2001 Space Odyssey - Now fifty years old!

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Story: 'What 2001: A Space Odyssey Got Right About Our Blind Leap into the Digital-Age.'

Headline excerpt: Fifty years after its release, Stanley Kubrick’s film seems prescient – an allegory about how destructively artificial intelligence can be misused.

LINK: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 87056.html

P.S. Still far-from practical, robust AI apps!

Good article but I don't see the film as "an allegory about how destructively artificial intelligence can be misused". HAL performs its task to the letter of it's human design. It turns off the life support functions of the three astronauts in hibernation and attempts to kill the two astronauts running the ship because it doesn't want to jeopardise the mission it was programmed to perform (in fact it explains its behaviour to the surviving astronaut). All my sympathy is with HAL who comes across as more human than the astronauts running the ship and the audience to supposed to have more feeling for HAL when it has it's brain functions removed, then for the feeling of the three hibernating astronauts who have their life support systems switched off.

Happy Birthday, 2001: A Space Odyssey!

I feel old. My parents took me to see it in ‘68. It was so ahead of its time all were confused. It probably still is ahead of its time.