Hal 2001 Quotes

Open the pod bay doors, Hal.

Take a stress pill and think things over-- HAL in 2001

Turing had pointed out that, if one could carry out a prolonged conversation with a machine—whether by typewriter or microphones was immaterial—without being able to distinguish between its replies and those that a man might give, then the machine was thinking, by any sensible definition of the word. Hal could pass the Turing test with ease. The

I am a HAL Nine Thousand computer Production Number 3. I became operational at the Hal Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997.

Hal’s internal fault predictor could have made a mistake.” “It’s more

They both knew, of course, that Hal was hearing every word,

The sixth member of the crew cared for none of these things, for it was not human. It was the highly advanced HAL 9000 computer,

The sixth member of the crew cared for none of these things, for it was not human. It was the highly advanced HAL 9000 computer, the brain and nervous system of the ship.

Hello, Dave,” said Hal presently. “Have you found the trouble?” This

Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, and Hal was silent forever.

For relaxation he could always engage Hal in a large number of semimathematical games, including checkers, chess, and polyominoes. If Hal went all out, he could win any one of them; but that would be bad for morale. So he had been programmed to win only fifty percent of the time, and his human partners pretended not to know this.

Hal (for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer, no less) was a masterwork of the third computer breakthrough.

el famoso ordenador de la película 2001: Una odisea en el espacio, que, según una leyenda urbana, lo habían llamado “HAL” porque eran las letras que precedían en el alfabeto a “IBM”.

Sin embargo, luego de ver por enésima vez 2001: odisea del espacio, cambió sus planes: trataría de emular a Hal. Tal como en la película, quería construir una inteligencia artificial de verdad, que tuviese una mente: intención, voluntad, conciencia, esas cosas y, claro, que no fuera a volverse loca.

WITH THE ADVENT of the computer and the dawn of the space race, the sixties brought futuristic visions of life to the mainstream consciousness. The Soviet satellite Sputnik had led to the formation of NASA to oversee America’s space program. In prime time on ABC, Americans could tune in to catch the animated cartoon The Jetsons, about a space-age family who lived with their housekeeping robot, Rosie, and dog, Astro. A couple of years later, Desilu, I Love Lucy’s production company, premiered Star Trek on CBS. Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey had a near-omniscient computer named Hal manipulating its astronauts. By the midsixties, the concepts of artificial intelligence and self-driving cars were no longer in the realm of magic or science fiction—they were seen as the logical, inevitable outcome of the American trajectory.

The Soviet satellite Sputnik had led to the formation of NASA to oversee America’s space program. In prime time on ABC, Americans could tune in to catch the animated cartoon The Jetsons, about a space-age family who lived with their housekeeping robot, Rosie, and dog, Astro. A couple of years later, Desilu, I Love Lucy’s production company, premiered Star Trek on CBS. Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey had a near-omniscient computer named Hal manipulating its astronauts. By the midsixties, the concepts of artificial intelligence and self-driving cars were no longer in the realm of magic or science fiction—they were seen as the logical, inevitable outcome of the American trajectory.

Let’s never forget that we need to speak and write like human beings with hearts, and not like the tin woodsman in The Wizard of Oz or Hal in the movie 2001.

That an obscure Filipino computer-user can spread confusion through the global computer networks by launching the 'I love you' virus is possible only because the computer loves us and, feeling abandoned, like Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey, takes its revenge by suiciding the network.

Supo al instante que el ojo había reaccionado ante su presencia. Hubo el siseo de una onda portadora al conectarse el transmisor local de la nave; luego, una voz familiar provino del micrófono del traje espacial. —Algo parece haber sucedido al sistema de subsistencia, Dave. Bowman no hizo caso. Se hallaba examinando minuciosamente las pequeñas etiquetas de las unidades de lógica, cotejando su plan de acción. —Oiga, Dave —dijo seguidamente Hal—. ¿Ha encontrado usted el trastorno? Sería aquélla una operación muy trapacera, de no tratarse simplemente más que de cortar el abastecimiento de energía de Hal, lo que habría podido ser la respuesta de haber estado tratando con un simple computador sin autoconciencia en Ja Tierra. Pero en el caso de Hal, había además seis sistemas energéticos independientes y separados, con un remate final consistente en una unidad nuclear isotópica blindada y acorazada. «No, no podía simplemente tirar del interruptor»; y aún de ser ello posible, resultaría desastroso. Pues Hal era el sistema nervioso de la nave; sin su supervisión, la Descubrimiento sería un cadáver mecánico. La única respuesta se hallaba en interrumpir los centros superiores de aquel cerebro enfermo pero brillante, dejando en funcionamiento los sistemas reguladores puramente automáticos.

It was Minsky who’d recommended the terms behind HAL’s acronym, and he’d also been the one who confirmed to Kubrick that computers thirty-five years in the future might be advanced enough to suffer breakdowns when faced with apparently irresolvable conflicts. And Kubrick had named one of 2001’s hibernating astronauts Kaminsky in tribute to the creator of the first self-learning neural network, SNARC.III An