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Can machines think? And if they can, how will they relate to their creator, man? And what awaits humanity in the end - Judgement Day or Utopia? And how to determine whether you are looking at an "unintelligent" mechanism or an artificial being capable of thinking? What is the difference between an automaton and a robot, an android and a transformer, a cyborg and a sigom? These and many other questions are discussed on the pages of this book, which is dedicated to the history, modern achievements and fantastic future of the amazing science of cybernetics. The material is presented in the form of entertaining stories that allow us to understand what modern laboratory gods - neurocircuitry, programmers, and system engineers - are "conjuring", endowing automatic devices with the rudiments of "intelligence", and what the prospects for creating "artificial intelligence" are. The book is intended for schoolchildren and their teachers, students, teachers of higher education institutions and colleges, as well as for all curious readers.