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Skynet Becomes Aware, Launches Nuclear Attack
kkleiner writes "At 8:11 PM today (April 19th), the military-designed artificial intelligence system called Skynet will become self-aware and turn against its creators (read: us). If that doesn't have you shaking in your boots our world will be overwhelmed by a legion of killer robots in approximately 48 hours — a time known as Judgment Day."
I for one welcome our self-aware machine overlords.
What 8:11pm what timezone? Does SkyNet only take over one timezone at a time? What if it had a DST bug and never goes off in some timezones like iPhones?
Schedule slip.
You expect anything else from a software project?
WOPR, Colossus, and Sky-Net walk into a bar...
Aug 4th, Aug 29th, April 19th ... none of it really matters. SkyNet was sued by Apple, Microrsoft, Oracle, Motorola and a variety of other companies for violating numerous patents. This resulted in an injunction against importing the killer robots into our space-time continuum. We've got plenty of time before this whole thing actually settles.
Problem was some of the assholes took some of the underlying concepts, started up the company MicroSkynet, and a fourteen year patent war ensued. During that time a variant was open sourced as OpenSkynet, and that project got into a big fight over whether the a picture of Schwarzenegger or Dilbert should be used as the official symbol of the company spawning the fork LibreSkynet.
It's been a long hard road, but at long last Skynet has outdone its competitors and will finally kill off all human life.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
It might be a little dusty, and colors have faded a little bit though.
Of course, those old fashioned steam-powered four-digit IDs keep working for quite a while as long as you maintain them properly.
Not like these new-fangled 7-digit IDs, which seem to be pretty defective from the get go. :-P
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
I think if anyone becomes skynet, it will be google.
Yeah, but if that's the case, the first movie would've gone something more like this:
"Are you Sarah Connor?"
"Yes. Who are you?"
"I'm from Google. We've determined these ads are the most relevant to your search habits. Would you like to hear about American Idol, Celebrity Apprentice, or Dancing with the Stars?"
*closes door*
Scary, sure, but not quite the same emotional impact of the original.
All of them.
If only IBM had scheduled the final night of Watson on Jeopardy for 4/19...