晚练册 第4周-【晨读晚记】2023-2024学年高三上学期英语阅读强化训练

Week Four 第4周 晚练 的阅读理解A 原创 When I saw that a robot had broken the finger of a 7-year-old boy,whom it was playing with at the Moscow Open chess tournament,my first reaction was,"They're coming for us." All the machines that have been following commands,taking orders,and telling humans,"Your order is on the way!","Recalculating route!"have grown tired of serving our urges,fulfilling our wishes,and making their silicon-based lives passive to us humans.And so,a chess-playing robot breaks the finger of a little boy who was trying to outdo him in a chess match. Onlookers intervened to remove the boy's hand from what's called the claw.The boy's finger was placed in a plaster cast.He returned to the tournament the next day.Sergey Smagin said that the robot had attacked after the little boy tried to make his move too quickly."There are certain safety rules,"he said,"and the child, apparently,violated them."Which is to say:the algorithm made the robot do it. Ryan Calo,a professor of computer science,read various accounts and told us,"I think the robot was going for a chess piece and got the little boy's hand instead."He said the chess-playing robot should have been programmed to recognize the difference between a little boy's thumb and a pawn.But he doubted the trap was a complaint of machine against human.Professor Calo said a few serious accidents occur every year because human beings do not program robots with sufficient safety features. I wonder if the chess-playing robot had a flash of recognition:other robots are helping to direct airplanes across oceans and spaceships into the stars.Other robots assist in complex surgeries.But this robot is stuck playing chess,while the 7-year-old on the other side of the board could grow up to be a doctor,artist,or computer engineer who could make that robot as obsolete as a DVD with the next update.Maybe that's when the robot couldn't keep its claw to itself. What did the author think when seeing the behavior of the robot? A.Robots