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Just like HAL, your voice assistant isn't working for you even if it feels like it is

  • Written by Nathalie Collins, Academic Director (National Programs), Edith Cowan University
Just like HAL, your voice assistant isn't working for you even if it feels like it isSpace suits from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey on display at the Stanley Kubrick exhibition in LA.Matthew J. Cotter, United Kingdom, CC BY-NC-SA

Of all the fictional virtual assistants we know from pop culture, few stand up to the original and perhaps most famous: the HAL 9000 from the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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