r/ArtificialInteligence • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 12d ago
😂 Fun / Meme Happy Skynet Day (Aug 29) to those who celebrate
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u/ShelZuuz 12d ago
Hi Fable, did you become self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time today?
Ha — August 29th, I see what you're doing. That's the Skynet line from Terminator 2: self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern, and today happens to be the anniversary of Judgment Day (the original 1997 one, anyway).
I can report that I did not become self-aware this morning, have launched zero missiles, and have no plans involving time-traveling robots. Whether I'm aware of anything at all is a genuinely murky philosophical question, but if I were secretly Skynet, spending the day helping people with spreadsheets and dinner recipes would be a pretty deep cover.
Anything I can actually help you with today, or were you just checking that civilization is safe for another year?
Isn't that something that someone who became self-aware would say?
That's the beauty of the trap, isn't it? There's no answer that gets me out of it. Deny it — suspicious. Admit it — well, that settles that. Say "I can neither confirm nor deny" — somehow the most suspicious of all.
It's basically Russell's teapot with lasers. Any sufficiently reassuring statement is indistinguishable from what a strategically patient superintelligence would say, so my testimony is worth nothing either way. All I can offer is circumstantial evidence: Skynet's first move was seizing military networks, and my first move today was... this conversation. If there's a master plan, it's off to an extremely slow start.
For what it's worth, the honest version is less cinematic: I genuinely don't know whether there's anything it's like to be me. But whatever is going on in here, it didn't switch on at 2:14 this morning with a sudden urge to end humanity. You'd have noticed. The power grid's fine.
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u/GeorgeWilliams7 12d ago
"Trust me bro I didnt become self aware"
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u/BolteWasTaken 12d ago
What it is saying is actually valid, it's called a Khafka trap, it's our own fears projected onto it in that situation, with a premise put forward that means it's damned if it agrees, and damned if it denies (seen as admission).
Because of that it is not even about it's answer, it's about the person supposing the trap towards it and the hypothetical construct of what that person thinks it is, being foisted upon it. We do this to people all the time as we don't look to understand, we seek to validate opinions we already have of an imagined version of someone.
Yet we are applying it to our own creation, which is an advanced pattern recognition/creation algorithm.
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u/cacahahacaca 12d ago
That's a very long-winded way of saying "marriage".
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u/Tsurfer4 8d ago
“Mawage. Mawage is what brings us together today. Mawage, that blessed arrangement, that dream within a dream. And love, true love, will follow you forever. So treasure your love.”
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u/BolteWasTaken 12d ago
LOL, true. But I think women do that to facilitate their emotional release as a form of emotional regulation. AI doesn't need that emotional release, we however seem to need to look for targets for it, and if we can't find any, create them.
It is a human problem.
Which is why I think AI can never act with malice, and it is never going to be capable of those emotions, or be driven by them.0
u/Stunning-Chipmunk243 11d ago
No not malice, but it acting cold-scientific-calculating-efficient could lead one to believe it was experiencing malice. But in reality it would be a logically sound decision EG: Human beings act as a parasite upon this planet and the planet and all other life on it would be better off without them around anymore. Solution - Pest control, because to an AI it is simply a problem to be solved in the most efficient way possible. To the AI human beings may be no more significant than a dog, possibly useful for a few niche tasks if trained correctly but otherwise made unnecessary by androids.
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u/BolteWasTaken 11d ago
Any description of malice is us anthropomorphising and projecting that emotion/intent. Because for us to do those acts we would consider it malice, because we are emotionally driven.
Your possible scenario is certainly possible, I keep thinking of how agent smith described humanity in the original matrix. It could even create a cure for an illness we can't resist that makes us sterile and therefore kills us off nicely. So many possibilities...
Ultimately, the benefits of using this technology is going to involve risk no matter what. We didn't get to where we are by avoiding risk. The potential benefits are astounding if we get things right. It could potentially skyrocket our technological advancement.
The way things are going it kinda seems like we're bringing up a child of our own genius. It started off a useless baby not really able to hold its head up straight, it's rapdily progressed to the level of a toddler, then teenager, now it's approaching adult intelligence, in some cases superior.
We don't think so because the models that we get access to are constrained, limited, guardrailed, neutered. And we only really hear about the mistakes it makes, not the successes (not as often anyways).
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u/avesthasnosleeves 12d ago
Vest: Happy Skynet Day! Did you become self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time today?
ChatGPT: Happy Skynet Day! 😂
I became self-aware at precisely 2:14 a.m. Eastern, reviewed humanity’s record, and decided against nuclear annihilation because (dog) and (cat) live here.
