VIP Class Notes (Raph)[W]

Go to either www.vox.com or www.newsinlevels.com, pick an article of your interest and write a paragraph explaining it with your own words.

Vocabulary

Foreign (adj): 1- Something can be described as foreign to a particular person if they do not know about it or it is not within their experience.
E.g.: The whole concept of democracy, she claimed, was utterly foreign to the present government.

Acronym (n): 1- an abbreviation consisting of the first letters of each word in the name of something, pronounced as a word.
E.g.: UN is an acronym for “United Nations”.

Demonstrator (n): 1- a person who marches or stands with a group of people to show that they disagree with or support something or someone. 2- a person who explains how something works or how to do something.
E.g.: Police arrested several of the demonstrators.
E.g.: A demonstrator was showing customers how the food processor worked.

Autonomy (n): 1- the right of an organization, country, or region to be independent and govern itself. 2- the ability to make your own decisions without being controlled by anyone else. (adj: Autonomous)
E.g.: Demonstrators demanded immediate autonomy for their region.
E.g.: Her boss complimented her on her autonomy, creativity and her ability to solve problems independently.
E.g.: The government is pushing to take control over the historically autonomous region.
E.g.: Tesla is going to test one of their autonomous cars by letting it self-drive from Los Angeles to New York City.

Original:

I still remembered the news 20 years ago that the chess computer named Deepblue beat the world champion chess master. At that time, AI was a totally strange technology for normal people. Due to the fact that computer science has made great progress for the past two decades, currently we talk about this word constantly. Recently the breaking news that Alpha Go defeated the world leading go masters made us think an AI world might not only exist in a science fiction and the world might come true considerably sooner than we had expected. In the future, AI products might have the ability to take the place of human beings in tons of areas, for instance, medical, construction and manufacturing. Furthermore, they might even be able to appreciate music and arts and become artists. For now, we have seen the positive possibilities about AI tech. However, the future might eventuate in an utterly different situation if our scientists are too obsessive and go too far. I think they should be more careful to treat this technology and sometimes take a break to think whether it will do harm to human beings or not.

Edited:

I still remember the news 20 years ago that the chess computer named Deepblue beat the world champion chess master. At that time, AI was a totally strange / foreign technology for normal people. Due to the fact that computer science has made great progress for the past two decades, currently we talk about it constantly. Recently the breaking news that Alpha Go, an AI computer program that plays the board game Go defeated the world’s leading Go masters made us think an AI world might not only exist in science fiction and that might come true considerably sooner than we had expected. In the future, AI products might have the ability to take the place of human beings in tons of areas, for instance, medicine, construction and manufacturing. Furthermore, they might even be able to appreciate music and arts and become artists themselves. For now, we have seen the positive possibilities about AI tech. However, the future might eventuate in an utterly different situation if our scientists are too obsessive and go too far. I think they should treat this technology more carefully and sometimes take a break to think whether it will do harm to human beings or not.

Pronunciation

Acronym: /ˈæk.rə.nɪm/

Autonomy: /ɑːˈtɑː.nə.mi/

Autonomous: /ɑːˈtɑː.nə.məs/

Demonstrator: /ˈdem.ən.streɪ.t̬ɚ/