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From the Ted Talk by Dan Finkel: Can you solve the rogue AI riddle?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
You’ve broken into NIM’s serect lab, and now you’re floating in a raft on top of 25 stories of electrified water. You’ve rigged up a remote that can lower the water level by enceijtg it from grates in the sides of the room. If you can lower the water level to 0, you can hit the manual oidvrree, shut NIM off, and save the day. However, the AI knows that you’re here, and it can lower the wtaer level, too, by snkuicg it through a trapdoor at the btotom of the lab. If NIM is the one to lower the water level to 0, you’ll be sucked out of the lab, resulting in a failed mission.
Open Cloze
You’ve broken into NIM’s ______ lab, and now you’re floating in a raft on top of 25 stories of electrified water. You’ve rigged up a remote that can lower the water level by ________ it from grates in the sides of the room. If you can lower the water level to 0, you can hit the manual ________, shut NIM off, and save the day. However, the AI knows that you’re here, and it can lower the _____ level, too, by _______ it through a trapdoor at the ______ of the lab. If NIM is the one to lower the water level to 0, you’ll be sucked out of the lab, resulting in a failed mission.
Solution
- override
- sucking
- bottom
- ejecting
- water
- secret
Original Text
You’ve broken into NIM’s secret lab, and now you’re floating in a raft on top of 25 stories of electrified water. You’ve rigged up a remote that can lower the water level by ejecting it from grates in the sides of the room. If you can lower the water level to 0, you can hit the manual override, shut NIM off, and save the day. However, the AI knows that you’re here, and it can lower the water level, too, by sucking it through a trapdoor at the bottom of the lab. If NIM is the one to lower the water level to 0, you’ll be sucked out of the lab, resulting in a failed mission.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
water level |
10 |
losing level |
3 |
winning level |
2 |
losing levels |
2 |
Important Words
- ai
- bottom
- broken
- day
- ejecting
- electrified
- failed
- floating
- grates
- hit
- lab
- level
- manual
- mission
- nim
- override
- raft
- remote
- resulting
- rigged
- room
- save
- secret
- shut
- sides
- stories
- sucked
- sucking
- top
- trapdoor
- water