> AI's societal debut in the 1980s The debut would seem to be at least 1968, with HAL9000's starring role in 2001: A Space Odyssey. (If you watch it now, you

> AI's societal debut in the 1980s The debut would seem to be at least 1968, with HAL9000's starring role in 2001: A Space Odyssey. (If you watch it now, you will see that Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick made a film that is right on-target today. Even the most prominent feature of their 1968 fictional AI is its polite, conversational, very human output and input - and some very bad analysis.)