Unit 4 A glimpse of the future Starting out&Understanding ideas课件 2023-2024学年高二英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第三册

Unit 4 Period 1 Starting out & Understanding ideas 课 堂 学 习 Watch the video and answer the questions. 1 What predictions about the future were made? Were they correct? 2 What is your understanding of “the future has unlimited possibilities”? 1 Starting out 1 What predictions about the future were made? Were they correct? 2 What is your understanding of “the future has unlimited possibilities”? Correct predictions: flying machines, organ transplantation, “perpetual light”, the atom bomb, space stations would broadcast television signals all over the globe Incorrect predictions: a world market for maybe five computers, nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners Look at the pictures and answer the questions. 2 1 Have you watched any of these films? What stories do they tell about the future of our world? 2 Do you think the events in these films could come true? What do you think the world will be like in the future? 1 Read the facts about AI and answer the questions. Understanding ideas Milestones in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 1950 Mathematician and logician, Alan Turing devised the Turing Test, a test on the ability of machines to show human-like intelligence. 1955 Computer scientist, John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence”. 1972 Shakey, the first mobile robot able to make decisions according to reason, was completed. 2001 The Electrolux Trilobite, the first robotic vacuum cleaner designed for home use, went on sale. 2015 AlphaGo became the first computer program to beat a human professional Go player. 2017 AlphaGo Zero beat the previous version of AlphaGo by 100 games to nil. 1 What can you learn from the timeline? 2 Are you concerned about developments in AI? Why or why not? 3 How do you think AI will develop in the future? From the timeline, we can learn that AI technology has developed greatly, and can now outperform humans in some aspects. 2 Read the passage to see if it changes your opinion on the future of AI. If so