned theoretical physicists, warns the world about this threat. “Computers will overtake humans with AI [artificial intelligence] at some point within the next 100 years” (Hawking). Throughout the years, many artificial intelligences have been successfully created to the point that an AI has even passed the Turing Test. According to the famous intelligence expert, and author, Ray Kurzweil, “computers will pass the famous Turing test by 2029” (Kurzweil). Moreover, “passing the Turing test means that the machine intelligence will be effectively indistinguishable from humans, it is the best known measure by which to identify non-human intelligence capable of following instructions, and of independent thought and consciousness” (Kurzweil). With that being said, Eugene Goostman, is the first robotic machine that has passed the test of whether people can detect if they are talking to machines or humans. In a world already controlled by technology, this robotic machine that is much like a human being, brings dilemma to our