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Letter: Your android is not paranoid enough

Published 11 May 2016

From Malcolm Drury

Aviva Rutkin reports machines teaching themselves to grapple with the real world (19 March, p 20). Impressive though progress is, I don't believe an artificially intelligent entity will be judged quasi-human until it professes to feeling very depressed, in spite of having a brain the size of a planet.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Issue no. 3073 published 14 May 2016

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