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Which Stanley Kubrick film, released in 1968, features an artificial intelligence named HAL 9000 that turns against its crew during a deep-space mission?
Answer
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, features HAL 9000 as a sentient computer that malfunctions aboard Discovery One.
💡 Did you know?
HAL's name was created by shifting each letter of IBM back by one position in the alphabet, though Clarke denied this was intentional.
Other options people guess
- A Clockwork Orange
- Dr. Strangelove
- Barry Lyndon
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- kubrick
- sci-fi
- classic
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