Artificial intelligence

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

• application

• combustion

• navigation

• recognition

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.

• machine

• robot

• human

• fiction

High intelligent machines can be automated to operate without human ____.

• intervene

• intervention

• intervening

• interventionist

The old astronomer patiently made his ____ and wrote down what he saw.

• observation

• observatory

• observe

• observer

One of the popular ____ used in smartphones at present is voice recognition.

• applicant

• apply

• applications

• applicable

If there are aliens out there, do you think they are much more ____ advanced than we are?

• technological

• technologically

• technology

• technologies

____ have announced that a major breakthrough has been made.

• Research

• researchers

• researching

• researches

Internet search engines can help to predict the weather as well as traffic jams in a city. (closest word in meaning)

• announce

• expect

• forecast

• reveal

Ray Kurzweil suggests that exponential technological development will lead to the inevitable rise of artificial intelligence. (closest word in meaning)

• inapplicable

• unavoidable

• unrecognizable

• invisible

The critical issue is whether genuine artificial intelligence can ever be truly realized. (opposite word in meaning)

• authentic

• fake

• unpretentious

• true