VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT manage (123) ~ eun workload (|.24) amount of work (to be) done by somebody overhyyped (1.30) ~ publicized in an exaggerated way COLEGIO NOSSA SENHORA DA ASSUNGAO TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD - 10th Form Artificial intelligence isn’t just a movie Steven Spielberg's A.L: Artificial Intelligence is only a movie. Or is it? The movie, set in the near future, is about a humanlike robot boy who runs on artificial-intelligence software - a computer program that doesn't just follow instructions, as today's software does, but can think and leam on its own. Ins some ways, the character is a fantasy. It's no closer to reality than the alien in Spielberg's earlier E.T: the Extra-Terrestrial. Yet artificial intelligence is very real. It's far from re-creating a human brain, with its power, emotions and flexibility, though that might be possible in as little as 30 years. Today's AI can re- is cteate slices of what humans do, in software that can indeed make decisions. In recent years, this so-called narrow Al has made its way into everyday life. A jet lands in fog because of relatively simple Al programmed into its computers. Other uses of AI range from the amazing to the mundane. At Microsoft, Horvitz is trying to make your computer more of a companion than an inanimate tool. His software lets the computer learn about you. It learns who is important to you and who's not. It learns how to tell if you're busy - maybe by how 2» much you type, or by using a video camera to see if you're staring at the computer screen or putting golf balls across the carpet. It can combine that information to help manage your workload. If an e-mail comes in from someone very important, the computer will always put it through. If it's from someone not 3 so important and you're busy, it can save the e-mail for later. As an area of research, AT has been around since it was first identified and given its name during a conference at Dartmouth University in 1956. It hit a peak of excitement and media attention in the mid-1980s, when AI was overhyped as a1 technology that was about to change the world. Kevin Maney (abrid Ip cde ce AR RIOT UCT cyber feck] 001-06-2D-atusat himADING COMPREHENSION @ Decide whether these statements are true (1), false (F) or not stated (NS). Correct the false statements. T FNS a) The author of the text Wéiiders whether Steven § [9 OO Spielberg’s A./.: Artificial intelligence is only a film. b) The action takes place in the remote future. noe ¢) The main character is a robot that can love Oo and dream. d) The film £.T.: the Extraterrestrial was directed Hoo by Spielberg. ) It is estimated that machines will be able to think [OM and reason for themselves in the near future. f) Teday’s robots can do simple tasks ona 9) A. is already used in several domains. Boe ® Vocabulary ~ Match the words on the left with their equivalents on the right. AA, movie (1.1) 9) parts of (2. set (1.2) b) aircraft powered by a jet engine w 3. on its own (1.5) ‘A eprssartuna the action as ' appening at a specified time \r4, slices of (1.11) d) maximum % 5. made its way (1.13) @) alone 6. jet (1.14) Vary 7. range (1.15) 9) gone; succeeded in getting Ie amazing (1.16) h)very surprising » 4 9- peak (1.29) “Wfilm C. Change the following sentences from the active to the passive: 1 New robonauts ar improving communication one navigational! techniques. Communication and navigational techniques au Lig saaferded lye mvitrvotonnssbes 2. Scientists will receive important data-from Fupiter. { Important data fwon lly Will be rereivo/ thy - 3. The robotic eye inside-the spacecraft also photographed baile tipple wh Both Earth's poles ig iwiiad thoCOLEGIO NOSSA SENHORA DA ASSUNCAO- TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD - 10th Form ROBOQUIZ A. Work with another student to discuss the following i] questions and choose the best answer. In your opinion, robots have the potential to change our: © wich of these is not used to power a robotic drive system? @ @ h ©) © standard of living c. press a. 4. re €. none of these e. gasoline © wo is the wortd 8 Robots do tasks that are: leader in robot technology? a. b. ©. not needed right away en 4. bs st urs e. Franc In which of these places would you probably not find a robot? ROBOTS - an interview Imagine you are visiting a famous plant where robots are made. This is the opportunity to interview a famous scientist. Complete this dialogue by writing the question: us : A sabdd Ip > hr dil pad Czechoslovakia. The word “robot” first appeared in a 1920 play by the writer Karel apek called the "R.UR." ("Rossum’s Universal Robots") t / f ? 2 sha re nate gar thyLoh ? They're particularly useful on production lines. That's where something like a car or a TV is put together piece by piece. tuck ore thy taf a} ladew rgb”? One type of factory robot is basitally 4 long, metal arm with several different joints. The second type of factory robot is more mobile. Wet av che she f 1 Lo that iy oh of wll or There is no risk of collisidn. In fact, a robot sends out beams of sound or fight. When these beams are broken, the robot automatically stops. of ? ® UDR tte Lon thay dod _? 