VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)[S/W]

What are some advantages and disadvantages of computers becoming smarter than humans.

in general – generally – usually 

Vocabulary

Nicholas – Nick

Robert – Rob – Bobby – Bob

races – ethnicities – groups of people with different “blood”

e.g. The major ethnic groups of the world are: European people, African people, Asian people.

nationality – what country are you from

e.g. Bobby and Nicholas have the same ethnicity, but they have a different nationality.

e.g. Bobby’s ethnicity and nationality are the same.

alien – foreigner

e.g. Chinese people are alien to the United States.

alien – wai xing ren

e.g. Do you think aliens exist?

produce – out-produce – production

economy – money for a country

workers = labor

to counter – to fight back

e.g. My enemy in Minecraft built a big tower and I countered it with my own tower.

advanced – to be advanced – to be very highly upgraded, intelligent, and with super smart technology

e.g. China is a very advanced society compared to China 100 years ago, but maybe we will meet aliens from another planet that are even more advanced.

artificial intelligence (AI) – 人工智能

e.g. Is AI a big opportunity for humans or a grave danger?

conscious – consciousness – 意识

e.g. Some people are afraid that if AI achieves / develops consciousness then maybe it will decide to kill us all.

Original 

because I think there water on the Mars and there are always many stories about aliens in the past. Because I think we can’t contact with them because we dont have the same language – I think it’s just like a coin has two sides first maybe we can learn their technology if we be friend with them but in the other hand maybe they will attack us in return – No because if the computers wants to kill other human beings all we have to do is turn off the electricity, and I think we can now control it.

Corrected  

because I think there is water on the Mars and there has always been many stories about aliens in the past. Because I think we can’t make contact with them / we can’t communicate with them because we don’t have / [don’t speak] / don’t share]t[he same language – I think it’s just like a coin has two sides first maybe we can learn their technology if we befriend them / if we can make friends with them but on the other hand maybe they will attack us in return – No because if the computers wants to kill other human beings all we have to do is turn off the electricity, and I think we can now control it.

Grammar

there are different kind of mode – there are different kind of modes

but the new one you can do it – but with the new one you can do it

though I can’t play very easier – however I couldn’t play very easily

I can play it at weekends – I can play it on the weekends

although = good + bad

Although today is Children’s Day, I am not happy.

Although it’s my birthday today, my parents forgot about it.

My parents forgot my birthday even though it’s an easy thing to remember.

though = in the middle of the sentence

Original

After Wangyi bought Minecraft for me, it comes lower and lower. There are several disadvantages. Firs too all, it changed the moving mode from the cross keys to rocker key. I think it is harder to control easily. Next, they add a lot of kinds of blocks though they are useless. They can only put in home. Looks like it’s very useful. What’s more they changed how you swim. In old time, tyou can swim, just to press on the front rocker key but now you need to press it all the time. And sometime you will be fall into deep water.

But just as the coin has two sides. They upgraded the weapon. There is a new weapon names crossbow. It can have three arrows in one shot.  But I prefer the olds. Because the old one is the one in which I have more memory. What ever how good is the new one, the old one will always be the better one.

Corrected 

After Wangyi bought Minecraft, for me it has gotten worse and worse. There are several disadvantages: first of all, it changed the moving command from the cross keys to the rocker key. I think it is harder to control. Next, they added a lot of different kinds of blocks even though they are useless—they can’t even be used in the home. Although it looks like it’s very useful, it’s not. What’s more / additionally they changed how you swim. In older versions, you could swim by just pressing and holding on the front rocker key, but now you need to press it all the time / continuously; and sometimes you fall into deep water.

But just as every coin has two sides, they did make some improvements. They upgraded the weapons. There is even a new weapon named “crossbow”. It can have / use / hold three arrows in one shot / at a time,  but I still prefer the old game. The old version is the one in that I have more memory of. No matter how good this new one is, the old one will always be the better one for me.

usually put a comma before BUT

don’t start you sentence with AND or BECAUSE or BUT