HAL 9000

HAL 9000 is planned to battle John Henry in HAL 9000 vs John Henry.
==Information on the Rapper==
HAL 9000 is a fictional artificial intelligence character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. First appearing in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is a sentient artificial general intelligence computer that controls the systems of the Discovery One spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew. While part of HAL's hardware is shown toward the end of the film, he is mostly depicted as a camera lens containing a red or yellow dot, with such units located throughout the ship. HAL 9000 is voiced by Douglas Rain in the two feature film adaptations of the Space Odyssey series. HAL speaks in a soft, calm voice and a conversational manner, in contrast to the crewmen, David Bowman and Frank Poole.
In the film, HAL became operational on 12 January 1992 at the HAL Laboratories in Urbana, Illinois as production number 3. The activation year was 1991 in earlier screenplays and changed to 1997 in Clarke's novel written and released in conjunction with the movie. In addition to maintaining the Discovery One spacecraft systems during the interplanetary mission to Jupiter (or Saturn in the novel), HAL has been shown to be capable of speech, speech recognition, facial recognition, natural language processing, lip reading, art appreciation, interpreting emotional behaviors, automated reasoning, spacecraft piloting and playing chess.
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==Trivia==
*HAL 9000 is the first, and so far only, rapper whose title card has the top text appear in front of the character, and bottom text behind (barring title cards where the character appears twice and therefore the foreground one is in front of the bottom text). This is due to the placement of HAL's "eye" being his equivalent to a face, as it would have been obscured by the 9000 in his name.
*HAL 9000's location was originally going to mimic that used for his appearance in the Epic Rap Battles of History installment, Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates, by having him either be on a black background or a red and yellow one mimicking his lens. However, to contrast this, as well as add into Blake's typical dislike of abstract backgrounds, it was decided his location would be the prehistoric veldt seen in the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey.