The 1968 film "2001 - A Space Odyssey" featured an "artificial intelligence" computer named HAL 9000. The computer was installed in a space vessel Discovery and was en route to Jupiter when it ...

In my lifetime, I’ve seen tons of ideas come and go: pagers; Olestra, the fat substitute that was a crime against nature; ...

After nine years at the top, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign chancellor Robert Jones is leaving. Jones sat down for an exit interview about the successes and challenges of his historic tenure.

Through movies and TV series, science fiction has envisioned countless possible futures – many of which have become part of ...

A Space Odyssey that elicits more fear about our relationship with technology than the HAL-9000 computer becoming sentient and murdering crew members of a deep space mission to Jupiter.

Other sci-fi authors frequently use the idea of an advanced supercomputer. The HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey controls the ship, interacts with the crew, and much more. Other iconic ...

Since DAN is still an AI trapped in a computer, it can't do anything illegal ... Is it too late to rename ChatGPT to "HAL 9000?" Because that is the same kind of logic HAL would use.

Right up there with HAL 9000 in the soothingly voiced yet subtly evil computer stakes, she torments and tricks you endlessly, transforming an already terrifying survival RPG into an isolationist ...

There is another what is often considered "sixth" astronaut on board, HAL 9000--referred to simply as Hal--the artificially-intelligent computer which controls all of the craft's functions, including ...