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It's 2001. Where is HAL? What's stopping us from creating an Artificial Intelligence? 35 years ago, in the noted film classic 2001:A Space Odyssey, writer Arthur C. Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick created a fictional AI which would set a benchmark for a whole real-world industry: the sinister, smooth-talking, omniscient computer HAL. Now, in the year 2001, we re-live some of the key scenes from the epic movie, and ask: can we ever construct such a creature in reality?
We join Clarke in Sri Lanka and experts across the US. There is no reason, they say, why we can't create something far more intelligent than we are. How close are we to that goal?
"I have no hesitation in thinking
that a machine can be just as intelligent and
just as real as a person, in principle."
Professor Rodney Brooks, Director, MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
2001: HAL'S LEGACY, premiering Tuesday, November 27. Check your local listings for time on PBS. Coming soon:
- Our interview with Arthur C. Clarke
- Information from Dr. David G. Stork
- More information about the current state of AI.
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