![]() ![]() SMITH: (As Del Spooner) Well, you know, there was this one guy. ![]() MOYNAHAN: (As Susan Calvin) A robot can no more commit murder than a human could walk on water. WILL SMITH: (As Del Spooner) Yeah, I know - the three laws, your perfect circle of protection.īRIDGET MOYNAHAN: (As Susan Calvin) A robot cannot harm a human being - the first law of robotics. Sci-fi novelist Isaac Asimov came up with rules that would theoretically keep independent machines in line, which should have reassured Will Smith as he stared down thousands of them in the film of Asimov's "I, Robot." But he seemed skeptical. MONDELLO: Mechanical men stopped being all brawn and got a new dispensation to think for themselves, something fiction had granted them before Hollywood got around to it. JASON BERNARD: (As Captain Knewt) Cobra Dane, we have a Soviet missile warning. MONDELLO: Problem being no one told the defense network they were just playing.īARRY CORBIN: (As Jack Beringer) What in the hell's happening here?īRODERICK: (As David Lightman) Oh, my God. MATTHEW BRODERICK: (As David Lightman) Global Thermonuclear War.īRODERICK: (As David Lightman) All right. A high school student nearly set off World War III in "WarGames" when he thought he was hacking a computer company but accidentally challenged the Pentagon's defense network to a quick game of. MONDELLO: And then this notion went viral. It may be the peace of plenty and contempt or the peace of unburied death. PAUL FREES: (As Colossus) This is the voice of World Control. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Colossus will address us directly. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT") Within just a couple of years, movie computers didn't just want spaceship domination. The term artificial intelligence wasn't even coined until the 1950s, about a decade before Kubrick made his "Space Odyssey." But HAL made an impression. Without ever considering that those devices might want to do things on their own. Wells, Jules Verne invented devices as they sent characters to the center of the Earth and into the recesses of time.ĪLAN YOUNG: (As David Filby) If that machine can do what you say it can, destroy it, George, before it destroys you. But Butler didn't suggest that they'd developed consciousness, nor did the science fiction writers who immediately followed him. And it mostly just notes that while humankind invented machines to assist us - and remember a really sophisticated machine in 1863 was the steam locomotive - we were increasingly assisting them, tending, fueling, repairing. Samuel Butler's 1863 article "Darwin Among The Machines" is generally thought to be the origin of this species of writing. MONDELLO: Earlier literary notions of artificial intelligence - and there were not a lot of them at that point - had not really caught the public's imagination. RAIN: (As HAL 9000) This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. So his machine intelligence simply observed with an unblinking red eye, and when addressed directly, it spoke with a calm, modulated voice, not unlike the one that would be adopted four decades later by Siri and Alexa. Anyway, that sort of B-movie silliness was exactly what director Stanley Kubrick was trying to avoid. Robots at that point were about brawn, not brain. There'd been films with, say, robots causing havoc but generally robots doing someone else's bidding. MONDELLO: It's hard to describe the shock this was for 1960s movie audiences. This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. I read you.ĭULLEA: (As David Bowman) Open the pod bay doors, HAL. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.ĭULLEA: (As David Bowman) Do you read me, HAL? MONDELLO: It's programmed to run the mission flawlessly, as it explained earlier in the film.ĭOUGLAS RAIN: (As HAL 9000) No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. MONDELLO: The ship's computer, the HAL 9000, just needs to let him back in. MONDELLO: He's in a small craft outside his spaceship in "2001: A Space Odyssey" and will soon run out of oxygen, which shouldn't be an issue.ĭULLEA: (As David Bowman) Hello? HAL, do you read me? KEIR DULLEA: (As David Bowman) Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY") AI is part of what actors and writers are striking about in Hollywood, and critic Bob Mondello says the threat of AI was something Hollywood was imagining long before it was real.īOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: 1968. And that's been in the news a lot this year, engaging the public, worrying educators and even some of the people who've been developing it. Artificial intelligence can mimic conversation, whether written or spoken. That is worth confirming because it's something you can no longer assume. The next few words that Ailsa and I are about to say were written by a human. ![]()
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