How did Skynet make any Terminator robots?

[KingOrfeo]

Skynet was designed and installed to do one thing: Launch missiles. It would not have had control over anything else. It would not even have been linked to the Internet, that would have exposed it to the danger of hacking. It could launch the missiles, but what then? To build robots it would have had to have control of the automated systems in some factory, and who would have hooked it up to those systems?

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/skynet.png

 

[OldJourno]

Avatars from Titanic.

 

[Debbie]

Robo cat - pussy in disguise.


http://gizmodo.com/hasbro-now-has-a-toy-line-for-seniors-starting-with-a-l-1743122884

 

[girlsmiley]

Skynet was designed and installed to do one thing: Launch missiles. It would not have had control over anything else. It would not even have been linked to the Internet, that would have exposed it to the danger of hacking. It could launch the missiles, but what then? To build robots it would have had to have control of the automated systems in some factory, and who would have hooked it up to those systems?

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/skynet.png

You must watch Terminator 3. It's on Netflix. I don't want to ruin it for you.

 

[KingOrfeo]

You must watch Terminator 3. It's on Netflix. I don't want to ruin it for you.

Saw it. Doesn't answer the question.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The Moon is a Hash Mistress...



:shrug:

 

[Ms_Ann]

The olde fashioned way.


https://www.tripletremelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/birthing_simulator_2_12-6-10.jpg

 

[Liar]

Skynet was designed and installed to do one thing: Launch missiles. It would not have had control over anything else. It would not even have been linked to the Internet, that would have exposed it to the danger of hacking. It could launch the missiles, but what then? To build robots it would have had to have control of the automated systems in some factory, and who would have hooked it up to those systems?

Some mid level manager who thought it would save money to use it's spare cycles.

 

[Comshaw]

Skynet was designed and installed to do one thing: Launch missiles. It would not have had control over anything else. It would not even have been linked to the Internet, that would have exposed it to the danger of hacking. It could launch the missiles, but what then? To build robots it would have had to have control of the automated systems in some factory, and who would have hooked it up to those systems?

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/skynet.png

https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cartoonstock.com/travel-tourism-beaches-ocean-unimaginative-prosaic-shells-dco0239_low.jpg


Comshaw

 

[pointless]

Saw it. Doesn't answer the question.

also, it's fucking terrible.

 

[Parminderjeet]

The better question would be "how didn't Skynet create Terminator robots?".

 

[KingOrfeo]

The better question would be "how didn't Skynet create Terminator robots?".

It started with a Roomba and fed it and fed it.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Of course, we should also keep in mind that we cannot necessarily predict an AI's thoughts or behavior.

 

[rocket_surgery]

The wiki explains it. I don't know if the movies actually do but whomever wrote the wiki must have gotten the info from somewhere. Books or comics maybe.

 

[pointless]

they could've made it up, they could have got it from non-canon sources, they could have taken offhand comments from writers or directors or what have you as gospel. it doesn't matter. if it isn't in the movies it never matters because fuck you if you think i'm going to study up before watching some dumb fucking action movie that can't even follow it's own internal logic from one movie to the next.

because, seriously, if you go by the rules of the original movie the 2nd movie couldn't have happened.

and no, i'm not talking about paradoxes or any nonsense like that. i'm talking about the fact that the t-1000 shouldn't have been able to go through the time portal because there's absolutely nothing organic about that fucker.

but, i digress, as always one must follow the golden rule as expressed here.

 

[rocket_surgery]

they could've made it up, they could have got it from non-canon sources, they could have taken offhand comments from writers or directors or what have you as gospel. it doesn't matter. if it isn't in the movies it never matters because fuck you if you think i'm going to study up before watching some dumb fucking action movie that can't even follow it's own internal logic from one movie to the next.

because, seriously, if you go by the rules of the original movie the 2nd movie couldn't have happened.

and no, i'm not talking about paradoxes or any nonsense like that. i'm talking about the fact that the t-1000 shouldn't have been able to go through the time portal because there's absolutely nothing organic about that fucker.

but, i digress, as always one must follow the golden rule as expressed here.

I have wondered about the T-1000 before. It shouldn't have been able to time travel but it's a movie and that one was a darn good movie.
I agree that one should not have to study to watch an action movie. Best to just let it go and upgrade your suspension of disbelief.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

Skynet was designed and installed to do one thing: Launch missiles. It would not have had control over anything else. It would not even have been linked to the Internet, that would have exposed it to the danger of hacking. It could launch the missiles, but what then? To build robots it would have had to have control of the automated systems in some factory, and who would have hooked it up to those systems?

Occam's razor: It's in the script.

 

[John Blackhawk]

Well simple, skynet probably took over what ever manufacturing facilities attached to the base where it first started. Using the terminator movie with the blonde female enemy terminator for reference sake you have to remember the skybots and the first security drones with miniguns were already built. THen objectively its a matter of upgrading the assembly line until you can create more complicated terminators.