Artificial Intelligence
One of the most widely circulated examples of artificial intelligence comes from HAL 9000, a sentient AI agent that controls the Discovery One spacecraft, in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. The 1968 science fiction film was a wildly popular movie that undoubtedly gave millions an idea of what the future had in store.
HAL is seen playing chess against astronaut Dr. Frank Poole, played by Gary Lockwood. This specific scene foreshadowed an epic 1996 chess match between Grandmaster Garry Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue when a computer program defeated an expert chess player for the first time.
Fast forward to 2016, and Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo defeated the legendary Go player Lee Sedol, and years later, ChatGPT can write essays at a high school level.
