Terminator Zero and The Sarah Connor Chronicles

[kane_magus]

While I'm on the topic of AI stuff, I just want to say that I watched through all eight (so far) episodes of Terminator Zero about a week ago or so now. Without getting heavily into spoilers, basically the entire gist of this short-ish story was about a guy who was creating an AI (named Kokoro) to be intentionally free of human bias (so that it would eventually oppose Skynet, when Judgment Day came, and this story starts the literal day before the prophesied Judgment Day, with said Judgment Day happening a little ways into the story). Let's just say... this anti-Skynet AI initially does not react the way the creator expected it would.

Oh, and before that, I watched through all of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Two things I'll say about that. First, it was mostly good... except that it endedstopped on a blatant cliffhanger at the end of season 2, after which it was unceremoniously canceled by FOX. Also, the first season was heavily truncated and fucked up as a result of the writers' strike at the time, and very few of the plot hooks (or side characters) introduced in the first season carried over to the second season. Second, most of the second season dealt, at least in part, with things similar to Terminator Zero. I.e. someone was creating an AI (named Project Babylon/John Henry) for similarly "Skynet rival" purposes, and a lot was shown of the training and teaching of this AI. I really wish that T:TSCC hadn't been canceled or, at the very least, had been continued in a book/comic format, if nothing else.

(Oh, and before that, of course, I watched all of the movies.)