In the timeless film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the main protagonist is the HAL 9000, which stands for the Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer, an advanced form of artificial intelligence that ...

To kick things off, we have to talk about one of the most terrifying sentient bots of all—the “Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer,” or HAL—from Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001, A Space ...

Remember HAL 9000? For those whose memories may not go back that far, HAL (Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer) was the murderous artificial intelligence machine in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 ...

The similarities to HAL are unlikely to be coincidence. HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) is an artificially intelligent, sentient computer on board the fictional Discovery starship.