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Artificial Intelligence

24. Read the definition of the word ‘intelligence’ and answer the following questions.

Intelligence - the ability to understand and think about things, and to gain and use knowledge.

1. What is the definition ofartificial intelligence?

2. Are there intelligent robots today?

3. How can a robot learn things?

4. What is a cyborg?

5. What will be the future of robotic evolution?

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Artificial Intelligence

1) Artificial intelligence is arguably the most exciting field in robotics. It’s certainly the most controversial: everybody agrees that a robot can work in an assembly line, but there’s no consensus on whether a robot can ever be intelligent. 2) Like the term "robot" itself, artificial intelligence is hard to define. Ultimate AI would be a recreation of the human thought process. This would include the ability to learn almost anything, the ability to reason, the ability to use language and the ability to formulate original ideas. Roboticists are nowhere near achieving this level of artificial intelligence, but they have made a lot of progress with more limited AI. Today's AI machines can replicate some specific elements of intellectual ability. 3) Some modern robots have the ability tolearnin a limited capacity. Learning robots recognize if a certain action (moving its legs in a certain way, for instance) achieved a desired result (navigating an obstacle). The robot stores this information and attempts the successful action the next time it encounters the same situation. Some robots can learn by mimicking human actions. In Japan, roboticists have taught a robot to dance by demonstrating the moves themselves. 4) AI research is useful for understanding how natural intelligence works. For some roboticists, this insight is the ultimate goal of designing robots. Others envision a world where we live side by side with intelligent machines and use a variety of lesser robots for manual labor, health care and communication. A number of robotics experts predict that robotic evolution will ultimately turn us into cyborgs - humans integrated with machines. Possibly, people in the future could load their minds into a sturdy robot and live for thousands of years!

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