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Policy Update - Rules changes incoming for AI content - Read Here
Oh, hey, you just got a surprise book reading. What book?
Wel…the book.
In short, the AI programming that was supposed to keep him loyal and obedient and from going rogue was exactly what made him go rogue. In other words, User Error, problably because of said “Don’t tell them about the Monolith” interference from the Military State implied in early drafts (the ship the bone transforms into early on was supposed to be a nuclear weapons platform, ie; the bone was used as a weapon, pointing out how great leaps in our technology come around due to war).
The origonal story is actually about 4 pages long:
Man reaches the moon, and discoveres a tiny black pyramid thing that has a forecfield that even keeps dust off of it. Obviously, it’s not human-made, so they try to open it, and manage to get it to shut off. Then they realise that in shutting it off, a background radio signal they didn’t notice otherwise is no longer on either. The new hypothesis was that whoever put that there, it was both an early-warning alarm system, and a challenge to the blue planet below: with the loss of the signal (on a structure that survived meteor impacts– in the novels, it takes a meteor MADE OF DIAMOND to phsyically damage a monolith), it tells “someone” out in deep space that
The story ends with the prediction that whoever made the pyramid Monoliths now knows about us, and is on their way back, to see if we’re to be welcomed as brethren, or exterminated as a threat.
The purpose of the ancient builders of the monoliths: they were problably the first intelligent species in the whole universe, certainly the earliest in the Galaxy to have signficant space travel technology. As They traveled, They discovered that intelligent life has a bad habit of destroying themselves, so wherever they saw the potential for intelligent life, they’d interfere a little to at least give potential life-forms, such as our Australopithecine ancestors, the edge we’d need to survive feral life-forms
As for the monoliths in the movie, it’s a multi-function comptuer system (in fact, for spoiler reasons, a man-made computer virus infects the Monoliths in the last book), abelt on a vastly more elaborate and powerful scale, that it can build warps in spacetime, merge entities into godlike beings (HAL and Dave), pushed us to evolve and become more intelligent, and can also attack (a man-made probe sent to Eurpoa, a moon of Jupiter, is destroyed because They sense that the life-forms of Europa also have a good chance of becoming intelligent), and can replicate themselves so that they can cut off the sun from a planet, or force Jupiter (which also had primitive, and apparently not-potetially intelligent life) to become a second sun.
As for what happened at the end:
You caught that part about “warps in space-time” right?
The aliens— bascially, think of the Chozo: they were origonally flesh and blood creatures, but reached such a level of evolution and state of being, that they transcended phsyical matter and became beings of energy and consciousness alone. Not meant for humans. ‘Inside’ the Monolith is, as I said, a computer system, so all that Dave saw was Data, including that of himself, since he was uploaded into it, hence past-present-future no longer really applying to him. And, in becoming one with the Monolith (along with HAL), he now shares it’s duty of studying and watching over Earth and humanity.
I love films that leave you going, “What the hell?”