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On 7/31/2012 11:40 AM, Warp wrote:
> Patrick Elliott <kag### [at] gmail com> 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.
>
Well, in theory, but the sense you get is that it only got "smart" as it
spread. So, its kind of like thinking you can build human intelligence,
then cram it back into the brain of a rat, with vastly fewer neurons. I
suppose, it might have found non-military code, compression systems, or
other things, that somehow "let" it cram itself back into the box, as it
where, but... Like I said, it depends on whether you assume it was smart
enough on the military machines, to begin with, or the "critical" point
was when its "neurons" grew significantly, as it networked, and took in
nearly every other possible system as well.
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