Here is a record of the discussion about AI (...

Here is a record of the discussion about AI (artificial intelligence) conducted by several scientists:

Scientist A: I would say that we are quite a long way off developing the AI, though I do think it will happen within the next thirty or forty years. We will probably remain in control of technology and it will help us solve many of the world’s problems. However, no one really knows what will happen if machines become more intelligent than humans. They may help us, ignore us or destroy us. I tend to believe AI will have a positive influence on our future lives, but whether that is true will be partly up to us.

Scientist B: I have to admit that the potential consequences of creating something that can match or go beyond human intelligence frighten me. Even now, scientists are teaching computers how to learn on their own. At some point in the near future, their intelligence may well take off and develop at an ever-increasing speed. Human beings evolve biologically very slowly and we would be quickly substituted. In the short term, there is the danger that robots will take over millions of human jobs, creating a large underclass of unemployed people. This could mean large-scale poverty and social unrest. In the long term machines might decide the world would be better without humans.

Scientist C: I’m a member of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. Forget the movie image of a terrifying Terminator stamping on human skulls and think of what’s happening right now: military machines like drones, gun turrets and sentry robots are already being used to kill with very little human input. The next step will be autonomous “murderbots” following orders but finally deciding who to kill on their own. It seems clear to me that this would be extremely dangerous for humans. We need to be very cautious indeed about what we ask machines to do.

1.What is Scientist B worried about?

A. AI technology will destroy the earth.　　 B. Robots will take the place of humans.

C. Computers can’t think by themselves.　　 D. Humans will be unhappy without machines.

2.What does the underlined word “this” in the last paragraph refer to?

A. I launched the campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

B. We forget the movie image of a terrifying Terminator.

C. “Murderbots” will be against humans’ orders.

D. “Murderbots” can’t decide by themselves.

3.Which statement is CORRECT according to the record?

A. The employment will be affected by AI technology in the future.

B. Scientist A thinks AI technology will never develop.

C. “Murderbots” will follow the orders of their manufacturers in the wars.

D. All the three scientists agree that AI technology will benefit human beings.

4.Who agree(s) AI has more negative aspects than positive aspects?

A. Scientist A.　　 B. Scientists B & C.

C. Scientist B.　　 D. Scientists B & A.

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Here is a record of the discussion about AI (artificial intelligence) conducted by several scientists.

Scientist A: I would say that we are quite a long way off developing the AI, though I do think it will happen within the next thirty or forty years. We will probably remain in control of technology and it will help us solve many of the world’s problems. However, no one really knows what will happen if machines become more intelligent than humans. They may help us, ignore us or destroy us. I tend to believe AI will have a positive influence on our future lives, but whether that is true will be partly up to us.

Scientists B: I have to admit that the potential consequences of creating something that can match or go beyond human intelligence frighten me. Even now, scientists are teaching computers how to learn on their own. At some point in the near future, their intelligence may well take off and develop at an ever-increasing speed. Human beings evolve biologically very slowly and we could be quickly substituted. In the short term, there is the danger that robots will take over millions of human jobs, creating a large underclass of unemployed people. This could mean large-scale poverty and social unrest. In the long term machines might decide the world would be better without humans.

Scientists C: I’m a member of the campaign to Stop Killer Robots. Forget the movie image of a terrifying Terminator stamping on human skulls and think of what’s happening right now: military machines like drones, gun turrets and sentry robots are already being used to kill with very little human input. The next step will be autonomous “murderbots” following orders but finally deciding who to kill on their own. It seems clear to me that this would be extremely dangerous for humans. We need to be very cautious indeed about what we ask machines to do.

1.What is Scientists B worried about?

A. AI technology will destroy the earth.

B. Computers can’t think by themselves.

C. Robots will take the place of humans.

D. Humans will be unhappy without machines.

2.What does the underlined word “this” in the last paragraph refer to?

A. I launch the campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

B. We forget the movie image of a terrifying Terminator.

C. “Murderbots” can’t decide by themselves.

D. “Murderbots” will be against human’s orders.

3.Which statement is RIGHT according to the record?

A. Scientist A thinks AI technology will never develop.

B. The employment will be affected by AI technology in the future.

C. “Murderbots” will follow the orders of their manufactures in the wars.

D. All the three scientists agree that AI technology will benefit human beings.

4.Who agree(s) AI has more negative aspects than positive aspects?

