雅思课外读物--Can a robot replace us?

摘要：雅思中国网雅思频道跟大家分享一篇雅思阅读文章“Can a robot replace us”说实话，现代社会发展的越来越智能了.机器人可以代替我们做很多的事情，甚至很多餐厅都在用机器人做服务员了。那么问题来了，机器人可以代替我们吗？可以吗？看看这篇文章怎么说的吧！

Using data as a tool is great, and there is definitely a place for all kinds of AI as an enabling tool in the boardroom. But successful boardrooms are characterized by nuance and judgement. The boardroom, like most of life, is not a 0-or-1 situation. We must depend on human intuition and human understanding and combine that with data.

As board directors, we must draw on as much information and analysis as possible, and big data has a real role to play in enabling the boardroom, but I don't think I'll be sitting next to a robot in the boardroom any time soon.

Vocabulary

Obsolete 过时的

Oversee 监管

Farfetched 牵强附会的

Algorithm 运算法则

Remuneration 回报

Compensation 补偿

Audit 审计

Myriad 很多的;大量的

Differentiate 区分;区别

Intuitive 直觉的

Ingenuity 精巧;独创

Hinder 阻碍

Friction 摩擦

Robust 坚固的;有力的

Fallible 可能犯错的

Come down to… 归结于

Fallibility 可错性

Briefing 简报

Veracity 真实性

Nuance 细微之处

Draw on 利用

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It might sound farfetched,but 45% of 800 executives surveyed by the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software and Society said they expected an artificial intelligence machine will sit on a company’s board of directors by the year 2025.

这听起来似乎牵强，但是在“软件与社会的未来”这一调查中，接受世界经济论坛全球事务协会调查的800名高管里，有45%的人表示期待在2025年前将看到人工智能机器参与公司董事会。

But, since that isn’t the full extent of the role of a genuine board member, the algorithm clearly was not really going to function as a full voting member of the firm’s board.

但是，由于这并不是真正的董事成员的全部职能，所以显而易见，(机器人的)运算法则并不能在公司董事会上像有投票权的成员那样履行职责。

And risk committees use data to analyse the myriad factors associated with risk of any kind, be it financial, infrastructure, strategy, legal and more.

风险委员会用数据来分析与各类风险相关的诸多因素，不管是财务、基础设施、策略、法律还是其他。

Indeed, if everyone is using the same sort of data and simply making automatic,calculated decisions from it, then differentiation is lost.

的确，如果每个人都利用同样的数据，并由此得出自动的、计算出来的结论，那么差别就消失了。

Bringing those ideas to fruition, be it a new venture or a new direction for a company, requires the right people to execute on it.

要让这些想法开花结果，无论是开一家新公司，或是为公司找一个新的方向，需要恰当的人来执行才可以。

Some of the fallibility in boardrooms comes from the fact that as a diverse group of board members we are, individually, often called to make decisions on matters where we don’t have expertise.

董事会可能犯错，是因为如下事实：董事会成员虽然多种多样，但我们经常被单个叫去，就一些我们没有专业知识的事情做决定。

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