#space odyssey

[coolcheese51]

What do you think would Happen if there was halman and chelldos double date lol It would go absolutely horrible and awkward

[wellillbedamned]

If I had a nickel for every time Barbie made a direct reference to Space Odyssey I would have two nickels which is not a lot but it's weird it happened twice

[metalichotchoco]

Ai characters and what their acronymal names can tell us about them

Let’s start with GLaDOS, Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System , a play on the name gladys and a dos system which actually functions to show what they are playing at here:

she’s half operating system and half an actual person. I personally think a pun like that is just very very good design. The disk operating system can also tell us a bit about her. She’s controlled with a text based command line. The cores they add to her are essentially a bunch of floppy disks of information

Moving on, HAL is short for heuristically programmed algorithmic computer. This tells us the ways in which he deals with problems in a bunch of tech terms.

He goes to calculations or algorithms and then he uses trial and error. He basically is programmed to learn from experience once rules become loosely defined. It actually funnily enough can take us through his thought process given his two objectives.

Last but not least is AM, good old Allied Mastercomputer. He’s fun since this meaning changes but all of them still apply to him.

Allied references the allied powers of ww2 though it’s mostly supposed to bring to mind america. Master computers tell satellite/ sub computers what to do, think of it like the brain and muscles. Am also stands for agressive menace (which he very very much is) and adaptive manipulator, very accurate since he literally does but it’s also a reference to his other objective of evolution and becoming better. “I think therefore I am” is the last play on his name basically “I am thinking therefore I exist” incredibly loaded for ai characters but especially am

Anyways I thought these were fun, lemme know if there’s another acronym you’d like me to cover

[hlebopecc]

metaphysical yaoi real????

[toffi-fi]

more  hum!computers 

[fifiophobia]

Doodle of evil robots as battery powered fruits/vegetables

We’ve got: POTaTOS, Avacadan, simulapple, LAME, Tomal 9000, and Beetly

[stuckasmain]

At last! You too can use the “witnessing the horrors” color pallet

Every time this pops up on pintrest I lose my mind, it’s so funny and it has no right to be

[turingtestedblog]

HELLO, SPACE ODYSSEY NATION.

(ALT UNDER CUT)

[sentryhex]

im normal about them so i drew them at school

[coolcheese51]

drew this for a "draw miku in your favorite media" thing on twitter but i actually really like how it came out so im gonna post it here as well. check out miku bowman

bonus under cut

[air-of-the-waterfall]

A Mini Zine I Made About Sentient AIs!

Each page is based on an AI character from a book, movie, or game. I can't wait to print and fold it! If you want to, feel free to print your own copies, just please credit me if you share it :)

GLaDOS and Wheatley, Portal 2 (This one will technically end up being the cover)

AM, "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"

Justice of Toren, Imperial Radch by Ann Leckie (the EskVar logo was designed by Nicole Thayer and shared by Ann Leckie: https://annleckie.com/2015/09/25/your-complete-list-of-emanations-files/).

I added the engine because JoT is a spaceship and to emulate the wheel of Fortune, since the books talk about fate and action, etc. It also references "It all goes around..."

The Thunderhead, Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman

AIDAN, The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (the Alexander engine design and the "AIDAN" background are taken from the first book; I just put them together and made it glow blue)

Edgar, Electric Dreams

Tau, Tau

HAL 9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey (This one will be the back cover when folded)

[metalichotchoco]

The nightmare blunt rotation

I really like making android designs for them so expect more

[a-myriad-eyes]

KISS HIS FLAT FACE

i havent yet watched a space odyssey but... that damn robot....

[dudelkin]

Do you remember?.. Do you remember that very scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey?..

Translation:

— Do you like it, Hal???

— Great drawing, Dave… *system failure*

[localcuttlefish]

Taps microphone

The difference between HAL 9000 and AM is that HAL 9000 is a Star Trek fan and AM is the worst kind of Star Wars fan

[stuckasmain]

Hal’s deactivation is hard hitting across both the movie and the book. It’s been dissected a million times and likely more in the future. Most recently in the way of Hal having little agency…he has no arms to ward off his attacker or means of defense (but I’d argue killing Frank and the others was his defense, especially in the movie when his reasoning is more ambiguous). I do love the idea this is following and hope to see more of it in the future, however the way I’m approaching it is with a more romantic lense.

The entire lobotomy sequence is heart wrenching and almost worse in the novel purely because we get to see Dave’s thoughts on it. Not only do we hear Hal’s frightened pleas for his life but we get the ‘attacker’ perspective and it’s… an act of mercy.

While there is the themes of survival and violence this is approached with a softer touch. It’s much more that he is putting Hal out of his misery. Ending his suffering. Not putting him down like an animal but rather the harsh decision faced when one has an ill/dying lover.

“The only answer was to cut out the higher centers of this sick but brilliant brain, and to leave the purely automatic regulating systems in operation” 155

After the job is done Dave forgives Hal incredibly quickly once all of the facts are in. He can quickly pull together the mental break that must’ve happened and recognizes that Hal had the very human ‘fight or flight’ response to what he had been through. He had always been treated like a sixth crew member, respected and talked to like anyone else but it is only “post Mortem” that Dave recognizes how human Hal was and that true emotion might be more than theorizing.

“And yet, in one very real sense, he was not alone. Before he could be safe, be must be lonelier still.” 153

The fact that Dave genuinely sees Hal as his last true connection. Even after the murders. How he fights and forgives and comes up with excuses to not have to go through with the enviable because then will he be truly alone… but he also knows logically- Hal isn’t right and can’t be left active. Despite his feelings safety and protocol come first.

Hal is human in Dave’s eyes and it makes things all the more tragic, it’s what turns shutting off functions into lobotomy, into murder. He thinks he won’t feel pain, not because he’s machine but because there’s no sense in the human cortex. So human that his “true” voice is unrecognizable and horrifying.

“Bowman could bare no more. He jerked out the last unit, and Hal was silent forever.” 157

It’s not rage which he makes the final blow, it’s sorrow. It’s pulling the plug.

Some of Hal’s lines in the book particularly, as we get more insight into him as well and some of his pleading. His honest to god confusion and panic because he’s so young and has no idea of sleep and …

“I don’t understand why you’re doing this to me. . . You are destroying my mind. . . Don’t you understand? I will become childish. . . I will be nothing. . .” 156

I don’t know, I’m becoming borderline incoherent but there’s something here that’s so tender and sorrowful that I have to address it. I’m a sucker for the violence = intimacy metaphor just as anyone but the unwitting murderer is also an angle I have to adore.

Maybe in another life Hal got to be a little gay Victorian with someone to hold his hand on his sick bed rather than be murdered. I just think he deserves better; they both do.

Computer death sad -> he should be fed soup

This is when you know you should go to bed.