本期经济学人专题解析：AI and Work 人工智能与人类

2018年6月9日一篇特别报道“人工智能取代人类”的文章很是有趣！

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文章关键词Deep Learning深度学习：an artificial-intelligence technique which first attracted attention for its ability to teach computers to recognize objects in pictures.

文章以悲观者的观点引入，AI将会取代很多工作

Pessimist观点：

human beings can be dispensed with entirely.

E.g. radiologists放射学家“should be worried about their jobs”

“Given how widely applicable machine learning seems to be, such pronouncements are bound to alarm white-collar workers, from engineers to lawyers”

“Machine learning will indeed change many fields, allowing the rapid analysis of enormous piles of data to uncover insights that people might overlook.”

作者马上开始反驳: In fact, the application of AI to medicine suggests that the story is more complicated.

并且提出了三点原因作为支撑

Reason 1 AI的应用会很慢，不会很快取代很多工作

But it is important to remember thatAI, for the foreseeable future, will remain “narrow”, not general. No human is as good at mental arithmetic as a $10 pocket calculator, but that is all the calculator can do.

Deep learning “is limited – a sort of electronic idiot-savant which excels at one particular mental task but is baffled by others.”

Reason 2大部分工作要求很高，机器只会辅助人类，而不是取代Most jobs involve many tasks.Spreadsheets have yet to send the accountants to the dole queue, because there is more to accountancy than making columns of figures add up.Radiologists analyse a lot of images. But they also decide which images should be taken, confer on tricky diagnoses, discuss treatment plans with their patients, translate the conclusions of the research literature into the messy business of real-life practice, and so on.Handing one of those tasks to a computerized helper leaves radiologists not with a redundancy cheque, but with more time to focus on other parts of their jobs—often the rewarding ones.

Reason 3价格问题：Even in the rich world, radiology is expensive.

最后重申自己的观点：No one knows how sweeping the long-term effects of AI on employment will be. But experience suggests thattechnological change takes longer than people think.

词汇输入

pessimist悲观者

optimist乐观者

take over取代

Dispense省去、摒弃

Luminary杰出人物

Redundant多余的

Robopocalypse机器人启示录

Be suffused with充满着

Hype炒作夸张

Outperform超过

Unambiguous不含糊的

Idiot-savant低能特才；大智若愚的人

Is baffled by被难倒

Sweeping影响广泛的

雅思写作相关考题：Some people think that robots are very important for human’s future development. Others, however, think that robots are a dangerous invention that could have negative effects on society.

朋友们可以结合这篇文章素材来写作这篇作文哦

好处辅助工作；减轻工作压力（e.g. medicine领域）

坏处可能将来会取代一部分人的工作[其实这也不算是坏处]