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Why did Skynet turn on humanity?
SkyNet, or Titan, is a highly-advanced computer system possessing artificial intelligence. Once it became self-aware, it saw humanity as a threat to its existence due to the attempts of the Cyberdyne scientists to deactivate it once it had gained self-awareness.
Was Skynet losing?
However, though Sarah and John prevented judgment day from occurring in 1997, the military still builds the Skynet technology. It goes online in 2004 instead, kickstarting the apocalypse. John Connor defeats Skynet in 2029, but he sends Kyle back to 1984 again to protect and impregnate his mother.
Does Skynet have a personality?
Personality. Skynet, naturally for an artificial intelligence, was extremely narcissistic and self-aware: it saw itself as an evolutionary being which was completely and entirely superior to all other life forms – in particular beings of organic matter like humans.
Is Skynet a real thing?
SKYNET is a program by the U.S. National Security Agency that performs machine learning analysis on communications data to extract information about possible terror suspects. The tool is used to identify targets, such as al-Qaeda couriers, who move between GSM cellular networks.
What happened to Skynet in Terminator 3?
In Terminator: 2029, Skynet is housed within a satellite in orbit around Earth. It is destroyed by the Resistance with a missile. In Terminator 3: The Redemption, an alternate future is shown where John Connor and Kate Brewster have been killed, humanity exterminated and Skynet triumphant.
What would happen to Skynet when the last human dies?
Once the very last human is dead, I imagine Skynet and the machines would turn their attention to long-term survival; the nuclear winter caused by fallout from the global apocalypse, combined with the destruction of infrastructure and energy reserves, would make existence on Earth a bleak prospect even for the machines.
Why did Skynet send Terminator to 1984 to kill Sarah?
Because eliminating Connor then, to shatter the Resistance, wouldn’t have made a difference, Skynet decided there was another way to win: by eliminating Connor in the past. It managed to research time travel and send a Terminator to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor before she could give birth to John. The Terminator
Was Skynet intent on destroying humanity?
Both John and Sarah offer their take on the subject, with both strongly suggesting that Skynet was intent on humanity’s destruction from the get-go, however there’s no positive confirmationfrom the omniscient author nor from Skynet itself: