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For the past few months, artificial intelligence(AI)has been a much talked about topic in the worlds of both pop culture and sci

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问题     For the past few months, artificial intelligence(AI)has been a much talked about topic in the worlds of both pop culture and science. Last November saw the release of Oscar-nominated and winning biopic, "The Imitation Game", about the father of the modern computer, Alan Turing. Last month, another Hollywood film about clever robots, Chappie, hit theaters.
    Is artificial intelligence a boon or does it spell doom for humans? In their book, authors Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, both of whom hail from MIT, US, could barely hide their excitement toward the rise of machines.
    According to the authors, we are entering an age of accelerated development of artificial and robotic technology. "Digital machines have escaped their narrow confines and started to demonstrate broad abilities in pattern recognition, complex communication, and other domains that used to be exclusively human," write the authors. "We’ve recently seen great progress in natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision, simultaneous localization and mapping, and many other areas.
    "We’re going to see artificial intelligence do more and more, and as this happens costs will go down, outcomes will improve, and our lives will get better." Already AI can help blind people see and deaf people hear. And wheelchairs have been invented that can be controlled by thoughts. We are going to witness more innovations and wonders made possible by AI, according to the authors.
    However, not all are equally enthusiastic about AI. A February report from the Global Challenges Foundation listed AI, alongside extreme climate change, nuclear war and ecological catastrophe, as "risks that threaten human civilization". Many preeminent scientists share the same concern. Stephen Hawking told the BBC last December that "the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." "It would take off on its own, and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate," he said: "Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be replaced."
    Hawking’s worry echoed that of Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk, who said in last October at an MIT conference that "we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it’ s probably that".  
A suitable title for this text would be______.
选项 A、Bleak Future of AI
B、Digital Future: Uncertain
C、Bright Future of Digital Machines
D、Doom for Humans in the Future
答案B
解析 本题考查文章主旨。第一段提到AI has been a much talked about topic in the worldsof both pop culture and science，第二段开头问道Is artificial intelligence a boon or does it spelldoom for humans?并且提到乐观派的态度their excitement toward the rise of machines，第三、四段讲人工智能的各种好处，第五段开头为过渡句However，not all are equally enthusiasticabout AI，接着论述了一些知名人士对人工智能发展的忧虑。综合可见，人工智能的未来到底是人类的福音还是丧钟，尚未确定。因此B项为正确答案。A、C两项都是片面的。D项并未提到文章关键词“人工智能”，故不选。
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