Online Class Notes (Tibo)

Speaking exercise

She felt bad at the beginning of her journey but I admire her. She went to the middle east to be a digital nomad. It is so free and she can do everything she want.
She told me some very troublesome of her.
My boss told me some people lie to her. She told her she can write some coverage relating to the middle east and business or start ups there but they called her to go that region just to be an agency PR.
What she do is not to write coverages, actually she do some trivial things and she’s daily life is to communicate with supply chain business man and to have tea with some colleagues.
She thinks it is a really bad experience in her life but I feel it is interesting.

Maybe the middle east region is attractive for journalists because it is complex and historical and still has some disputes. Many fights for such a region because of oil and over religious beliefs .
It is mysterious and attractive.

Actually I think to be a digital nomad has some positives contributions to me because I think I am a very timid girl and actually it is very hard for me to communicate with strangers and actually I don’t know if I can adjust to such remote of very strange place to live.
I am so afraid to change my atmosphere or my acquaintances.
I think to be a digital nomad can change some traits of myself and help myself to be more open and outgoing person and to be brave.
I want to jump out the comfort zone to go some adventures. It is interesting and special in a person’s life.

I want to very a consideration of myself, the difference in different america regions is just like China.
China is such a complex country and every region has their own specialties. The gap between the different cities is huge. I want to investigate wether the same situation happens in America.
I read about a book talking about the gaps in California.

For many people AI is such a remote thing. For this industry how to release some actual programs or materials to show such a tech is very difficult.
Such advanced tech needs realistic settings to display and develop.
In the past  few years autonomous driving is a very important trying to AI program.

It is replacing easy work like short papers but for the coverage and some non-fiction passages, AI cannot do that. It is mixed with emotions and attitude of the journalist.

People are paradoxical when dealing with AI, on the one hand they want AI to help them simplify their work but on the other hand they are afraid if the AI can control them or is smarter than human beings.
If that comes true how can we deal with AI.
I am very concerned that if AI can be our friend or same as us. It is very horrible because I like the mystic beauty of human beings

If the AI knows you very much it


She felt bad at the beginning of her journey but I admire her. She went to the middle east to be a digital nomad. 

It is so free and she can do everything she want. She thought she would have a lot of freedom and could anything she wanted.

She told me some very troublesome of her. -> she told me about some of her troubles  / she told me about a few things troubling her.
My boss told me some people lied to her. They told her she could write some coverage related to the middle east and businesses or start ups there but they called her to go to that region just to be an agency PR.
What she does is not to write coverages, actually she does some trivial things and her daily life is to communicate with supply chain businessmen and to have tea with some colleagues.
She thinks it is a really bad experience in her life but I feel it is interesting. / she is really disappointed with it but I feel it isn’t that bad.

Maybe the middle east region is attractive for journalists because it is complex and historical and still has some disputes/conflicts. Many fight for such a region because of oil and over religious beliefs .
It is mysterious and attractive.

Actually I think being a digital nomad has some positives contributions to me / can be beneficial to me / can benefit me  because I think I am a very timid girl and actually it is very hard for me to communicate with strangers and I don’t know if I can adjust to such remote and very strange place to live. / I am quite timid and I don’t easily go toward strangers or try new things.
I am so afraid to change my atmosphere or my acquaintances / my friends’ circle
I think to be a digital nomad can change can help me improve / can help me improve myself / I a good step toward personal development and help me be more open and outgoing and braver.
I want to jump out of my comfort zone to go on some adventures. It is interesting and special in a person’s life.

Some Chinese corporation like Zhihu, their shares skyrocketed by 50%.
Zhihu is belittled by many investors because they think it cannot profit from its business. Maybe ChatGPT can give this kind of corporation new chances to develop.

Microsoft is said to invest 10B in OpenAi. I think over the past few decades Microsoft could not release some new businesses or new creative tech for investors so I think maybe they think it is a good chance or time/opportunity for them to catch up.

For many people AI is such a remote thing. For this industry how to release some actual programs or materials to show such a tech is very difficult. / making the tech more approachable / accessible is difficult

Such advanced tech needs realistic settings to display and develop.
In the past few years autonomous driving is a very important path/segment to AI program. / Autonomous driving will be will be on the best ways to display AI capabilities.

It is replacing easy work like short papers but for the coverage and some non-fiction passages, AI cannot do that. It requires emotions and attitude of the journalist.

People are paradoxical when dealing with AI, on the one hand they want AI to help them simplify their work / make their work easier but on the other hand they are afraid  the AI may control them or could become smarter than human beings.
If that comes true how can we deal with AI.

I am very concerned that about AI replacing real friends.
It is very horrible because I like the mystic beauty of human beings

If the AI knows you very much it / knows you deeply

People are trapped in an information cocoon.

Vocabulary

to dominate (v) to be the strongest player
Google dominates the search business

monopoly (n) 垄断
Google almost has a monopoly on search

to catch up (v) match someone or something in a particular activity
I managed to catch up on the first player this turn
Microsoft wants to us Chatgpt to catch up on Google.

van life (n) living in a van
A lot of people post about van life on instagram

religious (adj) about religion
The crusades were a religions conflict

digital nomad (n) someone who works entirely remotely on the internet
A lot of digital nomads live in Bali.

Jerusalem (n) 耶路撒冷
I want to visit Jerusalem

Middle East (n) 中东
I want to move to the middle east 

Tel Aviv (n) 特拉维夫
He found a job in Tel Aviv