To kick things off, we have to talk about one of the most terrifying sentient bots of all—the “Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer,” or HAL—from Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001, A Space ...

“2001: A Space Odyssey” is justly considered one of the greatest movies ever made, and its most memorable character isn’t even human. That honor goes to the Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic ...