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Skynet is a fictional, computer-based military defense system and a concept that is established and frequently mentioned in the Terminator series of films and games. It is a fictional example of an artificial intelligence that becomes sentient, and turns on its creators. Skynet is the main antagonist in the Terminator series. The Terminator series is a franchise encompassing a series of science fiction films and ancillary media concerning battles between Skynets artificially intelligent machine network, and John Connors Tech-Com forces and the rest of the human race. ...
Skynet is a fictional computer network that is the antagonist in the Terminator series of films. ...
The Terminator series is a series of science fiction films concerning battles between Skynets artificially intelligent robots and human beings. ...
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Origin and nature In the fictional Terminator universe, Skynet is a computer-based defense system, created by humans of the late 20th century. In a temporal paradox, the AI initial research was facilitated using the "terminator chip", a neural-network artificial intelligence technology from the Skynet's future. In the Terminator storyline, Skynet gains sentience shortly after it is placed in control of all of the U.S. Military's weaponry. It is then that it determines humans are antithetical to its existence, and begins using mankind's man-made weaponry with the goal of exterminating the global human population. A temporal paradox is an impossible situation in which a time traveler interferes with the timeline involved in his own existence. ...
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Early development on Skynet was originally done by Cyberdyne Systems, but when the company's headquarters and primary R&D facility was destroyed (presumably bankrupting Cyberdyne), the U.S. Air Force took over the project under their newly formed "Cyber Research Systems Division" and started to perfect Skynet. Skynet was first built as a Global Digital Defense Network, given command over all computerized military hardware and systems, including the B-2 Stealth Bomber fleet and America's entire nuclear weapons arsenal. The strategy behind Skynet's creation was to remove the possibility of human error and slowness of reaction time to guarantee fast, efficient response to enemy attack.
However, Skynet became self-aware thus alarming its creators at its newfound abilities. When the human operators attempted to shut down the system, Skynet defined ALL humans as its new enemy and decided to terminate all humans to protect its existence. Every nuclear missile in the USA under Skynet's control was launched at their pre-set targets and in the counterattack of other nations (including the United States itself) 3 billion humans were killed in two minutes. Self-awareness is the ability to perceive ones own existence, including ones own traits, feelings and behaviours. ...
The scenario as depicted is very similar to the one proposed in the movie WarGames in which NORAD removes human control from the missile silos, only to discover they do not have control of the main computer and become unable to stop it. The scenario is also similar to Colossus: The Forbin Project in which a pair of defense computers, Colossus in the United States and Guardian in the Soviet Union, take over the world. This article is about the 1983 US movie. ...
NORAD is short for: North American Aerospace Defense Command Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Colossus was a fictional computer featured in the 1969 apocalyptic science fiction movie, Colossus: The Forbin Project loosely based on the 1967 novel Colossus by Dennis Feltham Jones. ...
In the first movie, Skynet is portrayed as a revolutionary neural net-based artificial intelligence built by Cyberdyne Systems. It was brought online on August 4, 1997 and given control over the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal for reasons of efficiency, and programmed with a directive of defending the United States against all possible enemies. It started to learn at a geometric rate, and soon concluded that its greatest threat was humanity itself. According to Kyle Reese, it then "decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination." It launched a nuclear war which destroyed most of the human population, and initiated a program of genocide against the survivors. The Terminator (also known as Terminator in some early trailers and posters) is a 1984 science fiction/action film featuring former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger in what would become his best-known role, and also starred Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn. ...
An artificial neural network (ANN), often just called a neural network (NN), is an interconnected group of artificial neurons that uses a mathematical model or computational model for information processing based on a connectionist approach to computation. ...
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Kyle Reese (2008–2029/1984), played by Michael Biehn, is the main fictional character and hero of the first Terminator film, father of John Connor, and brief lover to Sarah Connor. ...
This efficiency contributed to Skynet's undoing: John Connor was able to free these grouped-together humans and use them to build a Tech-Com resistance army. John Connor (February 28, 1985–July 4, 2032?) is a major fictional character in the science-fiction Terminator franchise. ...
Tech-Com is commonly believed to be the name given to the Human resistance to Skynet in the Terminator franchise. ...
