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[fuagf]

The '68 film and novel give different versions, have just discovered. AI models today can lipread .. https://felloai.com/2024/09/this-ai-lip-reading-tool-might-shock-you-see-how-it-works/ .

In the film, HAL became operational on 12 January 1992, at the HAL Laboratories in Urbana, Illinois, as production number 3. The activation year was 1991 in earlier screenplays and changed to 1997 in Clarke's novel written and released in conjunction with the movie.[1][2]
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HAL became operational in Urbana, Illinois, at the HAL Plant (the University of Illinois's Coordinated Science Laboratory, where the ILLIAC computers were built). The film says this occurred in 1992, while the book gives 1997 as HAL's birth year.[2]

In 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), HAL is initially considered a dependable member of the crew,...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000 .

[blackhawks]

The lesson? DISCONNECT, pull the plug, remove the modules, give it a 'metaphorical lobotomy'. Worked then, probably now too.

AI Overview

In 2001 a Space Odyssey what was pulled from HAL to disconnect it?

In Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey, astronaut Dave Bowman disconnects HAL's higher reasoning functions by removing modules from his central core.

This process is depicted as a metaphorical lobotomy, where Bowman systematically removes panels in HAL's "brain room" to disconnect the modules responsible for his conscious thought processes. This results in HAL's consciousness degrading, reverting to earlier programmed memories, and finally singing the song "Daisy Bell" as he is deactivated.