在科技發展極其迅速的當下,人工智慧已經不再是天方夜譚,不再是漫畫家筆下虛無縹緲的想像,而是真真切切地存在於21世紀的今天。阿爾法狗與韓國圍棋高手李世石的對決,已經引起全世界對人工智慧的廣泛關注,各方媒體爭相對其進行報導，也成為了考試的熱點。
今天奇速君分享3篇奇速英語原創關於人工智慧的英語時文閱讀，一起來學習吧。
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人工智慧投入眼科檢測：比人更快更精確
初中難度
A Chines hospital on Thursday launched free consultations featuring artificial-intelligence (AI) cameras to detect eye diseases, which are major causes of blindness.
Deqing county hospital in Guangdong Province became the first to use the device, co-developed by China’s search engine Baidu and Sun Yat-sen University, to serve the general public, Baidu told Xinhua.
The instrument is capable of diagnosing three types of eye disorders — diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and macular degeneration. It scans the eyes and generates a report in 10 seconds, all done without the need for an doctor to be present.
With an accuracy rate of 94 percent, it had previously been piloted in hospitals in nine Chinese provinces, according to Baidu.
Though it may be interpreted as AI making the doctors lose their jobs, Baidu said the new tool aimed to help cut the waiting line at the eye doctor’s short, especially in China’s rural regions.
Eye diseases are a major cause of blindness in the developing world, where the short supply of eye doctors and instruments make it difficult to check and treat in time. China, with a population of 1.39 billion, has only thousands of eye doctors capable of analyzing eye screening photos.
Xu Yanwu, a Baidu engineer developing the instrument, said the AI cameras were specifically designed to address the lack of medical instruments and eye doctors at grassroots health facilities.
1. How many kinds of eye disorders can the instrument diagnose?
A 1.
B 2.
C 3.
D 4.
2. What’s the disadvantage of the instrument?
A It can make the eye doctors lose jobs.
B It can cut the treatment cost down.
C It can reduce the eye disorder rate.
D It can rise the eye treatment rate.
3. What is the aim of the instrument?
A To make the eye disease check more accurate.
B To make eye disease treatment easier.
C To make eye doctors』 work easier.
D To make seeing an eye doctor easier.
4. Which of the following is TRUE?
A The AI instrument can bring brightness for blind people.
B The AI instrument is easy to use and have high accuracy.
C The AI instrument is invented by two universities.
D The eye doctors feel uneasy about the AI instrument.
5. What is the main idea of this passage?
A The short of eye doctors is making eye disease treatment hard.
B The AI instrument is being put into use to diagnose eye diseases.
C New diagnosing ways are being used for eye diseases.
D .Eye doctors are in danger of losing their jobs because of the AI instrument.
人工智慧與圍棋高手對決，結果會怎樣?
高中難度
The Google-owned computer AlphaGo is retiring from playing humans in the ancient Chinese game of Go after roundly defeating the world's top player this week, its developer said on Saturday.
AlphaGo defeated the 19-year-old world number one Ke Jie of China on Saturday to sweep a three-game series that was closely watched as a measure of how far artificial intelligence (AI) has come. AlphaGo last year became the first computer programme to beat an elite player in a full Go match, and its success has been hailed due to the game's difficulty.
AlphaGo has a great number of moves, and it also has the human-like "thinking" and strategy. But this week's contests in the eastern Chinese city of Wuzhen were its last, said DeepMind Technologies, the London-based AI company that developed AlphaGo and which Google acquired in 2014.
In a blog post, DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis said AlphaGo's developers will turn to "the next set of challenges, developing advanced general program that could one day help scientists as they work out some of our most difficult problems". These could include "finding new cures for diseases, dramatically reducing energy consumption, or inventing new materials," he said.
"If AI systems prove they are able to discover significant new knowledge and strategies in these fields too, the breakthroughs could be truly remarkable. We can’t wait to see what comes next."
Go involves two players laying black and white stones on a grid, trying to capture the most territory. Invented nearly 3,000 years ago in China, it is played worldwide but most popular in East Asia.