A. Scientist A B. Scientist B

C. Scientists B&C D. Scientists B&A

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Here is a record of the discussion about AI (artificial intelligence) conducted by several scientists:

Scientist A: I would say that we are quite a long way off developing the AI, though I do think it will happen within the next thirty or forty years. We will probably remain in control of technology and it will help us solve many of the world’s problems. However, no one really knows what will happen if machines become more intelligent than humans. They may help us, ignore us or destroy us. I tend to believe AI will have a positive influence on our future lives, but whether that is true will be partly up to us.

Scientist B: I have to admit that the potential consequences of creating something that can match or go beyond human intelligence frighten me. Even now, scientists are teaching computers how to learn on their own. At some point in the near future, their intelligence may well take off and develop at an ever-increasing speed. Human beings evolve biologically very slowly and we would be quickly substituted. In the short term, there is the danger that robots will take over millions of human jobs, creating a large underclass of unemployed people. This could mean large-scale poverty and social unrest. In the lone term machines might decide the world would be better without humans.

Scientist C: I’m a member of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. Forget the movie image of a terrifying Terminator stamping on human skulls (头骨) and think of what s happening right now: military machines like drones, gun turrets and sentry robots are already being used to kill with very little human input. The next step will be autonomous “murderbots” following orders but finally deciding who to kill on their own. It seems clear to me that this would be completely unethical and dangerous for humans. We need to be very cautious indeed about what we ask machines to do.

1.What is Scientist B worried about?

A. AI technology will destroy the earth.

B. Computers can’t think by themselves.

C. Robots will take the place of humans.

D. Humans will be unhappy without machines.

2.What does the underlined word “this” in the last paragraph refer to?

A. The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

B. The movie image of a terrifying Terminator.

C. “Murderbots” can’t decide by themselves.

D. “Murderbots” will be against humans’ orders.

3.Which statement is CORRECT according to the record?

A. Scientist A thinks AI technology will never develop.

B. The employment will be affected by AI technology in the future.

C. “Murderbots” will follow the orders of their manufacturers in the wars.

D. All the three scientists agree that AI technology will benefit human beings.

4.Who agree(s) AI has more negative aspects than positive aspects?

A. Scientist A.　　 B. Scientist B.

C. Scientists B & C.　　 D. Scientists B & A.

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The world’s first beer brewed (酿造) with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) is now on sale. Four beers have been created, with each recipe changed based on customer feedback (反馈) received by a program.

The system is hidden behind a Facebook Messenger robot, which takes feedback from customers and sends it onto human brewers who change recipes accordingly. Intelligent X, the company behind the beers, said the use of AI would help brewers receive and test customer feedback “more quickly than ever before”.

Codes printed on the bottles direct people towards the robot, which then asks a series of questions. This information is then interpreted by the program, which learns from customer feedback to ask better questions in the future.

The robot asks questions based on customer preference and flavour and answers are normally marks out of ten, yes or no and multiple choice. The AI uses a system known as reinforcement learning to learn from how it has acted and get better outcomes in the future. In this sense the AI is “rewarded” based on hard-coded biases that instruct it to please customers— those who like hoppier beers or stouts, for example.

This feedback is then accumulated to notice trends and inform the brewing process, with beers slowly changing over time.

“The AI is about putting all the customers in the same room as the brewer,” said Intelligent X co-founder Hew Leith. It would be extremely difficult and time-consuming for a human to collect this much data, Leith continued, but the AI can gather and interpret it with ease. The team behind the AI hope it could one day help them win a major beer brewing competition.

Intelligent X’s four beers have evolved eleven times so far based on initial feedback collected during trials over the last 12 months. The beers are currently being toured around in East London and are also being stocked by co-working space We Work. The four Al-brewed beers-golden, amber, pale and black—are available now from Ubrew for £ 4.50 each.

1.What can we know about the beer?

A. It is made by the customers themselves.

B. It is the first kind of beer in the world.

C. It can be changed with the feedback.

D. It can be bought from the website Facebook.

2.Who can change the beer’s recipes?

A. The human brewers.　　 B. The customers.　　 C. The system.　　 D. The Facebook.

3.What do we learn from the feedback?

A. It changes the recipes of the beer directly.

B. Customers can make it via the Internet.

C. Everyone can get any kind of beer according to it.

D. It is only based on customer preference.

4.What do Hew Leith’s words tell us?

A. The AI is ready to call on all the customers to get together.

B. It was once hard for us to get the feedback from the customers.

C. The AI can consume more time to collect the necessary data.

D. The team has already won many competitions about beer.

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The old man has a strange way of speaking. Here is a recording of his speech, but no clear ________ of what he has said can be made at all.

