There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

Eventually, robots will make everything.