This lesson is based on two TED videos.

It was created by Tatiana Shustilova, the founder of WonderLang School. Please, check out our YouTube channel and website.

Как учить английский на уровне В1-С1

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VIDEO 1

BEFORE YOU WATCH

Task 1. Answer the questions.

1. What does being intelligent mean to you?
2. Who would you describe as one of the most intelligent people you’ve met? What’s so special about this person?
3. Can machines ever learn to think like humans?

Task 2. What do these words mean? Look them up in the dictionary if needed.

1. consciousness
2. the mind
3. a neuron
4. a spark
5. distinguish

You can use one of the following dictionaries to check the meaning of these words:

Cambridge Dictionary

Oxford Learner’s Dictionary

WHILE WATCHING

Task 3. Watch the video and answer the questions below.

1. What is the Turing test all about?
2. What is its aim?
3. What strategies did some of the machines use to fool human judges into believing that they are humans?
4. What do the results of the Turing test show?

https://youtu.be/3wLqsRLvV-c

VIDEO 2

BEFORE YOU WATCH

Task 4. Answer the questions.

1. Do you like poetry? What‘s your favourite poem? What do you like about it?
2. Do you think a poem like this could be written by a computer? Why (not?)

WHILE WATCHING