The beginning of SkyNet

Posted June 9th, 2008 by Gmork
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While leisurely perusing CNN.com, I came across this article:

Government unveils world's fastest computer

Story Highlights

  • Computer is capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second
  • It will be used to help maintain the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile

    • (article link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/fastest.computer.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview )

     

    I couldn't help but think how eerily similar this sounded to the dreaded SkyNet from The Terminator movies.  For the love of all that's holy, stop the madness before the computers kill us all!

    ‹ "Death From Below" Thong So I was screwing around with SPORE Creature Creator... ›

    Pretty cool!

    JP's picture
    On June 11th, 2008 (03:44 GMT) JP says:
    The nut they have to crack still is going from the current "multi-threaded" processing, to creating 3D processing and memory. Once they do that and stop the need for linear calculations, we'll have something amazing going on! Just imagine a computer that can truly calculate ("think") about multiple things at once, rather than share the processor so quickly between multiple calculations that it only appears to be doing this. Next mass production step--the industry needs to use high k +metal chips in all our daily use machines. After that, we're off to the races...OK, it's a few more steps than that, but...(insert evil laugh here...)

    - Verveces tui similes pro ientaculo mihi appositi sunt. (I have jerks like you for breakfast.)


    Here Here

    SynapticJam's picture
    On June 12th, 2008 (11:18 GMT) SynapticJam says:

    Well said... 

    SynapticJam on Toast - hhhmmm... tastes like chicken (aka PUVJK)


    There There

    wallerdad's picture
    On June 17th, 2008 (08:54 GMT) wallerdad says:

      ...said Well

    • These gathering hosts of loyal junkies, under the command of the great SCOTT

    lol

    jtswambo's picture
    On June 20th, 2008 (11:07 GMT) jtswambo says:

    what's wrong with a bit of senseless violence to a lemming?

    they're only going to walk off a cliff.


    With access to us ALL through the internet....

    ogreoregon's picture
    On June 13th, 2008 (14:44 GMT) ogreoregon says:
    we would never see it coming... this massive worldwide AI could set up websites to lure in the unknowing feeble minded humans.... distracted and bated by mindless and addictive audio to trick us into submission through the constant need for tales of Horror and Chicken Scissors....and Alien football teams.....and mutated night dwelling cannibalistic children.... uhmm... uh oh........
    *I am the Rear Admiral but Sigler gives the Orders*

    I like that!

    JP's picture
    On June 15th, 2008 (05:12 GMT) JP says:
    How do we make a believable leap from today, to something like SkyNet...? You paint a cool picture where AI living on computers, networked together, begin setting up false websites. Sweet. BTW, I think one of these computer geniuses needs to make a commonly-used font that lets a capital "I" not look like a lower-case "L". You see the problem in this case: you might not have been talking about Artificial Intelligence in your post--you might actually have been talking about a really big and evil guy named Al. I'd sure hate to see a "massive worldwide Al[an]." (Or, this is the net already sewing the seeds of confusion. Damn net.)

    - Verveces tui similes pro ientaculo mihi appositi sunt. (I have jerks like you for breakfast.)


    2tru

    jtswambo's picture
    On June 20th, 2008 (11:41 GMT) jtswambo says:

    what's wrong with a bit of senseless violence to a lemming?

    they're only going to walk off a cliff.


    You got it right....let's name the evil thinking computer AL

    ogreoregon's picture
    On June 16th, 2008 (12:09 GMT) ogreoregon says:
    kind of a Cockney take on H.A.L. and a dig on the font issue. 
    *I am the Rear Admiral but Sigler gives the Orders*

    Or Al Gore

    wallerdad's picture
    On June 17th, 2008 (08:43 GMT) wallerdad says:

      Since he invented the Internet

    • These gathering hosts of loyal junkies, under the command of the great SCOTT

    hu?

    jtswambo's picture
    On June 20th, 2008 (11:28 GMT) jtswambo says:

    wasnt it a bunch of nerdy phisamatitions wanting to share info ( and that later turned in2 porn )?

     

    what's wrong with a bit of senseless violence to a lemming?

    they're only going to walk off a cliff.


    A tip of the hat

    JP's picture
    On June 20th, 2008 (09:11 GMT) JP says:
    If we're going to give a tip of the hat to Al Gore, we'll have to name the computer "Big AL" or Big AL G."

    (Hey, I said "tip." What I should have said was a "tipper of the hat...")  

     

    - Verveces tui similes pro ientaculo mihi appositi sunt. (I have jerks like you for breakfast.)


    LOL Oh yes, I forgot that!

    ogreoregon's picture
    On June 18th, 2008 (14:40 GMT) ogreoregon says:
    So AL would be the PERFECT name.
    *I am the Rear Admiral but Sigler gives the Orders*

    See!!

    Gmork's picture
    On June 11th, 2008 (18:50 GMT) Gmork says:

    That's what I'm talking about!! I don't even know what you said, but it sounds plausible enough that in three steps we could have bots causing armeggedon!!

    *flee for the bunkers! flee now before it's too late!*


    Geek speak

    Shadygirl's picture
    On June 12th, 2008 (04:17 GMT) Shadygirl says:
    He does have quite the ability to slip into geek speak. And yet he can make it sound so good.

    A cowgirl is a woman with guts and a horse.


    Thanks!

    JP's picture
    On June 12th, 2008 (19:28 GMT) JP says:
    And at least this time I didn't lose my composure and end up blurting out some silly phrase like "mommy bags." Thank goodness.

    - Verveces tui similes pro ientaculo mihi appositi sunt. (I have jerks like you for breakfast.)


    Oops!

    JP's picture
    On June 12th, 2008 (02:55 GMT) JP says:
    Sorry about that, I geeked out; hate it when that happens. Bottom line, as you accurately observe, we're just a short way from the net becoming self-aware and suddenly, we're at war with the frackin' toasters. ;-)

    - Verveces tui similes pro ientaculo mihi appositi sunt. (I have jerks like you for breakfast.)


    Frack

    wallerdad's picture
    On June 17th, 2008 (08:43 GMT) wallerdad says:

      Them fracking skinjobs

    • These gathering hosts of loyal junkies, under the command of the great SCOTT

    frak

    jtswambo's picture
    On June 20th, 2008 (14:38 GMT) jtswambo says:

    wasnt frak a saying on batlestar~?> 

     

    what's wrong with a bit of senseless violence to a lemming?

    they're only going to walk off a cliff.


    yeah I don't want

    Pjotr NL's picture
    On June 10th, 2008 (13:38 GMT) Pjotr NL says:

    arnold schwarzenegger robots all over the world

    [1st Dutch junkie] All that matters is getting my fix.


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