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Listening Week-8 [Artificial-Intelligence]

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A scientist said (1) ____________ will be more intelligent than humans by 2029. The scientist's name is Ray Kurzweil. He works for Google as (2) ____________ of Engineering. He is one of the world's (3) ____________ experts on artificial intelligence (A.I.). Mr Kurzweil believes computers will be able to learn from (4) ____________, just like humans. He also thinks they will be able to (5) ____________ jokes and stories, and even flirt. Kurzweil's 2029 prediction is a lot (6) ____________ than many people thought. The scientist said that in 1999, many A.I. (7) ____________ said it would be hundreds of years before a computer was more intelligent than a human. He said that it would not be long before computer intelligence is one billion times more powerful than the human (8) ____________.

Mr Kurzweil joked that many years ago, people thought he was a little crazy for (9) ____________ computers would be as intelligent as humans. His thinking has stayed the same but everyone (10) ____________ has changed the way they think. He said: "My views are not radical any more. I've actually (11) ____________ consistent. It's the (12) ____________ of the world that's changing its view." He highlighted examples of (13) ____________ things we use, see or read about every day. These things make us believe that computers have (14) ____________. He said people think differently now: "Because the (15) ____________ has seen things like Siri [the iPhone's voice-recognition technology] where you talk to a computer; they've seen the Google (16) ____________-driving cars."

Guess The Answers
1) A scientist said robots will be more ______
a. intelligent than humans
b. intelligence than humans
c. intelligentsia than humans
d. intelligences than humans

2) He works for Google as ______
a. Director of Engineer Ring
b. Director of Engine Hearing
c. Director of Engineering
d. Director of Engineers

3) He is one of the world's ______
a. loading experts
b. leading experts
c. lead-in experts
d. lead experts

4) Mr Kurzweil believes computers will be able to learn ______
a. from experience
b. from experiences
c. from experienced
d. from experiential

5) one billion times more powerful than ______
a. the human brain
b. the human brains
c. the human brainy
d. the human brainwave

6) Mr Kurzweil joked that many years ago, people thought he ______
a. was a lot crazy
b. was a less crazy
c. was a lesser crazy
d. was a little crazy

7) His thinking has stayed the same but everyone else has changed ______
a. the why they think
b. the way they think
c. the what they think
d. the wry they think

8) It's the rest of the world that's ______
a. changing its views
b. changing its view
c. changing its viewed
d. changing its viewing

9) things like Siri [the iPhone's voice-______]
a. wreck cognition technology
b. recognised technology
c. recognition technology
d. wreck ignition technology

10) they've seen the Google ______
a. safe-driving cars
b. shelf-driving cars
c. serve-driving cars
d. self-driving cars







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