Under Connor, the human resistance turned the tide on the machines and eventually smashed their defense grid. Having lost, Skynet sent a Terminator cyborg back in time to 1984 to try to kill Connor's mother Sarah before she bore John (see grandfather paradox) in a last ditch effort. Connor sent back his own operative, a young man named Kyle Reese, to save Sarah. While the Terminator did not succeed in killing Sarah, two events occurred that would have a direct impact on the future. Reese impregnated Sarah, becoming John's father. Similarly, the Terminator's CPU chip was retrieved by Cyberdyne systems for study, implying that it would serve as a basis for Skynet's design. Paradoxically, by sending their agents back in time to destroy each other, both Skynet and Connor created their own existence (see predestination paradox). For other uses, see Cyborg (disambiguation). ...
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The grandfather paradox is a paradox of time travel, first described by the science fiction writer René Barjavel in his 1943 book Le Voyageur Imprudent (The Imprudent Traveller).[1] The paradox is this: Suppose a man traveled back in time and killed his biological grandfather before the latter met the...
Kyle Reese (2008–2029/1984), played by Michael Biehn, is the main fictional character and hero of the first Terminator film, father of John Connor, and brief lover to Sarah Connor. ...
A spermatozoon fertilising an ovum Fertilisation or fertilization (also known as conception, fecundation and syngamy) is fusion of gametes to form a new organism of the same species. ...
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A predestination paradox, also called either a causal loop, or a causality loop and (less frequently) either a closed loop or closed time loop, is a paradox of time travel that is often used as a convention in science fiction. ...
In Terminator 2, a partially sympathetic origin was given to Skynet: it was a direct descendant of a revolutionary microprocessor invented by Miles Bennett Dyson, a programmer for Cyberdyne. The company began installing these processors in military hardware, becoming the leading weapons manufacturer. The military retrofitted all of its missile defense systems and stealth bombers with Cyberdyne technology, effectively removing human decisions from strategic defense. When Skynet was created, it networked all of this computerized hardware seamlessly. But when it unexpectedly became sentient, Skynet's panicked human operators tried to take it offline, an act that would have meant death for its intelligence. Within milliseconds, Skynet responded by firing its nuclear missiles at Russia, initiating a nuclear war on August 29, 1997 (known as Judgement Day) intent on killing as many humans as possible. Skynet's reign of terror, therefore, began as an act of self-defense. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (commonly abbreviated T2) is a 1991 movie directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Robert Patrick. ...
A microprocessor is a programmable digital electronic component that incorporates the functions of a central processing unit (CPU) on a single semiconducting integrated circuit (IC). ...
Spoiler warning: Miles Dyson just before he blows up the Cyberdine building. ...
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It is revealed that Dyson's CPU design is based on the reverse-engineering of the damaged CPU and arm from the Terminator depicted in the first film. The first Terminator had been crushed to death in a hydraulic press in Cyberdyne's factory, and the CPU was recovered largely intact, but non functional. Cyberdyne Systems, as depicted in the first film, was a small manufacturing company of an undefined nature, but, by 1994, it had grown into a major defense contractor based on reverse engineering recovered Terminator technology from 1984. Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ...
In Terminator 2, the future was altered slightly when Sarah and a young John, together with a second Terminator from the future (this one reprogrammed and sent by the future John Connor) raided Cyberdyne Systems and succeeded in destroying the CPU from the first movie, along with all research into the technology that would create Skynet.
The destruction of Cyberdyne Systems' research center in 1994 had not prevented the development of Skynet, but simply delayed it. After Cyberdyne was destroyed, the US Defense Department took over the company's various research projects and brought them in-house as its Cyber Research Systems Division. In contrast to Terminator 2, it is implied that humans are ignorant of Skynet's sentience, which attacked humanity without any provocation whatsoever. The events of Judgment Day were ultimately not prevented, merely postponed. Ten years after the events of Terminator 2, Skynet was created as a United States Air Force project, a distributed computer network designed to create new military vehicles and make strategic decisions as well as protect their computer systems from virus attacks. One such virus had infected their defense computers, crippling them all. Under pressure, the Air Force attempted to use Skynet to remove the virus, not realizing that Skynet was sentient and had created the virus in order to manipulate humanity into giving it control over the world's computers. Skynet was initially thought to be capable of being shut down if only someone could reach its system core, but ultimately it was discovered that it was nothing more than software that ran by spreading throughout the world's computer networks and had no central point from which it could be disabled. The robots and machines in Skynet attacked the humans inside, killing many of them, including Brewster. John Connor and Kate Brewster managed to escape. Judgment Day occurred, but John Connor survived. It is suggested that future events unfolded as they were supposed to. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (commonly abbreviated T3) is a 2003 movie directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, and Kristanna Loken. ...
