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#Hal 9000 meaning series

#Hal 9000 meaning series

With more devices containing electronics and capable of very complex series of actions which respond to changes in conditions, we are more comfortable with seeing things less as ‘robotic’ and more as mundanely mechanical.Ī second is the extent to which complex tasks are invisible to us. One is our expectations of robotic behaviour shifting over time. I think the gist that I’m missing with the TV is down to four things. Interestingly a Roomba our other autonomous vacuum cleaner feels a lot more robot-like. Definitely a complex series of actions, definitely carried out automatically and definitely programmed by computer…yet, “robot”? I don’t think so. My TV updated the digital channels it recives all by itself.

“a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer.” Here’s the top definition Google throws up: Aside from the most simple machines, almost any device could be called a “robot”.

carry out tasks remotely while under the control of a person or a separate computerĪs is often the case with definitions, these features do capture features common to the class of things we call ‘robots’ but somehow completely miss the gist of it.

There are many definitions of a robot but their focus is on existing devices. Even in his entry in the “Robot Hall of Fame” ( ) refers to HAL as a computer or as a “brain” and never as a robot.

He is generally referred to as a computer or as an AI. HAL is generally referred to as a computer and not as a robot. HAL 9000 is the artificial intelligence controlling the Discovery One in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 and Arthur C Clarke’s related novels.