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 | | Although AI has a strong science fiction connotation, it forms a vital branch of computer science, dealing with intelligent behavior, learning and adaptation in machines. |
 | | In science fiction AI is commonly portrayed as an upcoming power trying to overthrow human authority as in HAL 9000, Skynet, Colossus and The Matrix or as service humanoids like C-3PO, Data, the Bicentennial Man, the Mechas in A.I. or Sonny in I, Robot. |
 | | The BBC television series Blake's 7 featured a number of intelligent computers, including Zen (Blake's 7), the controlling computer of the starship Liberator (Blake's 7); Orac, a highly advanced supercomputer in a portable perspex case that had the ability to reason and even to predict the future; and Slave, the computer on the starship Scorpio. |
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