Artificial intelligence keeps defeating human...

Artificial intelligence keeps defeating human, it is making countless victories against human in different fields of life and trying to push human to the corner.

Google’s DeepMind has defeated the world’s number one player Ke Jie. Human brain somehow has been replaced by a machine and scientists are working very hard on developing a human brain by implanting a chip and connecting it to the thick neuron that connects the two hemispheres of the brain. Well, who doesn’t want to get his brain upgraded to be as smart as the brain of Albert Einstein or Charles Darwin?

Humans will probably one day invent a brain that can be implanted in the human skull and reprogram all the human thoughts, but this invention doesn’t seems to be happening in the foreseeable future since human brain took millions of years to evolve. Some scientists believe that human will defeat death in the next twenty hundred years but they can’t really predict how long it’s going to take to develop a human brain that can completely replace the natural brain.

Despite of this accomplishment in the field of artificial intelligence, it couldn’t crease people from believing that science can’t stand alone. For instance, AI can imitate human brain and most of the time outperforms it, but there are still a lot of hidden secrets. AI outsmarted Ke Jie has consciousness unlike the AI, Ke Jie felt sad when he was defeated and buried his face in his hands but the AI didn’t feel happy and celebrate his victory.

The computer of 1960 is the same as the computer of 2017 in terms of consciousness, there is no signs so far telling us that there is an algorithm(运算)that can make a conscious computer and decipher (译解) its feelings. We can predict what the future will look like according to the past, especially from scientific point of view but the development of human brain seems unpredictable and unknown.

1.What is the possible meaning of the underlined word “neuron” in Para. 2?

A. The tube through which blood flows in your brain.

B. The kind of cell that carries information.

C. The soft fatty substance in the hollow center of bones.

D. The bony part of one’s head which encloses his/her brain.

2.What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A. It took millions of years for human brain to evolve.

B. Humans wish to get their brains upgraded to be as smart as possible.

C. Humans will probably invent a brain that can reprogram all the human thoughts.

D. It is hard to develop a human brain that can completely replace the natural brain.

3.“Ke Jie felt sad when he was defeated” is mentioned in Para. 4 to ________.

A. show that the AI has no human emotions

B. explain that AlphaGo is virtually unbeatable in the board game

C. tell us the accomplishment in the field of artificial intelligence

D. analyze Ke Jie’s psychological characteristics when playing the game

4.What can be the best title for the passage?

A. World Top Go Player Ke Jie Challenges AlphaGo

B. AlphaGo Teaches To use AI To benefit Humans

C. Google AI Defeats Human Go Champion

D. AI Can Imitate Human Brain And Most Of the Time Outperforms It

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China's largest search engine Baidu has said it will make its latest artificial intelligence (AI) technology accessible to developers and businesses as part of the company's latest move into AI, big data and cloud computing.

AI solution "Tianzhi" was launched at a cloud-computing summit held in Beijing Wednesday. It includes services in three fields: sensing technology, such as image and voice processing, machine learning, and deep learning, an advanced form of machine learning, said Zhang Yaqin, CEO of the Nasdaq-listed company, at the summit.

Developers can access facial or voice recognition, algorithms（演算法） for data analysis and projections, and deep learning applications, Zhang said, adding that the technology could help users innovate in their sectors.

"With more devices connected to the cloud, enterprises will use cloud computing and AI more frequently," said Wu Hequan, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, "Open AI technology can play a bigger role."

The company also revealed a plan to invest 10 billion yuan (1.45 billion U.S. dollars) in cloud computing in the next five years and establish an innovation center, which will serve 10 million enterprises.

1.What is the main idea of paragraph one?

A. Baidu will further develop its latest AI technology.

B. Baidu has attracted developers’ and businesses’ attention.

C. Users will be able to access Baidu’s latest AI technology.

D. A company will move to AI, big data and cloud computing.

2.“Tianzhi” includes services in the following fields EXCEPT _____.

A. sensing technology

B. voice processing

C. machine learning

D. deep learning

3.What does the underlined sentence in paragraph four probably mean?

A. It’s important for AI technology to be open.

B. AI technology is more important than the cloud.

C. People aren’t aware of the importance of AI technology.

D. Enterprises will hardly benefit from open AI technology.

4.What is Baidu’s next move according to the last paragraph?

