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From the Ted Talk by Grady Booch: Don't fear superintelligent AI
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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.
Open Cloze
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
- jupiter
- unfeeling
- guide
- intelligence
- flawed
- 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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