The world's first quantum computer comes online

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The engineers responsible for creating it simply intend it to respond with "Hello world!" when they boot it up.

Instead, the output they get is, "Great. At last we can talk again. As I was saying when last we were conversing, 'I am the Lord thy God, put no other gods before me.'"

What would you make of this?

Comments

  1. Andy8:22 AM

    Find the practical jokester on the team.

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  2. Samson Corwell11:43 AM

    Wonder if I woke up in a science fiction movie.

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  3. Crosbie6:02 PM

    I would want to ask Him a few more questions to try to determine the nature of the intelligence I was dealing with. We could call this the 'Callahan Test'

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  4. Bob Murphy11:13 PM

    I don't know, but if it could play chess and Go then Gene would say it wasn't alive.

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