Stupid Question about Ultron

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If Ultron is an Artificial Intelligence, wouldn't it just be easy to defeat him by setting off an EMP to disable him?

I know it's a bit of an over-simplification but still.

 

[The Egalitarian]

I assume if it's anything made by Tony Stark (in the film adaptation), there's going to be a catch. He possibly added in / built Ultron in such a way that it removes the element of weakness through EMP's into him.

That's my two-cents; It may be completely different in the comics, but for the fact in the movies they are making Tony Stark the creator of Ultron, there's going to be elements of ambiguity due to the plot change.

 

[Zontar]

If you can find a way to create an EMP without the use of nuclear weapons, it would be an interesting theory to test out.

 

[Little Woodsman]

Note that these remarks refer to Ultron as he appears in the comics, since we don't know what he will be like in the film yet.

Ultron has protection from most basic attack forms, and it is conceivable that his adamantium outer coating gives him added protection against things like EMP as well as physical attacks. That being said, a sufficiently powerful one could probably take him down.

BUT-- the problem with Ultron has never been taking him down, the problem with Ultron is that he plans ahead and keeps downloads of his memory and programming in remote safe locations, attached to "Dead Man's Handle" type devices that rebuild his body and install his last backed-up programs and memory in to the new body if he doesn't check in with them periodically. Additionally he keeps improving his own design so each rebuilt body is tougher than the previous one. Each new Ultron then investigates what caused the destruction of the previous one, and incorporates improved defenses against whatever took the older model down in to the schematics for the next one.

Taking him out isn't the problem, keeping him down is the problem.

 

[Olas]

While you're at it you can apply this logic to the Terminator series, Battlestar Galactica, iRobot, and countless others. The only instance I can think of where it's actually used is The Matrix.

For all their talk of perfection and supremacy, robots have a pretty glaring weakness.

If you can find a way to create an EMP without the use of nuclear weapons, it would be an interesting theory to test out.

It's a thing.

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/future-weapons-emp-bomb.htm

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

If you can find a way to create an EMP without the use of nuclear weapons, it would be an interesting theory to test out.

Surely comic book logic would override that. 90% of the high tech stuff that tends to show up doesn't even exist.

 

[000Ronald]

If Ultron is an Artificial Intelligence, wouldn't it just be easy to defeat him by setting off an EMP to disable him?

I know it's a bit of an over-simplification but still.

I got the impression from the preview I watched that he's less a traditional A.I. and more...something like a sentient computer virus. So the problem is that you can't EMP the whole planet without throwing earth back to the middle ages for a couple of years.