OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, had some big changes in its leadership (领导层) in November. It’s not just drama (戏剧性场面) of one company—it made people worried about the development of the field as a whole.
On Nov 17, OpenAI said on its website that Sam Altman, one of its founders and CEO, would leave. However, many workers didn’t agree with this. More than 700 out of about 770 OpenAI workers signed a letter to ask the company to bring Altman back. In just five days, Altman was back as company CEO again.
OpenAI was started in 2015 by Altman and others as a non-profit (非营利性的) research organization. They didn’t want to be driven by a need to make money. Instead, they wanted to make AI tools that could help everyone. In 2019, OpenAI changed a bit. They made a part of the company start to make money for investors (投资人). But the non-profit part keeps control of the business, even going so far to fire (开除) its top boss.
The different opinions of the board (董事会) members toward AI development might be one reason for the drama. According to The New York Times, the people who fired Altman are more worried about AI and called for more rules to keep it in check. Altman, however, saw the further development of AI as more important.
The OpenAI drama “shows how fragile (脆弱的) the AI ecosystem (生态系统) is right now”, Johann Laux, an expert in the UK, told AP. The ecosystem is about all kinds of things related to AI, such as technologies and regulations (监管). They need to keep up with the fast development of AI.
Also, according to AP, many experts think it should be governments, not big tech companies, to decide on rules for AI. Enza Iannopollo from research company Forrester said to AP that Altman’s return stopped the board from trying to introduce more rules about AI’s ethical (伦理的) problems. The lesson is that companies alone can’t make AI safe for everyone, Iannopollo said.
【小题1】OpenAI was set up in the first place to _______.A.develop helpful AI tools | B.make big money |
C.build an AI ecosystem | D.control the AI field |
A.he called for more rules on AI | B.he paid less attention to the rules on AI |
C.he was against the development of AI | D.he sided with most investors |
A.The profit-driven part. | B.The investors. | C.The non-profit part. | D.The government. |
A.incomplete | B.strong | C.fast-growing | D.standing still |
A.OpenAI will stop running without Sam Altman. |
B.Competition is common inside big companies. |
C.AI safety depends on the joint efforts of many sides. |
D.Altman’s return will lead OpenAI to an uncertain future. |
George Devol who came from the USA designed the first programmable robot in 1969. It meant that the robot age had started from then on. However, in about 989 BC, during western Zhou Dynasty, a Chinese man whose name was Yan Shi made a wood robot. It looked like a real man and it was able to do many actions. It was good at dancing and it has a heart, a stomach and other things in its body. It also had teeth and hair. It could express its feelings by using its eyes. Its eyes could move and could show love to women, but it couldn't laugh. It was probably the earliest robot in the world.
Not all robots always look like humans. They have various shapes. They are clever and they can do all kinds of jobs, especially difficult and dangerous jobs. They are widely used in factories, banks, hospitals and other places. In the future, robots will make fewer mistakes, even can correct themselves and they will be smarter. It's possible that we will have a robot in our own home. They will do more things for us. We will have more free time to have a rest, to relax ourselves with the help of robots. I believe that we can have a better life.
【小题1】What started the robot age?A.The first programmable robot. | B.The Chinese robot. |
C.The wood robot. | D.The small robot. |
A.Dance. | B.Tempt women with eyes. |
C.Express its feelings with eyes. | D.laugh. |
A.About 50 years old. | B.About 100 years old. |
C.About 2,000 years old. | D.About 3,000 years old. |
A.Now robots are in all kinds of shapes. |
B.Now robots can do kind of difficult jobs. |
C.Now robots can help people do most of jobs. |
D.Now robots can help doctors in some ways. |
A.Robots. | B.The history of robots. |
C.The robots' usage and start. | D.People and robots. |
It's reported that a Chinese company has created a new facial recognition system that can identify (识别) people even if they are wearing masks. Developers began working on the new system in January 2020 when the novel coronavirus appeared in China. The fast spread of the virus has led most people to wear masks in public to protect themselves and people around.
China is regarded as a world leader in the development of artificial intelligence (AI). According to engineers at the Beijing-based Hanwang Technology Ltd, this system is the first to be created to identify people wearing face masks. A team of 20 engineers completed it in about a month, adding a collection of about 6 million unmasked faces and a smaller collection of masked faces," the company said.
Hanwang is now selling two main kinds of products using the new technology. One performs single channel recognition (单通道识别), which will be used at the entrances to buildings. The other product is a multi-channel (多通道识别) recognition system that uses groups of cameras. It's said that the multi-channel system can identify a person in a crowd of up to 30 people within a second.
When people wear a mask, the recognition rate can reach about 95 percent," said Huang Lei, Hanwang's vice president. The system's success rate for people without wearing a mask is about 99. 5 percent."
Nowadays the new system is trying to identify people with both sunglasses and a mask. In such cases, all of the key facial information is lost, making recognition hard," Huang said.
【小题1】What does Paragraph 1 mainly want to tell us?A.The truth that people should wear masks in public. |
B.The reason why a new facial recognition system was created. |
C.The time when the novel coronavirus appeared in China. |
A.After many unmasked and masked faces are stored in it. |
B.After just a large collection of masked faces are added to it. |
C.After 20 engineers work hard for a month. |
A.It can identify people with sunglasses and masks. |
B.It can be found at the entrances to buildings. |
C.Many cameras are used at the same time. |
A.The hair. | B.The ears. | C.The eyes. |
A.show the rapid development of China |
B.explain the popularity of AI |
C.introduce a new recognition system |
“Kids are now living in a virtual (虚拟的) world,” says Greenfield an expert (专家) at University of California. “As the Internet is becoming more and more important for our life, we should worry about one question: Is the Internet good or bad for kids?”
“It’s ▲▲▲▲ to answer the question because the Internet involves (涉及) so many things,” says Justine, who is from Northwestern University. “They include online computer games, news, messages and even e-mails to your grandmother.” So more and more people believe that the online world can be helpful in some ways, but dangerous in others.
“Although it’s not easy to tell whether (是否) it’s good or bad,” says Justine, “the Internet, at least, is very useful and can be used widely by everyone in the world.
【小题1】The writer discovered Google at the age of __________________.
A.5 | B.12 | C.17 | D.22 |
A.About 45%. | B.About 50%. | C.About 80%. | D.About 90%. |
A.is an expert from Northwestern University |
B.wants to stop all the kids from using the Internet |
C.is worrying about whether the Internet is good or bad for kids |
D.thinks that the Internet is good for all the kids in the world |
A.difficult | B.possible | C.easy | D.good |
A.Don’t use the Internet. | B.Is the Internet good or bad? |
C.Kids and e-mails. | D.Two experts from universities. |
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