Alternatively, consider building a HAL replica with more capability, like controlling your home. Just don’t give it too much responsibility—we all know how that ends. Video after the break.

The 1968 film "2001 - A Space Odyssey" featured an "artificial intelligence" computer named HAL 9000. The computer was installed in a space vessel Discovery and was en route to Jupiter when it ...

During the voyage, the HAL 9000 "artificial intelligence" computer which controlled all aspects of the ships operation, malfunctioned owing to an internal conflict of commands and it killed the ...