HAL became operational on January 12th, 1997, at the HAL Laboratories in Urbana, Illinois, as production number 3 in the film 2001, the activation year was 19 in earlier screenplays. HAL speaks in a soft, calm voice and a conversational manner, in contrast to the crewmen, David Bowman and Frank Poole, who speak tersely and with little emotional inflection. Being a computer, HAL has no distinct physical form, although it is visually represented as a red television camera eye located on equipment panels throughout the ship. HAL is an artificial intelligence that controls the systems of the Discovery One spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew.
Clarke's Space Odyssey series and the primary antagonist of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL 9000 is a fictional character in Arthur C. Its character is supposed to represent all AI as one character for example: missile guidance systems, Watson supercomputers, etc. And then it's all about the execution, timing, funding and so on.HAL 9000 battled Bill Gates after Steve Jobs died in Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates. The truth is that the big new ideas are always "in the air" - many people are working on them because technology evolution brings the industry to the point where these ideas are inevitable. One myth about innovation is that it comes about as a "eureka" moment of spontaneous creation, producing an idea radically different from anything that came before.
Like Apple's HAL, the Google version will learn from your responses, becoming more accurate and relevant the more you use it. Would you like me to reschedule the lunch?" You'll say, "sure, go ahead," and Google's HAL will take care of it for you, getting Steve's OK and then changing your restaurant reservation. The Google HAL will constantly monitor your e-mail, your calendar, your social activity, your searches, your whereabouts and other data, run it all through some massively sophisticated algorithm, and then beep your phone and tell you something like this: "It looks like your lunch with Steve conflicts with the parent-teacher conference your wife just invited you to. Google will give you results before you even know you want to conduct a search. Google intends to leverage all of that data to transform its search technology into a HAL 9000 style personal assistant that communicates with you through your cell phone.Īs I detailed in this space last week, Google will add proactive interruption as a way to make search even faster than instantaneous. If you're a heavy user of Google services, Google knows who you are, where you are, what you're interested in, who you know and much more. HAL also knew everything about the people he interacted with. He was able to monitor all computer and spaceship systems.
The movie HAL performed its amazing feats in part because it had access to a lot of data. So we can expect HAL to be integrated into our phones one feature at a time.īut Apple isn't the only company with an advantage. The company is also disciplined about rolling out only the aspects of new technology that are ready for prime time. Apple's advantage is that it's good at integrating functionality and making it seamless and elegant.