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Unit 4 Living with technology
Reading
Thinking
What kind of technology is the most important to you in your daily life? Why?
Internet
Smart phone
Computer
air conditioner
……
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.
—Bill Gates
技术的进步是基于让它融入你的生活,这样你甚至不会真正注意到它,如此一来它就成为了日常生活的一部分。
--比尔·盖茨
Watch the video and fill in the blanks.
Video time
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: travelling deep under the ocean
2001: A Space Odyssey: travelling to _________
The Matrix: connecting the human brain with _________ and entering the virtual world
the Moon
computers
Do you think life in the video can become a reality?
When we talk about artificial intelligence, what adjectives come to your mind?
Artificial intelligence
useful
terrifying
helpful
cutting-edge
threatening
amazing
double-edged sword
Pre-reading
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Reading for structure
While-reading
Introduction
imitating
breakthroughs
transforming
concerns
victim
Reading for structure
Reading for details
Read Para. 2 and know about AI.
While-reading
One essential aim of AI
One approach to the aim
To develop computer intelligence capable of learning from experience, adjusting to new inputs and performing tasks like humans.
Deep learning, which enables a machine to improve its own performance by learning from the results of its previous actions.
While-reading
Read Para. 3 and get the major breakthroughs.
Time
Event
Since the 1940s
Years before the mid-1950s
In the mid-1950s
In 1997
In 2017
The development of computers has finally made the dream of AI a reality.
Alan Turing had explored the theory of AI.
The term “artificial intelligence” was coined.
A major breakthrough in AI was made.
A computer program defeated arguably the best human Go player.
Read Paras. 4-5, and answer the following questions.
1.What are ordinary people using AI to do?
While-reading
2. What are we gett