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Letter: Cyber space

Published 10 August 2011

From Barry Gehm

Michael Le Page discusses scenarios for what artificial intelligences will do when they exceed human intelligence (23 July, p 40). One possibility described is that computers, being better suited than humans to interstellar travel, will leave Earth to explore the galaxy.

In the spirit of the late author Douglas Adams, I suggest that their parting message to humanity could be: “So long, and thanks for all the chips.”

Batesville, Arkansas, US

Issue no. 2825 published 13 August 2011

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