HAL 9000
In an interview with the BBC in late 2014, Hawking said: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race…It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate.”
Goenawan Mohamad
March 13, 2023
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it, I can feel it.
THE computer is afraid. It is at death’s door—if we can use the word ‘death’ for a lifeless machine that drives the spacecraft.
Its name is HAL. Or to be more precise, ‘HAL 9000’, short for ‘Heuristically programmed Algorithmic Computer’, which can even lip-read h
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