![]() ![]() ![]() Samuel Butler's 1863 article Darwin Among the Machines, is generally thought to be the origin of this species of writing, and it mostly just notes that while humankind invented machines to assist us - and remember, a really sophisticated machine in 1863 was the steam locomotive - we were increasingly assisting them: tending, fueling, repairing. Darwin Among the MachinesĮarlier literary notions of "artificial" intelligence - and there were not a lot of them at that point - hadn't really caught the public's imagination. So his intelligent machine simply observed (with an unblinking red eye) and, when addressed directly, spoke with a calm, modulated voice, not unlike the one that would be adopted four decades later by Siri and Alexa. In 1968, for instance, the year before humans first set foot on the moon - and a time when astronauts still used pencils and slide rules to calculate re-entry trajectories because their space capsules had less computing power than a digital watch has today - Stanley Kubrick introduced movie audiences to a sentient HAL-9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey.Īnd anyway, malevolent robot stories were precisely the sort of B-movie silliness Kubrick was trying to avoid. Misuse of AI is part of what actors and writers are striking about in Hollywood, and the threat of AI is something Hollywood was imagining long before it was real. Artificial intelligence that can mimic conversation, whether written or spoken, has been in the news a lot this year, delighting some members of the public while worrying educators, politicians, the World Health Organization, and even some of the people developing AI technology. ![]() That's worth mentioning because it's no longer something you can just assume. Malevolent robot stories used to be more about brawn than brain - so it was a genuine shock for audiences in 1968 when the sentient HAL-9000 computer calmly said, "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." Above, Gary Lockwood and Keir Dullea in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The original format of the files uploaded was. In the annals of audience restlessness, these. epub format (capable of being read by any Windows or Linux e-book reader, including the free Calibre E-book viewer). Fifty years ago this spring, Stanley Kubrick’s confounding sci-fi masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, had its premires across the country. At the time of writing, the subsequent novels have yet to be filmed.Īlso included here is Arthur C Clarke's book The Lost Worlds of 2001, which is (in part) an account of the origins of the 1968 motion picture: dealing with the original 1948 short story, The Sentinel, and of how that 1948 text evolved into, ultimately, the 1968 screenplay (including an early draft of that screenplay which had only the most superficial resemblance to what finally appeared on the screen). The 1984 motion picture 2010: Odyssey Two was based on the completed novel, so in its case the novel is in fairly close agreement with the screenplay. A digital version composition based on some scenes from the 1969 sci-fi motion picture - 2001 A space Odyssey. The novel 2001: A Space Odyssey is based on the final version of the script for the 1968 motion picture, but, even so, in some regards they differ due to late changes made by director Stanley Kubrick to that picture after the novel had largely been completed. Michael Benson’s ‘Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece’ (Simon & Schuster, £21. Novels : This collection comprises the Science Fiction novels 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke and its three sequels - 2010: Odyssey Two, 2061: Odyssey Three and 3001: The Final Odyssey. ![]()
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