One or the other, it will not short-circuit itself into self-awareness, and immediately decide that humanity needs to go!
Yes, exactly, though whether that's what happened in Terminator is arguable since they never elaborated beyond "it became self-aware on such and such date and time". Presumably that military Skynet thing had been programmed with learning and self-teaching software and so I suppose eventually...somehow...oh I don't know, it's circuitry and software! I'll believe it when I see it. Alien life form though? Okay, that I'll buy. Though it's interesting how the premise of G1 is exactly that: slave robots created by Quintessons, gain self awareness somehow and overthrow their masters and take over Cybertron. This irritates me about G1 because it is yet ANOTHER "wow, only organics can create robots and look, the robots kill!" plotline. I really do prefer the movie idea of how they come to be, no matter how much of a plot device the Allspark is.
When the first Matrix came out I did think it was pretty cool, but you're right in that the more you think about it, the more it falls into little logic pieces. I hated the sequels anyway (gratuitous orgies, cookie-making oracles, and overly verbose aggravating lawyer-robots ahoy!), but really that key thing of the sun? What the hell? This is EARTH, we have wind, water, and geothermal energy sources! Guess which is the only one the sun affects? You know what though, I think think you'd have wind regardless. Yeah, the robots would have flocked around a volcano or and undersea vent or something before they ever thought to enslave us. I mean really. Besides which, I'd like a measurement of how much energy we actually produce. My former roomate found an interesting statistic where if you compared the human body to a car in terms of daily caloric needs, a human would get something like 300 miles to the gallon. We're damned efficient in using what energy we need (hi, obesity, see how easy you happen? Yeah, we don't need that much food.), and our total output is some fluids, solids, and a little bit of heat. That's it. I'd like to see, say, a Transformer try to run off of that for even half a second, much less a Matrix robot. Sorry silly movie, does not compute.
I think one of my fave robots no one's mentioned yet is MAX from Flight of the Navigator. I love the hell out of that movie, and as a sentient alien drone explorer ship (with emotions even!), MAX is pretty damn cool. Just...don't look too close for logical sense. 'tis still a Disney movie.
Yes, exactly, though whether that's what happened in Terminator is arguable since they never elaborated beyond "it became self-aware on such and such date and time". Presumably that military Skynet thing had been programmed with learning and self-teaching software and so I suppose eventually...somehow...oh I don't know, it's circuitry and software! I'll believe it when I see it. Alien life form though? Okay, that I'll buy. Though it's interesting how the premise of G1 is exactly that: slave robots created by Quintessons, gain self awareness somehow and overthrow their masters and take over Cybertron. This irritates me about G1 because it is yet ANOTHER "wow, only organics can create robots and look, the robots kill!" plotline. I really do prefer the movie idea of how they come to be, no matter how much of a plot device the Allspark is.
When the first Matrix came out I did think it was pretty cool, but you're right in that the more you think about it, the more it falls into little logic pieces. I hated the sequels anyway (gratuitous orgies, cookie-making oracles, and overly verbose aggravating lawyer-robots ahoy!), but really that key thing of the sun? What the hell? This is EARTH, we have wind, water, and geothermal energy sources! Guess which is the only one the sun affects? You know what though, I think think you'd have wind regardless. Yeah, the robots would have flocked around a volcano or and undersea vent or something before they ever thought to enslave us. I mean really. Besides which, I'd like a measurement of how much energy we actually produce. My former roomate found an interesting statistic where if you compared the human body to a car in terms of daily caloric needs, a human would get something like 300 miles to the gallon. We're damned efficient in using what energy we need (hi, obesity, see how easy you happen? Yeah, we don't need that much food.), and our total output is some fluids, solids, and a little bit of heat. That's it. I'd like to see, say, a Transformer try to run off of that for even half a second, much less a Matrix robot. Sorry silly movie, does not compute.
I think one of my fave robots no one's mentioned yet is MAX from Flight of the Navigator. I love the hell out of that movie, and as a sentient alien drone explorer ship (with emotions even!), MAX is pretty damn cool. Just...don't look too close for logical sense. 'tis still a Disney movie.
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