HAL’s Legacy: 2001’s Computer as Dream and Reality

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If you loved “2001: A Space Odyssey,” you’ll be delighted by this book that asks “How realistic was HAL?” Contributions by various scientists include essays on supercomputer design with regard to speech synthesis, common sense reasoning, emotions, lip reading and even playing chess. As the authors explore what is science fantasy and what is technological fact, they also look at how HAL influenced technological development in the past 30 years. The final chapter, called “When HAL Kills, Who’s to Blame?” deals with the ethical aspects of building intelligent machines.

From Library Journal
In the 30 years since Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey first appeared, millions who have seen the film have fully anticipated the imminent reality not only of the routine space travel it depicts but of its most famous character: the polite, officious, and ultimately murderous super-computer, HAL. Yet as this illuminating work points out, it is probably overly optimistic to expect true thinking machines by the year 2001. Eleven leading researchers in artificial intelligence (e.g., Marvin Minsky, MIT, and Daniel Lenat, Cycorp) discuss the question, Could HAL be built today? The 15 chapters cover the impressive advances made in speech synthesis, computer vision, and especially processing speed. But despite the success of chess-playing computers, the book’s bottom line is that we haven’t progressed toward a truly intelligent machine. An engrossing report from the scientific frontier; highly recommended.?Ben O’Sickey, “Library Journal”
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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