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From the Ted Talk by Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all
Unscramble the Blue Letters
If you watch the news, you'll see oiclasnalcoy — and I see this all the time — that pharmacists now, there's a machine that can fill prescriptions automatically without actually needing a human pharmacist. And a lot of law firms are getting rid of paralegals because there's software that can sum up case laws and legal briefs and decisions. You don't need human assistants for that anymroe. I read the other day about a program where you feed it a box score from a baseball or ftbaooll game and it sipts out a news article as if a hmuan had watched the game and was cmnontemig on it. And obviously these new technologies can't do as cleevr or creative a job as the humans they're replacing, but they're faster, and cluaicrly, they're much, much cheaper. So it makes me wonder what the economic effects of this might be. I've read economists saying that, as a result of these new technologies, we'll enter a new golden age of leisure when we'll all have time for the things we really love because all these onerous tsaks will be taken over by Watson and his dtiigal brethren. I've haerd other people say quite the opposite, that this is yet another tier of the mlidde class that's having the thing they can do taken away from them by a new technology and that this is actually something ominous, something that we should worry about.
Open Cloze
If you watch the news, you'll see ____________ — and I see this all the time — that pharmacists now, there's a machine that can fill prescriptions automatically without actually needing a human pharmacist. And a lot of law firms are getting rid of paralegals because there's software that can sum up case laws and legal briefs and decisions. You don't need human assistants for that _______. I read the other day about a program where you feed it a box score from a baseball or ________ game and it _____ out a news article as if a _____ had watched the game and was __________ on it. And obviously these new technologies can't do as ______ or creative a job as the humans they're replacing, but they're faster, and _________, they're much, much cheaper. So it makes me wonder what the economic effects of this might be. I've read economists saying that, as a result of these new technologies, we'll enter a new golden age of leisure when we'll all have time for the things we really love because all these onerous _____ will be taken over by Watson and his _______ brethren. I've _____ other people say quite the opposite, that this is yet another tier of the ______ class that's having the thing they can do taken away from them by a new technology and that this is actually something ominous, something that we should worry about.
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Original Text
If you watch the news, you'll see occasionally — and I see this all the time — that pharmacists now, there's a machine that can fill prescriptions automatically without actually needing a human pharmacist. And a lot of law firms are getting rid of paralegals because there's software that can sum up case laws and legal briefs and decisions. You don't need human assistants for that anymore. I read the other day about a program where you feed it a box score from a baseball or football game and it spits out a news article as if a human had watched the game and was commenting on it. And obviously these new technologies can't do as clever or creative a job as the humans they're replacing, but they're faster, and crucially, they're much, much cheaper. So it makes me wonder what the economic effects of this might be. I've read economists saying that, as a result of these new technologies, we'll enter a new golden age of leisure when we'll all have time for the things we really love because all these onerous tasks will be taken over by Watson and his digital brethren. I've heard other people say quite the opposite, that this is yet another tier of the middle class that's having the thing they can do taken away from them by a new technology and that this is actually something ominous, something that we should worry about.
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