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*Long-life learning will** be crucial **in the AI era.*终生学习,是我们在人工智能时代的宿命

**crucial**adj.决定性的;重要的;定局的;决断的

副词:

crucially

be crucial in成为...的关键

eg.Learning will be crucial in our futrue life.

*credit card **transactions**.*测信用卡交易欺诈。

**transactions**n.处理, 办理, 执行

eg.He discussed business and concludedtransactionswith us on the spot.

他与我们谈判业务并当场成交。

***Disruption** is inevitable but it is often deeply feared.*人工智能带来扰乱是不可避免的,这种扰乱往往引发深切恐惧。

**disruption**n.中断,分裂,瓦解,破坏

eg.disruption of ecological balance is an unsolve problem.

生态失衡问题急需解决

*the current wave of change,** fuelled** by technological advancement, is no different.*当前这股由技术进步推动的变革潮流没有什么不同之处。

**fuel**- vi.得到燃料

- vt.供以燃料,加燃料

- n.燃料;刺激因素

时态:

fueled also fuelled

fuelingfuelling

fuelsfuels

名词:

fueler

eg.People's nature fuelled rumours. 

*however, like generations before us, we must learn to **transcend **the disruption and thrive in new times.*不过,就像之前的世代那样,我们必须学会超越这种扰乱,在新的时代蓬勃发展。

**transcend **

tvt.超出或超越(经验、信念、描写能力等)的范围

优于或胜过…

eg.love that transcends infatuation.比痴迷还甚的爱情

*Changing how we view education **is essential to **humanity’s ability to achieve the best from new technologies.*

be essential to 至关重要

eg.Food is essentialb to life.食物是维持生命不可或缺的。

*their excitement was **tinged** with **trepidation** about the future.*他们的兴奋里夹杂着一些对未来的恐慌。

**trepidation**n. 惊恐;恐惧;忧虑;颤抖

eg.The men set off in fear andtrepidation.

这群人惊慌失措地出发了。

**tinged**- adj. [医]淡色的

- v.着淡色于…(tinge的过去分词)

eg.this visit will be tinged with sadness.

这次拜访将带着些许的伤感。

*will affect us all and **is here to stay***将影响我们所有人,而且是永久性的;

**be here to stay **扎下根来;留下不走

eg. Although the thorns of life may be here to stay just sprout a smile along the way.

*It is in its **infancy** and there is an **immense** opportunity to transcend the disruption*人工智能尚处于起步阶段,有巨大的机会去超越它带来的扰乱;

**immense**adj.极大的,巨大的

副词:

immensely

名词:

immenseness

eg.animmensebody of water一片汪洋。

*a quarter have already fully **deployed at** least one AI technology.*四分之一的企业已经全面部署了至少一项人工智能技术。

**deployed at**vt.(尤指军事行动)使展开; 施展; 部署

eg.forces weredeployedat strategic locations.军队已被部署在各个战略位置。

*Technology can be a great enabling force that **amplifies** and empowers people*科技可以成为一种伟大的推动力,让人们变得强大,

**amplify**- vt.放大,扩大

-增强

- vt. & vi.详述

时态:

amplified, amplifying, amplifies

eg.The new manager wants to amplify the company.新经理想要扩大公司。

*We work in areas **unimaginable to **a farmer in the 1900s.*现在有些行业是1900年代的农民无法想象的。

**unimaginable to **adj.不能想象的;难以想象的;想不到的

eg.the life in 2017 is unimaginable to people who lived in 2007.

*Today hired farm workers **constitute **less than 1 per cent of the US workforce and yet overall employment has **soared**.*现在农场雇佣工人占美国劳动力不足1%,但整体就业岗位已大幅增加。

**constitute**- vt.构成,组成

-建立,制定

-选定,任命

时态:

constituted, constituting, constitutes

名词:

constituter  

eg.They constituted an acting committee.他们设立了一个临时委员会。

**soared**v.骤然上升;飙升(soar的过去分词)

eg.The temperaturesoaredto 80°F.气温骤升到80华氏度。

>While intelligent systems may eventually **surpass** humans in performing well-defined cognitive tasks (such as problem solving), it takes human creativity and** ingenuity **to “see” the opportunity (such as recognising a problem technology can solve in the first place)

**surpass**vt.胜过,优于;超越;非…所能办到或理解

时态:

surpassed, surpassing, surpasses

eg.The latecomerssurpassthe early starters.后来居上。

**ingenuity**n.足智多谋,心灵手巧

eg.The boy showedingenuityin making toys.那个小男孩做玩具很有创造力。

.虽然智能系统最终可能在执行明确定义的认知任务(如解决问题)方面超越人类,但是“发现”机会(比如认识到一个可以用技术解决的问题)需要人类的创造力和聪明才智。

>As my**co-chair **at the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on AI and Robotics, says, we are still in the early stages of understanding how intelligent systems can work with people more **seamlessly. **

正如我在世界经济论坛(World Economic Forum)人工智能和机器人全球未来理事会(Global Future Council on AI and Robotics)的联名主席、杜克大学(Duke University)的米西•卡明斯(Missy Cummings)教授所说,我们仍处于摸索如何能让智能系统与人类无缝合作的早期阶段。

**co-chair **

vt. 担任…的联合主席

n. 联合主席

eg.where is co-chair?

*It is not a question of man or machine, but of man and machine. *这不是人类或机器的问题,而是人类与机器的问题。

  a question of ...的用法

eg.To me, it is question of simple mathematics. 对我而言,这是一个简单的数学问题。

*When we achieve such a **symbiosis, **the potential for our species will be immense.*当我们达到这样的共生境界,人类将释放巨大潜能。

*This story of disruption and transcendence has played out over **millennia.** *扰乱与超越的故事已上演了数千年。

**millennia**- For two

Eg.Millennia, exogamy was a major transgression for Jews.

两千年来,异族通婚一直是犹太人的一大禁忌。

Eg.millennia the people along the Nile have depended entirely on its bounty.

几千年来尼罗河沿岸的居民一直完全依靠这条河慷慨的恩赐为生。

>*The time has come to *rethink education and *to recast it as *a life-long process.是时候重新思考教育,将其视为一个终身过程。

*with** mandatory **computer science learning as the **bedrock **for enabling digital literacy. *通过强制性的计算机科学课程实现数字扫盲。

**mandatory**adj.命令的;强制的;义务的

eg,rising children is mandatory to every people

**bedrock**n.根底;基岩;基本原理

eg,Math is bedrock for science.

>Infosys is rethinking its training **infrastructure **and augmenting it with, for example, short courses (or “nanodegrees”) to help drive the rapid acquisition of new skills, including AI techniques, at scale.

孚瑟斯公司正重新考虑自己的培训基础设施,例如用短期课程(即所谓“纳米学位”)来加强培训,规模化帮助员工迅速掌握新技能,包括人工智能方法。

**infrastructure**n.基础设施;基础结构

eg.infrastructure construction is bedrock for citizens' daily life.

基础设施与居民生活息息相关

**scale**- n.刻度;比例;数值范围;天平;规模;鳞

- vi.攀登;衡量;生水垢;剥落

- vt.攀登;测量;刮鳞;依比例决定

时态:

scaled, scaling, scales

形容词:

scalelike

形容词:

scalable

eg.they make agreement to a small-scaleplan.

他们达成一个小计划

####专业知识

世界经济论坛(World Economic Forum)

机器人全球未来理事会(Global Future Council on AI and Robotics)

Infosys孚瑟斯公司,印度第一家在美上市的公司

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