专业英语八级（作文）模拟试卷262
写作
1. The following two excerpts are about artificial intelligence or AI, an old technology with recent progress thanks to a new way of algorithm. From the excerpts, you can find that AI has a wide application in many fields, but there has also been doubt and criticism. Write an article of NO LESS THAN 300 words, in which you should;
1. summarize the different responses to AI, and then
2. express your opinion towards AI, especially whether the worries about it are justified.
Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your article on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
Excerpt 1
March of the Machines
It was not quite a whitewash, but it was close. When DeepMind, a London-based artificial intelligence (AI) company, challenged Lee Sedol to a five-game Go match, Mr. Lee—one of the best human players of that ancient and notoriously taxing board game—confidently predicted that he would win 5 – 0, or maybe 4 -1.
He was right about the score, but wrong about the winner. The match, played in Seoul to crowds on the edges of their seats and streamed to millions online, was won by the computer, four games to one.
Ever since Garry Kasparov, a chess grandmaster, lost to a computer in 1997, Go—which is far harder for machines—has been an unconquered frontier. AlphaGo’s win demonstrates the power of \\
Don’t Worry About AI
As we know, a machine’s 4-1 thrashing of a famous Go champion shocked the world into new recognition of artificial intelligence (AI). After years of setbacks, AI has made a stunning comeback, taking over almost every walk of life from translating languages to pinning down our faces and voices. Yet worries about AI’s stealing our jobs or running out of our control never fade away. In my opinion, with some basic rules set ahead about the development of AI, these fears are not justified at all.
The caveats over AI are nothing but the modern expression of an old Frankenstein story of the panic about the \\
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