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B. as fast as twice
C. as twice as fast
D. twice as fast
People in the US can now carry an artificial intelligence (AI) around in their pocket, where it waits patiently to be told what to do.
Siri, an iPhone application that understands spoken commands and uses the web to carry them out,is a byproduct from a US military project to develop an artificially intelligent assistant.
Many people's experience of a "virtual assistant" may be limited to Microsoft's annoying classic Mr. Clippy. But in the week we spent together, my AI assistant has performed admirably in finding me restaurants, or the location of the nearest coffee shop. It wasn't even stumped when I asked "do I need my umbrella today?" coming straight back with the local weather forecast.
A typical command might be: "Reserve a table for two at a good French restaurant in San Francisco." Siri responds by presenting a list of top-rated restaurants that can be booked on OpenTable.com. If you say which time you want, it can book you a table without your lifting a finger.
In some ways Siri is just a fancy front-end to the 35 sites it can connect to, from taxi booking sites to movie review databases. But what's new is the way it can interpret the intentions of its master or mistress and use those sites to put them into action.
Doing that requires the ability to actually understand the meaning of words you use, not just passing on keywords blindly, says Siri co-founder Adam Cheyer.
"Book a four-star restaurant in Boston seems pretty straightforward," says Cheyer, "until you realise that Book is a city in the US, and Star is also a city in the US, and there are 13 Bostons, and Star is also the name of a restaurant."
To cut through what Cheyer calls the "combined explosion of interpretations", Siri uses your location, and the history of the commands you've given. It knows that "book" is most likely a command verb, unless you happen to be near the city of Book.
Siri attaches probabilities to the interpretation of each word and cross-reference(参照) with your location and other data, some of which you must provide yourself.
According to the passage, Siri is most probably ______.
A.still at its experimental stage
B.very popular with iPhone users
C.a US military assistant software
D.an artificial intelligence software
These are some of the questions that are raised by the concept commonly called "superior orders", and its use as a defense in war crimes trials. It is an issue that must be as old as the laws of war themselves, and it emerged in legal guise over three centuries ago when, after the Stuart restoration in 1660, the commander of the guards at the trial and execution of Charles I was put on trial for treason and murder. The officer defended himself on the ground "that all I did was as a soldier, by the command of my superior officer whom I must obey or die," but the court gave him short shrift, saying that "When the command is traitorous, then the obedience to that command is also traitorous①."
Though not precisely articulated, the rule that is necessarily implied by this decision is that it is the soldier's duty to obey lawful orders, but that he may disobey—and indeed must, under some circum stances-unlawful orders. Such has been the law of the United States since the birth of the nation. In 1804, Chief Justice John Marshall declared that superior orders would justify a subordinate's conduct only "if not to perform. a prohibited act," and there are many other early decisions to the same effect.
A strikingly illustrative case occurred in the wake of that conflict which most Englishmen have never heard (although their troops burned the White House) and which we call the War of 1812. Our country was baldly split by that war too and, at a time when the United States Navy was not especially popular in New England, the ship-in-the-line Independence was lying in Boston Harbor. A passer-by directed abusive language at a marine standing guard on the ship, and the marine, Bevans by name, ran his bayonet through the man. Charged with murder, Bevans produced evidence that the marines on the Independence had been ordered to bayonet anyone showing them disrespect. The case was tried before Justice Joseph Story, next to Marshall, the leading judicial figure of those years, who charged that any such order as Bevans had invoked "would be illegal and void," and, if given and put into practice, both the superior and the subordinate would be guilty of murder②. In consequence, Bevans was convicted.
The order allegedly given to Bevans was pretty drastic, and Boston Harbor was not a battlefield; per haps it was not too much to expect the marine to realize that literal compliance might lead to bad trouble. But it is only too easy to conceive of circumstances where the matter might not be at all clear. Does the sub ordinate obey at peril that the order may later be ruled illegal, or is protected unless he has a good reason to doubt its validity?
It can be inferred from the first paragraph that if a soldier obeys his superior's order to burn a house or to kill a prisoner, ______.
A.he is fight according to moral standards
B.he should not receive any punishment
C.he should certainly be liable for his action
D.he will be convicted according to the law of war
This survey has presented the arguments for more private funding and for fairer pensions. Such changes will create motives for individuals to take charge of their own retirement needs rather than leaving the task to the state. This, in turn, will make the provision of public pensions more afford- able.
Even so, the state will continue to play a leading role in pensions. At a minimum, governments must offer a safety net, probably in the form. of a defined benefit financed through taxation, for people who for some reason have not been able to provide for themselves and who would otherwise be miserable in old age. More broadly, there is a case for the state to offer a slimmed-down pay-as-you-go pension system, although as far as possible this should be organized along defined-contributions lines. Such provision widens the range of assets to include human capital because the effective return comes from total wages, and offers a safe if low return.
Governments also have to create a suitable framework for effective private pensions. Administrative(行政的)expenses have to be tightly controlled, and appropriate tax motives have
to be offered to encourage voluntary pension saving. Where the state provides a generous safety net, private-pension saving may have to be made mandatory(强制的) , otherwise many people will not bother.
So much for the developed countries, but what of the more youthful populations of tile rest of the world? In 1994, the World Bank came down heavily in favor of more funding in private accounts. It thought the state's role should be to provide a smallish first pillar with the limited task of providing protection against old-age poverty, and to command a privately-funded second pillar to provide the bulk of pensions.
More private funding and fairer pensions______.
A.can urge people to save more private-pensions
B.may be financed through tax
C.can lessen the burden of the state
D.can provide more public pensions
.在ADO.NET中,对于Command 对象的ExecuteNonQuery()方法和 ExecuteReader()方法,
下面叙述错误的是()。
A) insert、update、delete等操作的Sql语句主要用 ExecuteNonQuery()方法来执行;
B) ExecuteNonQuery()方法返回执行Sql语句所影响的行数;
C) Select操作的Sql语句只能由ExecuteReader()方法来执行;
D) ExecuteReader()方法返回一个DataReder对象;
窗体中有一个命令按钮Command 1。其Click事件过程如下。
Private Sub Command1_Click()
A=75
IF A>60 Then i=1
IF A>70 Then i=2
IF A>80 Then i=3
IF A>90 Then i=4
MsgBox i
End Sub
窗体运行后,单击命令按钮,消息框输出的结果是( )。
A.1 B.2 C.3 D.4
A.打开NEW对话框来调用命令
B.通过下拉菜单调用命令
C.通过工具条来调用命令
D.在COMMAND命令行键入命令
E.通过快捷按钮
(43)
A. 命令(Command)
B. 适配器(Adapter)
C. 装饰(Decorate)
D. 享元(Flyweight)
(44)
A. 命令(Command)
B. 适配器(Adapter)
C. 装饰(Decorate)
D. 享元(Flyweight)
(45)
A. 命令(Command)
B. 适配器(Adapter)
C. 装饰(Decorate)
D. 享元(Flyweight)
假定有下面的过程: Function Func(a As Integer,b As Integer)As Integer Static m As Integer,i As Integer m=0 i=2 i=i+m+1 m=i+a+b Func=m End Function 在窗体上画一个命令按钮,然后编写如下事件过程: Private Sub Command 1_Click() Dim k As Integer,m As Integer Dim p As Integer k=4 m=1 p=Func(k,m) Print p; p=Func(k,m) Print p End Sub 程序运行后,单击命令按钮,输出结果为()。
A.8 17
B.8 16
C.8 20
D.8 8