北师大版高中英语选修七Unit 20《New Frontiers》（Lesson 2）课件 - 副本.pptVIP

* Lesson 2 Artificial Intelligence What is artificial intelligence? It is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. 1. What science fiction films have you seen that are about intelligent robots or robots that look like humans? 2. How did the robots behave towards humans? Artificial Intelligence Robots work in factories, play football, control cars and planes, beat us at chess, write music, give us the news, speak to us, have feelings, have a real conversation with us 3. Which of these things can robots and computers do now? What are the two robots doing? The two robots are nursing the patients. Robot can replace human to do many jobs. They will not feel tired or make mistakes. What are the two robots doing? The first two are beating drums. The woman dressed in red is hosting a program. Who will win the game? One day robot really can have a real conversation with us. Listen to learn 1. Where can you see and hear her? What does she do? On the Internet: she presents the news 24 hours a day. Listen to the interview with Ananova and answer the questions. 2. Does Ananova really exist? Can she really talk? No. She can’t really talk. 3. Why are there no photos of her as a child? Because she isn’t human and was created in 1999. She’s never been a child. 4. How does she find news stories? She has her own search engine. 5. What are her plans for the future? She’ll be sending news directly to mobile phones. Read these words together Listen to the interview again. Complete the Function File with these expressions. in other words, is that clear? what I don’t quite understand, to put it another way, what I mean is, what that means, so does that mean, could you explain how, what I’m trying to say, what I’m getting at, that’s a programme which, I mean Clarifying and asking questions And tonight she’s in the studio for an interview with us, well, (1) _____________, she’s here o