As the main antagonist of the film, it ended up turning on the crew in an attempt to “save” the mission. It can speak, listen, read faces and (importantly) lips, interpret emotions, and play chess In 2015, WIREDreferred to him as a "proto-Siri." The crew depends on it for everything-which becomes a problem when, 80 million miles from Earth, HAL begins to behave erratically. HAL, by extension, became an important cultural reference for anybody thinking about artificial intelligence and the future of computers. Praised for its innovative vision and attention to scientific detail, the film was hailed in WIRED magazine as “a carefully wrought prediction for the future.” When it hit theatre screens in 1968, 2001 swiftly became an iconic thought-experiment on the future of humanity in space.
"'Houston, we have a problem' is not really a great option, because the response is too slow," as Ellen Stofan, former NASA chief scientist, put it last month at a summit on deep space travel hosted by The Atlantic. If something goes wrong, they’ll be up to 40 minutes away from getting a reply from Earth. Unlike moon-goers, these astronauts won’t be able to rely on ground control for a quick fix. Roughly 15 years from now, NASA plans to put the first humans in orbit around the red planet, which will mean traveling farther from Earth than ever before. Today, as we look toward sending the first humans to Mars, the idea of HAL is shimmering once more at the forefront of researchers’ minds. In the film, HAL stood in as mission control center, life support and sixth member of the crew, making an ambitious Jupiter mission possible for the ship’s six astronauts. Central to this vision was HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) 9000, the “sentient” computer that ran the crew’s ship, Discovery One. Half a century ago, 2001: A Space Odyssey imagined a future fueled by high-tech computers that thought, learned and adapted.
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