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From the Ted Talk by Grady Booch: Don't fear superintelligent AI

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Around that same time, Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" came to the theaters, and my life was forever changed. I loved everything about that movie, especially the HAL 9000. Now, HAL was a sentient computer designed to gduie the Discovery spacecraft from the Earth to jpueitr. HAL was also a fwlead cahacterr, for in the end he chose to value the mission over human life. Now, HAL was a fictional character, but nonetheless he speaks to our fears, our fears of being subjugated by some uiefnnleg, artificial iniletlgcene who is indifferent to our humanity.

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Around that same time, Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" came to the theaters, and my life was forever changed. I loved everything about that movie, especially the HAL 9000. Now, HAL was a sentient computer designed to _____ the Discovery spacecraft from the Earth to _______. HAL was also a ______ _________, for in the end he chose to value the mission over human life. Now, HAL was a fictional character, but nonetheless he speaks to our fears, our fears of being subjugated by some _________, artificial ____________ who is indifferent to our humanity.

Solution

  1. jupiter
  2. unfeeling
  3. guide
  4. intelligence
  5. flawed
  6. character

Original Text

Around that same time, Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" came to the theaters, and my life was forever changed. I loved everything about that movie, especially the HAL 9000. Now, HAL was a sentient computer designed to guide the Discovery spacecraft from the Earth to Jupiter. HAL was also a flawed character, for in the end he chose to value the mission over human life. Now, HAL was a fictional character, but nonetheless he speaks to our fears, our fears of being subjugated by some unfeeling, artificial intelligence who is indifferent to our humanity.

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