Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26933567-20150406121906/@comment-1298029-20150503002721

Yes, well, there's a movie from which the idea of Ultron has been copied completely. It's called Metropolis, it was made in 1927. It's widely considered the first serious science fiction movie ever made. Also, Star Trek episode The Ultimate Computer (1968), The Matrix, Terminator (itself ripped off from The Soldier, a short story by Harlan Ellison adapted as an Outer Limits episode in 1964), Frank Herbert's Dune (forms part of background elaborated in later sequels), Isaac Asimov's The Foundation and, more prominently, the Robot stories (basically, most of Asimov's work had to do with AI), and a host of others. The idea of "AI uprising" is not as old as science fiction itself, but it is as old as computers (or at least, the idea that highly complex information processing machines could realistically be created, which began to be accepted as at least a possibility sometime around the time of important breakthroughs in electromagnetism and particle theory at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries; computers per se didn't really appear until after WWII).