Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT138 S2 Q19 Explanation

Research into arificial intelligence

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Stimulus

Research into artificial intelligence will fail to produce truly intelligent machines unless the focus of the discipline is radically changed. Progress has been made in creating devices of tremendous computational sophistication, but the present focus on computational ability to the exclusion of other abilities will produce devices only as capable of who was completely devoid of emotional and other noncognitive responses.

What this question is testing

Main Conclusion

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
19.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main conclusion argued

Answer choices

  1. Trap8% picked this

    The current focus of research into artificial intelligence will produce devices no more capable of displaying true intelligence than a person would be who

  2. Correct85% picked this

    If the current focus of research into artificial intelligence is not radically changed, this research will not be able to produce

    Why this is right

    Answer B is correct.

    Skill tested: Main Conclusion · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

  3. Trap3% picked this

    Despite progress in creating machines of great computational sophistication, current research into artificial intelligence has failed

  4. Trap2% picked this

    The capacity to express noncognitive responses such as emotion is at least as important for true intelligence

  5. Trap2% picked this

    If a machine is not capable of producing humanlike noncognitive responses, then it cannot be

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