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In 1964 the CIA concluded Soviet AI research matched the US and could outpace it. That same year, at a Moscow conference of 1,000 scientists, a leading mathematician argued on the record that a machine "sufficiently complete" should legally be called a thinking being.

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A declassified 1964 CIA report reveals that Soviet artificial intelligence research, conducted under cybernetics, was on par with US efforts and could outpace them, with open Soviet debates about machine consciousness.

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In 1964 the CIA concluded Soviet AI research matched the US and could outpace it. That same year, at a Moscow conference of 1,000 scientists, a leading mathematician argued on the record that a machine "sufficiently complete" should legally be called a thinking being.

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