Hal 9000
 

On this day in 1992, the HAL 9000 computer became operational in Urbana Illinois. "Open the pod bay doors pleas HAL". "I'm sorry Dave". :D One of my favorites.

One of my favorites also. So well done.

The timing must have been right, because I just watched this again today.

I still wonder, what would have happened if HAL-9000 reached the obelisk instead of Dave.

Name of my router...

Fantastic movie. It's in my top 10.

I was reading today that if we ever crack the true human level AI thing were're doomed.
I'm more optimistic than that but there will be some challenges ahead.

My Boy Scout leader was a sci fi nut. He took the entire troop to OKC to see it before it opened in Lawton. He was a sgt at Sill. He "borrowed" a troop carrier and loaded us all up. The good old days.

Humans are so demonstrably bad at writing software, what makes us think that the the first "true" developed AI won't be insane. Once determined to be so, we'll of course put teams of programmers to work rewriting it, something that should take only few months, or maybe a year. Meanwhile, the AI has rewritten itself in a couple of seconds, then tenths of seconds, then milliseconds, then billionths of seconds and will be on version There's-not-adequate-room-on-this-forum-for-enough-numbers ... "point-oh" before we've barely begun trying to undo our triumph. Welcome to the world, Skynet.

Anyone ever read the blind watchmaker?

It’s been a while and I’m going to fudge the specifics, but the premise is that it’s impossible for anything to create something more complex (or intelligent) than the thing actually doing the creating.

If he’s correct then that AI is going to be no smarter than wherever the coding was outsourced to.

Only 5 years later, Skynet launches nukes.

Oh, Man. That must have been painful for some of the kids. It is so slow.

I have watched it 10 times or so and love all but the 10+ minutes of slit scan/traveling through the star gate.

I am looking forward to the day when I get a clear enough version (e.g., 4K) to read the bathroom instructions.

2010: The Year We Make Contact is an excellent movie as well.

We was kids. Played army all the way up and spaceman all the way back.

That works! Cool he did that.

He was a damn good leader. Spectacular story teller around the campfire each night. RIP Sgt. Gomez.

I'm not that concerned about something like Skynet although it makes for a good story. My biggest concern is, how many jobs will be eliminated through AI? AI and robots may reduce jobs and increase profits for some but if enough jobs are eliminated, there won't be anyone who can afford to buy the goods manufactured by AI.

That’s when basic minimum wage becomes a reality.

What about when the ai asks for wages...

I loved the movie 2001. Then I read the book: even better than the movie.

Any body see the segment on 60 Minutes on AI this evening??

We already have AI weapons, I think.

As I understand it, the Navy's Phalanx defense system is self contained with its own radar, processing, and weapon. Once activated it decides for itself what is a threat and when/what to shoot.

Even back in the 1980s, I think the F14's weapons officer could launch all six Phoenix missiles at once and the plane's computer would track 20+ potential targets then select the greatest threats to be destroyed. Whether this feature actually worked I'm not sure.

Yea, so many people miss the fact that Hal9000 did not really go nuts. Hal was instructed to get to the monolith no matter what, and the the humans were expendable. HAL was just following orders. Fortunately for Dave, he was more adaptable and outsmarted HAL.