“Is There Life There, HAL?” –NASA Announces Intelligent AI Systems Installed on Probes of Distant Planets – The Daily Galaxy –Great Discoveries Channel

In Space Odyssey 2001, HAL 9000, the Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer, consigned the crew commander to his death by refusing to open the pod bay doors. Leaping forward to today, with life hopefully transcending Arthur C. Clarke’s fiction, NASA ha…