VIP Class Notes (Tibo)

Speaking exercise

In SH you have bad news everyday.

But in the digital life I had good news.

One thing which let me feel interested is google map which uses machine learning to create immersive landscape instead of the thing by the human. -> instead of requiring human intervention.

In the past you had to use a drone or a car. Nowadays these landscapes could be generated by machine learning.

I found a twitter influencer who announced a website. You only need to write down keywords and according to your keywords the algorithm can create a drawing also through machine learning.

When you see it for the first time you think it is amazing but then you can realize it is machine made. It is not like a human made picture for which you 100% control the skills. / you quickly find limitations as you have control over the result.

The program language, you can see you need to give the machine some kind of resources / references. According to some famous drawing websites and according to that style they can learn from them. / you need to give the algorithm a reference for the style and then it can produce a result.

Internet users discussed about intellectual property 

You are the writer so you own intellectual property
Does the machine own the intellectual property or is it you.

You need the VR headset.

have you ever watched a tv drama named
It is about a lonely business man who travels and after his work he will feel hungry and then will find something new to eat.

they prefer to add so many functions

It depends on your phone version. / model. / it depends on how recent your phone is.

Vocabulary

According to : when referring to the opinion of people or entities
According to Tom, the lockdown will end in 2 weeks.

Robotic (adj) like a robot
The voice reading function feels very robotic 

Pioneer (n) 先驱
Meta is a pioneer in the metaverse 

First mover (n) the first entity who enters a space
Meta has the first mover advantage on the metaverse

Late mover (n) entity entering a space late
Many of the late movers on the bicycle renting business died 

Royalties (n) % you can from a book / music etc.
The author gets royalties on the sales of the book

Metropolis (n) big city
London is a metropolis

Intellectual property (n) ownership of a style or piece
She owns the intellectual property of the book

Drone (n) 无人机
He uses a drone to shoot a video

Tv series (n)
I watched a tv series last night 

Pronunciation

Remuneration 

Sarcasm (n) (Sar ka zem)

Sarcastic (adj)
Tom is sarcastic

sarcastically (adv)
He talked about the metaverse sarcastically