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          1. Fuzzy Maths ,tasks , part1( up to ‘the outside world sees it differently’)

            1. Task1.Answer the following questions.

1.How did Google recruit its employees ?

2.Do you think it is an efficient way of recruitin?

3.How does this trick characterize the company?

4.What proves their googliness?

5.What was the original idea behind the discovery?

6.Can we say that Google’s founders have got Midas touch?

7.What makes it different from other search engine or companies?

8.How does Google rake in bucks?

9.How does it expand its empire?

10.Do you agree with Brin’s estimates? Why? Why not?

11.Do you think Google’s distractions are necessary or are they a waste of time and resources?

              1. Task2.Find the paragraph which

1.expresses doubt as to the use of the company’s activities;

2.gives examples of Google’s obsession with maths ;

3.deals with the company’s new acquisitions;

4.explains how Google rakes in bucks;

5.explains the scientific basis behind its popularity;

6.implies that Google has got Midas touch;

7. expresses the opinion that Google’s employees should not concentrate on one thing only;

8.proves the company’s conceit

                1. Fuzzy maths, tasks, part2

Task1. Answer the following questions.

1.What is Google’s ultimate goal?

2.Do you think it could be bad or good?

3.How does the market react to Google’s aspirations? Why?

4.Why is Google compared to Microsoft?

5.What causes Google’s annoyance?

6. Do you think they have reasons to be annoyed?

Task2.Which paragraph1.says thatGoogle may become an ordinary company?

2.deals with Google’s bold plans?

3.explains why the market reacted negatively?

4.says that Goole is at the crossroads?

5.explains why businessmen are displeased with Google?

6.compares Google to another well-known company?

7.finds similarities between Google’s policy and animal behavior?

8.says there are undercurrents inside Google?

9. mentions misunderstanding between Google and other people?

10. points out that the company resembles an ordinary company to a greater and greater extent?

    1. The Discover Interview: Marvin Minsky

The legendary pioneer of artificial intelligence ponders the brain, bashes neuroscience, and lays out a plan for superhuman robot servants.

By Susan Kruglinski Marvin Minsky straddles the worlds of science and sci-fi. The MIT professor and artificial intelligence guru has influenced everyone from Isaac Asimov to the digital chess champ Deep Blue to computer movie star HAL of 2001: A Space Odyssey. He may be known around campus as “Old Man Minsky,” but the scientist is just as active in AI research today as he was when he helped pioneer the field as a young man in the 1950s.

Although educated in mathematics, Minsky has always thought in terms of mind and machine. For his dissertation at Princeton University in the 1950s, he analyzed a “learning machine,” meant to simulate the brain’s neural networks, that he had constructed as an undergrad. In his early career he was also an influential inventor, creating the first confocal scanning microscope, a version of which is now standard in labs worldwide. In 1959 Minsky cofounded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, where he designed and built robotic hands that could “feel” and “see” and manipulate objects, a watershed in the field.

Throughout, Minsky has written philosophically on the subject of AI, culminating in the 1985 book Society of Mind, which summarizes his theory of how the mind works. He postulates that the complex phenomenon of thinking can be broken down into simple, specialized processes that work together like individuals in a society. His latest book, The Emotion Machine, continues ideas begun in Society of Mind, reflecting twenty-some additional years of thought. It is a blueprint for a thinking machine that Minsky would like to build—an artificial intelligence that can reflect on itself—taking us a step forward into a future that may seem as if out of an Asimov story.

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