11.   Tough luck for the monster, but these are still early days for intellectual property rights for thinking machines.

12.   Versatile and autonomous thinking machines have been predicted before, of course.

13.   What are the implications of creating thinking machines that might in effect become their own species?

14.   Smart cards, by contrast, carry fingernail-sized microprocessors that can converse with other thinking machines and use software coding to make transactions secure.

15.   The circuit, built on a silicon chip the size of a fingernail, is far from the thinking machines of science fiction.