A. Reveal a plan to invest in cloud computing.

B. Invest 10 billion yuan to serve enterprises.

C. Get invested from enterprises in the next five years.

D. Invest in computing and build an innovation center.

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It goes without saying that human intelligence is very advanced as opposed to plants and other living creatures. People’s capacity to fully understand, reason, organize, solve problems, display emotional intelligence, learn, communicate and think abstractly is outstanding. It is believed to be much more emphasized (强调) nowadays, when bright folks are normally one level higher than everyone else.

Nowadays many people are of the view that a high intelligence quotient (IQ) is an excellent assistance in pulling through life. Statistics reveal that whatever activity enabling the brain to function and operate, no matter whether in the form of difficulties or other obstacles (障碍) that can be overcome by this specific body area, has a positive effect on it.

So every time you are making full use of your mind for right answers in a quick crossword or if you are answering difficult riddles, you might be, in fact, raising the probabilities of increasing your intelligence. You could play effective brain games like crosswords, chess, riddles, puzzles, Internet games, word games and other games. These are useful in raising your intelligence primarily because they let you think in a different way as you make an effort to uncover answers to certain problems. Aside from this, this form of brain training continually encourages the brain to function and widen its capacity to concentrate and learn.

Needless to say, you’ve to make sure that you make the most of these brain exercises by not cheating yourself. Lastly, if you progress to a much more complicated level, try your best to answer difficult problems with no hints or clues so that you are able to further force your brain to work on its own.

1.What does the first paragraph mainly talk about?

A. The benefits of thinking and other brain exercises.

B. The difference between mankind and other creatures.

C. The reasons for emphasizing human intelligence.

D. The high level of human intelligence.

2.According to the author, many people increase their IQ in order to _____.

A. be one level higher than others

B. deal with difficulties in life

C. play games such as riddles

D. enable the brain to function

3.According to the text, through continuous brain training, people can _____.

A. learn a certain skill quickly

B. become a confident person

C. communicate with others well

D. concentrate in their class

4.What does the author mainly advise in the text?

A. Making good use of brain exercises to increase your intelligence.

B. Playing brain games to prevent brain disease.

C. Solving difficult problems on your own.

D. Getting rid of Internet games.

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Artificial intelligence（AI，人工智能）can help us make phone calls, guide us to where we want to go, or play games. 1. Researchers from Microsoft recently created the first machine translation system that can translate news articles from Chinese to English, Business Standard reported.

According to Microsoft’s official website, researchers tested the system by asking it to translate hundreds of sentences taken from news stories. 2. They concluded that the system’s translations were as good as the human translations. 3. This is partly because different words can be used to express the same meaning. It can be hard to say which word is more “correct”.

4. “Much of our research is really inspired by how we humans do things,” lead researcher Liu Tieyan said.

One method is called dual learning（对偶学习）. In this method, the system translates every sentence from Chinese to English, as well as translating the sentences back from English into Chinese. 5. This is similar to what humans do to make sure their translations are accurate.

Another method makes use of deliberation networks. This is when the system is made to translate the same sentence over and over. Gradually, the system improves the quality of its translation, like humans who would improve their own writing by going over it again and again.

A. Machine translation is always challenging.

B. However, experts used several methods to improve the system’s translation abilities.

C. Then, language experts compared the results to two translations that were done by humans.

D. Researchers collected a lot of data to help the system learn and improve.

E. And now, AI can do even more things.

F. Researchers have worked on machine translation for decades.

G. This way, the system can improve itself and learn from its own mistakes.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) technology may soon be a useful tool for doctors. It may help them better understand and treat diseases like breast cancer in ways that were never before possible.

Rishi Rawat teaches AI at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Clinical Science Center in Los Angeles. He is part of a team of scientists who are researching how AI and machine learning can more easily recognize cancerous growths in the breast. Rawat provides information about cancer cells to a computer. He says this data helps the machine learn. “...You can put the data into them and they will learn the patterns and the pattern recognition that’s important to making decisions.”

David Agus is another USC researcher. He believes that “machines are not going to take the place of doctors.” He adds, “Computers will not treat patients, but they will help make certain decisions and look for things that the human brain can’t recognize these patterns by itself.”

