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He arguably inspired virtual assistants such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa in the iPhone and Google Home devices, respectively. HAL is a sentient computer in the 1968 film, controlling a spaceship bound for Jupiter and interacting with its crew before eventually seeking revenge on the astronauts for plotting to shut down the malfunctioning AI. "Rain had deep respect for Kubrick and as a result sought to protect the voice from exploitation, declining a string of commercial requests for it over the years," he said. "Canadian theatre has lost one of its greatest talents and a guiding light in its development," the festival's artistic director Antoni Cimolino said in a statement.īorn in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Rain began performing as a child actor on CBC Radio before going on to work on stage - having once understudied Alec Guinness ("Star Wars") in Richard III in Stratford - and in film, racking up more than 40 acting and voice credits from 1955 to 1995.īut, Cimolino noted, "it was as HAL that Rain made an indelible mark on popular culture." He was 90.Īccording to the Stratford Festival, a repertory theatre festival of which he was a founding member, Rain died in hospital near Toronto of natural causes Sunday morning. I wonder if it sings when you try to disconnect it.Douglas Rain, the Canadian actor who voiced vengeful supercomputer HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," a precursor of artificial intelligence in smartphones, has died. Well, not really, but it celebrates 50 years of a classic. This replica has been 50 years in the making. It will be available for preorder this spring and will ship in the second quarter of 2018. Hopefully, this one is a bit more sane than the one from the movie. It can control things in your home, order you a pizza, potentially even refuse to open the pod bay doors.
That’s right, a real HAL 9000 that you can actually talk to and control with your voice. While we don’t have any pricing info yet, we do know that this replica will have working displays, functional voice recognition, and Amazon Alexa integration. This prop replica from Master Replicas Group includes a real AI. Well, if you’ve ever wanted to have your very own HAL 900, this is as close as you are likely to get in this lifetime. As you know, the HAL 900 AI computer was the highlight of the film. Clarke couldn’t make more movies together. It’s a shame that Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C.
I don’t know about you, but 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of my favorite sci-fi films of all time.
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