Robots 

Smarter than Humans by 2029

Read the article and then answer the questions

Scientist Ray Kurzweil believes robots will be more intelligent than humans
by 2029. Ray Kurzweil a Director of Engineering for Google is one of the
world's leading experts on artificial intelligence (A.I.). Mr Kurzweil believes
computers will be able to learn from experiences, just like humans. He also
believes robots will be able to tell jokes and stories. The 2029 prediction is
a lot sooner than many other experts thought. The scientist said that in
1999, many A.I. experts said it would be hundreds of years before a
computer was more intelligent than a human. He said that it would not be
long before computer intelligence is one billion times more powerful than
the human brain. 

Mr Kurzweil stated that many years ago, people thought he was a little
crazy for predicting computers would be as intelligent as humans. His
thinking has stayed the same but everyone else has changed the way they
think. He said: "My views are not radical or crazy any more. I've actually
stayed consistent. It's the rest of the world that's changing its view." He
talked about examples of high-tech things we use, see or read about every
day. These things make us believe that computers have intelligence. He
said people think differently now: "Because the public has seen things like
Siri [the iPhone's voice-recognition technology] where you talk to a
computer; they've seen the Google self-driving cars."

1 Answer the questions about the reading

1. What was the scientist's name?

2. What is the scientist's job?

3. What does 'A.I' stand for?

4. What is one thing he believes robots will be able to do?

5. What did people think of the scientist years ago?

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2 Find the missing words in the word search

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4 How do you think Robots will affect our future?

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