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Today’s puzzle challenge is a new Decrypt the Signal puzzle! Cyberkill by Frank Fiore was the inspiration for this puzzle, and you can solve the puzzle without reading Cyberkill, but it’s an amazing read that shouldn’t be missed.

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Don’t forget to submit your solution to the puzzle to Chris for a Summertime Puzzle Contest code. Please be a good sport; don’t post the answer to this puzzle in the comments or elsewhere while the puzzle contest is still going on.

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Are mankind’s days numbered as the dominant intelligence on planet earth?

Artificial intelligence has been explored in stories and movies from the Golden Age of Science Fiction with the likes of Isaac Asimov in ‘I Robot’ to Spielberg’s movie A.I.

I’ve explored the deviant side of A.I. in my novel CyberKill.

Now, two recent news articles explore the possible future of intelligence on this planet and decided that mankind may not be in the equation.

Take the “Singularity”’.

Ray Kurzweil has written several books. One of the most recent, called ‘The Singularity Is Near’, and predicts that by the year 2050 nonbiological artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence, creating a hybrid of man and technology.

Today’s puzzle challenge is another Decrypt the Signal puzzle! It’s a logic puzzle based on Cyberkill by Frank Fiore. You can solve the puzzle without reading Cyberkill, but you shouldn’t. It’s an awesome story and you would be missing out if you didn’t get a copy.

Note: The original posting of this puzzle had two solutions. If you plan to redeem this puzzle for a code for the Summertime Puzzle Contest, please re-solve rows 6 and 7 using the new shapes to ensure a correct answer!

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Like most techno-thrillers of the genre, the author seeks to come as close to reality as possible – then stretch the facts a bit.

My novel CyberKill is no exception.

Many years ago I read an article in Time Magazine dated March 25^th, 1996 about a young artificial intelligence (AI) programmer who created a series of AI agents and sent them out over the internet to see if they would evolve.

“An ecobiologist and bottom-up computer theorist will soon launch onto the Internet a single, tiny self-reproducing program which will spread among hundreds of computers around the world.

Today’s puzzle challenge is a Decrypt the Signal puzzle! This logic puzzle is themed after the book Cyberkill by Frank Fiore, which is a great book – especially if you’re into technology. You can solve the puzzle without reading Cyberkill, but why would you want to do that?

To grab the printable copy, click the banner at left.

Don’t forget to submit your solution to the puzzle to Chris for a Summertime Puzzle Contest code. Please be a good sport; don’t post the answer to this puzzle in the comments or elsewhere while the puzzle contest is still going on.