Intelligent Machines 1．Medical scientists are already putting computer chips（芯片)directly

A、AI machines

B、7.1 billion people on earth

C、those intelligent people in the history

D、invention and creation of mankind

. (使他们工作更高效和舒适)

ike machines than people.

Which of the following statements is true about conference interpreters？

A．They need be very intelligent at operating relevant equipment.

B．They are not good at their work at all.

C．They are always panic at work though perform. very well at exercises.

D．They are normally not allowed to show their own feelings at work.

Read carefully the following excerpt and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should: ●summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then ●comment on whether our brains will get lazy in a world run by intelligent machines. You can support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. With intelligent machines to do the thinking, will our brains get lazy？ Changing technology stimulates the brain and increases intelligence. But that may only be true if the technology challenges us. In a world run by intelligent machines, our lives could get a lot simpler. Would that make us less intelligent？ Artificial intelligence is taking over many human jobs. For instance, planes are being flown much of the time by automatic pilots. And the complex problem of controlling air traffic around large modern airports is also achieved by artificial intelligence that operates well beyond the capacity of mere human air traffic controllers. As machines get smarter, they will do more of our thinking for us and make life easier. In the future, the electronic assistant will develop to the point that it serves similar functions as a real living butler, fulfilling requests such as: “Organize a dinner party for six on Thursday, Jeeves, and invite the usual guests.” At that point, our long struggle with challenging technologies is at an end. Like Be Wooster, we can take it easy knowing that the hard work of planning and organizing is being done by a better brain-the electronic assistant. Starved of mental effort, our brains will regress.

The author's conclusion about the subject is that______.

A．human race is likely to be taken over and crushed by a race of robots

B．computers are not yet likely to be made to reproduce similar or more advanced ones

C．the world is faced with the threat coming from monster machines

D．giant computers more intelligent than human brains will .soon be produced

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Intelligent Machines

(1) Medical scientists are already putting computer chips (芯片) directly into the brain to help people who have Parkinson&39;s disease, but in what other ways might computer technology be able to help us？ Ray Kurzweil is author of the successful book The Age of Intelligent Machines and is one of the world&39;s best Computer research scientists. He is researching the possibilities.＜br＞

(2) Kurzweil gets computers to recognize voices. An example of this is Ramona, the virtual (虚拟的 ) hostess of Kurzweil&39;s homepage, who is programmed to understand what you say. Visitors to the site can have their conversations with her, and Ramona also dances and sings.＜br＞

(3) Kurzweil uses this technology to help people with physical disabilities. One of his ideas is a"seeing machine". "This will be like a friend that could describe what is going on in thevisible world," he explains. Blind people will use a visual sensor (探测器) which will probably be built into a pair of sunglasses. This sensor will describe to the person everything it sees.＜br＞

(4) Another idea, which is likely to help deaf people, is the "listening machine". This invention will recognize millions of words and understand any speaker. The listening machine will be able to translate into other languages, so even people without heating problems are likely to be interested in using it.＜br＞

(5) But it is not just about helping people with disabilities. Looking further into the future,Kurzweil sees a time when we will be able to download our entire consciousness onto a computer. This technology probably won&39;t be ready for at least 50 years, but when it arrives, it means our mind will be able to live forever.

Paragraph 2 __________ 查看材料

A.A new pair of ears

B.Computers that can communicate

C.Everlasting consciousness on a computer

D.Time to break off a friendship

E.An author and researcher

F.A new pair of eyes

作文：Writing：Read carefully the following excerpt and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 WORDS, in which you should:

1)summarize the main message of the excerpt,and then

2)Comment on whether our brains will get lazy in a world run by intelligent machines

You can support yourself with information from the excerpt.

Marks will be awarded for content relevance,content sufficiency,organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Write your response on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

A、Artificial intelligence is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software. 人工智能是通过机器或软件展现的智能

B、Artificial intelligence aims to create intelligent machines. 人工智能旨在创造智能机器

C、Artificial intelligence defines itself as the study of human agents. 人工智能将其定义为人类智能体的研究

D、Artificial intelligence is to enable the development of computers that are able to do things normally done by human. 人工智能是为了开发一类计算机使之能够完成通常由人类所能做的事

E、Artificial intelligence is to study and construct agent programs that perform well in a given environment. 人工智能是研究和构建在给定环境下表现良好的智能体程序

of the future with overtones of a science fiction film. Futuristic author Arthur C Clarke and others suggest that a new life form. will evolve from artificially intelligent machines. Humans vying for dominance will turn to genetics and cryogenics to compete.

Clarke, although he is seen as a visionary, has got it wrong before. There's no sign of Hal the dominating computer from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (written by Arthur C Clarke) appearing on the horizon next year to dominate human life. Even so, computers have changed the way that we work and play. The Internet is changing business, seemingly sweeping everything along on an e-tide. The Web will change the way we work — more of us will work from home.

Futurist Ian Pearson sees a convergence between intelligent computers and biotechnology, the advent of implanted chips and enhanced intelligence. Both machines and humans will have access to a global net with instant access to the world' s knowledge. But Pearson also fears that it could divide the world into two classes — those with access to this knowledge and those without access. And obviously there is a risk in losing control of things that think. Pearson expects machines to be as smart as humans by 2015. After that, computers will continue to get smarter.

