A blast from the past: Eliezer Yudkowsky’s mention of the Terminator in Creating Friendly AI 1.0 (2001) [p216]:
7.1.4. Video (Accurate and Inaccurate Depictions) … Terminator and T2. The enemy AIs don’t have enough personality to be Evil Hollywood AIs. The good AI in T2 is depicted in the original theatrical version as having acquired human behaviors simply by association with humans. However, there’s about 20 minutes of cut footage which shows (a) John Connor extracting the Arnold’s neural-network chip and flipping the hardware switch that enables neural plasticity and learning, and (b) John Connor explicitly instructing Arnold to acquire human behaviors. The original version of T2 is a better movie—has more emotional impact—but the uncut version of T2 provides a much better explanation of the events depicted. The cut version shows Arnold, the Good Hollywood AI, becoming human; the uncut version shows Arnold the internally consistent cognitive process modifying itself in accordance with received instructions.
A blast from the past: Eliezer Yudkowsky’s mention of the Terminator in Creating Friendly AI 1.0 (2001) [p216]: