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Unit 4 Living with technology
Welcome to the unit
&
Reading
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
比尔·盖茨，美国企业家、软件工程师、慈善家、微软公司创始人，曾任微软董事长、CEO和首席软件设计师。本句旨在说明技术会进入千家万户，成为人们生活中不可或缺的一部分。
Lead-in
机器人公民索菲亚
Artificial intelligence:
friendly or frightening
alliteration n.头韵，头韵法（Alliteration指的是文学修辞手法，其特征是系列词语或短语在发音时，首个音素相同或相似。
eg. Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
main topic
two aspects
Pre-reading
Para1: A
Para2: B
Para3: C
Para4: D
Para5: E
Para6: F
Listen&match（学法P97&98）
While-reading
AI is a branch of computer science
AI has a long and rough history.
AI has been applied in many fields.
AI brings many concerns and fears.
We should be careful to deal with AI.
Read the popular science article and complete the chart below.
A1
What is the author’s attitude to AI
A. Negative
B. Neutral
C. Positive
Attitude of the author
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.
Para 1
Para.1 To introduce the topic of this article — AI.
given prep.“考虑到”= considering; in view of
a. Given his age, he's a remarkably fast runner.
考虑到他的年龄，他可称得上是个很出众的赛跑运动员了。
b. _________ (give) (the fact) that he‘s had six months to do this, he hasn’t made much progress. 考虑到他有六个月的时间来做这件事，所以他没有取得多大进展。
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。
Read carefully and answer questions
Para 2
What is AI What is the essential aim of AI How to achieve it
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 intelligence capable of learning from experience, adjusting to new inputs and performing tasks like humans.
从基础层面上讲，人工智能是计算机科学的一个分支，其目标是研发智能机器。AI 的基本目标之一，是开发能够学习过往经验、适应新的输入内容并且能够像人类一样执行任务的计算机智能。
Para.2
To achieve this aim, many approaches to creating true AI have been put forward, including “deep learning”, which enables a machine to improve its own performance by learning from the results of its previous actions. Deep-learning AI has the capacity to analyse massive amounts of data through multiple layers, imitating the complex networks of the human brain.
为了实现这个目标，人们提出过许多创造真正的 AI 的方法，其中包括“深度学习”——这种方法可以让机器通过学习自己先前行为的结果，来提升自身性能。深度学习 AI 拥有从多个层次分析海量信息的能力，它模拟的是人脑的复杂网络结构。
Para.2
To achieve this aim, many approaches to __________ (create) true AI have been put forward,....
put off
put on
put out put up
put up with
put away
put aside
推迟 =delay/postpone
穿上，戴上；上演；展出；增加体重
扑灭 搭建；张贴
忍受，容忍
把……收起/放好
把……放在一边;储存 ；搁置；抛开
creating
人们提出了许多创造真正人工智能的方法。
① We put _____ the tools before we leave the workshop.
② Never put _____ until tomorrow what you can do today.
③ We are putting the play _____ again next week owing to(由于) its
success.
④ The fire man soon put the fire _____.
⑤ The doctor told me to put _____ my tongue.
⑥ It's time that we put _____ the Christmas decorations（装饰物） in
the living room.
⑦ Drop your weapons and put your hands _____.
⑧ Another supermarket has been put _____ near our house.
⑨ I can't put up _____ a lot of noisy people when I am working.
away
off
on
out
out
up
up
up
with
放好，收起来
延期，拖延
上演，穿戴
熄灭，扑灭，使...停止燃烧
伸出，拿出
挂起，张贴
举起，抬起
建造，搭起
忍受，容忍
Para 3
What is the development of AI in history
Years before
the mid-1950s
In the mid-1950s
In 1997 (breakthrough)
In 2017
(advance)
The term “artificial intelligence” was coined.
The theory had been explored by Alan Turing, one of the pioneers in the field of computer science.
Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer, beat the world chess champion Garry Kasparo.
A computer program named AlphaGo defeated Ke Jie, arguably the best human Go player, which demonstrated a significant advance in deep-learning AI systems.
Back
The dream of AI has been around for centuries, and the development of computers since the 1940s has finally made it a reality. Years before the term“artificial intelligence” was coined in the mid-1950s, the theory had been explored by Alan Turing, one of the pioneers in the
field of computer science. However, for a long time, AI technology developed very slowly.
AI 的梦想已经存在了几个世纪，而 20 世纪 40 年代以来计算机的发展，终于让这个梦想成为现实。“人工智能”这个术语是在 20 世纪 50 年代中期被创造出来的，而在好几年前，这一理论就被计算机科学领域的先驱之一艾伦 · 图灵探索过。然而在很长一段时间里，AI 技术发展得相当缓慢。
Para.3
A major breakthrough in AI came in 1997, when Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer, beat the world chess
champion Garry Kasparov. Then in 2017, a computer program named AlphaGo defeated Ke Jie, arguably the best human Go player, which demonstrated a significant advance in deep-learning AI systems.
