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Welcome to the unit;How smart is today’s artificial intelligence (人工智能)?;?2016年3月9日，围棋“人机大战(man VS machine battle)”正式在韩国首尔打响。谷歌开发的计算机程序(Google’s computer program) AlphaGo(The artificial intelligence (AI) program)与围棋世界冠军(world Go champion)韩国棋手李世石(top professional Go player Lee Sedol)对弈。这场“世纪大战”(match of the century)备受瞩目，被视作人类和人工智能之间的代表性对决(it is seen as a representative match between humans and AI)。 ?围棋(the game of Go)是一种棋盘游戏(board game)，发源于2500多年前的中国(originated in China more than 2,500 years ago)，比象棋(chess)要复杂的多。正因为其复杂性和依靠直觉判断的特性，围棋对于人工智能来说是一个巨大的挑战(has been viewed as a grand challenge for AI due to its complexity and intuitive nature)。;What will life be like in the future?;With the development of science and? technology, things that we can only imagine today could be realized in the future. This unit explores the theme of the future and tomorrow’s world. ;Use your imagination and think about what life will be like in the future.;Pair work;What is the robot doing in this picture? ;What jobs do you think robots could do?;540 Sino-made robots dance simultaneously (同时地) to music in the ‘worlds most viewed TV programme’ —— Spring Festival Gala.;Robots;Do you think robots can do everything for humans? Why or why not?;Picture two;Picture three;1. Can you tell where these ‘people’ are working? ;Picture four;Discussion;Before technology can be tested in a lab, it has to be hatched (孵出) in someones brain. And, sometimes, those brains dont belong to scientists, but to imaginative science fiction writers. ;He is the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, and his prediction of satellite communications has come true. Today, the geostationary orbit (地球静止轨道) at 36,000 kilometers above the equator (赤道) is named The Clarke Orbit by the International Astronomical Union.? ? ;亚瑟·查理斯·克拉克;Jules Verne was called father of science fiction. He was interested in science and wrote a number of exciting story books about the things which he thought that scientists and inventors would one day b