January 10, 2013
IBM’s Watson Memorized the Entire ‘Urban Dictionary,’ Then His Overlords Had to Delete It You don’t even want to know, they should have explained. [Image: Jeopardy/ Alexis C. Madrigal]

IBM’s Watson Memorized the Entire ‘Urban Dictionary,’ Then His Overlords Had to Delete It

You don’t even want to know, they should have explained.

[Image: Jeopardy/ Alexis C. Madrigal]

1:26pm
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Filed under: IBM Words Humor Technology 
January 4, 2013
The Letter Stanley Kubrick Wrote About IBM and HAL The always-fascinating blog, Letters of Note, has released another wonderful bit of corporate correspondence. This time, they found a letter Stanley Kubrick sent to a production staffer about the inclusion of IBM in his film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is — awkward! — about a psychotic computer. How nice of him to check in! Read more. 

The Letter Stanley Kubrick Wrote About IBM and HAL

The always-fascinating blog, Letters of Note, has released another wonderful bit of corporate correspondence. This time, they found a letter Stanley Kubrick sent to a production staffer about the inclusion of IBM in his film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is — awkward! — about a psychotic computer. How nice of him to check in!

Read more. 

3:30pm
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Filed under: IBM HAL Technology 
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