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It should become apparent from the following sections that computers will become ever more powerful thinking machines. We must therefore consider not whether the intelligence of computer systems will exceed that of individual human beings, but when.
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Stonier, T. (1992). The Future of Machine Intelligence. In: Beyond Information. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1835-0_8
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