A&B Unit 2 Input 2: AI&THE MYTH OF UNEMPLOYMENT -Word Formation

“intelligence” can vary greatly, and the term does not automatically ___________ human-level intelligence. Indeed, your dryer is intelligent if it shuts off when it senses your clothes are dry. (implication)

Scientists have made major breakthroughs in the past ten years. Creating a chip that can _________ the human brain was one of them. (mimicry)

For more than half a century, computer scientists involved in the field laboured in relative ________, because there was little popular interest in the field. (obscure)

Since focusing on details is no longer a requirement with technological advancements in our day-to-day life, a decline in cognitive functions is ________. (inevitability)

We’re about to discover that Karl Marx was right: the inevitable struggle between capital and labour is a losing ________for workers. (propose)

Stuart Elliott, in a paper for the National Research Council, extrapolates from Moore’s Law and argues that in 23 years computers are likely to ________ 60 percent of jobs. (displacement)

In 1993, in the wake of the recession of 1990 and 1991, Daniel Crevier wrote in AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence and it was no ___________ that he was writing in the midst of one of the worst recessions. (coincidental)

For both the Singularitarians and the Luddites, strong AI is near at hand, so we are poised for either Utopian transformation or _________ destruction. (apocalypse)

A key reason why it is hard to ______ jobs with AI is that virtually all AI is “narrow AI,” focused on doing one thing really well. (automation)

Research suggests that full ________ of autonomous vehicles would save lives, leading to around 30,000 fewer fatalities. (deploy)