Terminator 2: Judgment DayThe image of AI is surprisingly “Ahead of its time“, reveals an AI expert. Released in 1991, James Cameron’s critically acclaimed follow-up to 1984’s. The Terminator Sees Arnold Schwarzenegger return as the T-800, this time to protect Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) and her son, John (Edward Furlong), from a more advanced T-1000 model (Robert Patrick). As in the first film, AI is a major theme explored in the sequel, particularly as it relates to Skynet becoming sentient and taking control.
In a recent video for InsideArtificial intelligence researcher Sasha Luccioni analyzes selected scenes from Terminator 2: Judgment DayFound them to have generally accurate images of AI. Luccioni looks at early scenes of Schwarzenegger’s character entering a bar while scanning license plates and calculating the height and weight of his patrons, and she reveals that much of what is depicted in this scene is what AI is used for today. Where the film falls short, however, is in its depiction of the T-800 engaging in combat. Check out the video and Luccioni’s comments below:
“This is actually something that is being done right now. Every time you go through a toll booth, for example, in the United States or Canada, it will read your license plate. It can also find out what the brand of your car is. We Are really good at object recognition, especially in terms of, like, cars and street scenes, mostly because of autonomous vehicles.
“Estimating someone’s height or approximate weight is definitely something that people use AI for. I would say like in CCTV, surveillance, especially if you’re trying to identify a perpetrator, that’s something that AI is trained to do. Does it do it super Good will depend … Essentially, for example, if the person’s wearing baggy clothes, whether you have objects around the person.
“If you’re trying to figure out how tall someone is, it’s really hard if they’re just like in a bare room where you have no objects that you Can use to compare and to triangulate, especially. If a person is at a car or at a pool table, then you can really say, ‘Well, it’s probably this height.’
“It would be really hard for AI to do hand-to-hand combat in a way that’s really reactive. There’s an element of trying to predict what someone is going to do and react fairly quickly, and AI typically isn’t very good at predicting what people [will do] Because we are so unpredictable and so spontaneous.
“As humans, we do this almost subconsciously. If you had to throw something at someone who was running, you would throw it at what you think is They will move in a second, but for an AI, they would have to predict the trajectory of someone’s movement and then catch them in time.
“I would rate this clip an eight [out of 10]. The movie was definitely ahead of its time, and I think it really came to shape a lot of the AI research that was done over the next decade.
What Terminator 2: Judgment Day’s AI accuracy means for the franchise
How a sense of equality helped the film success
The movies in the Terminator Franchises are all firmly in the realm of science fiction, and the real limitations of technology and AI are clearly stretched in the name of entertainment. The high accuracy score that Luccioni awards Cameron’s film, however, speaks to the overall believability of the story, and the real-life science and technology that are included in the larger-than-life story. This feeling of plausibility is part of what the first two Terminator Movies remain so belovedLike what’s happening on screen may not be real, but it feels like it could be.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day is widely regarded as one of the best sequels ever made, and currently enjoys a strong 91% on Rotten tomatoes. The Popcornmeter score, previously called the Audience Score, is even better at 95%. Terminator 2 was also a big success at the box office, earning $520.9 million worldwide. The attention to detail and foresight when it comes to technology is actually a mainstay of Cameron’s larger filmography, and even his most recent filmography. Avatar Movies have plausible-feeling extensions of current technology.
Our AI depiction of Terminator 2
The unrealistic elements add entertainment value
There’s a lot of fear and there’s a lot of questions about AI right now, but purely from an entertainment point of view, Terminator 2: Judgment Day Stands as the perfect example of why making technology the villain is so much fun. Patrick’s T-1000 is formidable and terrifying, although he is not realistic as an intelligent liquid metal.
While the AI combat in the film may not be accurate, Embellishment in these areas is necessary to tell a compelling, action-filled story. The mix of entertainment value and thoughtful considerations of technology and its capabilities finally collide to make Terminator 2: Judgment Day A classic Cameron.
Source: Inside