2 All kinds ‘of jobs which are difficult or dangerous for human beings. te , ? QUESTIONS f 1. Questions are often formed in this way: "i | Question word(s). + auxiliary verb + subject verb Where did the match take place? What does this mean? How tong has the match taken? 2. Be, can and have (got) just change the order of the subject and auxiliary verb. | eg: Heis playing chess — Is he playing chess? | They can play - Can they play? You have got time ~ Have you got time? mar § ura o tobe aril, 3. If who/which/what is the subject of the sentence, do not use do/does/did eg: Who invented the computer? What happened to Gary during the match? 4. With ‘indirect’ questions the word order of the subject and main verb (and auxiliary) is the same as in statements, | eg: Do you think the computer is capable of beating humans? Are you going to ask me what I did? | 5. Prepositions generally come at the end of questions (except in very formal | situations). | 3: Who do you live with? | Who are you talking to?NPY COLEGIO NOSSA SENHORA DA ASSUNGAO TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD - 10th Form Question building 1. An important part of asking questions is being sure of what you are asking. Build questions for the answers. The underlined section will help decide what you are asking. a) the ‘s_ dato bf a mee The-father of the net is Vinton Cerf: b) aphe cs the fo the aptche ost et =e Vinton Cecfis the father of the net. o) den wlan thir frit ¢nnsid senile _ 2? The first e-mail was sent in 1971, d) What ER a The first ¢=mail was sent in 1971. 2) whe del Tt, beef Ghee duper het Jn 499% ? |BM's Deep Biue computer beat World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov.in 1997. 0 what ded, weld hers te tet ty | |8M's Deep Blue computer beat ge Chess mmpion Gary Kasparov in 1997. ee dls) ty fo" Oe a sath: CeO dersity hh laane cletninmit. (9 wd Eniac, the first large electronic computer was built at the University of Pennsylvania, 2. Alll the following questions have mistakes. Find and correct them. 2) Who.aisentthe first e-mail? Researcher Ray Tomlinson. b) How much id moneyViadimir Levin steal through the Net? $72 million dollars. wo) Whge did Viadimir steal the money? In 1994. d) Who with did John Maulchy invent the Eniag? With J. Presper Eckert. ©) Bo you believe that in the future wil weave microchips implanted in our bodies? No, don't 4) Digwrite William Gibson *Neuromancer"? Yes, he i ahS) wit, ene was foundga by the book *Neuromancer"? Psgaorgat the Cyerpunk > h) What type. of future p@entg the book “Neuramancert? It presents a distopian future in which humans have computer implants. Gio“ COLE6IO NOSSA SENHORA DA ASSUNCAO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - WORKSHEET (10th Form) Artificial Intelligence 146 mins Starring: Haley Joe! Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, William, “* ‘Sam Robards Directed by Steven Spielberg I A. Summarise the film in no more than 80 wort, fod Otay rie Aledliid he cdedd apatryy Us, the "CER AE in eh inten mahrrnived fore nat reread w vie TU ody Phy tokyo ane ll that tlt o,mugdee they Learns Atafeted ond dead ty adef ated, Lurminsidabet nated hy . Tee GA deh Ded aod aor t0- omss crn, head udalireby, wend wemerftcedly, atacm nal og rn hog ek fot Hen sl Say ost te decak, 46 Bow Kn alow ina igen ony dey * tin te meek pr the Of Becton le, Won, along With Pe sma R = Blas Fry Whe will Aiom indy «ated doy. Avee yours Kaur famed ond Davey Wot da hg Me bivn be With Aa mph for ord Lot tims In thers Lert, 8. The film doesn't caver ‘all the effects we expect fee thinking machines ‘might “ have on a future society. It covers only one aspect. Which is it? In your opinion, wade * jis this given such importance? y z ce The raion enfield ti leg Meare TR nese tg Trask he poban .24'0 an Safer erfeak Hstwse aie b PR ato on SafolTerfeal Pctnne i ha crab moda t (oft, oy acdoy cade, ond te Ril fap Mecbirte don't boat heranan f0lhman . . In your opinion, what might be the advantages and the disadvantages of having a mechano as David? . - ap - = Hy lean, rreig dada’ Wh tes ; ete eyed Tain oyotions may get ledroyed, — atiompeny od yoth ~ cn he ve pvt wen 7 _ be feat ne TE tam dirtevien nga Within dhe ming) 82 Sr Aah! US eng: |, ty dante A. Match the characters of the film with their real names: "7 - lon poooiuc've Lo fessor Hobby ———~Monica Swinton _—— David Frances O'Connor —— Haley Joe! Osment — Henry Swinton | Soe a = Toe Guo ‘lei cst 8 te cmt ki aeCOLEGIO NOSSA SENHORA DA ASSUNGAO THE TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD - 10th Form Covers SCHWARZENEGGER LON aU 2001: Crea Dic (ei SPACE COWBOYSA. Match the following summaries with the corresponding covers: SUMMARIES a.In a crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the _,, force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him. {bol Gf He is very successtul against criminals, and becomes a target of supervillain Boddicker. wo’ b: Slkynes, the 2'iet contury computer waging 2 losing war on hamans sends , a shape-shifting cyborg back in time to destroy the leader of the human resistance while he is still a boy. A protector is sent, too. c. Douglas Quaid is an Earthbound construction worker who keeps