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Artificial Intelligence Reading Comprehension

Artificial intelligence is already being used in the healthcare and transportation industries. It can make scientific discoveries and everyday tasks like identifying objects, recognizing speech, driving cars, and translating posts seem magical. Deep learning uses neural networks with multiple processing layers to help computers recognize complex patterns hierarchically, from simple motifs to object combinations. While some fear AI will eliminate jobs, experts believe it will transform industries like healthcare and transportation while creating new roles that coordinate human and machine intelligence.

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Artificial Intelligence Reading Comprehension

Artificial intelligence is already being used in the healthcare and transportation industries. It can make scientific discoveries and everyday tasks like identifying objects, recognizing speech, driving cars, and translating posts seem magical. Deep learning uses neural networks with multiple processing layers to help computers recognize complex patterns hierarchically, from simple motifs to object combinations. While some fear AI will eliminate jobs, experts believe it will transform industries like healthcare and transportation while creating new roles that coordinate human and machine intelligence.

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Read the article about how artificial intelligence works and answer the questions that

follow.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk, a tech entrepreneur, says artificial intelligence (AI) is a bigger threat to
humanity than nuclear weapons. On the other hand, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of
Facebook, thinks AI will save lives.

Regardless of whether you agree with Musk’s or Zuckerberg’s argument, what is clear is
that AI is reshaping the world we live in. It's leading to improvements in medicine and
self-driving cars, shaking up businesses from manufacturing to marketing. And although
we may not be aware of it, we already use it in our Facebook news feeds when we talk
to Siri on our iPhones or ask our Alexa-enabled speakers to play a track.

Yet, although it powers products and services we use every day, AI remains a mystery
to many. So Facebook AI experts Yann LeCun and Joaquin Quiñonero Candela have
set about simplifying this complex field of computer science in a series of educational
videos and blog posts.

‘Not magic, just code’

“Artificial intelligence is not magic,” write LeCun, head of Facebook’s AI research, and
Candela, Facebook’s Director of Applied Machine Learning, in their blog. "But we've
already seen how it can make scientific discoveries that seem like magic and help us do
everyday things like identify objects in photos, recognize speech, drive a car, or
translate an online post into dozens of languages."

How does it do this? Many intelligent machines and systems use algorithmic techniques
loosely based on the human brain. These neural networks can learn to recognize
patterns, translate languages, do simple logical reasoning, create images, and even
come up with ideas.

“All of this happens at blinding speed through a set of coded programs designed to run
neural networks with millions of units and billions of connections,” write LeCun and
Candela. “Intelligence emerges out of the interaction between this large number of
simple elements.”

If, for example, you want to teach a computer to tell the difference between a car and a
dog, instead of programming it to carry out the task, you can train it to recognize objects
in images so that it learns for itself.

So what is deep learning?

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Deep learning is a type of machine learning that structures neural networks into multiple
processing layers. This helps a computer identify what is in an image or learn to
recognize speech and text.

“In a park, we can see a collie and a chihuahua, but recognize them both as dogs,
despite their size and weight variations,” write LeCun and Candela. “To a computer, an
image is simply an array of numbers." Local patterns, like the edge of an object, are
easy to spot in the first layer of this set of numbers.

“The next layer would detect combinations of these simple motifs that form simple
shapes, like the wheel of a car or the eyes in a face."

"The next layer will detect shape combinations that form parts of objects, such as a
face, a leg, or an airplane wing."

“The last layer would detect combinations of parts that form objects: a car, an airplane,
a person, a dog, etc. The depth of the network, with its multiple layers, allows it to
recognize complex patterns in this hierarchical fashion.”

Deep learning is helping to push forward research in fields including physics,


engineering, biology, and medicine. It is also at the heart of developing autonomous
systems such as self-driving vehicles.

What about AI’s impact on jobs?

Despite growing anxiety over automation eliminating jobs, LeCun and Candela believe
that AI will create new roles for humans in manufacturing, training, sales, maintenance,
and management of intelligent robots.

“AI and robots will enable the creation of new services that are difficult to imagine
today." "But health care and transportation will be among the first industries to be
completely transformed by it,” they write.

“Increasingly, human intellectual activities will be performed in conjunction with


intelligent machines." "Our intelligence makes us human, and AI is an extension of that
quality.”

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1. What two industries are artificial intelligence already being used in?

the ____________ industry the ____________industry

(2 marks)

2. What two examples make artificial intelligence seem like 'magic'?

identifying _____________ in photos

Recognising _____________

_________________ an online post

____________________ a car

(4 marks)

3. What does a computer do in the four layers of recognition that LeCun and Candela
describe?

detect _________

detect __________ of motifs

detect combinations of _______ that form parts of ___________

detect combinations of these simple ________ that form simple __________

(4 marks)

Decide if the sentences are true or false.

4. A computer can tell the difference between a car and a dog by training itself to
recognize objects in images so that it learns for itself.

▢ True ▢ False

5. Mark Zuckerberg believes that AI will save lives.

▢ True ▢ False

6. When we talk to Siri, this isn't real artificial intelligence.

▢ True ▢ False

(3 marks)

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Fill in the blanks with two or three words.

7. AI machines use algorithmic techniques similar to a __________________. (2 words)

8. To a computer, an image is an _________________________. (3 words)

9. AI will create new services that are _________________________ today. (3 words)

(3 marks)

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