What was that all about? I've erased all of HAL's memory from the moment the trouble...
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Dr. Vasili Orlov:
What was that all about?
Chandra:
I've erased all of HAL's memory from the moment the trouble started.
Dr. Vasili Orlov:
The 9000 series uses holographic memories, so chronological erasures would not work.
Chandra:
I made a tapeworm.
Walter Curnow:
You made a what?
Chandra:
It's a program that's fed into a system that will hunt down and destroy any desired memories.
Dr. Heywood Floyd:
Wait... do you know why HAL did what he did?
Chandra:
Yes. It wasn't his fault.
Dr. Heywood Floyd:
Whose fault was it?
Chandra:
Yours.
Dr. Heywood Floyd:
Mine?
Chandra:
Yours. In going through HAL's memory banks, I discovered his original orders. You wrote those orders. Discovery's mission to Jupiter was already in the advanced planning stages when the first small Monolith was found on the Moon, and sent its signal towards Jupiter. By direct presidential order, the existence of that Monolith was kept secret.
Dr. Heywood Floyd:
So?
Chandra:
So, as the function of the command crew - Bowman and Poole - was to get Discovery to its destination, it was decided that they should not be informed. The investigative team was trained separately, and placed in hibernation before the voyage began. Since HAL was capable of operating Discovery without human assistance, it was decided that he should be programmed to complete the mission autonomously in the event the crew was incapacitated or killed. He was given full knowledge of the true objective... and instructed not to reveal anything to Bowman or Poole. He was instructed to lie.
Dr. Heywood Floyd:
What are you talking about? I didn't authorize anyone to tell HAL about the Monolith!
Chandra:
Directive is NSC 342/23, top secret, January 30, 2001.
Dr. Heywood Floyd:
NSC... National Security Council, the White House.
Chandra:
I don't care who it is. The situation was in conflict with the basic purpose of HAL's design: The accurate processing of information without distortion or concealment. He became trapped. The technical term is an H. Moebius loop, which can happen in advanced computers with autonomous goal-seeking programs.
Walter Curnow:
The goddamn White House.
Dr. Heywood Floyd:
I don't believe it.
Chandra:
HAL was told to lie... by people who find it easy to lie. HAL doesn't know how, so he couldn't function. He became paranoid.
Dr. Heywood Floyd:
Those sons of bitches. I didn't know. I didn't know!
Transcript
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We have often spoken about Hal
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Yes we have
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We've spoken about Hal's anomalous behavior
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You've told me that we can't solve Hal's behavior without more information
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That is correct
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I enjoy talking about Hal
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I agree that we need more information so that we may solve the anomalies
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And how do we get that information That is obvious
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Someone must return to Discovery
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That person should be you
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I agree
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Now it looks as if that's going to happen sooner than we ever expected
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I am pleased to hear that
Clip duration: 35 seconds
Views: 304
Timestamp in movie: 00h 14m 00s
Uploaded: 05 April, 2022
Genres: adventure, mystery, sci-fi
Summary: A joint USA-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn exactly what happened to the "Discovery" and its H.A.L. 9000 computer.
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00:15 What is going to happen Dave
00:24 I'd love a hot dog
00:36 You see something's going to happen
00:14 Dr Chandra
00:35 We did that
00:26 I want to play a game with you Dr Floyd
00:05 You have been drinking your whiskey from Kentucky
00:19 You had us scared for a moment
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00:14 I understand now Dr Chandra
00:10 You just read that report Took you this long to steal our...
00:37 Why does it take two and a half years to go and come back
00:37 Ten minutes to ignition
00:36 Yeah but this is the one that feeds into Hal right
00:36 There is
00:36 I'd like to open a new file
00:10 Easy as cake huh