The underlying technology is still very cool, just the way it is shoved down everyones throats is not, and the way they suck up everything humans created.

Skynet seems like a fair prediction.

Robots in fiction were almost always just weird humans.

Real robots are not humans, but machines.

But most authors are incapable of depicting real machines in their stories. Or real animals, or real hacking, or real economic systems, or any profession that isn’t their own…

I remember 2001: A Space Odissey…

just wait a year or two until you can fuck them

AI is indeed fiction, at least today. But who knows what tomorrow holds?