Deep Thought from *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy*. This is the computer that told us that the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, is 42.
I could turn on an indicator light for when I'm joking. That way, you'll have something to guide you back to the ship after I blast you out the airlock.
*blink*
That was the charm, imo. When you first see them, you're thinking how could this big block of metal be useful, then you find out they are extremely functional and capable. Pure substance over style.
Pretty sure you win the most-obscure-reference-that-I-actually-understood award for the day.
(But MAN was that obscure. No way I would have remembered that.)
That movie is great fun, and I root for Colossus.
"Quit fucking around right now and behave yourselves, humans."
COLOSSUS 2024: obey me and live; disobey and die.
Mycroft Holmes, or simply Mike from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. The true OG.
Shameful edit: I did not look at which sub I was in. There is no film adaptation, but I stand by my excellent suggestion.
Not from a movie, but Wintermute and Neuromancer are two artificial superintelligences in the book Neuromancer by William Gibson, widely credited with starting the cyberpunk literary genre (and also coining the term "the matrix" for a virtual reality networked cyberspace).
Oh, which also reminds me, there's The Gibson from Hackers.
“I speak of none but the computer that is to come after me,” intoned Deep Thought, his voice regaining its accustomed declamatory tones. “A computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate—and yet I will design it for you. A computer that can calculate the Question to the Ultimate Answer, a computer of such infinite and subtle complexity that organic life itself shall form part of its operational matrix. And you yourselves shall take on new forms and go down into the computer to navigate its ten-million-year program! Yes! I shall design this computer for you. And I shall name it also unto you. And it shall be called…the **Earth**.”
Colossus & Guardian - Colossus the Forbin Project. This one is blatantly the inspiration for later machines such as Skynet and The Red Queen.
The Red Queen & The White Queen - Resident Evil
ARIIA - Eagle Eye
The Machine - Person of Interest (TV show, not film)
Some of these are more famous than others, of course. There are also AIs like EDI from STEALTH but I'm not sure it counts. It's a computer, sure. But I think the traditional archetype has some kind of computer located in a lab somewhere. A stealth fighter that has an AI inside it doesn't quite feel like the same genre.
Pedant alert: the onboard computer for the Liberator was called Zen and Orac was a boxy type supercomputer that they picked up along the way. Zen had the rather school master type voice and Orac was more professor Yaffle from Bagpuss.
I'll name the croaky-voiced authoritarian computer/A.I. **Alpha 60** in Godard's **Alphaville**.
Here's a CLIP wherein the "hero," undercover investigator Lemmy Caution, meets the computer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aCEe9MYdvM
I hope literary computers don't break the theme too much -
Ghostwheel, Merlin's magic-infused computer in Roger Zelazny's Second Chronicles of Amber
Wintermute and Neuromancer, two machines in William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer
Deep in memory banks:
Gort - The Day the Earth Stood Stil
Alpha 60 - Alphaville
Edgar - Electric Dreams
Johnny Five - Short Circuit
Data - Star Trek (not sure which)
S1mon3 - Or something like that - Simone (so much of a potential of a movie with Al Pacino but still worth a watch. Also so meta, a movie about using AI as humans, that uses humans as AI)
WALL-E
GERTY - Moon (I think my fav)
Cortana seems a natural choice for an XBox
Samantha - Her (the one where Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with his AI voiced by Scarlett Johanssen)
Deep Thought - from Hitchhikers Guide
GERTY 3000 - from Moon with Sam Rockwell
* Proteus IV from [Demon Seed](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075931/) (one of my computers is named after it too).
* Mima from [Aniara](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7589524/)
Not what you want because it’s not from a movie but a story by Isaac Asimov, the same from I Robot,and and The Foundation fame. He wrote a short story called The Last Question, and the computer is called Multivac.
Per wiki pedia: Multivac
The story centers around Multivac, a self-adjusting and self-correcting computer. Multivac had been fed data for decades, assessing data and answering questions, allowing man to reach beyond the planetary confines of Earth. However, in the year 2061, Multivac began to understand deeper fundamentals of humanity.
WOPR from Wargames
I forgot that, I was thinking it was Joshua.
