Drawing upon extensive research into the Stanley Kubrick Archive, coupled with a detailed knowledge of Kubrick’s oeuvre, this article will suggest alternative readings of the character of HAL to (re-)locate “him” in the context of Kubrick’s New York Jewish background and, in particular, how Kubrick’s construction of the character showcased his sense of humour that so powerfully animated his previous two films, Lolita (1962, Stanley Kubrick) and Dr. In 1997 IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov, and in 2001 IBM’s AI bots did better than humans in trading commodities such as gold and pork bellies, making 7. Aboard the spaceship Discovery One, only the supercomputer HAL 9000 has been informed by its creators of the purpose of the mission: to reach Jupiter and search for signs of extra-terrestrial. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Stanley Kubrick), ‘we are ploughing through every possible three letter combination of the code there are seventeen thousand permutations’. In Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the spaceship Discovery is run by a supercomputer named ‘HAL 9000’. The odds of such a coincidence, however, were very high. In what will be argued is an example of his signature misdirection, Kubrick denied any connection, insisting that it simply stood for ‘Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer’. 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) The HAL-9000 computer is a CDC computer. Much ink has been spilled on the origins of HAL’s name, particularly its proximity to the letters, and hence the company, IBM. In 1965 IBM started an effort to build a machine that would be faster than the 6600, the ACS-1. Kubrick seemed to be particularly concerned with HAL, spending more time, care, and attention lovingly crafting its character than that of the film’s humans. In Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the spaceship Discovery is run by a supercomputer named ‘HAL 9000’. Two video analysis of 2001: A Space Odyssey.HAL IBM (8 min) Outlining the case that Kubrick depicted production investor IBM as the murderous HAL 9000.
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