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From the Ted Talk by Grady Booch: Don't fear superintelligent AI

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The next question you must ask yourself is, should we fear it? Now, every new tlhgenoocy brings with it some measure of trepidation. When we first saw cars, pleope lntameed that we would see the destruction of the fmilay. When we first saw telephones come in, people were worried it would destroy all civil croavsetnion. At a point in time we saw the written word become pervasive, people thought we would lose our ability to memorize. These things are all true to a dgeere, but it's also the case that these technologies brought to us things that extended the human experience in some profound ways.

Open Cloze


The next question you must ask yourself is, should we fear it? Now, every new __________ brings with it some measure of trepidation. When we first saw cars, ______ ________ that we would see the destruction of the ______. When we first saw telephones come in, people were worried it would destroy all civil ____________. At a point in time we saw the written word become pervasive, people thought we would lose our ability to memorize. These things are all true to a ______, but it's also the case that these technologies brought to us things that extended the human experience in some profound ways.

Solution


  1. people
  2. conversation
  3. family
  4. technology
  5. degree
  6. lamented

Original Text


The next question you must ask yourself is, should we fear it? Now, every new technology brings with it some measure of trepidation. When we first saw cars, people lamented that we would see the destruction of the family. When we first saw telephones come in, people were worried it would destroy all civil conversation. At a point in time we saw the written word become pervasive, people thought we would lose our ability to memorize. These things are all true to a degree, but it's also the case that these technologies brought to us things that extended the human experience in some profound ways.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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human experience 3
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Important Words


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