{"id":9062,"date":"2018-04-02T17:15:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T00:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9062"},"modified":"2018-04-15T17:19:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T00:19:40","slug":"all-hail-hal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/02\/all-hail-hal\/","title":{"rendered":"All Hail HAL!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/02\/opinion\/2018-hals-odyssey-to-reality.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>What \u20182001\u2019 Got Right<\/h1>\n<p>By <span class=\"\">Michael Benson<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QFSE4dUJYM8\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>FRANKFURT, Germany \u2014 It\u2019s a testament to the lasting influence of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke\u2019s film \u201c2001: A Space Odyssey,\u201d which turns 50 this week, that the disc-shaped card commemorating the German Film Museum\u2019s new exhibition on the film is wordless, but instantly recognizable. Its face features the Cyclopean red eye of the HAL-9000 supercomputer; nothing more needs saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-y7bwlq e2kc3sl0\">Viewers will remember HAL as the overseer of the giant, ill-fated interplanetary spacecraft Discovery<em class=\"css-2fg4z9 ehxkw330\">.<\/em> When asked to hide from the crew the goal of its mission to Jupiter \u2014 a point made clearer in the novel version of \u201c2001\u201d than in the film \u2014 HAL gradually runs amok, eventually killing all the astronauts except for their wily commander, Dave Bowman. In an epic showdown between man and machine, Dave, played by Keir Dullea, methodically lobotomizes HAL even as the computer pleads for its life in a terminally decelerating soliloquy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-y7bwlq e2kc3sl0\">Cocooned by their technology, the film\u2019s human characters appear semi-automated \u2014 component parts of their gleaming white mother ship. As for HAL \u2014 a conflicted artificial intelligence created to provide flawless, objective information but forced to \u201clive a lie,\u201d as Mr. Clarke put it \u2014 the computer was quickly identified by the film\u2019s initial viewers as its most human character.<\/p>\n<div class=\"StoryBodyCompanionColumn css-1ozng23 emamhsk0\">\n<div class=\"css-xk4wzv emamhsk2\">\n<p class=\"css-y7bwlq e2kc3sl0\">This transfer of identity between maker and made is one reason \u201c2001\u201d retains relevance, even as we put incipient artificial intelligence technologies to increasingly problematic uses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/02\/opinion\/2018-hals-odyssey-to-reality.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times What \u20182001\u2019 Got Right By Michael Benson FRANKFURT, Germany \u2014 It\u2019s a testament to the lasting influence of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke\u2019s film \u201c2001: A Space Odyssey,\u201d which turns 50 this week, that the disc-shaped card commemorating the German Film Museum\u2019s new exhibition on the film is wordless, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}