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 ...

Douglas Rain, the actor who provided the creepy, chilling voice of the HAL computer in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," died Sunday in Stratford, Ontario, the BBC reported. He was 90. Rain was a ...

Douglas Rain, who performed for 32 seasons with the Stratford Festival in Ontario but was perhaps most famous for one faceless movie role — the voice of the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick’s ...

This article was written by a human. That's worth mentioning because it's no longer something you can just assume. Artificial intelligence that can mimic conversation, whether written or spoken, has ...

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When Tom Cruise battles a sentient artificial intelligence "Entity" in the latest Mission Impossible film, he joins a long list of heroes who've... 'Open the pod bay door, HAL' — here's how AI became ...