人工智能峰会NIPS

问题思考

1.人工智能顶级峰会指的是什么会议？

2.文中列举了哪几家公司在AI领域的快速发展？

3.你认为人类有哪些要素是不太会被人工智能取代？

英语原文

Humanorchestrasplaying musiccomposed by computers; machines learning in hours what took humansmillennia; hallspacked withthousands of people listening tocomputer-science talks inhushedreverence. Allpar for the courseat this week'sNeural Information Processing System conference, thepremierartificial-intelligence summit. The conference revealed the increasing pace ofdevelopment of AI, and of its spread into everyconceivableindustry. That is most evident in the development of hardware. Tesla, an electric-car maker, is working on its own chip to run AIalgorithms, in partnership with AMD, a microprocessor manufacturer. Nvidia, another chipmaker, will start selling the "Titan V", a $3,000processor specially designed for training AI algorithms. The next generation experimental-fusion reactor built by TAE, an energy firm,will beexplicitlydesigned to produce data to feed into AI thatwilloptimisethe nuclear reaction. The firm that will receive and process those data? None other than Google.

词组积累

1.orchestra n. 管弦乐队

2.millennium n. 一千年 (复数: millennia)

3.millennials n. 千禧一代 (1981年至2000年之间出生的人)

4.be packed with 挤满了

5.hushed adj. 安静的

6.hush n. 安静 / vt. 使……安静

7.reverence n. 尊敬；敬意

8.be par for the course 一切尽在意料之中的；不出所料的

9.Neural Information Processing System conference 神经信息处理系统大会

10.premier adj.最好的，第一的

11.conceivable adj.可能的，可想象的

12.algorithm n. 算法

13.explicitly adv.明确地

14.optimise v.最优化