HAL in 2001 (1968)
Everyone making or watching artificial intelligence movies owes a tremendous debt to Stanley Kubrick for his masterpiece, 2001.
The film, recently referenced in the opening of Barbie, is about a space mission assisted by a computer called HAL (its name, some believe, is derived from the letters that precede those in IBM). Things start well, until HAL reveals its own agenda and Dr. David “Dave” Bowman takes action.
What makes HAL so watchable — and contemptible — is how he actually manages to win our sympathies by the time a desperate Dave begins shutting him down, as HAL begs for his so-called life.
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