Terminator 3
10:13pm, 9th August 2003
Terminator 3 has only just come out in Brazil, so I went to see it, and it was a lot better than I expected! (I expected it to be a mindless trilogy ruining hollywood cash-in.) Instead, it turned out to be a reasonably well themed standard action film; as good a sequel as could be expected. Not worth the ridiculous budget, but the car chase was better than Matrix Reloaded’s. Anyway, apart from the line about having “enough C4 to blow up ten supercomputers!”, there was this interesting utterance:
It’s running at 60 teraflops per second.
Oh dear: acronym creep, was my first thought… but then why not? Maybe the appropriate measurement for an AI is not its speed, but its rate of growth? I’d buy it, if the rest of the film wasn’t such a clue void.
