In 1951, British futurist Arthur C Clarke wrote a short story envisaging a journey into space which evolved into the 1968 film collaboration with Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Central to the film is an evil computer HAL, sometimes described as a sentient artificial general intelligence computer – a device capable of rational, independent thought with the ability to make consequential decisions.
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