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One sf The grearest advar.ces ir, modern Technology has beer The inver,Tion af campuTers. They are already wideł/ used ir. ind-STry. universiTies ar.d by erdinary peopie. ćomputers car. play chess. da ccmplicaTed maThs Tasks, read and even TranslaTe 1ram ere lang.cge irTe ar.aTher. Hewever, ever The masT ccmplicaTed machinę carr.ct maTch The haman brain, Nobody has carstr^cted a machinę which cauld learr Ta speak. alThaugh This is an abiliTy whiah linie ahildren acguire very early.
Ir. 1981. pra*esscr Igor Aleksander #ram London Imperial College cansTrucTed The neural network called, Wissard, which was able Ta recagrize The humor, smile, In The 80-Ties, dacTar Terrerce Sejneński '"ram John Hopkins Un»versiTy in BalTimare consTrucTed a r.eTwark whiah aa.Id prenounce Erglish wards Typed enTa a keyboard.
A compuTer eon TranslaTe simple words and shorT senTences buT its noT gacd aT TrorsIaTirg larg TexTs, beca.se samie wards have several mear.ings. However, modern Techrclegy has creaTed programmes, whiah allcw a 96% aarreoT TranslaTien. The Iotcst campuTer sySTem used *ar TranslaTiar. is EuraTra. It was madę far Eurepear Union Office -se.
IT TrarsIaTes 1 million dacumer.Ts a year.
BriTish Telecom is curren.Tly werkirg on a system which TrarsIaTes Telephone conversaTiers a-TamaTically, A similar sysTem is used by Japar.ese hoTels. in which beokirgs ^ram all over The worki are Taker by a cempuTer. Talking campuTers have goT a greoT fuTure in The humor, warld.
modern tcchnology |
mućer. tek r.Dladji:' |
nowoczesne technologia |
invcntion |
/m'vcnfnf |
pomysł, wynalazek |
widcly |
waićli |
szeroko, powszechnie |
chcss |
djes.' |
szachy |
comnlicatcd |
kumpli kcind.' |
skomplikowany |
maths |
matematyka | |
task |
ńacskJ |
zadanie |
aacptirc |
,c kwa 13/ |
zdobywać. uzyskiwać |
neural network |
njoarol r.c:w3:k. |
sieć neuronowa |
human |
/hjuimsr. |
ludzki: człowiek |
mcaning |
/’mi:niq' |
znaczenie |
nronouncc |
pre natjr.s. |
wymawiać |
Iłirish Telecom |
.'brttif teliknm. |
nazwa brytyjskie/ sieci telekomunikacyjnej |
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