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A very large artificial-intelligence system (goes the story) had been built for the military to help in long-range policy planning; financed by ARPA, with people from M.I.T., Stanford and so on. "The system is now ready to answer questions," said the spokesman for the project. A four-star general bit off the end of a cigar, looked whimsically at his comrades and said— "Ask the machine this: Will it be Peace or War?" The clerk-typist translated this into the query language and typed it in. The machine replied: YES "Yes what?" bellowed the general. The operator typed in the query. Came the answer: Yes SIR