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Year 8 – Computing systems Worksheet

Lesson 5 – Thinking machines


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Words matter
Task 1 .
Provide a definition for the word ‘artificial’.

Provide at least two synonyms for the word ‘intelligent’.

Task 2 .
When would you call a person, an animal, or a machine ‘intelligent’?
Tip: Think about what each one would need to be able to do, in order to be called ‘intelligent’ .

Person Animal Machine

Explorer task .
You have probably heard of the term ‘artificial intelligence’ before. Given your answers
to the previous tasks, write a definition for this term.

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