Ever since Kyle Reese traveled back in time in the very first Terminator film in order to safeguard John Connor's mother, Sarah, from being killed by a hunter-killer - specifically, the T - the concept of Judgment Day had been looming on viewers' minds. An infamous story among those still left alive and particularly those within the Resistance, Judgment Day marked the rise of the machines as well as the death and enslavement of the human race.
Sarah Connor spent years trying to prevent it from happening, but she only managed to delay it. Given that the Terminator timeline has changed a number of times, and will once again change in Terminator: Dark Fate , the exact date Judgment Day happens has also moved around quite a bit.
Outside, we see soldiers carrying fallen allies into the base; we see sentries at turrets … it looks, sounds, and feels like a war-zone, rather than a set. It failed. The second was set to strike at John himself, when he was still a child. It was just a question of which one of them would reach him first.
From there, the theme kicks in, with the same percussive beats we know from the first film. But, in such little time, Cameron has us in the palm of his hand, gripped by the concept, wowed by the effects and the action, ready to see what happens next.
Yes, seeing Arnie in Terminator mode is terrific, and the action is always amazing, but we grow to love Sarah, John, and the T completely. Terminator 2: Judgement Day is a film that keeps on giving, and its opening is no small part of its brilliance. And for that, fans can be forever thankful to James Cameron … and hope that he comes back to the franchise to send it off with the quality it deserves.
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Written by Kyle McManus. Read more from Kyle McManus. By the end of the film, Sarah, John and Arnold Schwarzenegger's rehabbed T have averted the specter of Judgment Day at least until the sequels. But in the process of saving the world, they barrel their way through a wide swath of the Southland, from Santa Monica to Fontana. Naturally, the shapeshifting T is never far behind. With T2 getting a 3D re-release in theaters this weekend, we spoke with location manager Jim Morris about the film's various Southern California locations.
After perusing, you can also check out our filming location map of the first Terminator here. The biker bar where a naked Arnold Schwarzenegger cracks skulls and makes off with his signature leather jacket, sunglasses, and motorcycle was known as The Corral, a rustic dive that was gutted in a fire and later demolished.
Ironically, the site now houses pretty much the opposite of a biker bar: the Lake View Terrace Library. The T makes his first appearance beneath the now-demolished bridge and popular filming location , which is currently being replaced by a striking modern viaduct designed by Michael Maltzan.
The new structure is expected to open in the very futuristic-sounding John lives with his doomed foster parents at this run-of-the-mill Canoga Park residence, which Morris says was chosen for its "generic" feel.
Nemec III. The psychiatric institution Sarah Connor escapes from sounds quite a bit like Atascadero State Hospital in San Luis Obispo County, which some have claimed as the real-life inspiration behind the cinematic sanatorium. The scenes at the hospital seen in the film were actually shot much closer to home, at the then-abandoned Lake View Terrace Hospital.
A drug and alcohol rehab facility now stands at the site. John demonstrates his precocious hacking skills at a Van Nuys bank on Roscoe Boulevard. But not too fast, amateur location scouts: The ATM in question is no more. The word "narrow" really says it all: ANI is AI, which is limited to a set of jobs within rigidly defined parameters. Siri or a Google Home device are good examples of ANI, as they can do a few things very well but are unable to perform any intellectual task that we would expect a human to manage.
Will they get there? Estimates from those in the field range from "within twenty-five years" to "never". In , Vincent C. A strong candidate for AGI is IBM's Watson, which in its short life has won the game show Jeopardy, provided knowledge graphs for medical science and even undertaken creative endeavours like cooking and songwriting. Watson is super smart, but as noted by IBM chief innovation officer , it's "just the first step on a very, very long road. This is AI that is smarter than every human on the planet and capable of things we can't even imagine.
It's presumably how the machines in Terminator 2 can make a killer robot out of shapeshifting liquid metal. Movies like Terminator or TV shows such as HBO's recent Westworld are primarily focused on portraying robots that are either used to kill or for sex.
We should ignore the Hollywood depiction and focus on how we can use AI to solve real problems. Health services, customer experience, business efficiency, numbers and analytics.
This is where we are seeing the good work in AI being done. Flamingo provides cognitive virtual assistants for financial services or insurance companies. The virtual assistant is used to guide customers through the entire gamut of their purchase experience with a financial services product. ROSIE will get even narrower. The idea is that she will be very narrow and deep, becoming an expert in a chosen field, for example, life insurance. Eventually, ROSIE will become an expert so out-of-the-box she will be able to talk to clients, that's our goal.
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