French and American doctors have done an operation (手术) together in which the doctors were outside the operating room. This kind of operation is known as robotic operation.

Doctor Marescaux did the operation in an office in New York City last month, while a sixty-eight-year-old woman patient was in a hospital in Strasbourg, France.

A doctor in Strasbourg got the patient ready. He placed medical tools and a small video camera in her stomach area. Doctor Marescaux in New York watched the patient on a video screen. Then he used the computer to send messages to the robot machine.   

The robot moved the tools that cut the woman’s gallbladder (胆囊) away. The woman got well soon after the operation and left the hospital two days later.

Experts say the main problem with such a robotic operation is based on high-speed telecommunications (通讯系统) between the doctor and the robot. Technology must be able to send a doctor’s order to a robot to move the tool quickly.

Experts also say a successful robotic operation will improve an operation. For example, the robot can make such smaller movements than a person can. A robot machine can turn tools in ways that a doctor’s hand cannot.

Doctors say such a robotic operation will make possible safer and better operations in the future. They say it will improve doctor training. It will also mean that doctors could do an operation on people in dangerous places far away. And it could mean that people could have operations done by top doctors without having to travel to the city where the doctors work.

People design handbags, clothes and shoes, Now some people say, “We could design babies!” It sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But in fact the idea is possible, although it has also caused a lot of debates（争论）.

A “designer baby” means scientists can make changes to babies’ DNA that are not born. It usually happens in the very early time of the embryo（胚胎）.Scientists want to stop babies from being born with certain serious illnesses by making changes to their DNA. They call it genetic engineering（遗传工程）. During the 21st century, researches on the technology made progress very quickly.

People soon learned that it was not only illnesses we could change, but also a baby’s gender（性别）and look. In 1996, an American couple, Monique and Scott Collins, decided to use a doctor’s research to help them choose the gender of their next baby. They wanted to have a baby girl. Their story became famous. People started to realize how much doctors could do. For example, you could control babies’ eye color, hair color and even things like height or how athletic your baby will be.

People argue that it is not ethical（道德的）to design our babies in this way. After all, babies are not things like handbags. But they also agree that genetic engineering is helpful in the medical field. There are many examples of how doctors have saved children from illnesses by using this technology.

①Type in “A cat wants to go to space” and ask the robot to write a bedtime story. Just one second later, you’ll get the story of Max, who was on his way past many difficulties to sing among the stars.

②This robot writer is real. It’s called Chạt GPT. It was developed by US company Open AI. It can translate languages, talk with people and write songs, poems and even jokes. It’s one of the most powerful AI of its kind (范围) of a real person! According to a US report of more than 1, 000 students, over 89% of them have used Chat GPT to help with homework.

③Some schools in the US, Australia and France have banned (禁止) the use of Chat GPT. In the US, New York City public schools banned students and teachers from using Chat GPT on the district’s networks and devices (设备), CNN reported. The move comes out of worries that the tool could make it easier for students to cheat (作弊), “It does not build critical (批判的)-thinking and problem-solving skills (学术的) and lifelong success,” said Jenna Lyle, a secretary of the New York City Department of Education.

④However, not all educators say “no” to Chat GPT. Some Canadian universities are drafting (起草) policies on its use, for both students and teachers. They have no plans to completely ban the tool so far.

⑤There is no doubt (怀疑) that Chat GPT is a powerful tool that people will use. What we need to do is to “adapt (适应) our learning, teaching and examinations”. That way, we can have integrity (诚信) while we’re using the tool.