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[11.3] HAL in 2001: A Computer with Artificial Intelligence
In 2001: A Space Odyssey (book by Arthur Clarke, movie by
Stanley Kubrick, 1968), the HAL 9000 computer onboard the spacecraft
exhibited several characteristics which represent areas of artificial
intelligence research today:
- Capacity to understand natural languages: natural language processing.
- Facility with logic: expert systems and logic programs.
- Visual ability to understand what it is seeing: neural
networks for image processing.
- Capability to monitor and control the spaceship: robotics.