Find in the text (the number of passage is in brackets) the words synonymous to the following:

a matter of time - дело времени

caution предостережение, предупреждение

overriding [ˌəuvə'raɪdɪŋ] важнейший; доминирующий (overriding question)

survey – зд. опрос, анкетирование

to transcend [træn'send] превосходить, превышать Syn: exceed

1. Some robots can interact socially. Kismet, a robot at M.I.T's Artificial Intelligence Lab, recognizes human body language and voice inflection and responds appropriately. Kismet's creators are interested in how humans and babies interact, based only on tone of speech and visual cue. This low-level interaction could be the foundation of a human-like learning system.

2. Kismet and other humanoid robots at the M.I.T. AI Lab operate using an unconventional control structure. Instead of directing every action using a central computer, the robots control lower-level actions with lower-level computers. The program's director, Rodney Brooks, believes this is a more accurate model of human intelligence. We do most things automatically; we don't decide to do them at the highest level of consciousness.

3. The real challenge of AI is to understand how natural intelligence works. Developing AI isn't like building an artificial heart - scientists don't have a simple, concrete model to work from. We do know that the brain contains billions and billions of neurons, and that we think and learn by establishing electrical connections between different neurons. But we don't know exactly how all of these connections add up to higher reasoning, or even low-level operations. Because of this, AI research is largely theoretical.

4. In any case, robots will certainly play a larger role in our daily lives in the future. In the coming decades, robots will gradually move out of the industrial and scientific worlds and into daily life, in the same way that computers spread to the home in the 1980s.

сue – знак, сигнал

inflection – интонация, модуляция

Kismet

сonsciousness - сознание