Even though HAL was not meant to be a play on IBM I couldnt resist the one letter shift coincidence. HAL 9000 is a fictional artificial intelligence character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. “I don’t want to get anyone in trouble,” Kubrick added, “and I don’t want them to feel they have been swindled.” Caras’ reply assured him that IBM was told about recent changes to the script that pertained to HAL, and that so long as the company’s name was “not associated with the equipment failure,” they had no problem with the movie. A vintage mock ad for the HAL 9000 computer.
know that one of the main themes of the story is a psychotic computer?” Kubrick asked Roger Caras, the vice president of his production company, who had been in touch with IBM about their consultation credit. And last week, Shaun Usher at Letters of Note published some correspondence about the company’s help on the film, crediting a new museum exhibit devoted to the director. Whatever Clarke and Kubrick’s intentions were with these parallels, they did ask for IBM’s help while working on the movie.
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