选修7 Unit 2　Robots-（达标训练）【导学教程】2024旧教材老高考英语新编大一轮总复习（人教版）

[对应学生用书P433] Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2022·福州质量检测)Auguste Rodin spent the best part of four decades working on his masterpiece The Gates of Hell. The Mona Lisa, by contrast, took Leonardo da Vinci a mere 15 years or so. So we can only imagine what those masters would think of an up­and­coming artist who can knock out complex works in under two hours. Not least because she's a robot. Meet Ai­Da, the world's first robot artist to stage an exhibition, and, according to her creator, every bit as good as many of the abstract human painters working today. Named in honour of the pioneering female mathematician Ada Lovelace, the artificial intelligence (AI) machine can draw a portrait by sight, and compose an “extremely beautiful” painting rich with meaning. The humanoid machine can walk, talk and hold a pencil or brush. But it is Ai­Da's ability to teach itself new and ever more complicated means of creative expression that has set the art world excited. From a simple photograph, whether a bee or a tree, the robot has done abstract paintings warning of the fragility (脆弱性) of the environment that would look at home in a top modern gallery. “We just can't predict what she will do, what she's going to produce, what the limit of her output is，” said Aidan Meller, who is in charge of the Unsecured Futures exhibition which opens on June 12. Meller is clear that his goal is not to replace human artists. Rather, he compares the rise of AI art to the coming of photography. “In the 1850s everyone thought photography would replace art and artists, but actually it became a new style bringing many new jobs.” he said. “We are looking forward to the conversation Ai­Da brings in audiences，” said Lucy Seal, researcher for the project. “A measure of her artistic potential and success will be the discussion she inspires. Engaging people so that we feel empowered to re­imagine our attitudes to organic life and our futures is a major aim of the project.” [解题导语]　本文是一篇说明文。AI机器人画家要进行画展，其将引发艺术界风暴。 1．Why