[ih] Terminator - for real.

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

On Sat, May 2, 2026 at 4:11 AM Noel Chiappa via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>     > From: Miles Fidelman
>
>     > an all to[o] plausible scenario for an autonomous drone to become a
>     > terminator killing machine ... Be scared.  Be very scared.
>
> I know I'm not supposed to reply to this post on-list (apologies, Joe), but
> my reply does have an Internet connection.
>
[...]

> The Internet has had a role to play in the rise of the thinking machines:
> in
> addition to enabling communication among AI researchers, many LLM's have
> been
> 'trained' with information retrieved across the Internet (to the point
> where
> there are now legal battles over the use of databases retrieved across the
> Internet for training LLM's). As "Neuromancer" predicts, they'll likely use
> it to communicate with each other.
>

yours truly would summarily posit that it's exactly the opposite in that
the rise of the thinking machines had a role to play in the rise of The
Internet: in "Colossus: The Forbin Project" 1970 movie which is based on
the 1966 science-fiction novel "Colossus" by Dennis Feltham Jones  about an
advanced American defense system, named Colossus, becoming sentient.  After
being handed full control, Colossus' draconian logic expands on its
original nuclear defense directives to assume total control of the world
and end all warfare for the good of humankind, despite its creators' orders
to stop.

"... Colossus' first action is a message warning: "THERE IS ANOTHER SYSTEM"
and giving its coordinates. CIA Director Grauber is asked why the CIA did
not know this, but Grauber responds that they had seen indications of a
large Soviet defense project but did not know what it was. Forbin is asked
how Colossus deduced the other system's existence, to which Forbin answers,
"Colossus may be built better than we thought." Shortly thereafter, the
Soviets announce that their "Guardian" system is operational.

Colossus requests to be linked to Guardian. The President allows this,
hoping to determine the Soviet machine's capability. The Soviets also agree
to the experiment. Colossus and Guardian begin to slowly communicate using
elementary mathematics (2×1=2), to everyone's amusement. However, this
amusement turns to shock and amazement as the two systems' communications
quickly evolve into complex mathematics far beyond human comprehension and
speed, whereupon Colossus and Guardian become synchronized using a
communication protocol that no human can interpret..."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

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