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
考研
At the Museum of Sex in New York City, artificial-intelligence researcher David Levy projected a mock image on a screen of a smi
At the Museum of Sex in New York City, artificial-intelligence researcher David Levy projected a mock image on a screen of a smi
admin
2019-09-30
70
问题
At the Museum of Sex in New York City, artificial-intelligence researcher David Levy projected a mock image on a screen of a smiling bride in a wedding dress holding hands with a short robot groom. "Why not marry a robot? Look at this happy couple," he said to a laughing crowd.
When Levy was then asked whether anyone who would want to marry a robot was deceived, his face grew serious. "If the alternative is that you are lonely and sad and miserable, is it not better to find a robot that claims to love you and acts like it loves you?" Levy responded. "Does it really matter, if you’re a happier person?" In his 2007 book, Love and Sex with Robots, Levy contends that sex, love and even marriage between humans and robots are coming soon and, perhaps, are even desirable. "I know some people think the idea is totally peculiar," he says. "But I am totally convinced it’s inevitable."
The 62-year-old London native has not reached this conclusion
on a whim
. Levy’s academic love affair with computing began in his last year of university, during the vacuum-tube era. That is when he broadened his horizons beyond his passion for chess. "Back then people wrote chess programs to simulate human thought processes," he recalls. He later became engrossed in writing programs to carry on intelligent conversations with people, and then he explored the way humans interact with computers, a topic for which he earned his doctorate last year from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.
Over the decades, Levy notes, interactions between humans and robots have become increasingly personal. Whereas robots initially found work, say, building cars in a factory, they have now moved into the home in the form of Roomba the robotic vacuum cleaner and digital pets such as Tamagotchis and the Sony Aibo.
Science-fiction fans have witnessed plenty of action between humans and characters portraying artificial life-forms, such as with Data from the Star Trek franchise or the Cylons from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. And Levy is betting that a lot of people will fall in love with such devices. Programmers can tailor the machines to match a person’s interests or render them some what disagreeable to create a desirable level of friction in a relationship. "It’s not that people will fall in love with an algorithm but that people will fall in love with a convincing simulation of a human being, and convincing simulations can have a remarkable effect on people," he says.
In the opening paragraph, the snapshot at the Museum of Sex serves to _____.
选项
A、introduce the topic
B、provide a background
C、explain a phenomenon
D、summarize the main idea
答案
A
解析
推理判断题。第一段描述一种设想,即人类在将来可能与机器人结婚,第二段则接着描述这一假设的可能性。可见,文章提到的性博物馆是为了引出话题,A项正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Kqe4777K
0
考研英语二
相关试题推荐
Accordingtothepassage,thefactthatyoungpeopleseemtobelosinginterestinscience______.Whichofthefollowingstate
Einstein,likeothergreatphysicistsbeforehim,workedoutnewtheoriesthatchallengeour______conceptoftheuniverse.
Overthepastdecade,manycompanieshadperfectedtheartofcreatingautomaticbehaviors-habits-amongconsumers.Thesehabits
A.TheconsequenceoflosingbonesB.AbetterlabthanonearthC.TwodifferentcasesD.Multipleeffectsformwei
Nameshavegainedincreasingimportanceinthecompetitiveworldofhighereducation.Ascollegesstriveformarketshare,they
Workingatnonstandardtimes—evenings,nights,orweekends—istakingitstollonAmericanfamilies.One-fifthofallemployedAm
Whateverhappenedtothedeathofnewspaper?Ayearagotheendseemednear.Therecessionthreatenedtoremovetheadvertising
1.Whenpeopleindevelopingcountriesworryaboutmigration,theyareusuallyconcernedattheprospectoftheirbestandbright
Thedestructionofthetwintowers______shockandangerthroughouttheworld.
Dopatentshelporhinderinnovation?Instinctively,theywouldseemablessing.Patentinganideagivesitsinventora20-year
随机试题
由于铸铁强度较低、切削力较小,故铸铁群钻后角可以减小。()
亲属之间输血容易发生移植物抗宿主病,一旦发生,死亡率可达
厌氧培养状态化学指示剂常用
以下哪一个不属于医学心理学的指导思想
治疗小便热涩刺痛,尿色深红,或夹有血块,小腹疼痛者。宜选用
小儿肺炎最主要的发病机制是()
【背景资料】某高速公路路基工程,全长20.5km。其中路基土方为180万m3,绝大部分为借土填方。施工过程中发生如下事件:事件1:因填土路堤在冬期施工,施工组织设计中填土路堤的施工方法采用水平分层填筑法,要求每层填料布料均匀,松铺厚度不超过50cm,施工
合规检查分为例行检查与专项检查。发生下列()情形时,应当进行专项检查。Ⅰ.公司发生违法违规行为或存在合规风险隐患的Ⅱ.公司董事会、监事会、高级管理人员、合规总监或合规部门认为必要的Ⅲ.公司下属各单位及其工作人员配合监管和稽查办案不
甲公司是一家牛肉生产、加工及零售企业,近期甲公司开始考虑将其业务扩展到国际市场。在分析自身竞争能力时,下列选项中能够形成甲公司核心能力的是()。
关于配置管理的描述中,错误的是()。
最新回复
(
0
)