We have come to believe that machine intelligence can solve most of our problems, and that with the computer we are augmenting our own intelligence. As we continue to advance the state-of-the-art in construction of computers, this sense of amplification will increase. One can predict with accuracy that the ultimate demise of all sciences will result in total acquiescence to the computer, at which time it finally will suffer ultimate breakdown. In the long run, however, the golem, a folk lore creature made of mud and animated by magic but devoid of intelligence, will not be able to handle
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