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Of all the fictional virtual assistants we know from pop culture, few stand up to the original and perhaps most famous: the HAL 9000 from the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
We should probably be thankful for that. After all, Alexa may shut your lights off, but she won’t turn against you and wreak havoc on your life. Or will she?
If you've ever wanted your very own HAL 9000, now's your chance Okay, so the main headline says 'kickstarting' but the Hal 9000 Bluetooth speaker replica funding program is actually on IndieGoGo. Consider it a programming error, perhaps? We've seen Master Replicas do this before with the AI computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey but
Artificial intelligence comes in many shapes and forms, some of them useful, others… less so, like Microsoft’s hate-spewing chatbot Tay…