"I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that."
The Hollywood Reporter: Douglas Rain, Voice of HAL 9000 in '2001: A Space Odyssey,' Dies at 90
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/douglas-rain-dead-voice-hal-9000-2001-a-space-odyssey-was-90-1083429
This isn't a particularly good week, is it.
If you haven't done this before, please fire up your favourite digital assistant - Siri, Google Assistant or Alexa - and ask it to "Open the pod bay doors".
You won't hear the calm, composed voice of Douglas Rain politely turning down your request. AI companies have turned Kubrick and Clarke's remarkable vision of a future where humanity has greater trust in machines than in humans, into a cultural reference joke. Well, it's all fun and games until your self driving car locks you in and drives you over a cliff because Multivac posits that the best kind of person is a dead person.
The Hollywood Reporter: Douglas Rain, Voice of HAL 9000 in '2001: A Space Odyssey,' Dies at 90
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/douglas-rain-dead-voice-hal-9000-2001-a-space-odyssey-was-90-1083429
This isn't a particularly good week, is it.
If you haven't done this before, please fire up your favourite digital assistant - Siri, Google Assistant or Alexa - and ask it to "Open the pod bay doors".
You won't hear the calm, composed voice of Douglas Rain politely turning down your request. AI companies have turned Kubrick and Clarke's remarkable vision of a future where humanity has greater trust in machines than in humans, into a cultural reference joke. Well, it's all fun and games until your self driving car locks you in and drives you over a cliff because Multivac posits that the best kind of person is a dead person.