As HAL 9000's memory banks are slowly deactivated, he hauntingly sings the song "Daisy Bell".

Film/Series: 2001: A Space Odyssey

Category: Reference Homage

Timestamp: 02:16:30

Director Stanley Kubrick didn't choose this childhood song randomly. In 1961, an IBM 704 mainframe computer at Bell Labs became the first computer in history to synthesize human speech and sing a song, and it sang "Daisy Bell." By having the murderous AI sing this exact tune as its consciousness fades away, Kubrick pays a brilliant, eerie homage to the real-world dawn of artificial intelligence.

As HAL 9000's memory banks are slowly deactivated, he hauntingly sings the song "Daisy Bell". in 2001: A Space Odyssey

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