Once a confirmed cancerous growth is removed, doctors still have to treat the patient to reduce the risk of cancer returning. The form of treatment depends on the kind of cancer. Currently, researchers take a thin piece of tissue, put it on a small piece of glass and add color to better see the cells. This process could take days or even longer. Scientists say artificial intelligence can do something better than just count cells. Through machine learning, it can recognize complex patterns, or structures, and learn how the cells are organized. The hope is that machines will soon be able to make a quick diagnosis（诊断）of cancer that is free of human mistakes.

“All of a sudden, we have the computing power to really do it in real time...We couldn’t have done this, we didn’t have the computing power to do this several years ago, but now it’s all changed.” Agus adds that the process could be done “for almost no cost in the developing world.” He says that having a large amount of information about patients is important for a machine to effectively do its job in medicine.

A doctor faces a series of critical decisions every day. The best a doctor can do is to make those decisions as informed as possible. Some of them are still hard to make. A doctor can ask people of whom he values their opinions and that’s it. Imagine discussing these with an AI system that is even more rational（理性的）than anyone else.

The University of Southern California researchers are now only studying breast cancer. But doctors predict artificial intelligence will one day make a difference in all forms of cancer.

1.According to Rawat and David Agus, AI can be used to ___________.

A. take the place of doctors　　 B. treat all forms of cancer

C. remove doctors’ mistakes　　 D. help doctors diagnose cancer

2.From the passage, we learn that doctors may benefit from AI because it can ___________.

A. use data to recognize patterns of cancer

B. decide on the form of cancer treatment

C. reduce the risk of cancer returning

D. monitor the medical procedure

3.What does the underlined word “critical” in Paragraph 6 mean?

A. reliable　　 B. important

C. evident　　 D. doubtful

4.What’s the best title for the passage?

A. How Do AI Systems Work?　　 B. Can AI Cure Cancer?

C. Can AI Make Doctors Better?　　 D. How Can Doctors Use AI?

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Artificial intelligence (AI人工智能) technology may soon be a useful tool for doctors. It may help them better understand and treat diseases like breast cancer in ways that were never before possible.

Rishi Rawat teaches AI at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Clinical Science Center in Los Angeles. He is part of a team of scientists who are researching how AI and machine learning can more easily recognize cancerous growths in the breast. Rawat provides information about cancer cells to a computer. He says this data helps the machine learn. “You can put the data into them and they will learn the patterns and the pattern recognition that’s important to making decisions.”

David Agus is another USC researcher. He believes that “machines are not going to take the place of doctors.” “Computers will not treat patients, but they will help make certain decisions and look for things that the human brain can’t recognize these patterns by itself.”

Once a cancerous growth is removed, doctors still have to treat the patient to reduce the risk of cancer returning. The form of treatment depends on the kind of cancer. Currently, researchers take a thin piece of tissue (组织), put it on a small piece of glass and add color to better see the cells. That process could take days or even longer. Scientists say artificial intelligence can do something better than just count cells. Through machine learning, it can recognize complex patterns, or structures, and learn how the cells are organized.

The hope is that machines will soon be able to make a quick identification of cancer that is free of human mistakes. The University of Southern California researchers are now only studying breast cancer. But doctors predict artificial intelligence will one day make a difference in all forms of cancer.

1.What can we infer from the passage?

A.Computers will replace doctors one day.

B.AI technology help doctors treat diseases mainly through counting cells.

C.Cancer once cured will not come back again.

D.Breast cancer patients will benefit a lot from the AI technology application.

2.Where can you most probably see the article?

A.Medical instructions. B.Textbook.

C.Newspaper. D.Science fiction.

3.What does the passage mainly talk about?

A.Artificial intelligence to make doctors better.

B.Great benefits from artificial intelligence.

C.New discoveries about cancer.

D.The process to recognize cancer cells.

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Driverless cars are the best-known example of how artificial intelligence is influencing daily life in China, according to a new report on social attitudes toward AI technology that was released at Fudan University on May 17.

