From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hao!seismo!rocheste!sher
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: Re: Omnipotence, Free Will, and Computers
Article-I.D.: rocheste.1197
Posted: Sat Apr  9 18:32:35 1983
Received: Wed Apr 13 21:37:32 1983
References: utcsrgv.1257

Sorry about this but I have to send this message in.  In the movie 2001
HAL acted strictly according to programming.  It was a computer
intended to simulate human type thought patterns (that is intelligent).
It was placed in a situation which was unbearably stressful.  (this was
that it had a very strong desire to promote the success of the mission
but it was strongly commanded to conceal the nature of the mission).
Naturally it went crazy.  This showed how truly exact their simulation
was.  It was a true triumph of artificial intelligence.

-David Sher (ofttimes AI project)