Unit 2 Section Ⅰ Reading and Thinking -Comprehending（Word 教师用书）-【状元桥·优质课堂】2022-2023学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第一册（人教版2019）

许多科技公司正在推进研发“数字人类”，未来发展难以估量。 (2021·6月天津阅读精编)In the fictional worlds1 of film and TV, artificial intelligence(AI) has been described as so advanced that it is indistinguishable　from humans.But what if we're actually getting closer to2 a world where AI is capable of thinking and feeling? Tech company UneeQ is heading for3 its “digital humans”， which appear life like on the screen not only in terms of language, but also because of facial movements：raised eyebrows, a smile, even a nod.They look close to a human, but not quite.Meanwhile, another AI company, Soul Machines, is taking a more biological approach, with a “digital brain”， that imitates aspects of the human brain. Shiwali Mohan, an AI scientist at the Palo Research Center, is skeptical(持怀疑态度的) of these digital beings.“They're humanlike in their looks and the way they sound, but that in itself is not being human，” she says.“Human qualities also involve how you think, how you approach problems, and how you break them down; and that takes a lot of algorithmic(算法) design.Designing for human­level intelligence is a different attempt than designing images that behave like humans.” Yet the demand is there, with UneeQ seeing high adoption of its digital employees across the financial, health care, and commercial sectors(行业)．Unless these sectors make their business models much more efficient digitally, they might be left behind. Some other companies are taking their digital beings a step further, enabling organizations and individuals to create digital humans themselves using free­access platforms4 they provide.The biggest motivation for5 such platforms is to popularize AI6. 【词块采撷】 1．fictional worlds 虚构的世界 2．be getting closer to 更接近…… 3．head for 朝……进发 4．free­access platforms 免费访问平台 5．the biggest motivation for ……最大动机 6．popularize AI普及AI 【亮句应用】 1．so…that…引导结果状语从句 (2021·3月天津写作)Sometimes it's hard to make a change, but I'm so glad I set the wheels of change in motion with that very small first step because it has led me