马上要考研了，最近我在公众号“高斋外刊双语精读”上给大家整理一些外刊中的英语写作素材或句型，大家可以积累一些，这样考试的时候可以套用哦！
今天分享的是人工智能的利弊。分享的是写作句型，所以就不做精读了哈，译文仅供参考。
引出话题
Artificial intelligence is here — and it’s bringing new possibilities, while also raising questions.
人工智能来了。它带来了新的可能性，同时也提出了问题。
解析：这句也可以说Artificial intelligence is here. It’s bringing new possibilities, while also raising questions.
人工智能的好处
1. A.I. and big-data technology will remake/transform the world.
人工智能和大数据技术将重塑整个世界。
2. Companies aim to make a complicated world simpler through technology.
公司的目标是通过技术使复杂的世界变得更简单。
3. Companies can develop products and services that improve people’s lives. They will be more modest machines that will drive your car, translate foreign languages, organize your photos, recommend entertainment options and maybe diagnose your illnesses.
公司可以开发改善人们生活的产品和服务。它们将是一些不起眼的机器，可以帮你开车，翻译外语，整理你的照片，推荐娱乐选项，也许还能诊断你的疾病。
4. Baidu’s speech-recognition software — which can accomplish the difficult task of hearing tonal differences in Chinese dialects — is considered top of the class.
百度的语音识别软件可以完成识别中文方言音调差异这项艰巨任务，被业内称为一流软件。
5. Think of a spreadsheet on steroids, trained on big data. These tools can outperform human beings at a given task.
想想拥有大数据的电子表格软件，它就像吃了兴奋剂一样迅速执行任务。执行特定任务时，这些工具会比人类做得更好。
6. New technologies have enabled people to be more productive, as the Internet and word processing have for office workers. More productive workers, in turn, earn more money and produce goods and services that improve lives.
新的科技提高了人们的工作效率，正如互联网和文字处理技术提高了办公室职员的工作效率。反过来，工作效率得到提升的劳动者可以赚更多钱，生产出可以改善生活的商品和服务。
人工智能的弊端
1. The A.I. products that now exist are improving faster than most people realize and promise to radically transform our world, not always for the better.
现有的人工智能产品正以超出大多数人想象的速度在不断改进，很有可能会彻底改变我们的世界，但并非总是向好的方向改变。
2. There are fears that technology will displace/eliminate jobs and lead to mass unemployment. The technological breakthroughs of recent years — allowing machines to mimic the human mind — are enabling machines to do knowledge jobs and service jobs, in addition to factory and clerical work.
人们担心科技会取代人类工作，导致大规模失业。最近几年的科技突破，使机器逐渐能够模仿人类思维，于是让机器有能力从事知识工作和服务工作，而不只是工厂和事务性的工作。
解析：这句也可以说 The technological breakthroughs of recent years, which allow machines to mimic the human mind, are enabling machines to do knowledge jobs and service jobs, in addition to factory and clerical work. 只是使用破折号的话这句可以避免逗号过多。
3. Machines are mastering ever more intricate tasks, such as translating texts or diagnosing illnesses.
机器正在掌握处理更复杂任务的能力，例如翻译文件或者诊断病情。
转折
Unlike the Industrial Revolution and the computer revolution, the A.I. revolution is not taking certain jobs (artisans, personal assistants who use paper and typewriters) and replacing them with other jobs (assembly-line workers, personal assistants conversant with computers). But instead it would create as many jobs as it destroyed.
不同于工业革命和计算机革命，人工智能革命并不是让一些工作（工匠、使用纸笔和打字机的个人助理）消失，然后代之以其他工作（装配线工人、熟练使用计算机的个人助理）。相反，它创造的工作岗位将和它取代的工作岗位一样多。
Although some tasks are automatable, many others rely on human judgment.
虽然有些任务是可以自动化的，但其他许多任务仍然依赖人类的判断。
There are certain human skills machines will probably never replicate, like common sense, adaptability and creativity.
人类的某些技能机器或许永远无法复制，比如常识、适应性和创造力。
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