首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The Robot Man According to Hans Moravec, universal robots will take over all the physical activities that we engage in, leav
The Robot Man According to Hans Moravec, universal robots will take over all the physical activities that we engage in, leav
admin
2016-07-17
69
问题
The Robot Man
According to Hans Moravec, universal robots will take over all the physical activities that we engage in, leaving us with little to do. Moravec sees four generations on the road to true universal robots. The first generation will be here by 2010 and will consist of free-ranging robots that can navigate by building an internal mental map of their surroundings. In new situations they’ll be able to adapt, unlike today’s mobile industrial robots. These robots will have the computing power to cope with simple speech and text recognition, and will be used for tasks such as domestic cleaning.
The second generation will arrive around 2020 and will be distinguished by the ability to learn. Second generation robots are programmed with sets of primitive tasks and with feedback that provide" pleasure" and "pain" stimuli. For example, a collision provokes a negative response, a completed task would be positive.
Move forward another ten years to 2030 and you get to generation three. This robot can build internal simulations of the world around it. Before beginning a task, it can imagine what will happen in order to predict problems. If it has a free moment, it can replay past experiences and try variations in order to find a better way of doing things next time. It could even observe a person or another robot performing a task and learn by imitation. For the first time, we have here a robot that can think.
By the time we get to generation four in 2040, Moravec predicts that robots will be able to: match human reasoning and behaviour; generalise abstract ideas from specific experience; and, conversely, compile detailed plans of action from general commands such as "earn a living" or "make more robots".
The Moravec manifesto(宣告)runs something like this. As robots start to become useful in generation one, they’ll begin to take on many tasks in industry. Driven by the availability of this cheap and tireless labour force, the economy will boom and the demand for robots will grow so rapidly that they will soon become low-cost commodity items. So much so that they’ll move into the home, where the domestic robot will relieve us of many chores.
With increasing automation in generations two and three, the length of the average working day will plummet, eventually to near zero. Most people will be unemployed as robots take over not just primary industry, but the service economy too. Moravec sees the fourth generation as an opportunity to surpass our human limitations.
These future machines will be our"mind children". Like biological children of previous generations , they will embody humanity’s best hope for a long-term future.
The word"plummet" in paragraph 6 means______.
选项
A、decrease
B、stretch
C、extend
D、grow
答案
A
解析
“plummet”是“急速下降”的意思。也可根据后面的“…eventually to near zero”(最终降到零)判断,stretch,extend,grow的意思是“伸展”,“扩大”,“增长”,因此都不对。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/AELd777K
本试题收录于:
职称英语理工类B级题库职称英语分类
0
职称英语理工类B级
职称英语
相关试题推荐
Atthemeetingbothsidesexchangedtheirviewsonawidescopeoftopicstheywereinterestedin.
Accordingtothemostrecentresearchonparenting,caretakerstendtousethreestrategiesfordiscipliningchildren.Power
CannedFoods:ConvenienceandNutritionMeetingyourfamily’snutritionalneedsmayseemdifficultconsideringtoday’sbusyl
Thepriceofvegetablesfluctuatesaccordingtotheweather.
Accordingtothepassage,theattempttoeradicatetheAIDSvirusHowcouldweprovethatthedrugshavewipedouttheremainin
SleepSleepispartofaperson’sdailyactivitycycle.Thereareseveraldifferentstagesofsleep,andtheytoooccurinc
TheMind-BodyConnectionsNormanCousinswasafamousAmericanmagazineeditor.In1964,hereturnedfromanoverseastripan
DoubleEffectTheSupremeCourt’sdecisionsonphysician-assistedsuicidecarryimportantimplicationsforhowmedicinesee
SedimentaryrockscovermuchoftheEarth’ssurface,buttheyareoftenhiddenbyathinveneerofsoil.
随机试题
()对于游戏相当于祝福对于()
从世界范围来看,主要有()和()两种师资职前培养模式,各有利弊。
对于Bouin混合固定液的描述不正确的是
总平面设计中影响工程造价的因素包括占地面积、功能分区和运输方式。()
某一类高层商住楼地上共30层、地下共2层,总建筑面积9.8万m2。地下一层~地上五层为商场,建筑面积为5.6万m2,地上五层以上为普通住宅,地下二层为汽车库。该商住楼内的防烟楼梯问及其前室、消防电梯间前室和合用前室靠外墙布置,具备自然排烟条件。商住楼建筑高
下列方法中,可以退出Excel软件的有()。
上述各项业务中,所含增值税金不能作为当期进项税额抵扣的是( )。当月增值税销项税额为( )。
方先生为某公司雇员,每月工资3000元。2013年该公司开始实施雇员持股激励,实行股票期权计划。2013年6月28日,该公司授予方先生股票期权50000股,授予价2.5元/股;该期权无公开市场价格,并约定2013年12月28日起方先生可以行权,行权前不得转
美国行为主义心理学家华生在《行为主义》一书中写道:“给我一打健康的婴儿,一个由我支配的特殊环境,让我在这个环境里养育他们,我可担保,任意选择一个,不论他父母才干偏向爱好如何,他父母的职业及种族如何,我都可以按照我的意愿把他培养成任何一种人物,医生、律师、艺
Answerthequestionsbelow.ChooseNOMORETHANTHREEWORDSfromthepassageforeachanswer.Writeyouranswersinboxes38-40
最新回复
(
0
)