The trouble with the digital revolution, says MIT Media Lab director Neil Gershenfeld in his book When Things Start to Think, is that computers may have speeded up many of the processes 0f modem life, but they still remain relatively difficult to use. "Most computers are nearly blind, deaf and dumb," says Gershenfeld. "These inert machines channel the richness of human communication through a keyboard and mouse. The speed of the computer is increasingly much less of a concern than the difficulty in telling it what you want it to do, or in understanding what it has done, or in using it where you want to go, rather than where it can go."

What's needed now, he concludes, is digital evolution. The real challenge is how to create systems with many components that can work together and change, merging the physical world with the digital world.

"If we can manage the development so that they (thinking machines) stay our friends, in just a few years we'll see progress in every area of life that makes the preceding millennia look like we've all been asleep."

Evolution is a consequence of interaction, says Gershenfeld. "And information technology is profoundly changing how we interact. Therefore it's not crazy to think about the impact of this on evolution."

From paragraph 4, we can deduce that______.

A．the speed of computers is faster than ever

B．scientists encounter unprecedented difficulties

C．the intelligence of computers is more important than the speed

D．there is much room for the improvement of computer intelligence

f the future with overtones of a science fiction film. Futuristic author Arthur C Clarke and others suggest that a new life form. will evolve from artificially intelligent machines. Humans vying for dominance will turn to genetics and cryogenics to compete.

Clarke, although he is seen as a visionary, has got it wrong before. There's no sign of Hal the dominating computer from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (written by Arthur C Clarke) appearing on the horizon next year to dominate human life. Even so, computers have changed the way that we work and play. The Internet is changing business, seemingly sweeping everything along on an e-tide. The Web will change the way we work -- more of us will work from home.

Futurist Ian Pearson sees a convergence between intelligent computers and biotechnology, the advent of implanted chips and enhanced intelligence. Both machines and humans will have access to a global net with instant access to the world's knowledge. But Pearson also fears that it could divide the world into two classes -- those with access to this knowledge and those without access. And obviously there is a risk in losing control of things that think. Pearson expects machines to be as smart as humans by 2015. After that, computers will continue to get smarter.

The trouble with the digital revolution, says MIT Media Lab director Neil Gershenfeld in his book When Things Start to Think, is that computers may have speeded up many of the processes of modem life, but they still remain relatively difficult to use. "Most computers are nearly blind, deaf and dumb," says Gershenfeld. "These inert machines channel the richness of human communication through a keyboard and mouse. The speed of the computer is increasingly much less of a concern than the difficulty in telling it what you want it to do, or in understanding what it has done, or in using it where you want to go, rather than where it can go."

What's needed now, he concludes, is digital evolution. The real challenge is how to create systems with many components that can work together and change, merging the physical world with the digital world.

"If we can manage the development so that they (thinking machines) stay our friends, in just a few years we'll see progress in every area of life that makes the preceding millennia look like we' ye all been asleep."

Evolution is a consequence of interaction, says Gershenfeld. "And information technology is profoundly changing how we interact. Therefore it' s not crazy to think about the impact of this on evolution."

From paragraph 4, we can deduce that______.

A．the speed of computers is faster than ever

B．scientists encounter unprecedented difficulties

C．the intelligence of computers is more important than the speed

D．there is much room for the improvement of computer intelligence

f the future with overtones of a science fiction film. Futuristic author Arthur C Clarke and others suggest that a new life form. will evolve from artificially intelligent machines. Humans vying for dominance will turn to genetics and cryogenics to compete.

Clarke, although he is seen as a visionary, has got it wrong before. There's no sign of Hal the dominating computer from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (written by Arthur C Clarke) appearing on the horizon next year to dominate human life. Even so, computers have changed the way that we work and play. The Internet is changing business, seemingly sweeping everything along on an e-tide. The Web will change the way we work—more of us will work from home.

Futurist Ian Pearson sees a convergence between intelligent computers and biotechnology, the advent of implanted chips and enhanced intelligence. Both machines and humans will have access to a global net with instant access to the world's knowledge. But Pearson also fears that it could divide the world into two classes—those with access to this knowledge and those without access. And obviously there is a risk in losing control of things that think. Pearson expects machines to be as smart as humans by 2015. After that, computers will continue to get smarter.

The trouble with the digital revolution, says MIT Media Lab director Neil Gershenfeld in his book When Things Start to Think, is that computers may have speeded up many of the proceses of modem life, but they still remain relatively difficult to use. "Most computers are nearly blind, deaf and dumb," says Gershenfeld. "These inert machines channel the richness of human communication through a keyboard and mouse. The speed of the computer is increasingly much less of a concern than the difficulty in telling it what you want it to do, or in understanding what it has done, or in using it where you want to go, rather than where it can go."

What's needed now, he concludes, is digital evolution. The real challenge is how to create systems with many components that can work together and change, merging the physical world with the digital world.

"If we can manage the development so that they (thinking machines) stay our friends, in just a few years we'll see progress in every area of life that makes the preceding millennia look like we've all been asleep."

Evolution is a consequence of interaction, says Gershenfeld. "And information technology is profoundly changing how we interact. Therefore it's not crazy to think about the impact of this on evolution."

From paragraph 4, we can deduce that_____.

A．the speed of computers is faster than ever

B．scientists encounter unprecedented difficulties

C．the intelligence of computers is more important than the speed

D．there is much room for the improvement of computer intelligence