![]() Last year IBM even claimed it has a computer system that can simulate the thinking power of a cat's brain with 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion individual learning synapses. Still, fantastic advances have been made in computing over the years. No one has a machine capable of common-sense reasoning, much less capable of then going crazy. In 2010, however, only a handful of these breakthroughs have been reached, such as speech and facial recognition. When Clarke wrote "2001" in the 1960s, a number of computer scientists were optimistic that machines with HAL's capabilities might soon exist, and Marvin Minsky, co-founder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, was an adviser on the film. ![]() We also discover the reason for HAL's killing spree - the contradictory orders the computer was given led to "what would be called, in human terms, a psychosis - specifically, schizophrenia." The celebrated author continues his Space Odyssey with this Hugo Award winner: A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001 (Carl Sagan). ![]() In the novel, scientists reboot HAL, the psychotic artificial intelligence that killed nearly all the astronauts in "2001." In just a few days, HAL not only regains speech, facial recognition, speech recognition and emotion recognition, but can also once more reason, understand and carry out conversations, and control a spaceship. ![]()
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