The Rise of Artificial Intelligence（AI:人工智能）discusses AI technology and how it might affect humans in the future, but the future is already here. In 2011, America’s Favorite Quiz Show held a competition between two men and an IBM computer named “Watson”. IBM describes Watson as “a technology that understands all forms of data and also reasons and learns.” Both men thought they could beat Watson. Instead, the computer and its Artificial Intelligence soundly beat both of the human beings.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MADE SIMPLE

Artificial Intelligence generally refers to machines with human-like intelligence, such as problem-solving and learning. In order to be considered AI, the computer must pass the Turing test, named after Turing, a British mathematician who worked with the first computer.

In the 1950s, Turing published a paper questioning whether a computer could be used to trick humans into believing they were interacting（互動(dòng)） with an actual human being. He found that if 30% of humans who interacted with a “machine”believed they were actually interacting with a human being, then the computer could be considered as AI.

A simple example of AI is Apple’s Siri. Ask Siri to do anything, from calling a friend to booking a dinner table, and Siri can do them. Siri seems almost to be a human being. When you ask, “Are you a real person?” Siri answers, “That is a really personal question.”

But just because a system can behave like a human being, that does not mean it can think like humans, Or, does it?

JOINING OF HUMAN & MACHINE

It seems that our devices（設(shè)備）will turn into humans. Our phones already tell us to take an umbrella before we walk out the door. They volunteer traffic conditions so we know how long it will take to drive to work.

Our devices can interact with us in a way that looks like a real conversation with another human being, like with Siri. It does not seem crazy at all to think that AI may be programmed to actually think. If it has not already happened, it will likely happen in the near future.

Have we come to the time when computers and AI have caught up to human beings? Although computers have the ability to make our life better, is it possible that they may control and destroy human beings in the end?

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS

It seems pretty clear that in the future, we’re going to see a human-machine hybrid. Humans will be stronger, live longer and be smarter. Ray Kurzweil, a computer scientist, believes that within 50 years, the humans on Earth will be about 50 to 80% robotic. There is no question that AI will be a part of every technology that humans create. Will it turn out be more of a benefit to humankind or will it be a risk and threaten（威脅到） humanity as we know it? If AI is programmed according to Isaac Asimov’s 3 Laws of Robotics, humans won’t have a problem with machines; but for some, evil AI still stands in the way of a peaceful and safe life on Earth.

1.The story of computer Watson is mentioned here to tell us that ______.

A. the age of machines has come

B. humans make their own enemies

C. AI has actually come into our life

D. humans are playing a dangerous game

2.From the passage, we can learn that _____.

A. Turing test was designed to examine the first computer

B. machines interacting with humans can be called AI

C. Siri can volunteer to book a dinner table

D. AI will help humans to be stronger and smarter

3.What does the underlined expression “a human-machine hybrid” in the last paragraph probably mean?

A. A machine with a human look.

B. A human created by machines.

C. A body part robotic part human.

D. A robot that can behave like humans.

4.The passage is mainly about _____.

A. the history and future of AI

B. the advantages and disadvantages of AI

C. the examples of AI

D. the competition between humans and AI

1.C 2.D 3.C 4.A 【解析】【主旨大意】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文。主要講述了人工智能的歷史和未來(lái)發(fā)展情況。 1.推理判斷題。題干意為：這里提到電腦Watson的故事是為了告訴我們。根據(jù)第一段第一句可推知，提到電腦Watson的故事是為了告訴我們?nèi)斯ぶ悄苁聦?shí)上已經(jīng)進(jìn)入我們的生活。故選C。 2.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。題干意為：從本文我們能夠了解到。根據(jù)WHAT THE F...
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