Transcript Virtual Me?
Future Tense • Will future expresses a spontaneous decision, an assumption with regard to the future or an action in the future that cannot be influenced. • Form of Will (future) positive no differences I will speak. negative I will not speak. question Will I speak? • Use of will Future • A spontaneous decision Ex.: Wait, I will help you. • An opinion, hope, uncertainty or assumption regarding the future Ex.: He will probably come back tomorrow. •Predictions: example: It will rain tomorrow. Virtual Me? • • • • Page 55, Exercise 4 Page 55, Exercise 6 Page 55, Exercise 7 Page 55, Exercise 8 Vocabulary • Brochure: folleto • Template: plantilla • Appearences: apariencias • Allow: permitir • Purposes:propósitos • Log on: ingresar • Lecturer: profesor universitario • Remember: recuerdan • Course: curso Time-tables: calendarios Onto: en Screens: pantallas Buyers: compradores Certaninly: ciertamente Signed: firmó Virtual Me? By LaurenBartlet • Every night, computer engineer Shahin Maghsoudi goes home to his family. They don’t eat, sleep or eat, (1) but they talk back. They are a family of robots with artificial intelligence. • If everything goes as planned next moth my voice will be joining this family too. Maghsoudi recorded my voice to use it as the template for his newest creation. It’s the world’s first cyber robot with a New Zealand accents. But his company, Robot Hosting, has already created more than 20 with different personalities and appearances. • Robot Hosting is one of the few companies developing artificial intelligent robots for educational purpuses (2) When students log on. They can see a 3D animated computer robot which interacts with them as if it were a lecturer. The robots remember personal details and also answer course related questions: classrooms, time-tables and contents of the courses. • Dr. Sharyn Grahm Davies thinks students will certainly prefer the new robots(3) if they speak with Autralian accent. • Last month, Robot Hosting signed a contract with American artificial intelligence company Al Dealer. They will project the robots onto screen to allow car buyers to ask (4) questions about vehicles they are selling. • Maghsoudi, (5 )a computer engineer who migrated to New Zealand in 1990, founded Robot Hosting, and began selling educational computer games for children. • If you log-on to the Robot Hosting website If you log-on to the Robot Hosting website (www.robot-hosting.com), you can speak with the artificial intelligence robots for free. They even know 106.000 grammar rules, 118.000nlogical inference rules and 203. 000 nouns verbs and adjectives! • Taken from: Unlimited Magazine • Unlimited.co.nz/march 2008 Virtual Me? • Exercise 7: a) F (Shahin Magsoudi is the computer engineer who created Robot Hosting) b) T c) F (The robots remember personal details and course related information) d) T e) T f) T Virtual Me? a) Because they have artificial intelligence. b) No, they have 20 different personalities and appearances. c) They were created for educational purposes. d) They can talk about class times and rooms, and also about class topics. e) He is a computer engineer who is the creator of these virtual robots. The End