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课件网) Unit 4 Living with technology What kind of technology is the most important one to you smartwatch 智能手表 sweeping robots 扫地机器人 robot 机器人 whole-house intelligence 全屋智能化 autonomous bus 自动驾驶巴士 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。 Watch the video and fill in the blanks. Video time Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea(海底两万里): travelling deep under the ocean 2001: A Space Odyssey(2001太空漫游): travelling to _____ The Matrix(黑客帝国): connecting the human brain with _____ and entering the virtual(虚拟的) world welcome to the unit Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real 凡人能想想到的事物，必有人能将其实现 submarine 潜水艇 electric submarine 电动潜艇 manned 载人的 manned flight 载人飞行 manned spacecraft 载人航天 Apollo 阿波罗 indistinguishable 无法区分/分辨的 indistinguishable from the real world 与现实世界无异 brain-computer interface 脑机接口 Watch the video and fill in the blanks. Video time Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: travelling deep under the ocean 2001: A Space Odyssey: travelling to _____ The Matrix: connecting the human brain with _____ and entering the virtual world welcome to the unit the Moon computers When we talk about artificial intelligence, what adjectives come to your mind Artificial intelligence useful dangerous helpful advanced threatening amazing double-edged sword Pre-reading ... Artificial Intelligence: friendly or frightening Artificial Intelligence: friendly or frightening main topic 主题 two aspects 两个方面 Pre-reading Guidance & exploration 人工智能：是友是敌？ What is AI I am AI Artificial Intelligence . What AI technologies do you know Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science. The field of research includes robotics, speech recognition, image recognition, natural language processing and expert systems. 人工智能是计算机科学的一个分支，该领域的研究包括机器人、语言识别、图像识别、自然语言处理和专家系统等。 We should treat AI critically and use it properly, so that we will not fall victim to AI. 我们应该批判地看待人工智能，并且正确地使用，如此我们才不会沦为人工智能的受害者。 Reading for structure Listen to the popular science article and find the main idea of each paragraph. When we read an article of science, we usually can find out the main idea of the passage by joining the topic sentences (usually the first sentence of each paragraph) together. Fast reading: Read and match the following paragraphs with their main ideas. Para. 1 Para. 2 Para. 3 Para. 4 Para. 5 Para. 6 AI is a branch of computer science that aims ... ...
