How to tell if you are a bot.

[Tervuren]

Perhaps we need a study on this subject.

[id10t]

And how do you feel about needing a study on that subject?

[Tervuren]

So now we are talking about questions?

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by Tervuren

So now we are talking about questions?

To bot, or not to bot, that is...

[sammyg2]

I bot. Therefore I am.

If a bot falls in the forest ...

[scottmandue]

To complete this study I will need your name, address, bank account and routing number... oh, and your SS number just to be safe.

[sammyg2]

HAL's name, according to writer Arthur C. Clarke, is derived from Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer.
After the film was released fans noticed HAL was a one-letter shift from the name IBM and there has been much speculation since that this was a dig at the large computer company, something that has been denied by both Clarke and 2001 director Stanley Kubrick.
Clarke addressed the issue in his book The Lost Worlds of 2001:

...about once a week some character spots the fact that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that Stanley and I were taking a crack at the estimable institution ... As it happened, IBM had given us a good deal of help, so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence.

IBM was consulted during the making of the film and their logo can be seen on props in the film including Pan Am Clipper's cockpit instrument panel and on the lower arm keypad on Poole's space suit. During production it was brought to IBM's attention that the film's plot included a homicidal computer but they approved association with the film if it was clear any "equipment failure" was not related to their products.

The wik

[doug_porsche]

Hmmm. If I can tell I am a bot, then I am self aware.

I sort of remember a lecturer I attended that made a big deal about those words

[RKDinOKC]

Beep beep boop beep

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Audience member (something like): "I'd take him if he weren't so big"

https://youtu.be/AuyTRbj8QSA

[ledhedsymbols]

https://youtu.be/Umc9ezAyJv0

[Zeke]

"After the film was released fans noticed HAL was a one-letter shift from the name IBM"

How so? H = I, A = B, but therefore M = N.

Any other way to look at that theory is a stretch equivalent to deciphering a Bob Dylan song.

[Por_sha911]

BOT a bing
BOT a boom

[dad911]

Can I self-identify as a bot?

[pwd72s]

I bot...lots of stuff I regretted buying.

[id10t]

Originally Posted by Zeke

"After the film was released fans noticed HAL was a one-letter shift from the name IBM"

How so? H = I, A = B, but therefore M = N.

Any other way to look at that theory is a stretch equivalent to deciphering a Bob Dylan song.

Do I need to get a sorted ASCII table for you? L < M < N

[Tervuren]

Are bots self aware that they are bots? Or does it take outside influence?

[70SATMan]

I had to blow into a tube once in Australia to prove I wasn’t.




Oh wait, that was BAC.

[legion]

Would you like to play a nice game of chess?

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by Tervuren

Perhaps we need a study on this subject.

Would you like me to do a study on the subject?