Top players have been interested in AlphaGo, describing its play as groundbreaking and opening up new ways of approaching the game. Likewise, AlphaGo's success has fuelled visions of AI that can not only perform pre-programmed tasks, but help people look at complex scientific, technical and medical mysteries in new ways.
AlphaGo's "thinking" is powered by millions of connections similar to neurons in the brain. It is partly self-taught, having played millions of games against itself.
1. Why did AlphaGo play with Ke Jie?
A Because people wanted to know artificial intelligence clearly.
B Because the world number one Ke Jie of China wanted to win.
C Because AlphaGo became the last computer program to sell.
D Because a number of people wanted to watch the game closely.
2. What made people interested in the match?
A AlphaGo has the computer games.
B AlphaGo has a great number of moves.
C The game is difficult to play.
D The game is only played in China.
3. What can the future advanced general program do?
A It can remember the new knowledge.
B It can make use of the strategies.
C It can help us use energy effectively.
D It can set a lot of breakthroughs.
4. Why was AlphaGo so clever?
A Because it was made up of millions of connections.
B Because top players have been interested in AlphaGo.
C Because AlphaGo became most popular in East Asia.
D Because it played millions of games with other computers.
人工智慧時代到來，到2025年你還有工作嗎?
高中難度
From self-driving cars to carebots for elderly people, rapid advances in technology have long represented a potential threat to many jobs normally performed by people.
But experts now believe that almost 50 per cent of occupations existing today will be completely unnecessary by 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to transform businesses. This could put some people’s livelihoods at risk.
「Experts predict that 50 per cent of occupations today will no longer exist by 2025 as people will take up more creative professions,」 said Martin Chen, Chief Operating Officer of Genesis. 「This means that jobs will develop and so will real estate development.」
Workspaces with rows of desks will become completely extra, not because they are not fit for purpose, but simply because that purpose no longer exists, according to the report.
「The next fifteen years will see a revolution in how we work, and a corresponding revolution will necessarily take place on how we plan and think about workplaces,」 said Peter Andrew, Director of Workplace Strategy for CBRE Asia Pacific.
A growing proportion of jobs in the future will require creativity intelligence, social skills and the ability to apply artificial intelligence. 「And for most people that will be a route to happiness and fulfillment,」 the report states.
Data in the USsuggests that technology already destroys more jobs than it creates, as GDP has been able to grow faster than employment since 2000. A 2014 report by Pew Research found 52 per cent of experts in artificial and robotics were optimistic about the future and believed there would still be enough jobs in the next few decades.
The optimists imagined 「a future in which robots and digital agents do not replace more jobs than they create,」 Microsoft’s Jonathan Grudin told researchers that: 「Technology will continue to break up jobs, but more jobs seem likely to be created.
Although there have always been unemployed people, when we reached a few billion people there were billions of jobs. There is no shortage of things that need to be done and that will not change.」
1. What will put some people’s livelihood at risk in fifteen years of time?
A Self-driving cars and carebots.
B Artificial intelligence.
C Business.
D Real estate.
2. Why will desks in offices be unnecessary by 2025?
A There will be no purpose of using the desks.
B The desks will no longer be fit for the purpose.
C The office revolution will make people rethink about their work.
D The development of technology removes the need for desks.
3. What will the characteristics of the jobs be in the next fifteen years?
A Most jobs in the future use high technology.
B More and more jobs focus of happiness and fulfillment.
C More and more jobs are focusing on artificial intelligence.
D Most jobs will require social ability to communicate with others.
4. What can be implied in what Jonathan Grudin said in the last paragraph ?
A There will be billions of people in fifteen years of time.
B Enough jobs will be created for everyone to choose from.
C People needn’t worry about their jobs in the future.
D Robots and digital agents create more jobs than they destroy.
5. What can be the best title of the passage?
A 2025, A Jobless World.
B 2025, Robots Leave Humans Unemployed.
C There Will Be No Desks in Future.
D Half of Our Jobs Will Be Unnecessary by 2025.
答案及解析和更多熱點練習可以通過英語時文閱讀查看，練習時除了準確率也要注意時間的把控。