It is 2001--Do you know where your HAL is?? [[A fun extra-credit portion to Homework 4--Watching TV!]]

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

I just added the following *FUN*  "extra credit" portion
to homework 4 --imagine getting points for watching TV. 
And this is your chance to see the mugshots of several AI folks, and to
hear them explain why we don't yet have a HAL...

Rao

ps: the online version has also been updated...there the link actually
works... (also yahoo reminder service will send you all a reminder on
27th morning ;-)

General Qusetion: [[Extra Credit. But Highly Recommended]] 
Problem VII. Watch the PBS program 2001: HAL’s
Legacy on PBS (Channel 8). Original broadcast Tuesday,
November 27th- 9pm, and on the same day at
midnight (repeated). 
Write a paragraph summarizing your impressions on the program vis a vis
where AI was expected to get, and where it got. 

[[Here is the blurb about the program from KAET page:

http://www.pbs.org/cgi-registry/whatson/template.cgir?s=KAET&t=0&t2=1&p=16688&c=d&d=2001-11-27

What's stopping scientists from creating an Artificial Intelligence?
Thirty-five years ago, in the noted film classic '2001:A Space Odyssey,'
writer Arthur C. Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick created a fictional
AI that would set a benchmark for a whole real-world industry: the
sinister, smooth-talking, omniscient computer HAL. Now, in the year 2001,
this program presents some of the key scenes from the epic movie, and
asks if such a creature can be constructed in reality. Clarke and experts
from across the United States weigh in on the subject, saying it is
possible. If so, how close is science to reaching that goal? 

2001: Hal's Legacy 

A look at the film ``2001: A Space Odyssey,'' and thoughts from experts
about artificial intelligence 

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