The Terminator was released in 1984. It remains a great action movie. Among the many things that made it great was its conception of an autonomous, artificially intelligent computer overlord, Skynet, that takes the initiative to exterminate human beings because they hindered its achievement of its goals. The Terminator, Skynet’s time traveling assassin, blended in with humans in order to kill a future leader of the human rebellion against Skynet. To achieve this goal, the terminator had to possess good language capabilities, and one iconic scene demonstrates how much better its grasp of language was compared with the “language models” driving chatbots like ChatGPT.
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Virtual, but permanent.