Quote: intelligent machines will take control; immortal, converse with each other to sharpen their wits

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Turing, A.M., Intelligent Machinery, a heretical theory," lecture before the 51 Society, 1951] "Let us now assume, for the sake of argument, that these [intelligent] machines are a genuine possibility, and look at the consequences of constructing them. ... There would be no question of the machines dying, and they would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore we should have to expect the machines to take control, in the way that is mentioned in Samuel Butler's 'Erewhon'.

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