In today’s scary AI-and-music news…
I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey again over the weekend just to remind myself of what can go wrong with artificial intelligence. In the movie, the HAL 9000 computer was a giant thing
Read MoreI watched 2001: A Space Odyssey again over the weekend just to remind myself of what can go wrong with artificial intelligence. In the movie, the HAL 9000 computer was a giant thing
Read MoreIn the 2009 movie Moon, starring Sam Rockwell and directed by David Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones, there’s a robot named Gerty voiced by Kevin Spacey that looks like this. Now, in a case
Read MoreThe Winnipeg-born Canadian who provided the voice for the universe’s most conflicted computer has died. Douglas Rain, who co-founded the Stratford Music Festival in 1952, was cast by Stanley Kubrick to be the
Read MoreWhen I first saw 2001: A Space Odyssey, I thought it would be cool to be able to have an out-loud conversation with a machine like Hal. But now, half a decade into
Read MoreStill woozy after the clock switch? Me, too. But I did manage to sort out some music news… Depeche Mode vs. the alt-right. Boy, Dave Gahan is pissed. Ed Sheeran’s Divide (÷) has
Read MoreDouglas Rain’s deadpan delivery as the voice of the wonky and murderous HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey still creeps me out. Ever wonder what the effect might have been had Siri
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