Threats posed to human well-being by science and technology run amuck has been a literary theme for more than two centuries.

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Ridley Scott has named many of his creative influences over the years, but has recently said that only one film is a true act of genius. Which one is it?

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If you’ve seen the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey ... Made in the 1960s, the movie featured an AI with a name, HAL 9000, at a time when computers were barely understood by the general public.

There are parallels between Skynet and the HAL 9000 supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey ... Stuart Russell, a leading UK computer scientist, has argued for a ...

But see, probably one of the best ideas that is the trigger for all the best science fiction that followed, is 2001 ... called Hal. Hal is a f*cking computer. And from that, an AI which won ...

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