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Unit 4 Living with technology
Reading 详解课件
新译林2020版 选必二
Artificial intelligence:
friendly or frightening?
alliteration
eg. Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
AI in our life
Look at the pictures below and answer.
What do the pictures in the passage imply?
It demonstrates a significant advance in deep-learning AI systems.
Machines may have the ability to respond not only to human language but also to human feelings.
Someday AI machines may have their own thoughts and desires.
We may get controlled by what we have created.
Pre-reading
Sophia is a social robot developed by Hong Kong. She is the first robot to receive citizenship of any country.
This is Sophia.
Do you want Sophia to go into your house and live with you?
机器人公民索菲亚
Key Phrases on P44
Artificial Intelligence: Friendly or Frightening?
Imagine waking up one morning with the option of staying in bed and pressing a button to send a robot to do all the work for you. How cool that would be! It may seem like building castles in the air, but given the rate at which artificial intelligence, or AI, is being developed, in the future such dreams may actually come true.
想象一下,某天早上你醒来,可以选择继续躺在床上,按下一个按钮,就能召来一台机器人为你处理所有的工作。那该有多酷啊!这听起来可能像是在建空中楼阁,但鉴于人工智能(AI)目前的发展速度,这样的梦想在将来也许真的可以实现。
人工智能:是敌是友?
1. ... with the option of staying in bed ... (line 1)
n. 可选择的事物;选择的自由
have no option/choice/alternative but to do sth
have the option of doing.../to do...
optional adj.
Unit 4
I had no option but ____________(ask) him to leave.
Students have the option _____________(study) abroad in their second year.
Some courses are compulsory while others are ________ (option).
Our schools provide a wide variety of optional classes ___________(cater) to students of different levels.
Practice makes perfect.
to ask
to study
optional
to cater
At the basic level, artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that aims to develop intelligent machines. One of the essential aims of AI is to develop computer i