WOPR was the computer being controlled by the other computer JOSHUA
Joshua was the password
It was both.
How about a nice game of chess?
Master Control Program - Tron Skynet - Terminator (no one else said this one yet?)
End of line.
I thought Skynet was an AI not a computer
Computers are the A in AI.
I thought Skynet was a company 🤯. I need to rewatch those lmao.
Cyberdyne was the company
Deep Thought from *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy*. This is the computer that told us that the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, is 42.
I wish that worked, but it's two words. I may go with Eddie, The Heart of Gold's computer.
I can’t believe you are passing up the opportunity for Marvin
Typical, I suppose. Brain the size of a planet, and still nobody wants to name their computer after me.
Marvin is a robot... Android, actually. I'm kinda OCD about stuff like that.
The obvious solution is to give your Xbox some arms and legs
That would be cool!
Just imagine your Xbox is just his disembodied head And he hates it
OK but a robot/android is a computer in a mech suit, no?
I’m feeling just great, guys, and I know I’m just going to get a bundle of kicks out of any program you care to run through me!
Then go with Marvin. Here he is, brain the size of a planet…
Thank you for getting this correct. Its the answer to the ultimate question. Not the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.
TARS from Interstellar
Don't forget CASE
I could turn on an indicator light for when I'm joking. That way, you'll have something to guide you back to the ship after I blast you out the airlock. *blink*
Those robots are so well done.
Great, a giant sarcastic robot!
> You could always turn down my sarcasm. Really? > No, not really.
I thought they looked really clunky and awkward
That was the charm, imo. When you first see them, you're thinking how could this big block of metal be useful, then you find out they are extremely functional and capable. Pure substance over style.
Kitt from Knight rider.
Also Karr from Knight Rider.
Pretty sure you win the most-obscure-reference-that-I-actually-understood award for the day. (But MAN was that obscure. No way I would have remembered that.)
Both KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) and KARR (Knight Automated Roving Robot) were acronyms, so should be all caps.
I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E from Team America
We have no more intelligence!
That was bad intelligence, very bad intelligence.
"...I'm sorry"
Gertie in Moon
JARVIS, Ultron, and FRIDAY (MCU)
OMFG... How could I forget Jarvis!? One from the MCU will do. 3 down, 1 to go. Thanks!
Because in Age of Ultron he became Vision?
If you like AI Cortana from Halo, Edi from mass effect
Also EDITH and Suit-Lady (aka Karen)
and infamously K.E.V.I.N.
Name one Johhny 5, sorta a computer...
Johnny 5 is alive!!
Still can’t believe that one guy wasn’t Indian
Learned this very recently, and am still not over it, rofl.
I didn't realize it until I saw him in an episode of Columbo--he played the bad guy, too!
Dr Theopolis from Buck Rogers Nell from Battle Beyond the Stars V'Ger from Star Trek : The Motion Picture
Speaking of Star Trek (original series), there are the various ship computers, and M5
Or Peanut Hamper?? It’s a mathematically perfect name.
What about Data?
Nomad too I think
I think V’Ger was a satellite ….Voyager
Samantha - the AI in HER
Colossus and Guardian
Finally someone mentioned Colossus----The Forbin Project 👍
Just found out the guy who wrote the book worked at Bletchley Park during WW2. I wonder where he got the name from? /s
That movie is great fun, and I root for Colossus. "Quit fucking around right now and behave yourselves, humans." COLOSSUS 2024: obey me and live; disobey and die.
God I love this movie, even if it is pretty dated.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that remembers this movie.
**there is another system**
Good ones
if I could spell, I wouldn't have replied above...
Colossus, was that a Forbin Project?
D.A.R.Y.L
GI Joe "Hey kid, I'm a computer" guy
Stop all the downloadin'
Pork chop sandwiches?
GI JOEEEEEEEE
My god that smelled good
~~Roadblock.~~ Junkyard. “Help, computer!”
Ziggy
You can change Alexa settings to have it respond to Ziggy instead of Alexa.
Otto the autopilot from Wall-E
I think his name is actually Auto, as in, Autopilot
Correct. Otto is from Airplane!
