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From the Ted Talk by Dan Katz: Can you solve the basketball riddle?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


You’ve spent months creating a basketball-playing robot, the Dunk-O-Matic, and you’re excited to demonstrate it at the prestigious serohptca Conference.

Until you read an advertisement: “See the Dunk-O-Matic face human plryaes and aoillttmcauay asujdt its skill to create a fair game for every opponent!”

That's not what you were told to create. You designed a rboot that shoots baskets, sometimes successfully and sometimes not, taking turns with a human opponent. No one said anything about teaching it to adjust its performance. Maybe the CEO skimmed an article about AI and overpromised, setting you up for piulbc embarrassment.

Open Cloze


You’ve spent months creating a basketball-playing robot, the Dunk-O-Matic, and you’re excited to demonstrate it at the prestigious _________ Conference.

Until you read an advertisement: “See the Dunk-O-Matic face human _______ and _____________ ______ its skill to create a fair game for every opponent!”

That's not what you were told to create. You designed a _____ that shoots baskets, sometimes successfully and sometimes not, taking turns with a human opponent. No one said anything about teaching it to adjust its performance. Maybe the CEO skimmed an article about AI and overpromised, setting you up for ______ embarrassment.

Solution


  1. automatically
  2. sportecha
  3. robot
  4. public
  5. players
  6. adjust

Original Text


You’ve spent months creating a basketball-playing robot, the Dunk-O-Matic, and you’re excited to demonstrate it at the prestigious Sportecha Conference.

Until you read an advertisement: “See the Dunk-O-Matic face human players and automatically adjust its skill to create a fair game for every opponent!”

That's not what you were told to create. You designed a robot that shoots baskets, sometimes successfully and sometimes not, taking turns with a human opponent. No one said anything about teaching it to adjust its performance. Maybe the CEO skimmed an article about AI and overpromised, setting you up for public embarrassment.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
geometric series 7
fair game 2
common ratio 2


Important Words


  1. adjust
  2. ai
  3. article
  4. automatically
  5. baskets
  6. ceo
  7. conference
  8. create
  9. creating
  10. demonstrate
  11. designed
  12. embarrassment
  13. excited
  14. face
  15. fair
  16. game
  17. human
  18. months
  19. opponent
  20. overpromised
  21. performance
  22. players
  23. prestigious
  24. public
  25. read
  26. robot
  27. setting
  28. shoots
  29. skill
  30. skimmed
  31. spent
  32. sportecha
  33. successfully
  34. teaching
  35. told
  36. turns