Year 8 – Computing systems Worksheet

Lesson 5 – Thinking machines

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

Not real and manmade flavors color

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

Smart clever

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

Knowing stuff and smart Knowing their surroundings Being able to run commands at
and food the choice of the user or the
system

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.

A mam made m

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