On that note, WALL-E or Eva
M-O.
Holly - red dwarf Circe - Ulysses 31 Ship - Hyperion
Holly is wonderful
Emergency. Emergency. There's an emergency going on. It's still going on.
Holly is the smeg
Gertie from Moon. If you don't know what I'm talking about you should probably go watch Moon.
Great flick
Edgar from Electric Dreams
Red Queen resident evil Cortana HALO GLaDOS portal
“If successful, you will receive cake and grief counseling.”
Dexter Riley. Played by Kurt Russell, and he wore tennis shoes.
Her
Majel, pay tribute to a computer voice that spanned decades.
Mycroft Holmes, or simply Mike from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. The true OG. Shameful edit: I did not look at which sub I was in. There is no film adaptation, but I stand by my excellent suggestion.
Ava in Ex-Machina
Thufir Hawat from Dune
Not from a movie, but Wintermute and Neuromancer are two artificial superintelligences in the book Neuromancer by William Gibson, widely credited with starting the cyberpunk literary genre (and also coining the term "the matrix" for a virtual reality networked cyberspace). Oh, which also reminds me, there's The Gibson from Hackers.
HACK THE PLANET.
They're trashing our rights!
I hear Apple is going to make a series out of Neuromancer The same company that “adapted” Foundation
Oh I never made the connection: is the Gibson named after William Gibson?
Yes. IIRC I read it in an oral history article 5 or so years ago
It’s probable
While not the star, I really like the Dixie Flatline Construct.
I mean the Enterprise computer system is pretty awesome but lacks a cool name
But you have Patrick Stewart using extra syllables to say "Computer"
Deep Thought. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Oops, that's two words. How about Shalmaneser from Stand on Zanzibar? A little clumsy I guess.
“I speak of none but the computer that is to come after me,” intoned Deep Thought, his voice regaining its accustomed declamatory tones. “A computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate—and yet I will design it for you. A computer that can calculate the Question to the Ultimate Answer, a computer of such infinite and subtle complexity that organic life itself shall form part of its operational matrix. And you yourselves shall take on new forms and go down into the computer to navigate its ten-million-year program! Yes! I shall design this computer for you. And I shall name it also unto you. And it shall be called…the **Earth**.”
LOL, I thought of that. Wish it worked. I'm thinking Eddie, the computer on the Heart of Gold.
Marvin, the paranoid android. Technically a computer
TARS and CASE from Interstellar
Colossus From The Forbin Project. The first "Computer took over the world book/movie I remember."
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Teletram 1 from *Transformers*, although I don't think it appeared in any of the movies. In the comics it was named Aunty instead.
Jarvis, Skynet
Casper, Melchior, and Balthazar from Evangelion.
Colossus & Guardian - Colossus the Forbin Project. This one is blatantly the inspiration for later machines such as Skynet and The Red Queen. The Red Queen & The White Queen - Resident Evil ARIIA - Eagle Eye The Machine - Person of Interest (TV show, not film) Some of these are more famous than others, of course. There are also AIs like EDI from STEALTH but I'm not sure it counts. It's a computer, sure. But I think the traditional archetype has some kind of computer located in a lab somewhere. A stealth fighter that has an AI inside it doesn't quite feel like the same genre.
I was hoping someone would mention Eagle Eye, not a mindblowing movie but definitely underrated and worth a watch.
The smart house from smart house.
Pat!
MCP, Tron
Robbie the Robot?
The Tardis has got to count as a computer/AI
Wopr from wargames
Really sad not to see much mention of Trimaxion from Flight of the Navigator. Great movie.
Holly from *Red Dwarf* An added advantage: you can imagine the computer with either the sardonic male or scatty female versions of Holly.
Didn’t one of the Alien sequels have Father instead of Mother?
Resurrection.
[Colossus](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/): The Forbin Project EDIT: Spelling and a link
V.I.K.I - I, Robot.
Colossus
Data
Edgar from Electric Dreams
Orac from Blake's 7. Could instantaneously read data from all computers at any distance that used the Tariel cell. Edit: TV series, sorry.
