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From the Ted Talk by Guy Hoffman: Robots with "soul"

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Sounds painful. Whereas the ppeole with the calculated bairn said it was just like a lazy apprentice. It only did what it was supposed to do and nothing more, which is almost what people expect robots to do, so I was surprised that people had higher expectations of robots than what anybody in rctooibs thought robots should be doing. And in a way, I thought, maybe it's time — just like method acting changed the way people thought about ainctg in the 19th century, from going from the very calculated, planned way of behaving, to a more iuvttinie, risk-taking, embodied way of behaving — maybe it's time for robots to have the same kind of revolution.

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Sounds painful. Whereas the ______ with the calculated _____ said it was just like a lazy apprentice. It only did what it was supposed to do and nothing more, which is almost what people expect robots to do, so I was surprised that people had higher expectations of robots than what anybody in ________ thought robots should be doing. And in a way, I thought, maybe it's time — just like method acting changed the way people thought about ______ in the 19th century, from going from the very calculated, planned way of behaving, to a more _________, risk-taking, embodied way of behaving — maybe it's time for robots to have the same kind of revolution.

Solution

  1. brain
  2. acting
  3. robotics
  4. intuitive
  5. people

Original Text

Sounds painful. Whereas the people with the calculated brain said it was just like a lazy apprentice. It only did what it was supposed to do and nothing more, which is almost what people expect robots to do, so I was surprised that people had higher expectations of robots than what anybody in robotics thought robots should be doing. And in a way, I thought, maybe it's time — just like method acting changed the way people thought about acting in the 19th century, from going from the very calculated, planned way of behaving, to a more intuitive, risk-taking, embodied way of behaving — maybe it's time for robots to have the same kind of revolution.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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collocation frequency
artificial intelligence 4
method acting 3
calculated brain 3
desk lamp 2
robotic desk 2
mechanical structure 2
theater play 2
embodied artificial 2
human musician 2
socially expressive 2
expressive head 2
robotic musician 2
final chord 2
bobbing heads 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
embodied artificial intelligence 2
socially expressive head 2

Important Words

  1. acting
  2. apprentice
  3. behaving
  4. brain
  5. calculated
  6. century
  7. changed
  8. embodied
  9. expect
  10. expectations
  11. higher
  12. intuitive
  13. kind
  14. lazy
  15. method
  16. painful
  17. people
  18. planned
  19. revolution
  20. robotics
  21. robots
  22. sounds
  23. supposed
  24. surprised
  25. thought
  26. time