Chào các thính giả yêu mến của chương trình Học Tiếng Anh qua các chủ đề của chương trình học tiếng anh cùng Radiome. Mình là Diệu Hoa.
Chủ đề nghe Tiếng Anh của chúng ta ngày hôm nay có tựa đề là: Artificial Computer Intelligence có nghĩa là trí thông minh nhân tạo. 
Vì bài nghe khá dài nên mình sẽ tách làm hai phần để các bạn dễ dàng theo dõi hơn nhé!
Các bạn cùng chú ý lắng nghe với tiết tấu chậm rãi của chương trình Spotlight nhé. Note lại những từ bạn nghe chưa rõ và xem lại ở bản text để làm phong phú thêm vốn từ vựng của mình nhé!
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Welcome to Spotlight. I’m Robin Basselin.
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And I’m Ryan Geertsma. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live.
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100 years ago, there were no computers. 35 years ago, some computers were so big that they filled a whole room. But just five years ago, a computer could fit into a person’s hand. And today, powerful computers are even smaller than that.
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Technology is always changing. And the rate at which it changes is always speeding up. Because of this exponential change, we can barely imagine what will happen next. But many scientists believe that soon computers will achieve artificial intelligence or AI. Computers can already solve difficult problems and complete complex processes - like driving a car or playing the game of chess. But intelligence includes much more than this. Intelligent beings know they are alive, they understand emotion and they are able to be creative. Many scientists believe computers will achieve this level of intelligence and more! Today's Spotlight is on the idea of Artificial Intelligence.

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Many scientists believe that the intelligence of computers will soon become even greater than the intelligence of humans. No one knows when or how it will happen. But some scientists who study the future of technology call this possible event – ‘The Singularity.’ A key part of achieving ‘The Singularity’ is the ability to create! Scientists believe that after singularity, computers will begin to design other new and more complex computers. Many people question if this could ever happen. But Stephen Hawking disagrees. He is an internationally famous scientist. In a speech, he said,
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"Very complex chemical molecules operate in humans to make them intelligent. So it seems to me that equally complex electronic processes can also make computers act in an intelligent way. And if they are intelligent, they may be able to design computers that have even greater complexity and intelligence."
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Many scientists call this process the "Intelligence Explosion." They believe AI computers will design more complex computers - at an increasing rate of speed. Many universities and scientists are studying this possibility. Organizations such as Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute are trying to prepare humans for it. Scientists do not know what an intelligence explosion could look like. But many of them agree that the future of the human race will change - in ways we do not yet understand. At a scientific conference in 2006, scientist, Eli Yudkowsky, spoke about the huge effect of this change. He said,
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"Over and over again, intelligence has achieved things that once seemed impossible and even strange. And we are not talking about a jump like the one from hunting and gathering to the Internet... The intelligence explosion would be a much bigger jump. It could and probably will re-shape the whole world."
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Many scientists believe this future change will be positive. They say that computers will be able to solve problems that humans have never been able to solve - like poverty and disease. Many believe that humans will combine their bodies with computers to achieve greater abilities or longer life. Some even believe that people could defeat death by putting their brain and genetic information into a computer.
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Other scientists are concerned about the negative effects of the “Intelligence Explosion.” They worry about the danger of computer designed weapons. Computer expert and scientist Bill Joy wrote a story for Wired magazine about AI. In it, he explained that many nations already have weapons of mass destruction that can kill large groups of people. But he believes it will be even more dangerous after the “Intelligence Explosion.” He wrote,
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"I think it is fair to say that we are on the edge of perfecting extreme evil. This evil could spread past the possibilities of weapons of mass destruction."
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