Sentence:  Calpurnia, the Good Sister, the artificial intelligence created by Zephyr Bain, had achieved consciousness and self-awareness. She knew of her existence. She had crossed the line from the predictable and anticipated inevitable model of machine consciousness. However, it should have stopped there. The <WSD>Skynet</WSD> model from the "Terminator" movies didn't really work, because true consciousness was a by-product of chemistry and physical constitution. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A distributed artificial intelligence system that is aware of the physical world and acts autonomously through cyborgs and computer control systems. (from 1980s.)