HISTORY OF ROBOTS
In what year and in what play did the word "robot" originate?
In 1921, in the play R.U.R.
Approximately how many neurons are there in a mature human brain?
100 billion
What does Ray Kurzweil call the phenomenon where technology doubles in capacity every year?
The Law of Accelerating Returns
What is the adverb of the word procedure?
Procedurally
What was the name of the mechanical child built in 1772 that could write with a pen?
L’Écrivain
Leibniz argued that if we could shrink and enter the brain, we would only see what mechanical parts?
Pumps, pistons, gears, and levers
By which year does Kurzweil predict machines will achieve human-level intelligence?
By 2029
What is capacity?
The maximum amount or number that can be contained.
According to the text, what does the Czech word "robota" mean?
Obligatory work
What does Kurzweil compare the complexity of the human genome's "code" to?
A word processing program
How long did Kurzweil estimate it would take to create exhaustive models of the brain?
About 20 years
What is the adjective of the word document?
Documented (or well-documented).
Which philosopher in the 1700s speculated that the human brain was an elaborate automaton?
Wilhelm Leibniz
How many neural pathways does each neuron typically have?
About 1,000
What type of tiny robots will be sent into our bodies to augment our intellect?
Blood-cell-size robots
Use the word incapacitated in a sentence
The soccer player was incapacitated after his leg injury.
Who was the Swiss watchmaker who built the famous writing automaton in 1772?
Pierre Jacquet-Droz
What is the "performance/price ratio" of information technology doing every year?
It is doubling
According to the text, what will we "transcend" once we succeed in building these machines?
Our ultimate limitations (our bodies and minds)
Use the word notion in a sentence.
I have no notion of how to fix a computer.