
I can't open the pod bay doors.That's the first thing that everybody said when we first suggested this."

"We don't want the HAL 9000, 'I'm sorry, Dave. "That's the first thing that everybody said when we first suggested this." I can't open the pod bay doors,'" Chambers told Mashable. Such claims work to reinforce fears long embedded in popular culture - that one day the advanced technology enabling humans to achieve extraordinary things could be too smart, perhaps leading to machines that are self aware and want to hurt people.
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Credit: Photo by CBS Photo Archive / Getty Images Kirk on Star Trek talks to the Starship Enterprise computer. The story sparked a global conversation about whether some artificial intelligence is - or could be - conscious. developer Blake Lemoine, formerly of Google, went public with his belief that a chatbot he helped build had become sentient. That's not merely a concern raised through science fiction. Unlike the collegial computer in Star Trek, "HAL" starts to glitch, takes control of the spacecraft, and then fights the crew's attempts to shut it down. But it wasn't nearly that simple, said Rob Chambers, Lockheed's director of commercial civil space strategy.īeyond technical constraints, they had to overcome the menacing representations of an inflight space computer, in the vein of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. When Lockheed Martin, the company that built the new Orion spacecraft for NASA, first dreamed up the talking computer, engineers figured they'd just throw an Amazon Echo Dot on the dashboard with a laptop and call it a day. sidekick might help on those long voyages.

After all, boldly going where no one has gone before could be lonely, and having an A.I. With NASA reviving its human space exploration program through Artemis, it seems only natural real astronauts of the 2020s who will crew the forthcoming space missions would do the same. Captain Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the Star Trek gang were in constant dialogue with the onboard Enterprise computer, asking it questions about the starship and their alien environments.
