On Oct 7, 2011 12:44 AM, "Michael Orlitzky" <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > > On 10/06/2011 11:39 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > > > >>> HAL... shudder. > >>> > >> > >> Let's not get started on hal. Pardon me while I go pray to the > > porcelain gods. :/ > > > > I'm really sorry, but I missed that show. I was in Ubuntu-land learning > > not to tweak system behaviors. WTF was the deal with HAL? What was it > > supposed to do? Why didn't it work? > > > > From the Wikipedia page, > > HAL in [Linux]: > > HAL became operational in Urbana, Illinois at the HAL Plant at the > University of Illinois, where the ILLIAC computers were assembled. > The film states that this occurred in 1992, while the book gives 1997 > as HAL's birthyear. In [Linux], HAL begins to malfunction in subtle > ways, and as a result, the decision is made to shut HAL down in order > to prevent more serious malfunctions. The sequence of events and > manner in which HAL is shut down differs between the novel and film > versions of the story.
Heh. I doubt Mr. Clark was imagining hardware abstractions while he was exploring AI malfunction. :)
