As a society, we have been continuously moving the goalposts of what constitutes machine intelligence. Over time, people have staked out positions that “no computer can think unless it fill in the ...

The best-informed dream : HAL and the vision of 2001 / David G. Stork -- Scientist on the set : an interview with Marvin Minsky / David G. Stork -- Could we build HAL? : supercomputer design / David J ...

With hindsight is obvious to anyone with any knowledge of computers that HAL could not possibly have been born in 1997. Back then we were struggling to get neural networks to do trivial things and ...

If you would like to own the HAL 9000 computer from the iconic movie made 50 years ago, 2001: A Space Odyssey. You may be interested to know that Warner Bros. have made available the licence for the ...

Master Replicas Group has unveiled easily the best HAL Computer device ever conceived to help bring the 2001: A Space Odyssey A.I. character into your home. The Master Replicas Group 2001 Interactive ...

Science fiction is usually couched in fact, and it’s fun to look at an iconic computer like HAL 9000 and trace the origins of this artificial intelligence gone wrong. You might be surprised to find ...

A voice-operated computer assistant is set to be used in space for the first time on Monday – its operators hope it proves more reliable than “HAL”, the treacherous speaking computer in the movie 2001 ...

As a society, we have been continuously moving the goalposts of what constitutes machine intelligence. And it may not seem like it now, but in 1961, a 'singing' computer was an important step. As a ...