Top 10 fictional AIs and supercomputers: from Holly to Hal 9000

Danny Palmer
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With artificial intelligence seemingly on the horizon, Computing takes a look at some of the most iconic supercomputers to come from television, film and video games

Artificially intelligent supercomputers are confined to the domain of science-fiction, right? Well, no. At least for not much longer anyway, it seems. Consensus among scientists, researchers and...

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