Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: Difference between revisions

 

 

* Averted in ''[[Knight Rider]]''. KITT is smarter than any human, but not indecipherably intelligent. Most of his unrealism comes from being [[Ridiculously Human Robot|ridiculously human.]]

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' (reboot): Skinjobs are as smart as humans, if not smarter. Raiders are trained pack animals, and Centurions are on the cusp of sentience.

** It's indicated that the Centurions ''were'' completely sentient, but the skinjobs went and lobotomized them as an ironic echo of the original robot rebellion. When the restrictions are removed by skinjob Cylon activists, they along with the Raiders return to sentience, and are not very happy at all.

** From [[The Movie]]: "His coat is burgundy. This is teal." Some of the skinjobs are [[Too Dumb to Live]].

* Averted in ''[[Red Dwarf]]''. [[A Is|Holly]] has an IQ of 6,000 ([[Take That|"the same I.Q. as 6000 P.E. teachers"]]), but his centuries of isolation has left him "[[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|a bit]] [[The Mad Hatter|peculiar]]."

* The Terminators in ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' fall somewhere between Average Joe and Nobel. Generally, they operate within certain baseline programming but are given immense leeway in how to complete their objectives, and show impressive planning and intellect when it comes to this. For example, a Terminator by the name of Myron Stark is sent back with a mission to assassinate the governor of California in 2009 at a specific location inside a specific building. Instead, he is accidentally sent back to the 1920s, in the process killing the man who would build the tower where he would carry out the assassination. At this point, Stark proceeds to build the tower himself by first robbing banks, establishing his own realty company and construction firms, and even assassinates the heads of a rival company to buy up all their lands, including the land where the tower would be built—and then built the tower himself. Then he hides himself inside the tower for a good sixty years until the day of the planned assassination.