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    Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from.

    [I] Fifty or sixty years ago, computers were very simple machines, but even then scientists believed that one day machines would be able to 'think' and that they would probably be as intelligent as humans. [II] Alan Turing, who had helped to break the German Enigma code during the Second World War, came up with an answer. [III] In a Turing test, judges sit at a screen and have a chatroom conversation with the chatbot programme. They don't know if they are chatting with another person or with a chatbot. After exchanging messages for five minutes, the judge decides if he or she is chatting with a human or a machine. [IV]

    An American called Hugh Loebner was fascinated by Turing's idea, and in the early 1990s he offered a prize of $100,000 to the creator of the first chatbot to pass the Turing test. In order to win the $100,000, a chatbot must convince at least 30% of the judges that it is human. Many chatbots have entered the competition, but so far no chatbot has won the big money prize. Mitsuku, however, came very close.

    In the conversation at the beginning of this article, Mitsuku is A and the real human is B. You can tell that A is not human because at one point in the conversation, A says ‘Humans are not too intelligent at times’.

    Although Mitsuku failed to win the $100,000, it certainly won't be long before a chatbot is able to fool the Loebner judges into thinking that it is a real person.

    But is the Turing test a good way to decide if a machine is intelligent? Critics argue that the chatbots in the competition are merely imitating humans. Humans are the only animals on Earth that can speak, and that's why Turing chose to focus on it. But what is really impressive, critics say, is machines that do things that we can't do. For example, it is amazing that Google can search hundreds of millions of websites for a single word in a matter of seconds, or that a NASA computer can control a rocket on a journey from Earth to Jupiter.

    Fans of the Turing test, on the other hand, feel that humans are themselves machines. It's just that our brains are far more complex than computers. As philosopher and scientist Daniel Dennett said in a recent interview, ‘It's not impossible to have a conscious robot. You're looking at one.’

    It can be inferred from the passage that ____________.

    Đáp án: <p>humans might possess machine-like qualities in terms of consciousness</p>

    Phương pháp giải:

    Lần lượt đọc và xác định từ khóa trong từng đáp án, đọc bài đọc để xác định thông tin có liên quan, so sánh đối chiếu để xác định câu suy luận đúng.

    Lời giải chi tiết:

    It can be inferred from the passage that ____________.

    (Có thể suy ra từ đoạn văn rằng ____________.)

    A. the complexity in humans’ brains will soon be overtaken by intelligent machines

    (sự phức tạp của bộ não con người sẽ sớm bị vượt qua bởi các cỗ máy thông minh.)

    => sai, bài viết không khẳng định máy móc sẽ vượt qua não người

    B. humans might possess machine-like qualities in terms of consciousness

    (con người có thể sở hữu những đặc điểm giống máy móc về mặt ý thức.)

    => “humans are themselves machines” (con người cũng giống như máy móc), ý nói con người cũng có những đặc điểm mang tính máy móc

    => Đúng

    C. the ability to speak sets humans apart from intelligent machines

    (khả năng nói phân biệt con người với các cỗ máy thông minh.)

    => có được nhắc đến trong bài nhưng chỉ là ý kiến của những người chỉ trích (critics), không phải ý kiến được suy ra từ bài đọc

    D. creating a robot that is as intelligent as humans is not a feasible task

    (việc tạo ra một robot thông minh ngang bằng con người là không khả thi.)

    Thông tin: It’s not impossible to have a conscious robot.

    (Không phải là không khả thi để tạo ra một người máy có ý thức)

    => phủ định ý trên

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