Comments on: Skynet Research wants YOU!

By: SkyNet Research Needs You! :: Gizmos for Geeks

SkyNet Research Needs You! :: Gizmos for Geeks — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:04:20 +0000

[...] Heard the news? SkyNet has just gone public with their new advanced robotic systems that they’ve been working on for many years, and are now open to the general public’s viewing for feedback! Check it out! [...]

By: Vincent

Vincent — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:10:58 +0000

aaah! I was believing this was true but when I see this was military and secret and then a link to Facebook profile I found this pretty strange ! Got it! Nice try

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:00:25 +0000

Viva la Skynet! =)

By: Bob Mottram

Bob Mottram — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:53:33 +0000

I looked at that site and it seemed obviously fake. The thing which really gave the game away was in one of the videos the supposed researchers are wearing white lab coats. I’ve worked with robots and roboticists for quite a while, and not one of them ever wore a white lab coat.

Still, I think this does show that the believability gap between the fictional technology of the Terminator movies and what we have today is shrinking, to the point where a naive observer might believe that a site like this was genuine. What looked like pure fantasy in the 1980s is getting closer to reality today.

By: Howard Gordon

Howard Gordon — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:25:46 +0000

I thought it was one of our robots with an supersized laser. I figured they had been reading our blog about the recent addition of neural net code – http://www.surveyor.com/cgi-bin/robot_journal2.cgi/2009/02/06#199 .

By: Benjamin Moore

Benjamin Moore — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:55:35 +0000

^ Amazing work Mr. Internet Detective. I’m sure these guys have no idea that its a marketing campaign when they have an advert for it on the side of their blog. Nothing gets past you!