The disconnection feels like a vengeful termination, after witnessing the film’s earlier events. In fact, viewers begin to feel that Bowman is killing HAL. When, during the film, Bowman starts to manually override HAL’s functions, it asks him to stop, and after we witness a fascinating obliteration of HAL’s “mental” faculties, the AI seemingly tries to comfort itself by singing Daisy Bell – reportedly the first ever song produced by a computer. But while there is nothing to preclude the idea that such an emotional AI could see the light of day, if such depth of feelings were to be included in real world technology, they would have to be entirely fake. Yet soon after we become acquainted with HAL, we cannot help feeling that it is worried – it even claims it is experiencing fear – and that it has an ability to empathise, however small. It has control over the entire vessel, and staggering intelligence to aid it in its task. HAL is programmed to deliver optimal assistance to the crew of the spaceship Discovery.
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In one of the most beautiful scenes in sci-fi history, it says it is “afraid” when mission commander Dr David Bowman starts disconnecting its memory modules following a series of murderous events. Clarke and filmmaker Stanley Kubrick made it one of the most human-like fictional technologies ever created. It can interpret emotional behaviour, reason and appreciate art.īy giving HAL emotions, writer Arthur C. Its superior computational ability is boosted by uniquely human traits, too. HAL is capable of speech production and comprehension, facial recognition, lip reading – and playing chess. This superior form of sentient computer embarks on a mission to Jupiter, along with a human crew, in Stanley Kubrick’s iconic film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is currently celebrating its 50th year since release. HAL 9000 is one of the best-known artificial intelligence characters of modern film.
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