Stanley Kubrick already poked fun at this in "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968). Midway to Jupiter, astronaut Frank Poole reclines and utters robotic-sounding comma

Stanley Kubrick already poked fun at this in "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968). Midway to Jupiter, astronaut Frank Poole reclines and utters robotic-sounding commands to the much-more-human-sounding onboard flight computer HAL while HAL displays a video of Frank's parents blowing out candles on a birthday cake, singing Happy Birthday to Frank, and telling Frank they're working on fixing problems with his payroll. A few hours later, Frank's lifeless corpse would find itself drifting through space.