By: Paul Ceruzzi Emeritus Scholars. Some of those predictions came true; of course others did not. What was the state of computing in , and in what directions were computer scientists expecting it to evolve? What kinds of advice did Kubrick get? Kubrick and his scriptwriters assumed that by the year computers would be able to converse with humans in natural language.
But Kubrick did have a close relationship with IBM in the making of the film. Among them was the large IBM mainframe. It was not supposed to have anything to do with the fictitious character in Was it just a coincidence?
Computer scientists in the mid-to-late s were making strides in this field, although we now know that true voice recognition and synthesis would not come until decades later. Better progress was made by communicating with the computer via a Teletypewriter. Or Obie. Or any one of these other names of fictional computers. Nor does Lash acknowledge the coincidence. I thought it was local slang for the Glasgow subway transit system. Nothing to do with the London East End.
I agree. But if it is really Heuristically programmed Algorithmic computer then I have learned something new. Interested that this log connects the two films. Back to the gin. If that were the case, then, for example, Hamlet could never have a Freudian meaning. IBM is a perfectly legitimate interpretation.
There are only two movies that had a lasting impact on me. One was The Werewolf, a low budget silly movie that scared the pants offa me as a kid! For years, I was afraid that someone would sneak into my house like in the movie. I had nightmares for decades. I wish I had never seen that movie! The HAL H euristically programmed AL gorithmic Computer computer is an artificial intelligence and the onboard computer on the spaceship Discovery 1. His first instructor was Dr. He is the hidden main antagonist of and a major protagonist in Hal is a HAL computer with a human personality.
Hal is capable of many functions, such as speech, speech recognition, facial recognition, lip-reading, interpreting emotions, expressing emotions, and chess, in addition to maintaining all systems on Discovery. The novel explains that HAL is unable to resolve a conflict between his general mission to relay information accurately, and orders specific to the mission requiring that he withhold from Bowman and Poole the true purpose of the mission.
This withholding is considered essential after the findings of a psychological experiment, "Project Barsoom", where humans were made to believe that there had been alien contact. In every person tested, a deep-seated xenophobia was revealed, which was unknowingly replicated in HAL's constructed personality.
Mission Control did not want the crew of Discovery to have their thinking compromised by the knowledge that alien contact was already real. With the crew dead, HAL reasons, he would not need to lie to them. Hal is built into the Discovery 1 spacecraft, and is in charge of maintaining all mechanical and life support systems on board. Hal also has several "eyes" placed periodically around the spacecraft. About three weeks into the flight, Hal picks up a fault in the AE unit, the system responsible for keeping the satellite dish antenna aligned with the Earth, and states that it will go one-hundred percent failure within 72 hours.
He suggests that they go EVA and replace the faulty unit with a new one. David Bowman goes out and retrieves the unit. But when he brings it back and runs it through diagnostics, they can find no problem with the AE They radio Mission Control about the problem, and Mission Control says that Hal is in error predicting the fault.
This is a bit of a surprise, as the series has a perfect operational record. Noting that this kind of thing has always been because of human error when it has occurred before, Hal suggests that they go out and "replace the malfunctioning unit and allow it to fail.
Then it should be a simple matter to track down the problem.
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