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3.Write the words to the following definitions. You can check your answers in the Answer key section.

4.Quiz: choose the correct definition for each word of phrase. You can check your answers in the Answer key section.

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5. Complete the words. You can check your answers in the Answer key section.

A panel of academic and industrial thinkers has looked ahead to 2030 to forecast how advances in ___________ intelligence (AI) might affect life in a typical North American city – in areas as d_________se as transportation, health care and education – and to spur discussion about how to ensure the safe, fair and bene______ development of these rapidly e_______ing technologies.

Titled “Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030,” this year-long investigation is the first product of the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100), an on_____ing project hosted by Stanford to inform societal deliberation and provide guidance on the e________ development of smart software, sensors and machines.

The report is broken into eight ___________ focusing on applications of AI. Five examine application arenas such as transportation where there is

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already buzz about self-driving cars. Three other sections treat technological im______, like the section on employment and workplace trends which touches on the ______hood of rapid changes in jobs and incomes.

The eight sections discuss:

-Transportation: A___________ous cars, trucks and, possibly, aerial delivery vehicles may alter how we commute, work and shop and create new patterns of life and leisure in cities.

-Home/service robots: Like the robotic vacuum cleaners already in some homes, specialized robots will clean and provide security in live/work spaces that will be equipped with s________ and r______ controls.

-Health care: Devices to m________or personal health and robot-assist- ed surgery are hints of things to come if AI is developed in ways that gain the trust of doctors, nurses, patients and r_________.

-Education: Interactive t_______ing systems already help students learn languages, math and other skills. More is possible if technologies like natural language processing platforms develop to a________nt instruction by humans.

-Entertainment: The conjunction of content creation t______, social networks and AI will lead to new ways to gather, organize and deliver media in engaging, person_______ed and interactive ways.

-Low-resource communities: Investments in uplifting technologies like predictive models to prevent lead poisoning or improve food distributions could spread AI b_______ to the underserved.

-Public safety and security: Cameras, drones and software to analyze crime patterns should use AI in ways that reduce human bias and enhance safety without loss of liberty or d______ty.

-Employ_____and workplace: Work should start now on how to help people adapt as the economy _____goes rapid changes as many existing jobs are lost and new ones are created.

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PART 4

Look through the titles of the articles, choose any you want to discuss with the group (or find one in the similar subject area). Render the article and include new vocabulary into Unit vocabulary list. Prepare a presentation.

1.“Life in 2050: How much space will you have to live in?” URL: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130529-how-living-space- changes-by-2050

2.“Climate tipping points: What do they mean for society?” URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160711122607.htm

3.“The universe: Learning about the future from the distant past” URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160622145411.htm

4.“Pessimism about the future may lead to longer, healthier life” URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130227101929.htm

5.“Yellowstone into the future” URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/ releases/2012/08/120830065735.htm

6.“How will smart cars affect the future of driving?” URL: https:// www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121005123821.htm

7.“Parents play vital role in molding future scientists, research shows” URL:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141202123919. htm

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UNIT VOCABULARY LIST 3

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UNIT 4: WORK

PART 1

1. Discuss the questions.

1)What role will robots play in our society later this century?

2)What images spring to mind* when you hear the word “robot”?

3)What is the definition of a “robot”?

4)Will robots be as smart* as people?

5)What jobs are likely to be replaced by robots in the future?

6)What kind of development might happen in health care in the future?

* Check the meaning of underlined words and include them into Unit vocabulary list.

2.Summarize information discussed, choose the aspects you consider the most probable and significant, make a plan or/and outline to

your answer, present it to the group.

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3.Look at the title of the article “Your next nurse could be a robot”. Do you think it’s an imaginative or real situation? Discuss this question with your partner. Do you come to the same conclusion?

4.Make up sentence with the phrases below.

…robot’s particular skills and benefits...

…they won’t steal job opportunities…

…to decrease workload…

…the way we receive health care…

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PART 2

1.Look at the words and their short meanings below, if necessary, enlarge the definitions and add transcription to the words.

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2. Read the abstract from the article “Your next nurse could be a robot”.

(reference: Frontiers. “Your next nurse could be a robot: Robots can successfully imitate human motions in the operating room.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 5 October 2016. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161005115053.htm>).

If necessary, leave notes on the margins next to the passages.

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Notes Abstract Notes

“As a roboticist, I am convinced that robotic (co)workers and collaborators will definitely change the work market, but they won’t steal job opportunities. They will just allow us to decrease workload and achieve better performances in several tasks, from medicine to industrial applications,” De Momi explains.

To conduct their experiment De Momi’s team photographed a human being conducting numerous reaching motions, in a way similar to handing instruments to a surgeon. These camera captures were input into the neural network of the robotic arm, which is crucial to controlling movements. Next a human operator guided the robotic arm in imitating the reaching motions that the human subject had initially performed. Although there was not a perfect overlap between the robotic and human actions, they were broadly similar.

These results are promising, although further research is necessary to validate or refine De Momi’s conclusions. If robotic arms can indeed imitate human behavior, it would be necessary to build conditions in which humans and robots can cooperate effectively in high stress environments like operating rooms. This future may not be as far away as we think. De Momi’s work is part of the growing field of healthcare robotics, which has the potential to change the way we receive health care sooner rather than later”.

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