My gut instinct about Piter was this: I felt that he was the hybrid of HAL 9000, Bib Fortuna and Toht ... And then I got to go do a fitting for my costume. It was beyond my wildest dreams.

For some reason, possibly related to Hal 9000, AI will lie! As a result, AI may be my first step, never my last. Some attorneys practice in the same courthouse for their entire careers and lucky them.

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Ugh, the Grammy Awards are so antediluvian. The Grammys changed their rules a bit for the upcoming award season, and the big loser was robots. Songs created by artificial intelligence will not ...

"Almost like Hale 9000 from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey." These satellites, according to Isakowitz, could tell people when a piece of its infrastructure is breaking down or talk to swarms of ...

In reality, Charles is actually co-writer Chris Hayward hidden inside a giant cardboard box costume manning the arms ... of his Speak and Spell-meets-HAL 9000 voice via a computer.

hidden within an elaborately rough-hewn costume (one of Gabriela Yiaxis’ ace contributions) and speaking with enchanting mechanical inflections, not unlike an openhearted HAL 9000. Screenwriters ...

However, all these pale into insignificance in front of the cold, uncaring persona of the HAL 9000. Thus, [Jürgen Pabel] thought the imposing AI would make the perfect home assistant. The build ...