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4. What other computer programs do you know?
5. Have you ever tried to develop a program? What must a programmer know
to develop a good one?
6. Would you like to be a citizen of a computer land and be ruled and controlled
by computers?
7. What films devoted to the problem of artificial intelligence have you seen?
III. Be ready to talk on the following topics:
1. Home computers have become powerful tools of knowledge.
2. Internet is a source of information and a means of communication.
3. The possibilities of advanced technology. Will it bring people together or
isolate them?
4. Artificial Intelligence, its role and influence on homo sapience.
5. You are a computer designer. What computer are you going to develop?
6. Computers in 50 years. Their role in everyday life and their possibilities.
IV. Compose dialogues on the following situations.
1. Discuss with your friends the possibilities of intelligent computers.
2. Discuss the problems the artificial intelligence of the future will be
concerned with.
3. Discuss the interrelations between a computer and a man.
J U S T F O R F U N
I. This is an extract from a novel, Satan by Jeremy Leven, in which Lupa meets a
truly intelligent computer.
Lupa laughed. She liked the voice that had been selected for the computer. It
wasn't the typical low mechanical voice that sounded like a record being played at too
slow a speed. It sounded natural. It had charm to it.
"Do you have a name?" Lupa asked.
"Not yet," the computer answered.
"They're running a contest. The kids are supposed to name me. I'm dreading the
whole thing, believe me."
Now Lupa thought this was clever, the way they had programmed the computer.
She wondered it there was some way to screw up the program. She had once heard
that even a sophisticated analog computer couldn't pick up certain subtleties in the
English language, no matter how good the programming, so she decided to give it a
try.
"My paws give me pause," she said.
The computer was silent.

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