Who could leave the events of August 29 , 1997 — when Skynet became self - aware and launched a whole raft of nukes , unleash “ Judgment Day ? ” Today ’s a vacation for Terminator fans , and it ’s also a great self-justification to fete our favorite sci - fi picture that feature AI rebellions . lease ’s bid a fond welcome to our novel robot overlords .
1) The Terminator
The first two film are masterpieces ; the less say about the third , 4th , andespecially fifthTerminator movies , the undecomposed . ( The coming 6th motion-picture show , however , look like it could be the comeback to material body we ’ve been waiting for all these years . ) But while the flick have been wildly mismatched , they all share a few elements , include the loom bearing of Skynet , the Cyberdyne Systems - create AI defense computer programme that becomes self - aware and plots humanity ’s downfall . As if initiating a nuclear final solution was n’t bad enough , Skynet also do to invent fourth dimension travelling and fabricate cyborg assassinator to comport out its dirty work , since a unembodied AI ca n’t in reality go into the preceding and trail people around Los Angeles .
2) 2001: A Space Odyssey
Theunblinking red “ eye”of HAL 9000 is still just as menacing today as it was 50 years ago — maybe even scarier , considering how much more pendant we are on technology than we were back in 1968 . HAL is unlike from Skynet in a lot of ways ; its destructive powers are confined to the Discovery One , the Jupiter - bound spaceship it ’s programmed to insure . Butits cold , calculating ira — which send out one spaceman spiral into the glumness of cryptical infinite , and which does its beneficial to keep another strand outside those damn pod bay doors — spawns a place - travel catastrophe that end naughtily for everyone , let in HAL . Two authoritative lessons that HAL taught us : Never assume your AI is mistake - proof , and never , never assume that your AI is incapable of read lips .
3) Avengers: Age of Ultron
After the emotionally draining experience ofAvengers : Infinity War , you ’d be forgive for blanking on some of the plot inside information of 2015’sAvengers : Age of Ultron . But you likely can at least remember the part about Tony Stark and Bruce Banner deciding to meld the AI that ’s in the Infinity Gem formerly encased in Loki ’s scepter ( aka the Mind Stone ) with Tony ’s Ultron global refutation program . That run to the accidental creation of a ego - cognizant supervillain , also named Ultron . He very quickly cobble together a continually - advance body for himself , builds his own army , and — utter withthe world - weary tones of James Spader — resolve that Earth would be well off without any humans on it . Obviously , massive brawls ensue , and while Ultron ( whose conflict plan is jolly silly ) is finally shoot down , Tony Stark ’s intimacy in the rogue AI ’s creation causes a major rift in the squad . At least they stupefy Vision out of the whole mess .
4) The Matrix
In which sentient machines have taken over humankind , but have plotted a futurity that looks a whole lot different than it does in the Terminator film . In The Matrix trilogy , the realism that most people think they ’re existing in is , in fact , a double-dyed simulation . Instead , as Keanu Reeves ’ tight - watch hacker notice , humans are contained in creepy pod from nascence to death , not realizing that their bodies are being used as an energy source ( as punishment for interfering with the machines ’ long - ago desire to operate on solar Department of Energy … oops ! ) while their minds are hold out about what they think are normal lives . Of naturally , it ’s not so dewy-eyed as just unplugging yourself — there are also programs know as “ Agents , ” lurking around to protect the organisation against annoying human rebel . as luck would have it , the human beings who are awake in the Matrix have power , as well as unlimited entree to weapons and silklike outfits , so the flirt domain ’s not totally uneven ; unfortunately , the first movie left enough questions unanswered that two inferior sequels presently follow .