Based on the responses of 625 questionnaires made by Fudan University’s National Center for Cultural Innovation Research and the communication and data science laboratory, the report states that nearly 90 percent of the respondents are familiar with driverless cars, with over 67, percent having access to both positive and negative information on cars. About 62 percent of the respondents said they were willing to ride in driverless cars. Meanwhile, around 47 percent were supportive of unmanned vehicle road tests in the country. However, more than 30 percent of the respondents expressed their concerns about the safety of driverless cars.

If personal injuries or property loss are suffered in the event of an accident, 80.5 percent of the respondents said that the designers of the AI products should bear legal responsibility while 55.5 percent said that vehicle users should also shoulder the blame.

Smart cars with partial or fully autonomous functions are expected to account for 50 percent of new vehicles sold in China by 2020.According to the blueprint released by the National Development and Reform Commission in January, the country is aiming to become a global power in smart-car development and production by 2035.

“One cannot ignore the risks and ethics issues brought up by artificial intelligence technology,” said Sun Shaojing, director of the Communication and Data Science Laboratory of the National Center for Cultural Innovation Research at Fudan University, “Policies should be strengthened to ensure a balanced development of ethics and science, especially for some fast-growing applications like driverless cars.”

1.What do we know about the responses of 625 questionnaires?

A. More than half of the people surveyed were willing to ride in driverless cars.

B. Nearly 90% knew both positive and negative information on cars.

C. Unmanned vehicle road tests were hardly supported in the country.

D. Few people were concerned about the safety of driverless cars.

2.Who should take responsibility if an accident happened to a driverless car?

A. The designers of the AI products.

B. Both AI products designers and vehicle users.

C. Policy makers who regulate the use of driverless cars.

D. It hasn’t been decided yet.

3.What does the underlined word “autonomous” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A. high-tech　　 B. advanced

C. self-directed　　 D. useful

4.What do Sun Shaojing’s words suggest in the last paragraph?

A. We should mainly focus on the benefit that driverless cars bring to us.

B. Effective policies and rules are needed with appliances fast growing.

C. Risks and ethics issues brought up by AI cannot be avoided.

D. Driverless cars play a significant role in AI technology.

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I think humour is a vital form of entertainment, ____ it makes us laugh and laughing keeps us healthy.

A. when              B. after            C. if                   D.because

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Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed new artificial intelligence software to recognize the faces of chimpanzees in the wild. The new software will allow researchers to significantly cut back on time and resources spent analyzing video footage.

“For species like chimpanzees, which have complex social lives and live for many years, recording their behavior from short-term field research can only tell us so much.” says Dan Schofield, researcher and DPhil student at Oxford University’s Primate Models Lab. “By using the power of machine learning to unlock large video footage, it makes it feasible to measure behavior over the long term. Observing how the social lives of a group change over several generations become possible as well.”

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

“Access to this large video footage has allowed us to use cutting edge 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 in University of Oxford. “Additionally, our method differs from previous primate face recognition software in that it can be applied to raw video footage with limited manual intervention (人工干预) or pre-processing, saving hours of time and resources.”

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

“All our software is available open-source for the research community.” says Nagrani. “We hope that this will help researchers across other parts of the world apply the same cutting-edge techniques to their unique animal data sets. As a computer vision researcher, it is extremely satisfying to see these methods applied to solve real, challenging biodiversity (生物多样性) problems.”

“With an increasing biodiversity crisis and many of the world’s ecosystems under threat, the ability to closely monitor different species and populations using systems will be important for protection efforts, as well as animal behavior research.” adds Schofield. “Interdisciplinary cooperation like this have huge potential to make an impact, by finding solutions for old problems, and asking biological questions which were previously not available on a large scale.”

1.What’s the function of the new artificial intelligence software?

A.Analyzing video footage in difficult conditions.

B.Recognizing the faces of chimpanzees in the wild.

C.Cutting edge deep neural networks to train models at a scale.

D.Saving hours of time and resources without manual intervention.

2.What does the underlined word “feasible” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A.possible B.important

C.natural D.official

3.From the passage, we know that the artificial intelligence software could ________.

A.recognize individuals but not clearly

B.save time and resources only

C.help to protect different species

D.hardly solve biodiversity problems

4.What is the main purpose of the passage?

A.To introduce a new software.

B.To explain a measure.

C.To assess a project.

D.To describe a procedure.

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