84 Transcript and key might want to support their economy by lowering their environmental standards themselves. This downward spiral would put an end to efficient policies against climate change. What it boils down to is clear: The general public needs to be convinced that it is worth introducing higher standards to help preserve the environment for generations to come. The lady in the first row. Yes. What – what was your question? 0: d, 1: d, 2: b, 3: c, 4: a, 5: c, 6: a, 7: c 14 Science and technology Exploring vocabulary 1: Artificial intelligence – A blessing or a curse? (Transcript and key) b) 1. A lot of people say that when we discuss the impact of artificial intelligence we should be rather sceptical. 2. We might start using the potential of computers now and later we would find out that it might have negative consequences for us all. 3. For example, apps can produce text about a topic by combining all sorts of snippets from newspaper articles, books, social media content, etc. 4. You might get a text that is the product of clever computer programming and a huge database. 5. These data may even contain problematic content, which any reasonable human writer would try to avoid. 6. But you will never know where authors got their ideas from. 7. Don’t you think that AI can be very beneficial as well? 8. In medicine, a lot of modern machines rely on artificial intelligence to produce results which help doctors to find the cause of a certain symptom. 9. It is a very common argument that people refer to the progress in medical diagnostics to brush the negative aspects aside. 10. Self-driving or driverless cars could change the way we travel, they could make older people or children less dependent on others. 11. Safety devices in cars like emergency braking systems or automatic distance control help reduce accidents if the driver has made an error of judgement. 1. rather sceptical 2. negative consequences 3. from newspaper articles, books, social media content, etc. 4. huge database 5. would try to avoid 6. their ideas from 7. very beneficial 8. certain symptom 9. the negative aspects 10. dependent on 11. error of judgement Internet research: Artificial intelligence (Key) a)–e) Individual answers Exploring vocabulary 2: Artificial intelligence – A blessing or a curse? (Key) a) 1. handle 2. analyse 3. assist 4. interact 5. answer 6. provide 7. enhances 8. drive b) Sample answer to handle a task, to analyse vast amounts of data, to assist doctors in, to interact with humans, to answer questions, to provide recommendations, to enhance our lives, to drive innovation Test practice: Artificial intelligence – A blessing or a curse? (Transcript and key) Speaker 1: When talking about artificial intelligence we should be aware that there are many aspects which we don’t even know yet and that is why I am very sceptical with regard to the general use of AI. Speaker 2: And is that your usual scepticism or is that a real concern? Speaker 1: It is a genuine worry that we might start using the potential of computers now and later we would find out that it might have negative consequences for us all. Take, for example, apps which can produce text about a topic you set them and they write this text by combining all sorts of snippets from newspaper articles and books and social media content, etc. You might get a text that looks like a text from a human 1 45 2 3 4 + 46 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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