Exercise 4. Read text. Fill in the gaps with only one suitable word. The first letter of each missing word is given.
Human-computer interfaces provide the means for p… to use computers. An example of a human-computer i… is the keyboard, which lets humans enter c… into a computer and e… text into a specific application. The diversity of research into human-computer interfacing corresponds to the diversity of computer u… and applications. However, a unifying theme is the d… of better interfaces and experimental evaluation of their effectiveness. Examples include improving computer a… for people with disabilities, simplifying programme use, developing three-dimensional i… and output devices for virtual r…, improving handwriting and s… recognition.
Exercise 5. Study the text and choose the correct variant.
Research is a …1… part of university life and students are increasingly …2… with opportunities to engage in small-scale research projects. However, it is important that research is conducted in a …3… which is methodologically and ethically sound, so that research …4… can stand the test of peer-review and public scrutiny. Researchers must be able to justify the rationale for the methodology they have used and not simply use the method which is most …5… .
If using quantitative methods, it is essential that the …6… is both large enough and representative of the population and that …7… drawn from the data are …8… and statistically significant. Qualitative methods, on the other hand, can give …9… insight into human behaviour but do not claim to produce results that can be extended to the rest of the population. Consequently, a mixed methods approach can …10… the strengths of different approaches and enhance the validity or research findings.
| a) | b) | c) | d) |
| 1. marginal | initial | fundamental | founding |
| 2. provided | supplied | given | delivered |
| 3. kind | style | sort | manner |
| 4. inputs | outputs | products | turnout |
| 5. convenient | skillful | comfortable | handy |
| 6. picture | sample | illustration | instance |
| 7. end | completion | closing | conclusions |
| 8. authentic | valid | impressive | current |
| 9. powerful | awful | drastic | mighty |
| 10. blend | mix | merge | combine |
Exercise 6. Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage below. (Тексты в упр. 6 и 7 почти совпадают?)
| · humanity · roboticist · intelligences · control · inexorable · appreciate · machines |
The epic robot fails that say AI will never rule the world
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Will the machines rise up and enslave us? The history of incompetent robots, from klutzy cleaners to sense-mangling chatbots, suggests we can sleep easy. We all know how it ends: the … rise up to enslave their puny masters. Robots and artificial … may so far have confined themselves to lameless pursuits such as vacuum cleaning, beating us at board games and recommending products we might also like. But as they continue their … rise, entering a "singularity" of runaway self-improvement, they will inevitably turn their attention to robopocalypse. Stephen Hawking says AI could spell the end for … . Elon Musk thinks it could lead to world war three.
Vladimir Putin says whoever controls AI will … the world. Maybe so. But as comic strip author Randall Munroe – himself formerly a … – puts it in his book What if? Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions: "What people don't …, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls".
19 December 2017
by Douglas Heaven
Exercise 7. Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage below.
| · control · unstable · self-improvement · roboticist · artificial |
Rise of the machines
We all know how it ends: the machines rise up to enslave their puny masters. Robots and …1… intelligences may so far have confined themselves to blameless pursuits such as vacuum cleaning, beating us at board games and recommending products we might also like. But as they continue their inexorable rise, entering a "singularity" of runaway …2…, they will inevitably turn their attention to robopocalypse. Stephen Hawking says AI could spell the end for humanity. Elon Musk thinks it could lead to world war three. Vladimir Putin says whoever controls AI will …3… the world.
Maybe so. But as comic strip author Randall Munroe – himself formerly a …4… – puts it in his book What if? Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions: "What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as …5… as a mountain of human skulls".
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13 January, 2018, New Scientist
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