Patrick Elliott <kag### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > Surely it would be able to calculate proper targets for the bombs and
> > where to locate itself in order to avoid being itself wiped out. In fact,
> > for such an AI that it surpasses all humanity in intelligence and knowledge,
> > it wouldn't be even difficult.
> >
> Its a distributed AI, so.. lets just say it might have worked, up until 
> the movie where you kind of find out that they tried releasing it to 
> kill itself, then.. it became a bit implausible, since that implied a 
> certain level of "dependence" in the networks it was infiltrating. But, 
> heh, what do I know.. lol

Note that Skynet was an AI designed to control all of the United States
military computer systems. Surely the US military has its critical main
servers placed at secure locations, shielded from atomic blasts (eg. in
deep underground bomb shelters etc) precisely to keep the critical military
systems running in the event of nuclear war. (This is most certainly the
case even in real life.)

Naturally Skynet, being in control of all these systems, could locate itself
into these servers and keep running all operations from there even during
the bombing.

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                                                          - Warp

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