目录 Lesson 1 A puma at large Lesson 2 Thirteen equals one Lesson 3 An unknown goddess Lesson 4 The double life of Alfred Bloggs Lesson 5 The facts Lesson 6 Smash-and-grab Lesson 7 Mutilated ladies Lesson 8 A famous monastery Lesson 9 Flying cats Lesson 10 The loss of the Titanic Lesson 11 Not guilty Lesson 12 Life on a desert island Lesson 13 "Its only me" Lesson 14 A noble gangster Lesson 15 Fifty pence worth of trouble Lesson 16 Mary had a little lamb Lesson 17 The longest suspension bridge in the world Lesson 18 Electric currents in modern art Lesson 19 A very dear cat Lesson 20 Pioneer pilots Lesson 21 Daniel Mendoza Lesson 22 By heart Lesson 23 One mans meat is another mans poison Lesson 24 A skeleton in the cupboard Lesson 25 The Cutty Sark Lesson 26 Wanted.. a large biscuit tin Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy Lesson 28 Five pounds too dear Lesson 29 Funny or not? Lesson 30 The death of a ghost Lesson 31 A lovable eccentric Lesson 32 A lost ship Lesson 33 A day to remember Lesson 34 A happy discovery Lesson 35 Justice was done Lesson 36 A chance in a million Lesson 37 The Westhaven Express Lesson 38 The first calendar Lesson 39 Nothing to worry about Lesson 40 Whos who Lesson 41 Illusions of pastoral peace Lesson 42 Modern cavemen Lesson 43 Fully insured Lesson 44 Speed and comfort Lesson 45 The power of the press Lesson 46 Do it yourself Lesson 47 Too high a price? Lesson 48 The silent village Lesson 49 The ideal servant Lesson 50 New Year resolutions Lesson 51 Predicting the future Lesson 52 Mud is mud Lesson 53 In the public interest Lesson 54 Instinct or cleverness? Lesson 55 From the earth: Greetings Lesson 56 Our neighbour, the river Lesson 57 Back in the old country Lesson 58 A spot of bother Lesson 59 Collecting Lesson 60 Too early and too late
内容摘要 The human brain contains 10 thousand million cells and each of these may have a thousand connec-tions. Such enormous numbers used to discourage us and cause us to dismiss the possibility of making amachine with human-like ability, but now that we have grown used to moving forward at such a pace wecan be less sure. Quite soon,in only 10 or 20 years perhaps,we will be able to assemble a machine ascomplex as the human brain,and if we can we will. It may then take us a long time to render it intelli-gent by loading in the right softwareor by altering the architecture but that too will happen. I think it certain that in decades, not centuries, machines of siliconwill arise first to rival andthen exceed their human ancestors. Once they exceed us they will be capable of their own design. In areal sense they will be able to reproduce themselves. Silicon will have ended carbons long control. Andwe will no longer be able to claim ourse...
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