TEXT C The human brain contains
10 thousand million cells and each of these may have a thousand connections.
Such enormous numbers used to discourage us and cause us to dismiss the
possibility of making a machine with human-like ability, but now that we have
grown used to moving forward at such a pace we can be less sure. Quite soon, in
only 10 or 20 years perhaps, we will be able to assemble a machine as complex as
the human brain, and if we can we will. It may then take us a long time to
render it intelligent by loading in the right software or by altering the
architecture but that too will happen. I think it certain that
in decades, not centuries, machines of silicon will arise first to rival and
then exceed their human ancestors. Once they exceed us, they will be capable of
their own design. In a real sense they will be able to reproduce themselves.
Silicon will have ended carbon’s long control. And we will no longer be
able to claim ourselves to be the finest intelligence in the known
universe. As the intelligence of robots increases to match that
of humans and as their cost declines through economies of scale we may use them
to expand our frontiers, first on earth through their ability to withstand
environments, harmful to ourselves. Thus, deserts may bloom and the ocean beds
be mined. Further ahead, by a combination of the great wealth this new age will
bring and the technology it will provide, the construction of a vast,
man-created world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be
within our power. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A．after the installation of a great number of cells and connections, robots will be capable of self-reproduction B．with the rapid development of technology, people have come to realize the possibility of making a machine with human-like ability C．once we make a machine as complex as the human brain, it will possess intelligence D．robots will have control of the vast, man-made world in space