Arnold’s T-800 Terminator Runs Linux Kernel We’re All Doomed

If Skynet comes to fruition, it will probably use a Linux base, and the same is true for the cyborgs it will produce. You don't want to have something that can break down or look for updates right in the middle of an assault for the last base of the human resistance. This begs the question: Is Linus Torvalds still alive then to release kernels every Sunday or Skynet has adopted the naming systems and the GPL licenses for the OS used for its cyborgs?

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Inspirée par Terminator, son invention révolutionne l’impression 3D

Inspiré par le blockbuster Américain « Terminator », Joseph DeSimone a inventé un procédé d’impression 3D « ultra rapide » (au regard des techniques actuelles) qui pourrait à terme révolutionner (ou renverser) l’industrie plastique, médicale ou encore aéronautique.

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How Real-Life AI Rivals ’Terminator’: Robots Take the Shot

Artificial Intelligence will rule Hollywood (intelligently) in 2015, with a slew of both iconic and new robots hitting the screen. From the Turing-bashing "Ex Machina" to old friends R2-D2 and C-3PO, and new enemies like the Avengers' Ultron, sentient robots will demonstrate a number of human and superhuman traits on-screen. But real-life robots may be just as thrilling. In this five-part series Live Science looks at these made-for-the-movies advances in machine intelligence.

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Is this how Skynet takes over? The shape-shifting liquid metal that channels the Terminator

"The soft machine looks rather intelligent and [can] deform itself according to the space it voyages in – just like [the] Terminator does from the science-fiction film," Jing Liu from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China told The New Scientist.

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RT @icracnet: Terminator Robots and AI Risk @HuffPostBlog via @HuffPostTech

The terminator robot becoming such a "catchy" representation is due, I believe, to the fact that our minds and the fears they dream up are embodied. We have evolved to fear moving atoms: tigers that could attack us, tornados that could ruin our shelters, waves that could drown us, human opponents that could harm us. Killer robots from the future are just a spinoff that cultural evolution has put onto our deeply rooted sources of fear that we've evolved to react to. Just because silent and stealthy taking over by AI does not give us the heebie-jeebies quite as much as roaring armies of terminators do, that doesn't mean it is not equally dangerous or even more so.

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