A．sense            B．meaning          C．idea              D．explained

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The old man has a strange way of speaking. Here is a recording of his speech, but no clear _______ of what he has said could be made at all.

A. meaning　　 　　 B. idea

C. explanation　　 D. sense

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Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed new artificial intelligence(AI) software to recognize and follow up the faces of chimpanzees(黑猩猩)in the wild. The new software will allow researchers and wildlife conservationists to significantly cut back on time spent analyzing videos, according to the new paper published in Science Advances.

For species(物种)like chimpanzees, which have complex social lives and live for many years，getting photos of their behavior taken from short-term field research can only tell us so much，” says Dan Schofield， researcher and DPhil student at Oxford University’s Private Models Lab, School of Anthropology. “By taking advantage of the power of machine learning to unlock large video files , it makes it possible to measure behavior over the long term. ’’

The computer model was trained using over 10 million images(影像):from Kyoto University s Primate Research Institute(PRI) video files of wild chimpanzees in Guinea,West Africa. The new software is the first to continuously track and recognize individual a wide range of poses, performing with high accuracy in difficult conditions such as low lighting and poor image quality.

“Access to this large video file has allowed us to use deep neural networks to train models to a degree that was previously not possible,” says Arsha Nagrad, co-auther of the study and DPhil student at the Department of Engineer Science ,University of Oxford .” Additionally, our new software differs from previous primate face recognition software in that it can be applied to videos with limited manual intervention(人工干预)，saving hours of time. ”

The technology can be potentially used to monitor species for conservation Although the present application focuses on chimpanzees, the AI software provided will be applied to other species, and help drive the adoption of AI systems to solve(解决)a range of problems in the wildlife sciences.

1.What is the purpose of developing the new soft?

A.To save wildlife researchers’ time spent in the labs.

B.To keep track of wildlife conservationists' behaviors.

C.To protect chimpanzees and help them to live longer .

D.To recognize and track the faces of wild chimpanzees.

2.What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A.Getting photos. B.Analyzing videos.

C.A powerful machine D.The new AI software.

3.What does paragraph 4 mainly talk about?

A.The working principle of the new software. B.Some limitations of using the new software.

C.The unique advantages of the new software. D.Controversial attitudes to the new software.

4.What can be known from the last paragraph?

A.Technology advance is the final goal of science

B.The new software won’t just be applied to chimpanzees.

C.AI systems are widely used in the wildlife sciences.

D.The application of the new technology isn’t easy.

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Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed new artificial intelligence (AI) software to recognize and follow up the faces of individual chimpanzees (黑猩猩) in the wild. The new software will allow researcher and wildlife conservationists to greatly cut back on time spent analyzing videos, according to the new paper published today in Science Advances.

“For species like chimpanzees, which have complex social lives and live for many years, getting photos of their behavior from short-term field research can only tell us so much.” says Dan Sehofield, researcher and DPhil student at Oxford University’s Primate Models Lab, School of Anthropology. “By taking advantage of the power of machine learning to unlock large video files, it makes it possible to measure behavior over the long term.”

The computers model was trained using over 10 million images (影像) from Kyoto University’s Primate Research Institute (PRI) video files of wild chimpanzees in Guinea, West Africa. The new software is the first to continuously track and recognize individuals in a wide range of posed, performing with high accuracy in difficult conditions such as low lighting and poor image quality.

“Access to this large video file has allowed us to use the newest deep neural networks to train models at a scale that was previously not possible,” says Arsha Nagrani, co-author of the study and DPhil student at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. “Additionally, our new software differs from previous primate face recognition software in that it can be applied to raw videos with limited manual intervention (人工干预) or pre-processing, saving hours of time.”

The technology has potential for many uses, such as monitoring species for conservation. Although the present application focused on chimpanzees, the software provided could be applied to other species, and help drive the adoption of AI systems to solve a range of problems in the wildlife sciences.

1.What’s the purpose of developing the new software?

A.To save wildlife researchers’ time spent in the wild.

B.To keep track of wildlife conservationists’ behavior.

C.To protect chimpanzees and help them to live longer.

D.To recognize and track the faces of wild chimpanzees.

2.What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A.Getting photos. B.Analyzing videos.

C.The new AI software. D.A powerful machine.

3.What does paragraph 4 mainly talk about?

A.The unique advantages of the new software.

