文档介绍：外刊赏读(《大西洋月刊》 2015 年8月4 日) 世纪高教张剑锋发布于 2015 年8月 12 日 10:52 选文出自《大西洋月刊》一篇题为 The Age of the Robot Worker Will Be Worse for Men 的文章。文章通过一项研究指出未来许多工作将被智能机器人所取代,而这一趋势对男性和女性的影响是不平均的:女性的工作相对安全,男性则面临失业的危险。本文以提出问题—分析原因—介绍影响的结构进行论证,条分缕析、层次鲜明。【原文】 I① Many economists and technologists believe the world ison the brink ofa new industrial revolution , in which advances in the field of artificial intelligence will obsolete human labor at an iving pace. ② Two Oxford researchers recently analyzed the skills required for more than 700 different occupations to determine how many of them would be susceptible to automation in the near future , and the news was not good: They concluded that machines are likely to take over 47 percent of today ’s jobs within a few decades. 许多经济学家和技术专家认为一场新的工业革命即将开始,由于人工智能的发展,人类劳动很快将被无情淘汰。最近, 为了确定有多少职业在不久的将来会被自动化技术取代,两名牛津大学的研究员分析了 700 多种不同职业所需的各种技能。其研究结果并不乐观:他们发现,未来几十年里, 47% 的现有工作可能会被机器代替。第一、二段为第一个层次,引入话题并介绍研究发现。第一段借研究发现引出未来人类许多工作将被机器取代的话题。关键词是 machines , takeover 。①句介绍背景:新的工业革命近在咫尺,人工智能的发展将淘汰人类劳动。 Many economists and technologists believe 说明这是一种普遍认识, 而非作者的个人看法。 Obsolete ( something that is obsolete isno longer needed because something better has been invented )说明人工智能要要优于人类劳动。 At an iving pace 强调人工智能取代人类劳动的速度之快,而且 iving ( if you describe a situation or activity as iving, you mean that it causes a lotof people to experience great difficulty or failure )暗示这种趋势会给人类带来极其不利的影响