To what degree can a computer achieve intelligence?The answer to this question m

To what degree can a computer achieveintelligence？The answer to this question may lie in anewly-developed US computer program called Smarter Child and the Internet.

If you ran into Smarter Child online, you wouldbe surprised at this kid’s huge memory. It can recite many facts. For example,Smarter Child knows every baseball player in every team this season.

He knows every word in the dictionary and theweather in every major city areas across the US. However, if you ask SmarterChild other questions, you get strange answers. A question about Smarter Child’sage returns. “One year, 11 days, 16 hours, 7 minutes, and 47 seconds!” Askingwhere he lives gets, “In a clean room in a high-tech building in California.”

Smarter Child uses the vast information on theWorld Wide Web as his memory bank. To answer questions about spelling, forinstance, Smarter Child goes to American Heritage Dictionary online. For theweather, he visits www.intellicast.com.

Some scientists believe that by joining the manysystems of the Internet, an artificial being with the combined knowledge of,say, Albert Einstein, Richard Nixon and Britney Spears could be born. However,if Smarter Child wants to think and learn on his own like the boy-computerDavid in the movie A. I. Artificial Intelligence, he must overcome twoproblems.

The first is that computers find it difficult toread web pages because the files are labeled in different ways. That’s whyprogrammers need to tell Smarter Child where to look for the weather. It wouldbe a much more difficult task to let him find it himself.

Another problem is that while Smarter Child canprocess information more exactly and faster than any human, he lacks commonsense—a basic grounding of knowledge that is obvious to any young child.

1.From the text we can infer thatwww.intellicast.com is awebsite           .

         A．wherewe people can find Smarter Child

         B．whichis specially designed to help Smarter Child

         C．whereweather forecasts are made

         D．whichis about artificial intelligence

2.It is probably most difficult for SmarterChild to          .

         A．learnthe ability to tell right behaviors from wrong ones.

         B．tellus how to spell a difficult word

         C．provideus with a famous poem by Shakespeare

         D．tellus how the American government is run

3.The underlined  “it ” in Paragraph 6refers to ________.

         A．whereto look for the weather  B．Smarter Child.

         C．amuch more difficult task         D．toread web pages

4.Which of the following is the best title forthe passage?

         A．ANew Web Child       B．IntelligenceDevelopment

C．SmarterChild              D．TheFuture of Internet 

试题答案

【答案】

1.C

2.A

3.A

4.C

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