It was a book long before it was a movie!

[cstross@wandering.shop]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gknauss/116530908354363527

It was a book long before it was a movie! (And then a trilogy.)

... It didn't end well for humanity.

[countzeroor@dice.camp]

@cstross Well, this is an industry that has several companies named "Skynet" so...

[petelittle@autistics.life]

@cstross calling my new AI home management system HAL.

Surely that won't cause any issues?

At least my robot butler Hector shouldn't cause a problem. He does seem overly fond of my wife though!.

EDIT

Adding link to the trailer. I realise that not everyone (many will but not all) will have my encyclopedic knowledge of cheesy 80's sci fi

https://youtu.be/ZMf8eDqOBCk?si=2RC--AQuBrEZfl6J

[tanepiper@tane.codes]

@cstross for the last couple of years I've just mentioned his movie where I can, telling everyone to watch it...

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@PeteLittle I'm just waiting for the Davros Corporation to announce their new language model, DALEK-1.

[henryk@chaos.social]

@cstross Do they already have an internal project name? May I suggest something simple, two syllables, like .. Forbin!
The Forbin Project, there, that rolls off the tongue nicely. No particular reason I came up with it.

[stevel@hachyderm.io]

@cstross I've always wanted a server called wintermute.
https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/Wintermute

[snaefell@mastodon.social]

@cstross I would be to sure about the end here, either if we go on the current route.

[phosphenes@mastodon.social]

@PeteLittle @cstross

Or Maximilian for home chores.

[petelittle@autistics.life]

@Phosphenes @cstross haha Love that movie.

And don't think it's TOO much of a spoiler to mention Maximilian Schell in his Maximilian shell XD

[pdcawley@mendeddrum.org]

@cstross @gknauss there’s a book? I assumed the name was a reference to Tommy Flowers’ masterpiece at Bletchley Park.