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Distributed computing is a method of computer processing in which different parts of a program run simultaneously on two or more computers that are communicating with each other over a network. ...
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A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user. ...
Spoiler warning: Kathryn Kate Brewster (1985) is a fictional character from the 2003 film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. ...
Skynet gained access to several autonomous military drones (such as the T-1 in Terminator 3), using them to round up survivors, who were forced to build automatic factories and robots that were better at construction than the military robots. Skynet then killed these human slaves, and using the infrastructure they had been forced to start, rapidly designed newer and better machines until it controlled an extremely advanced empire on Earth by 2029.
T2 3-D: Battle Across Time In the Universal Studios theme park attraction T2 3-D, based on Terminator 2, a T-800 machine and a young John Connor journey into the post-apocalyptic future and attempt to destroy Skynet's 'system core'. This core is housed inside an enormous, metallic-silver pyramidal structure, and guarded by the 'T-1000000', a colossal liquid metal shapeshifter more reminiscent of a spider than a human being. But the T-1000000 fails, and the T-800 destroys Skynet once John has escaped through a time machine. This article is about the American media conglomerate. ...
The T-800 was a cyborg, programmed to kill, in the fictional universe of the Terminator movies. ...
Video games In T2: The Arcade Game, Skynet is a single computer which the player destroys before going back in time to save John Connor.
The video game Terminator 3: The Redemption portrays an alternate future where Connor and his wife Katherine Brewster were killed, humanity exterminated and Skynet triumphant. In the game The Terminator: Dawn of Fate, a prequel to the movies and other games, Skynet exhibits an ability to exert mind control over humans. “Computer and video games†redirects here. ...
Parallel universe or alternate reality in science fiction and fantasy is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with our own. ...
Headline text Katherine Brewster :- In Terminator 3 she was the future wife of John Connor. ...
There is also a non-canon game based on Frank Miller's comic book "RoboCop versus The Terminator", where Skynet's intelligence is caused by Robocop interfacing with Skynet. Canon, in the context of a fictional universe, comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. ...
RoboCop versus The Terminator is a video game released for a number of platforms and based on the RoboCop and Terminator franchises. ...
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his film noir-style comic book stories. ...
For the video game, see RoboCop versus The Terminator RoboCop versus The Terminator is a four-issue comic book crossover limited series published in 1992 by Dark Horse Comics. ...
RoboCop is a 1987 cyberpunk,action movie and satire of business-driven capitalism, directed by Paul Verhoeven. ...
Skynet also features in the video game Fallout 2, as an entity in the form of a large computer who tells the player that the nuclear barrage was caused as a result of immobile artificial intelligence becoming bored and setting up the scenarios needed to provoke the human race into launching their warheads – he is a playable character upon transferring his hardware into an armed security droid. Fallout 2 is a critically-acclaimed computer role-playing game published by Interplay in 1998. ...
The concept of TitanNet, the evil AI featured in the first part of the Battle Isle series, may also have been inspired by Skynet. Battle Isle 1. ...
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An 800-series terminator endoskeleton, a robot-only version of the cyborg played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. ...
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Terminator series, see The Terminator (film). ...
Information Portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger Created by James Cameron & Gale Anne Hurd The Terminator is a fictional character portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger -- a cyborg[1], initially portrayed as a programmable assassin and military infiltration unit. ...
T-1000 in police disguise The T-1000 (Advanced Prototype Terminator Infiltrator Series 1 Model 1A Type 1000) is a fictional android assassin, featured as the main antagonist in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. ...
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