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Turing was ahead of his time, considering that few intelligent machines at that time could have stood any chance of passing the Test. However, although technological limitations prevented the creation of a conscious machine in the 50s, the science fiction of the 60s leapt far into the future with its portrayal of intelligent computers. The development of computer technology had a significant impact on popular culture. For example, Stanley Kubrick’s iconic film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), based on the Arthur C. Clarke novel Space Odyssey (1968), depicts a problematic relationship between humans and an autonomous computer. The heuristically programmed algorithmic computer, HAL 9000, learns that two astronauts want to disconnect it. HAL, therefore,

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