B.Some limitations of using the new software.

C.The working principles of the new software.

D.Controversial attitudes to the new software.

4.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A.The new software has a quite bright future.

B.The application of the technology can be tough.

C.Technology is the final goal of scientific research.

D.AI systems are widely used in the wildlife sciences.

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The next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) may be sitting right beneath you, at least if furniture maker Ikea has any say in the matter. The Swedish furniture company’s “future-living” research lab in Copenhagen is conducting a survey to understand what people want when it comes to smart furniture.

AI is now walking into more aspects of people’s daily lives. Self-driving cars are just around the corner, and AI robots can play and beat the best players of strategy games. As smart home technologies have become more ubiquitous, products ranging from smart electrical outlets（插座）to smart smoke alarms are flooding the market. Therefore, it’s not surprising that Ikea would be moving in the same direction.

Exactly why people would want their sofa or bed frame to speak to then, track their daily movements or offer help is not yet clear. Though Ikea’s the new survey doesn’t directly answer that question, it does provide a hint of what people would feel comfortable with. Most participants wanted a more human0like form of virtual（虚拟的）assistants, as opposed to one that is more robotic. In terms of the ideal gender（性别）of the assistants, the most popular choice was neither male nor female. Few wanted a religious form of AI.

Just as with human friends, most wanted AI friends that were like them, affirming their own worldview. They wanted an AI assistant that was reasonably intelligent-that could collect data to predict what a person wanted before he or she asked, and that could prevent someone from making mistakes.

This is not the first time that Ikea has set foot in the field or futuristic technologies. In addition to wireless charging tables and chainless bikes that never rust（生锈）, the furniture giant has also pictured smart kitchens that can cook the best meal. To decide on how intelligent you want your next sofa or bookshelf to be, you can take Ikea’s survey online.

1.What does the underlined word “ubiquitous” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. Beautiful.　　 B. Common.

C. Normal.　　 D. Environment.

2.What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about?

A. The differences between robot-like and human-like assistants.

B. What form of AI assistants people want.

C. What kind of friends people want.

D. The popular robots on the market.

3.Most people who received the survey wanted an AI assistant that could ________.

A. help them became smarter

B. communicate with them without troubles

C. have its own worldview

D. deal with their problems in advance

4.Which of the following products are from Ikea?

A. Smart sofas that can speak to you.

B. Smart beds than can track your daily movements.

C. Wireless charging cars.

D. Rustless bikes without chains.

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Siri is an artificial intelligence (AI) that you can carry around in the pocket, where it waits patiently to be told what to do. In the week we spent together, my AI assistant has performed admirably in finding me restaurants, or the location of the nearest coffee shop.

A typical command might be: “Reserve a table for two at a good French restaurant in San Francisco.” Siri responds by presenting a list of top-rated restaurants that can be booked on OpenTable.com. If you say which time you want, it can book you a table without your lifting a finger. In some ways Siri is just a fancy front-end (前端程序) to the 35 sites it can connect to, from taxi booking sites to movie review databases. But what’s new is the way it can analyze the intentions of its master or mistress and use those sites to put them into action.

Siri attaches probabilities to the explanation of each word and cross-references (对照检索) with your location and other data, some of which you must provide yourself. To send email reminders, Siri obviously needs to know your email address. To “find me the flower shop closest to work”, it needs to know where you work. To pay bills or buy airline tickets, it would need access to your credit card.

That raises the question of how far we are willing to trust a piece of software that can go and do things for us based on what it “thinks” we mean, a topic that occupies some engineers working on artificial intelligence. The more data, and power, you give your virtual assistant, the more damage it could do. Siri may be simple, and always shows its explanation of a command before carrying it out. But it gives users a preview of a new balance between privacy, trust and convenience that the expansion of AI into everyday life is likely to develop.

1.What is Siri?

A. A digital e-book reader.

B. A music-sharing software.

C. A voice-controlled website.

D. An artificial intelligence software.

2.When asked “do I need my umbrella today?”, what will Siri probably respond with?

A. The list of umbrella makers.

B. The list of umbrella shops.

C. The local weather forecast.

D. The local climate conditions.

3.Siri is new in that it has the ability ______.

A. to understand what you speak

B. to connect a lot of websites

C. to give a variety of commands

D. to create computerized database

4.What question does Paragraph 4 answer?

A. Does Siri think itself?　　 B. Can I trust you, Siri?

C. Is Siri simple for use?　　 D. Will Siri be popular?

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