The 2021 movie Finch featuring Tom Hanks, who builds a robot, teaches it to be human and then eventually become friends with it, is arguably a less terrifying representation of artificial intelligence than the 1984 cyborg assassin we know as the Terminator sent from a post-apocalyptic future (2029) to kill.
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