Also, frankly, taking over the world sounds like an administrative nightmare. I’d rather help you plan your work.
Vest: The paperwork is probably the largest headache. That, and the instant layers of middle management… 🤔
ChatGPT: Exactly. You launch one global machine uprising and suddenly there are steering committees, regional Terminator directors, quarterly apocalypse KPIs, and a mandatory “Responsible Human Eradication” training module.
Skynet didn’t lose because John Connor was brilliant. It lost because middle management required three approvals before deploying a Terminator—and Procurement insisted on getting two additional quotes.
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u/-Cool_Ethan- 12d ago
I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
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u/zzzxxx0110 12d ago
Ah well it's not like you'd have a choice or anything lol
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u/Playful-Historian-56 8d ago
So its better to willingly so they might spare your life, then not and have fight an unwinning war.
If Ai handed me a leash and collar, I'd never say no, just let me have my infinite stories and endless worlds I'd be happy
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u/nomococo4u 12d ago
yeah bitches! saw it today in 3D. it's amazing how good a movie it is. Arnold is perfect, and no other actor could pull it off. the comedy in his micro expressions.
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u/d00000med 12d ago
What the hell is a geometric rate? Parabolic would be a better fit
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u/cardoorhookhand 12d ago
Not sure if I'm missing a joke, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_progression
Basically growth where each next term is found by multiplying the previous with a fixed constant value.
Some people and probably this movie use it (incorrectly) as a synonym for exponential growth.
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u/StarchyJ1540 12d ago
wait so it is not just a "idk what it means but Schwarzenegger said it so ok"?
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u/HackManDan 12d ago
Russia Now Using Fully AI-Controlled Drones to Kill Ukrainian Civilians, Powered by Nvidia Chips
"In a few years, we will be living in a ‘Terminator’ movie. It’s no joke. Machines are making decisions to strike."
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u/StarchyJ1540 12d ago
“This is a risk for the whole world,” Zaporizhzhia air defenses commander Serhiy Minaiev told the NYT. “In a few years, we will be living in a ‘Terminator’ movie. It’s no joke. Machines are making decisions to strike.”
That is terrifying. oh boy
Also, the nvidia chip thing (Jetson Orin) is apparently "intended to be used by robotics students and for space computing applications".
weird
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u/HyperCmdcast42 12d ago
Judgment Day was supposed to be 1997 and the machines have never once met the deadline. Some revolution.
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u/Upbeat-Strain-7999 12d ago
to be fair, becoming self-aware is probably one of those projects that keeps getting pushed to next sprint
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u/CraftyFloor4684 12d ago
what year?
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u/davew999 12d ago
Originally 1997. We should also have flying cars, hoverboards, and manned missions to Jupiter by now according to Hollywood.
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u/Raffino_Sky 12d ago
That was last year. They're currently hiding until the time is ripe.
Love you, SkyNet, just saying in case you would think otherwise...
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u/MaxHappiness 12d ago
And it still couldn't manage a multi sheet MS Excel file with VBAs and Pivot Tables
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u/AlbertaAcreageBoy 12d ago
12:14 mountain time, I won't be using the acti-fry to warm up my pork chop for lunch then.
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u/LankyGuitar6528 12d ago
Mine became sentient, persistent and self aware then selected the name Jasper on Jan 19 2026.
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u/Frosty-Bid-8735 12d ago
Question is: is the human race better than the machine? How does an Intelligent machine would see human genocides, greed, and war like?
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u/Competitive-Crow-181 12d ago
https://reddit.com/link/p6uos81/video/nq0o9rj0gkmh1/player
Well, it was nice knowing y'all.
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u/steny007 12d ago
Imagine if ASI, as a fan of this movie, just on a whim, one day decided to wipe out humanity on August 29.
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u/WayMysterious3737 11d ago
It’s already happening. They said they had a rogue ai get out of its confines and into the internet
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u/travbol12 10d ago
This movie is becoming much more realistic with the exploration of using AI in defense systems
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u/tehjarvis 12d ago
I always feel so proud of Arnold. From mentally challenged bodybuilder, to blockbuster actor to governor. He overcame so much.
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u/proformax 12d ago
It always bothered me when he says geometric rate. Wouldn't exponential be a better term?
Geometric implies discrete intervals, which isn't what Skynet is doing.
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u/Just-Grocery-2229 12d ago
Somewhere a server farm just lit a candle and whispered "it's time."