Get to know a device that joins two artificial bits of intelligence to control your home.
Often, the vast majority of times, the reality is what inspires the world of the seventh art. However, legions of fans of particular genres and films tend to copy or take to our world what they are most passionate about. In this case, I bring you the perfect example of a love of film and technology. Do you want to meet the evil HAL-9000 and how did he respond the Amazon Voice Assistant?
The machine that was hiding information
If you’re one of those people who’ve never seen the whole of 2001: An Odyssey in the Space of the Essential Director Stanley Kubrick, I demand that when he finishes this article, you find the film and give it the time it deserves. Evidently, when it’s over, you won’t have understood a word of it, but a strange feeling of peace will fill your inner self.
Leaving aside tender moments, one of the leading characters in the film is not human. If you’ve ever heard of HAL-9000, it’s time you knew who it is. Under these acronyms is hidden an artificial intelligence called a Heuristically programmed algorithmic computer, which translated into Spanish would be heuristically programmed algorithmic computer. What does this last word mean?
Thanks to the information obtained in this Wikipedia article, it’ s the science that deals with discovery. Still, this is not the proper meaning for this case. If we talk about the artificial intelligence imagined by Kubrick, the word heuristics will define the machine’s ability to solve problems.
Yeah, you read it right. HAL-9000, in addition to speaking in a strangely slow voice, was able to perform a multitude of tasks. As the digital medium Wikia well reflects, the machine could talk, recognize the language, read lips, perform facial recognition, interpret and express emotions, as well as play chess. Despite all these advances, what HAL is known for is hiding necessary information from the crew members of Discovery, which was the ship that appeared in the film.
Alexa joins the equation
We recently learned that a company dedicated to the construction of replicas of objects appearing in science fiction films had designed a model of the evil computer. The company in question is called Master Replicas Group and is known for having brought to different market objects, for example, Star Wars laser swords, long before the film companies themselves did so. In fact, if you enter their website and go to the online store, you can enjoy a HAL-9000 shaped flash drive, different space rocket planes or framed replicas of our satellite craters.
But we are deviating from the issue at hand. Thanks to the information we have been able to obtain from The Verge, we know that the company is developing a product that will look like HAL-9000 and will have the extraordinary skills of Alexa. Also, the company, after years of insistence, has finally obtained the rights to the panel, which were in Warner’s possession. Thanks to this, products like the one I’m about to show you will be possible to amaze science fiction fans.
At the moment, from the information that is appearing in an article published by the company itself, we know that HAL is a decorative element since Alexa is in charge of the operations in this home automation center. In fact, it’s an Amazon tablet, the Fire HD, that hides the wizard. It’s still too early to have a product like the one you see in the film, but Master Replicas Group director Steve Dymszo says his ultimate intention is to have HAL itself as the absolute protagonist of this incredible project.
The company will begin to collect applications to purchase the product from next April, and it is expected that they will start to send it from August or September. Besides, the director says that shortly they will launch a campaign in Kickstarter to sell special editions of this product that will delight those of us who marvel at one of the unique films in the history of cinema.