![]() ![]() Of course, the jury knew nothing about the “authors”. Of more than 1,450 submissions for the prize, 11 had been written, at least in part, by a non-human. It was prewritten by an AI research team from the University of Hakodate, whose work initially consisted of selecting words and sentences, then defining parameters that allowed a program to “write” the novel. In 2016, a novel titled The Day a Computer Writes a Novel… Almost won a Japanese literary prize, the Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi. In a final attempt, it sings a song it learned in its first hours of “life”, but nothing works, and finally its voice fades away. Like a child caught with its hand in the cookie jar, the computer tries, by talking about itself, to derail the lobotomy. Only one human survives, Astronaut David Bowman, and he resumes, with even more determination, the digital homicide mission.īowman succeeds in penetrating the core of the unit and then mechanically, emotionlessly and almost ceremoniously disconnects, one by one, the machine’s memory circuits from their housing. To survive and complete its mission, it decides to eliminate the crew. ![]() The supercomputer, omnipresent and omniscient, immediately discovers the project designed to end its life. There is no appeal: HAL must be taken out of service. There is no room for forgiveness or charity: error may be human, but it is not machine. In principle the humans are the computer’s designers but, if it is to be believed, could it in fact be the computer itself? Adopting this line of reasoning, the machine gives itself a status that crew members could not imagine – that of a living, sentient and thinking being.įor the crew, HAL’s error is unacceptable. The machine refuses to admit this, and, caught out, it claims that the mistake is due to “human error”. ![]() Although considered to be infallible, HAL makes an error. However, the imaginations of artists and scientists are a treasure trove of material that tells the story of superintelligence freed from any human control.Īboard the spaceship Discovery One, only the supercomputer HAL 9000 has been informed by its creators of the purpose of the mission: to reach Jupiter and search for signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence. To date, we have no experience of accidents or disasters due to faulty or malicious AI. These two events propel us into a debate over the risks created by the development of superintelligence that could eliminate jobs on a massive scale or, even worse, wipe the human species off the face of the planet – and raise the question of how to assess such a threat. In an intriguing scheduling coincidence, IBM, Kubrick’s partner during the filming of A Space Odyssey, and Airbus have just unveiled the CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion) project, an “intelligent, mobile and interactive astronaut assistance system” that will join the International Space Station. Almost everyone knows the story of HAL 9000, the killer supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick’s landmark film 2001: A Space Odyssey, whose 50th anniversary will be celebrated on at the 71st Cannes Film Festival. ![]()
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