2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick
The Drunk Guys Book Club Podcast
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Is the Hal 9000 a Robot?
Hal 9000 is the robot thing which is sort of like the villain. The other guys are there as a redundancy in case the Hal doesn't work properly. R3C Clark vehemently denied that because it stands for something. It's an artificial intelligence that's supposed to be able to just you know learn shit kind of like the Terminator and then control all the things. He was momentarily saddened by the death of this man. I had no idea who he is. Like, oh, is he dead? That's sad. He could be dead. We might already have done proposed the episode in that.
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