Mcg's 'The Terminator Salvation'

McG’s The Terminator Salvation is based on SKYNET, an AI computer network that was created by Cyberdyne Systems Corporation in the distant future. Its main duty was to control military weapon system. Later, it realizes its power and became self-aware which eventually leads to the destruction of cities. The Terminator Salvation shows us what could become of the world if machines do become self-aware and turn against humans. To some people, the idea alike SKYNET may seem a little too far-fetched because machines and robots are supervised by humans who hold the absolute power. At the moment, I believe machines and robots are glorified adding-up machines who are not yet capable of original thought. However, it is possible that they could become
Even though we live in a highly-advanced world, machines and robots are still being improved. We are still in the working process of advancing them even more because we have not attained the “super” machine or robot yet. For an example, in Isaac Asimov’s Reason, there is a cognitive development in Cutie. “The question that immediately arose was! Just what is the cause of my existence? I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless - and it goes against all the dictates of logic to suppose that you made me” (Asimov 36-67). This quote is important because Asimov shows us that Cutie has learned to think on his own and is thus questioning his very existence. He is showing the capacity to go beyond the barriers of the robot mind by learning how to reason and apply the scientific method. Nonetheless, there is an issue. Cutie can apply the scientific method and apply it in his situation but he is applying it incorrectly. His ability to use it shows that he has become independent and not merely a machine but his inability to correctly use it tells us that he has not fully become conscious. We have many intelligent machines and robots who are able to input complex data and output commands. Some are even capable of solving intricate puzzles and games such as the robot AlphaGo who beat a
Author Kenneth Chang in Can Robots Become Conscious? introduces Dr. Hans Moravec, a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. The narrator says, ”Some people, like Dr. Hans Moravec…believe a human being in nothing more than a fancy machine, and that as technology advances, it will be possible to build a machine with the same features, that there is nothing magical about the brain and biological flesh” (Chang 406). Dr. Moravec is essentially saying that there is a very little difference between humans and machines. The anatomy of the human body and the complex wiring of the machine is in fact, very similar which means machines will basically become ‘human’ in the long-run. Although, I agree with Dr. Moravec up to his point about the advancement of technology and the evolution of the machines, I cannot accept his overall conclusion that there is nothing magical about the brain and the flesh. Since we already have human-like machines, I do believe they will continue to become even more human-like and eventually become conscious. Despite their consciousness which humans have and their close resemblance of us, machines and robots will never truly become human because I do not think they will be able to feel and express all the honest emotions that we are able to feel and