having dreams about Mars. A trip to a false memory transplant service for a virtual (| vacation goes terribly wrong and another personality surfaces. The reality of p12 the situation is constantly in question. Who is he? Which personality is correct? Which version of reality is true? ~~ 0. Deckard is a policeman of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 5 replicants hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, bleak vision of the future. ty jliz —® The Workers, led by the beautiful Maria, plan a revolt against the / if unfriendly Thinkers that dominate them in this future society in ? which the conditions are horrid and people miserable. rine atest i f. On the way towards the Information Society, global networks, De 40 together with mobile computing, have made computing over virtual y communities a reality. Digital city projects, with the goal of building platforms to support community networking, are going on worldwide. ‘This is the first book devoted to digital cities. Ademonstration that technology, which we continue to imagine as the servant of man, wil bring down everything that prevents its development, including humanity itself ~ unless we take the necessary ‘steps to move human society out of the environment that ‘technique’ Is creating to meet its own needs. h. A female adventurer travels to exotic places in search of treasures and artifacts in the catacombs of ancient tombs and ruins remaining from age-old empires. oeCOLEGIO NOSSA SENHORA DA ASSUNCAO THE TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD - 10th Form Spotlight on The Technological World A. 1. 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TheSize, seopet-aad Fallows users to: t easily through ordinary personal computers and local phone aill with fiendsnd colleagues; + post information for others to access, and update ie frequentlys * access multimedia information that includes sound, photographic images and even videos * access diverse perspectives from around the world, Ain adjhitgnal artabuce‘oF the tented tacit Facto ee In 6ihet words, there is no “Internet, Inc,” that controls the The Inteétner is chang and are entertained. Ev g the way we communicate learn, cnduct business y day, the nattife of the Thtémet’ changes as. people Aad spe aterial, build Taster compilers, CiBhce/iniprdvad Sokiware dnd Afevel lop more capable communications. e Artificial Intelligence (Al) is the study of how to make computers do things which at the moment people age better at. It js th, if of computer science concerned With designing? ifitelligenc Compurer wereine which associate with human behaviour. ‘At the moment coh ventioAal 6 ‘have problems learning new things Of dealing’ with ji UMBREES Situacions. It is to be stressed that human intelligence is aHéad'of machine intelli ence Information storage and repetitive operations are for computers which can do them bere, but people do intelligent activites, like understanding, making sense, generating new ideas and using common sense Thi better than computers. ned for processing a large Ai information, However, féscarchers hive designed’ 7 néiy kitd mitaéé the Haman brain to a dated réctindldby th se are machines dest int"oF specific Pcontputer thar che, Ayn e verge OF an FEainy extent, They are“on will soon Thanige the Weld> E-learning is learning by means of advanced technologies, such as the erne St, audio/video tape, CD-ROM and so on. The term e-learning can be used to describe a range of learning situations, including distance learning, web-based learning, virtual classrooms and more. internet, intranet, extranet, satellite Brdadi hat they all have in common is the use of communication technologies as a medium for learning, E-learning is a new and rapidly evolving field. As new technologies are developed, the need for e-learning becomes more present and more pressing, The market for e-learning is expanding at an exponential rate. Commerce has already caught on. Many companies are selling e-learning in one way,or another; others are using it internally to upgrade® existing employees” Skills and to artract better employees. - Sources: B, Check whether these statements are true or false Correct the false ones. 1. Like any machine, a computer is only able to perform one tosk at a time. 2. Since it has no rules, the Internet is changing all the time. 3. Artificial intelligence tends to associate intelligent computer systems with human behaviour, \/ 4. E-learning means distant learning without teachers, classes.or evaluation. /7~ C. Complete the sentences below about the excerpts: 1. The Internet is a good example of a network because 2. Information on the Internet is exchanged throligh _/.(/.. J adhe 8. Despite recent advances in A. I., human 4. Employers are using e-learning inside their companies in order to whi if bf DB, Explain the meaning of the underlined expressions taken from the texts: 1. An additional attribute of the Internet is that it lacks a central authority. ‘An additional attribute of the Internet | (Text B) 2. (..) conventional computers still have problems learning new things or dealing with imprecise situations. (Text €) 3. They are on the verge of advanced technology. (Text C)