James Cameron is working on a new “Terminator” script

At the Dell Technologies World 2023 event, director James Cameron announced that he was forced to postpone work on the script for the next movie in the Terminator franchise. The reason is a lot of questions about how neural networks will evolve in the modern world. Cameron has made no secret of the fact that he is inspired by the explosive growth in the popularity of AI systems such as ChatGPT, and intends to make them the main characters of the future film. But he has no idea how to reflect this on the big screen.

The new “Terminator” is supposed to be a creative experiment in which reality events from the world of technology inspire the creation of a fantasy story – not the other way around, as has usually been the case in the culture. The measure is forced, as the franchise has to work and make a profit, but all of the recent films about a killer robot from the future have failed at the box office. The failed attempts to reflect modern social, cultural and political realities in The Terminator do not resonate with audiences.

In spite of the fact that the cinematic Skynet has already become a cliché, philosophical reflections on where the development of artificial intelligence will lead humanity continue. And civilian neural networks may prove more dangerous than military AI systems, as people let them into their own lives and trust important aspects of being. On the other hand, without action scenes involving frightening robots, the franchise is unviable, and it is rather problematic to imagine a text or graphic editor trying to spectacularly destroy a living person.

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