1997 年，AI 发展有了
一个重大突破，当时一台名叫深蓝的国际象棋计算机打败了国际象棋世界冠军加里 · 卡斯帕罗夫。之后在 2017 年，一个叫阿尔法围棋的计算机程序下赢了可谓人类最强的围棋棋手柯洁，这说明了深度学习 AI 系统的一大显著进展。
Para.3
Read carefully and answer questions
Para 4
What are ordinary people using Al to do
Nowadays, AI is already being applied in many fields: finance, health care, machine translation and art, to name but a few. From autonomous vehicles to domestic robots, from recommendation systems to computers writing novels, AI has an unlimited number of applications. Ordinary people are now using AI to get instant translations of text in foreign languages, and machines can recognize fingerprints and even faces.
如今，AI 已经应用于许多领域，如金融、医疗保健、机器翻译和艺术等，不一而足。从自动驾驶车辆到家用机器人，从推荐系统到撰写小说的电脑，AI 有着不计其数的应用。普通人现在能够使用 AI 获取外语文本的即时翻译，机器也已经能够识别人们的指纹甚至面容。
Para.4
Read carefully and answer questions
Para 5
What concerns and fears will AI bring
In short, this technology is transforming the way we live. It is clear that we are at a turning point in history. With machines like AlphaGo now capable of thinking and learning from their mistakes, we are getting closer to the dividing line between humans and machines.The question is, where will all this lead
简而言之，这项技术正在改变我们的生活方式。显然，我们正处于历史的转折点。有了阿尔法围棋这种能够思考并从自身错误中学习的机器，我们正在向人类与机器的界限越靠越近。问题在于，这一切将会导致什么？
Para.5
While AI enthusiasts promise us a bright future where intelligent robots will be working to our advantage, these undoubted benefits also bring concerns and fears. Could machines really develop human-like intelligence And what would happen if they did Would thinking machines work alongside humans or threaten the existence of humans
AI 的热烈支持者向我们承诺未来会是美好的，到那时智能机器人将为人类谋利；但这些毋庸置疑的好处也带来了忧虑和恐惧。机器真的能够发展出像人类一样的智能吗？如果真的可以，又会发生什么？能够思考的机器是会与人类并肩工作，还是会威胁人类的生存？
Para.5
enthusiast n. 狂热爱好者 enthusiasm n. 热情 enthusiastic adj.热情的

How would they be punished if they committed crimes or even murdered humans As we become more and more dependent on computers, some scientists are urging us to think about the dangers posed by the advances in AI. Stephen Hawking, for example, warned,“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
如果它们犯了罪甚至谋杀了人类，又该如何惩罚？随着我们对电脑的依赖越来越深，一些科学家正敦促我们思考 AI 的进步所带来的危险。例如，斯蒂芬 · 霍金就曾警告说：“完全人工智能的发展可能意味着人类的终结。”
Para.5
“完全人工智能的发展可能意味着人类的终结。”
spell v.① 招致，意味着（通常指坏事）
②拼写;拼成
I don't know how to spell your name. 我不会拼写你的名字。
③n.咒语;魔力;
The witch put the princess under a spell, and she fell asleep for ten years.
这女巫使公主中了巫术，沉睡了十年。
Read paragraph 4-5 and choose the correct answer.
●Which of the following proverbs can best summarize Al
A. A coin has two sides.
B. Ill news travels fast.
C. More haste, less speed.
D. All that glitters is not gold.
Read carefully and answer questions
Para 6
What can we do when faced with such warnings
Apparently, such warnings demand our attention. We need to make sure that we will not fall victim to AI. We may still think it would be fantastic to relax all day and allow autonomous machines to do all the work for us — but perhaps we should not be too greedy and rather be careful what we wish for!
显然，这样的警告需要得到我们的重视。我们需要确保自己不会沦为 AI 的受害者。我们可能还是会认为，可以整天放松，让自动化机器为我们完成所有工作，这样的生活很美妙——但也许我们不该太过贪婪，而应对我们的期待保持谨慎！
Para.6
The passage below is about facial recognition technology. Complete the passage with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box below.
B1
analyse
networks
to name but a few
The passage below is about facial recognition technology. Complete the passage with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box below.
B1
pose
warnings
fall victim to
The passage below is about facial recognition technology. Complete the passage with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box below.
B1
are urged/have been urged
Apparently
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