《研究生学术英语读译教程》课件Unit 14 Artificial Intelligence.pptx

1、Preview Discussion 1.What is the abbreviation for“artificial intelligence”?In what fields is it applied?2.What do you think of the prospects of artificial intelligence?3.What moral or ethical problems might arise from it?How can we avoid the possible problems?Video The video provides answers to the

2、following questions.While watching the video,pay special attention to when the keywords appear.What would the speaker call AI?What has been a success?What has been a disaster?What analogy does the speaker use to explain the term“enveloping the world”?Into what is the environment transforming?Video W

3、hat would the speaker call AI?Smart technologies.What has been a success?What has been a disaster?AI/ENG.AI/C.S.D.What analogy does the speaker use to explain the term“enveloping the world”?Dishwasher.Into what is the environment transforming?An AI-friendly environment.Fast Reading Read ONLY the tra

4、nsitions between paragraphs.Underline keywords.10 minutes.Try to finish Exercise III.Skiming the Text Try to finish Exercise I in 10 minutes.While skimming the context,DONT read the content,BUT pay attention to 3 types of clues:Pronouns(指代词)Keywords(关键词)Transitions(关联词)Tense(时态)Clues within the miss

5、ing sentencesA.By the late 1980s and 1990s,AI research had developed methods for dealing with uncertain or incomplete information,employing concepts from probability and economics.B.Many tools are used in AI,including versions of search and mathematical optimization,neural networks and methods based

6、 on statistics,probability and economics.C.Emotion and social skills are important to an intelligent agent for two reasons.D.The semantics of these are captured as description logic concepts,roles,and individuals,and typically implemented as classes,properties,and individuals in the Web Ontology Lan

7、guage.E.These consist of particular traits or capabilities that researchers expect an intelligent system to display.F.Major publishers now use artificial intelligence(AI)technology to post stories more effectively.G.Many of the problems above also require that general intelligence be solved.H.Regres

8、sion is the attempt to produce a function that describes the relationship between inputs and outputs and predicts how the outputs should change as the inputs change.I.Some straightforward applications of natural language processing include information retrieval,text mining,question answering and mac

9、hine translation.Read for Specific DetailsRead the text again and finish Exercise IV.Translation RevisionArtificial intelligence is based on human intelligence can be accurately described,so we can make a machine to imitate human intelligence claim.This caused dsiscussion about the nature of human i

10、ntelligence and that artificial life is similar to human intelligence.The above problems,since the ancient times people by myth,fiction and philosophy have been discussed.Some people think that if this artificial intelligence strong momentum of development,it will bring threat to the human;Others th

11、ink that artificial intelligence will bring main threat to employment.A reference rate is very high,co-authored by Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey article found that because of the artificial intelligence,almost half of the work in the United States will be replaced by automation.But what should not be ignored is in the 21st century,with the development of computer,large data and related theory,artificial intelligence has become the important part of the technology industry,help to solve the many challenging problems in computer science.