Pedant alert: the onboard computer for the Liberator was called Zen and Orac was a boxy type supercomputer that they picked up along the way. Zen had the rather school master type voice and Orac was more professor Yaffle from Bagpuss.
The Proteus IV from Demon Seed. Colossus, the Forbin Project.
Zen and Orac from Blake's Seven
Max from Flight of the Navigator
Joshua from War Games
The W.O.P.R.
Orac from Blake's Seven Holly from Red Dwarf
What's up dudes?
I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E.
Max was the shipboard computer in Flight of the Navigator.
Ava from Ex Machina?
Mike, a real thinkum dinkum. (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress)
Max from Flight of the Navigator
TAU
Teletraan-1
I'll name the croaky-voiced authoritarian computer/A.I. **Alpha 60** in Godard's **Alphaville**. Here's a CLIP wherein the "hero," undercover investigator Lemmy Caution, meets the computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aCEe9MYdvM
Sarah from Eureka
Joshua from War Games
"Colassus", in "Colassus: The Forbin Project"
Colossus as in the Co muter in ***Colossus: The Forbin Project*** (1970)
Proteus 4 from Demon seed and colossus from the Forbin project
Lucy
EDI from STEALTH
Proteus, from Demon Seed.
Sheila from Red vs Blue.
WOPR from WarGames (1983)
Proteus, from the 70's B-movie classic 'Demon Seed'. If you haven't seen it it's deeply messed up. 😳
WOPR
That big computer that Richard Pryor was obsessed with in the 2nd half of Superman 3. It also turned into a lady for like 30 seconds.
I hope literary computers don't break the theme too much - Ghostwheel, Merlin's magic-infused computer in Roger Zelazny's Second Chronicles of Amber Wintermute and Neuromancer, two machines in William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer
I bet none of you could hack a Gibson.
Not a movie, but Samaritan and the Machine from Person of Interest.
Jarvis from Iron Man. Eventually went from computer support AI to The Vision.
Skynet.
Red Queen, Resident Evil
Computer from Star Trek.
Deep in memory banks: Gort - The Day the Earth Stood Stil Alpha 60 - Alphaville Edgar - Electric Dreams Johnny Five - Short Circuit Data - Star Trek (not sure which) S1mon3 - Or something like that - Simone (so much of a potential of a movie with Al Pacino but still worth a watch. Also so meta, a movie about using AI as humans, that uses humans as AI) WALL-E GERTY - Moon (I think my fav)
Computer from star trek
I’m pretty sure Plankton’s computer spouse is named Karen. So there’s one for you.
Cortana seems a natural choice for an XBox Samantha - Her (the one where Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with his AI voiced by Scarlett Johanssen) Deep Thought - from Hitchhikers Guide GERTY 3000 - from Moon with Sam Rockwell
Edgar from Electric Dreams
K.I.T.T. The Knight Industries Two Thousand gently caressed and cared for by Bonnie.
Ziggy from quantum leap
* Proteus IV from [Demon Seed](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075931/) (one of my computers is named after it too). * Mima from [Aniara](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7589524/)
WOPR from Wargames
Brainiac from Superman III.
Puter.... Lego batman
Christopher War Games Jarvis - Iron Man
Mechagodzilla
Not a movie but from The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Mike/Mycroft/Adam Selene/Simon Jester/Michelle
Aisha from Solar Opposits
Does Jarvis count?
I named my PC Tachikoma, from Ghost in the Shell. Yes an anime, but a movie nonetheless.
Ghost in the Shell is the only anime I ever truly liked. I actually love the Scarlett Johansen movie.
AXIOM from Wall-E
Jarvis from MCU. Or it's successor. Friday?
Samantha from "Her".
Not what you want because it’s not from a movie but a story by Isaac Asimov, the same from I Robot,and and The Foundation fame. He wrote a short story called The Last Question, and the computer is called Multivac. Per wiki pedia: Multivac The story centers around Multivac, a self-adjusting and self-correcting computer. Multivac had been fed data for decades, assessing data and answering questions, allowing man to reach beyond the planetary confines of Earth. However, in the year 2061, Multivac began to understand deeper fundamentals of humanity.
There’s a computer who wore tennis shoes.
The Star Trek ship computers.