Active Vocabulary.
2. Answer the following questions: 1. Are we intelligent enough to understand intelligence? 2. What are the two approaches to answering the question what artificial intelligence is? 3. How do they call the classical experiment for determining? 4. What research did Alan Turing pioneer? 5. Had machine displayed intelligent behaviour before Turing’s test was applied? 6. What is the basic paradigm for displaying successful intelligent behaviour of a machine? 7. What does the test consist of? 8. What is the interrogator A told? 9. What is A to guess? 10. What accuracy percentage is needed to claim the machine simulates the human intelligence? 3. Reconstruct the text “Turing’s test” into a dialogue. The main rules governing a conversation in English: The person who asks questions in a conversation usually controls it. Personal questions should be expressed tactfully. Excuse me for asking. I hope you don’t mind asking, but I’d like to know more about … Could you tell me a bit more about … Sorry, I don’t quite understand. What (exactly) do you mean? Can you explain it in more detail, please? Excuse me, can I interrupt you for a moment? Hold on, please. Just a moment, please. Don’t you agree that … Sorry, could you say that again (please)? Sorry, could you repeat that? Oh, you know what I mean. Can you guess what I said, etc. Sure. I know. I see. Really. Right. Fine. OK. Well. Exactly so. Quite. That’s a very interesting question. Well, let me see … Excuse me, I’m afraid I have to be going now. It was really a pleasure to talk to you. That’s very interesting, but I don’t think it’s really to the point. 4. Annotate the text in English. Use the phrases: I.
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5. Discuss the problems. The following phrases may be helpful: I am confirmed in my opinion that… I will start by saying that … My own viewpoint is that… It can (not) be denied that… I can’t give you a definite answer yet… As far as I am concerned… I have reason to believe that… A.Turing’s question “Can the machine think?” should be paraphrased: “How can humans use the machines to help themselves think or learn?” A.Turing’s test still changes the imaginative people, because it is practical. Any other reason? “We may hope that machines will eventually compete with man in all purely intellectual fields” (A.Turing, 1950.) Was Turing right? Summarize the text briefly.
Writing Using texts A and B of Unit 4 write a presentation about AI and Turing’s test. Extended reading Text C. To be One with the Computer
Read and translate the text into Ukrainian at home. Write an abstract (précis) of the text in English. Express your appreciation of cybernetics’ scope, range and applications. Give your comments and assessment of the experiment described in the text. Reproduce it in class.
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