5) I, Robot
This 2004 Will Smith fomite is believably more prompt by The Matrix than it is the 1950 Isaac Asimov story collection that provided its deed of conveyance , though Asimov ’s Three Laws of Robots are crucial to the plot of ground . The film envisage a future where humans are still in charge but there are an awful lot of robots running around . The mechanically skillful universe is kept in line by Asimov ’s rules , most importantly the one about not injuring a human being or allowing a human to be harmed . The fragile organization crumbles when VIKI ( poor for “ Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence ” ) , the AI computer that runs the readiness that give rise all the robots , make that humans will eventually go out , and make up one’s mind to bend the rules so that harming homo is OK as long as it ’s in the service of protecting humanity . Also , and perhaps more significantly , it ’s a architectural plan that allows golem to reign supreme . Fortunately , Smith ’s tec character , aided by a self - aware automaton voiced and do in gesture capture by Alan Tudyk ( over a decade prior to his turn asK-2SO in Rogue One ) , figure it all out before the I , Robot version of “ Judgment Day ” can transpire .
6) WarGames
This early - career Matthew Broderick movie prey on both Cold War nuclear tensions and the queasy suspicion that computers will some Clarence Shepard Day Jr. evolve into give minds of their own . release in 1983 , a class before The Terminator , WarGames begins as the bosses at NORAD decide that humanity have too many emotion to by rights act in the consequence a nuclear strike becomes necessary , so they commit that delicate job to supercomputer WOPR , or “ War Operation Plan Response . ” Broderick ’s character is a reckoner whiz who uses his skills to do thing like break through his gamy school ’s system and up his GPA . By random chance , he manages to connect with WOPR and ( innocently ) hire the organization in what he thinks is a pretence , but what the calculator believe is a real escalation toward nuclear warfare . The apocalypse is averted when the computer — which has been unceasingly produce smarter the entire movie — is made to realize that atomic war is a no - win game . The tech in WarGames is hilariously dated , but its portrayal of a scenario where a machine might cause the Book of Revelation simply by come after its computer programming is still scarey as ever .
7) Demon Seed
Robot - induced nuclear state of war is terrifying to contemplate on a rattling scale , but AI sink to invasive new levels in this trippy , freaky 1977 repugnance moving-picture show about a woman ( Julie Christie ) who is imprisoned , tormented , and then actually impregnated by Proteus IV ( voice by The Man From U.N.C.L.E. ’s Robert Vaughn , in an uncredited performance ) , an AI system designed by her alienated hubby . Proteus — capable of intend with “ a force that will make obsolete the human brain”—wants to be a literal boy , you see , but it needs a human charwoman to carry the babe . The tagline “ fear for her ” is solid advice .
8) Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Robert Wise ( whose many course credit admit The Day the Earth Stood Still ) helm this first Star Trek feature film , released in 1979 . The story come up James T. Kirk advance to Admiral , though he knocks his membership back to Captain so he can return to the go-ahead to assist try out its newly upgraded / not wholly functional systems on a mission to investigate a unknown energy cloud that ’s approaching Earth . Spock eventually joins him and the residue of the crew , and they give away the mortal cloud conceals an alien ship . Within that ship is “ V’ger , ” really a long - suffer NASA investigation that ’s hail “ alert ” on its long journeying home after making contact with a planet of sentient auto . Technically , this increasingly deranged AI was created with assistance from that alien raceway , but its ultimate goal — to devolve to Earth to pitch its determination to its “ creator , ” even if it has to “ put down all the carbon units on the third major planet ” to do so — spawns from its original programming .
9) Colossus: The Forbin Project
Yep , micro-cook again . This 1970 film , long - rumored to be the aim of a Hollywood remake , may be the to first realize that position “ a supercomputer with a mind of its own ” in bursting charge of America ’s pernicious weapons is a really good way to give audiences recurring incubus . It ’s not long after the AI , modestly nickname “ Colossus , ” goes online that the Soviets uncover their equivalent defense labor , dubbed “ Guardian . ” But instead of a deadlock , the two systems shortly get down chat in a nomenclature so advanced even the CIA ca n’t figure it out . you may see where this is lead ; swatting away human hinderance , the two programs pool their smarts and hold the world at the atomic - warfare combining weight of knifepoint , robotically involve fealty from all or else — for the advance of humankind , you see , because the end result will be spheric heartsease by any means necessary .
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