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| Re: SET Exam Karnataka Mysore University
The previous year question paper for Paper: I - General Paper for Karnataka State Eligibility Test (KSET) for Lecturership is as follows: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions 1 to 6: One of the favourite themes of science fiction writers is the fear that computers are beginning to overtake their creators in intelligence, memory and rationality. Soon, some fear, it will be impossible to distinguish between man and machine. In fact, in some areas of mental abilities, computers have already outstripped human capabilities. Computers can solve complicated arithmetical problems at a lightning speed; their memories are vaster and more accurate than human memories and so on. Are we about to reach a situation where we will be unable to distinguish between human beings and computers? Most humans seem to be complacent about their superiority because human beings can think and computers cannot. Can this quality of thinking be made into a fail-proof test to distinguish between humans and computers? This is the question that Alan Turing tried to answer in an article entitled ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence, published in 1950. What the Turing Test relies on is the computers lack of consciousness, or the ability to think and comprehend. If, like Sherlock Holmes, the two were asked to decide which of the three students, the Indian, the athlete and the nervous one, had peered in through the six-foot high window of the examiners room to see the question papers before the examination, the human would easily make the connection between the height of the window and the likelihood of the athlete being the only one tall enough to be able to see through it. However, for the computer to make this commonsensical inference is quite difficult. Two other areas which might show up the limitations of a computers mind are humour and moral consciousness. What would a computer do with a headline about the recently announced election results The Left is Right, and the Right is Left Out ? Here the human mind can easily decode the puns the Leftist party and the concept of being left out and Rightist party with the use of the word right as the opposite of wrong. Thus the human mind would immediately be able to interpret this headline to mean that the Leftist party won the election, and the Rightist party was rejected by the voters. A computer would be more comfortable with statistical data. Perhaps we humans can rest in our complacency until the time when a computer can make a joke or laugh at one. 1. Writers of science fiction imagine a world in which (A) Computers will seize power (B) Computers will be superior to human beings (C) Computers start functioning irrationally (D) Computers become instruments of a base 2. Alan Turings work focussed on (A) The lack of consciousness in computers (B) The rationality of computers (C) Thinking as the criterion of distinction between computers and human beings (D) The comparative abilities of machines and humans to remember 3. In the example given in the passage the computer fails to (A) Collect all the facts (B) To ignore the irrelevant facts (C) To connect the facts (D) To choose the relevant fact 4. The computer fails to interpret humour because (A) It can interpret only literally (B) Its memory is limited (C) Humour is an inborn faculty (D) It does not understand language 5. Modern computers can (A) Distinguish between good and bad (B) Make ethical choices (C) Respond to religious sentiments (D) Do none of the above Question Paper for Paper I - General Paper KSET for Lecturership     |