11 Sep
2004
11 Sep
'04
23:08
The Saturday 2004-09-11 at 15:38 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: [Very OT]
With working voice recognition, an ego, not failing (it was given conflicting orders)... no, not windows :-p
Well, it did become psychotic. That's very MS, don't you think?
No, MS did not exist when Mr. Clark wrote that. Actually, HAL is very "human". It was given instructions (hide information from the crew) that conflicted heavily with its basic design (give all information) - and this fact was hidden from HAL designer, Mr Chandra. Thus, it developed a mental illness, thinking that only he was really necessary, the human crew redundant, and trying to severe the connection with the source of conflicting orders (ie, Earth) :-p -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson