If Google’s server farm ever does assert its independence and decide the human race needs to do something other than look up cat videos, most science fiction fans would shrug and say: “Told you so.” Artificial intelligence has the baddest of raps in science fiction, in big part because so many of these supercomputers tend to be so malicious. But look closer and you’ll find in a lot of cases they’re simply doing too good a job of being true to their programming, whether for good or ill. Here’s a rundown of 12 supercomputers that we wouldn’t want to run into in a darkened data center.
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