No, I get that, I’m not disputing that. I’m just saying that as I understand the technology, we have every reason to believe that we’re already pretty good at predictive algorithms and that we can become really, really, really good, but I’m not convinced that—regardless of how much processing power and data you feed into the algorithm—it would ever make the leap to being independently alive and aware.

In other words, I’m sure we can get something that functions like Skynet because someone, somewhere, fucked up and fed it training data or a query or whatever that led its algorithm to output “wipe out humanity.” But we assume because of the expository dialogue that Skynet is truly alive. It thinks, it reacts, it’s self-aware. I’m not sure we can ever get that.