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Title: "Open the pod bay doors please, Hal."
Post by: RocketMan on November 12, 2018, 08:54:27 AM
Douglas Rain, the actor who lent his voice to HAL, the murderous computer on the spaceship "Discovery" in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey", has died.
Originally picked to narrate the movie, Stanley Kubrick instead had Rain give voice to the iconic HAL.
The story is here. (https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/movies/douglas-rain-creepy-voice-hal-2001-dies-90-n935036)
There is another story here (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/stanley-kubrick-douglas-rain-found-voice-hal-9000-accidentally/) on how Hal kind of set the tone for creepy AI voices used with Siri and Amazon Echo units.  Sorry that it's behind a paywall.