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These films and television shows imagine just how wrong or right things can go when led by an algorithm that can walk, talk, and feel for itself.
HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) from Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction series came to the movies and left generations of technophobic viewers in its wake. HAL’s big problem, like so many other robots in the movies, is that he is a sentient computer – a real artificial intelligence. HAL runs amok at the controls of the Discovery One spacecraft and the human astronauts must deactivate the malevolent machine.
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