Matching Pairs IV LEVEL UNIT 9 TECHNOLOGY EVERYWHERE Lesson 4Online version Reading comprehension by Martha Uribe 1 What is the position of more optimistic experts? 2 What does Melissa want to know? 3 What is the position of skeptical experts? 4 What is the question that experts are divided on? 5 What evidence do they use to justify their enthusiasm? 6 According to scientists, how likely is it for robots to suddenly become conscious? 7 What is the author’s answer? whether AI robots could really become conscious that since we don’t understand how our own brains achieve consciousness, we can’t replicate the process whether they could create a conscious machine on purpose that it is highly unlikely that some AI robots have already achieved some level of self-awareness as likely as a monkey accidentally building a robot by shaking a box of parts the fact that in one experiment an AI robot recognized itself and distinguished itself from other robots 1 What are the Asilomar AI Principles? 2 What does one of the items on the list say? 3 What is the author’s answer? 4 What did Stephen Hawking famously say about AI? 5 What is Albert’s question? that research funding should be used for AI security, not just AI development a list of concepts designed to keep AI safe for everyone that although it is technically possible, we just don’t know if it’s likely that it could be the best or worst thing ever to happen to humanity whether AI programs will ever turn against humans 1 What does Mori’s graph mean? 2 What answer does the author give? 3 What happens when we see something that seems human but has unfamiliar features? 4 What is Liu’s question? 5 Who first used the term and when? a Japanese roboticist named Masahiro Mori, in the 1970s The author says that we find robots like Sophia creepy because of their humanoid appearance. It means that the more human a robot looks. But it is almost completely human, our feelings of familiarity suddenly drop. Our brains signal that something is wrong with She wants to know why she finds some robots, like Sophia, creepy, but not others. 1 What is Ray’s question? 2 How does the author define a romantic relationship? 3 What does the author tell him? 4 How did humans respond to images of robot hands “feeling” pain in one study? 5 Could robots ever develop romantic feelings toward humans? It’s possible for humans to feel an emotional attachment to a robot, or maybe even love. probably not as a two-way interaction He wants to know whether it is possible for a human and a humanoid robot to have a romantic relationship. with empathy 1 How quickly is the technology to make real robot housekeepers advancing? 2 How long do some scientists think it will take for these robots to become common? 3 What do we already have in our homes? 4 What does Sam want to know? smart gadgets such as automatic vacuum cleaners and refrigerators that order food only another 10 to 20 years rapidly when he can have a humanoid butler in his house
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