夏说英语新闻晨读 第253期:人工智能老玩家
时间：2019-02-13 作者：英语课 分类：夏说英语新闻晨读
本期内容：
Who is doing groundbreaking research into artificial intelligence right now? Google and its London-based DeepMind division springs to mind. Facebook has hired some of the biggest thinkers in AI. Then there's IBM with its Watson project - and of course China is pouring vast sums into research, as it tries to replace factory workers with robots. But today another contender is shouting out: what about us? Microsoft, the company that dominated the era of desktop 1 computing 2, is holding an event at which it is showing off its expertise 3 in artificial intelligence, and in effect demanding a bit more respect from the world.
Groundbreaking: 彻底革命性的
Artificial intelligence: 人工智能
Spring to mind: 跃入脑海
Pour: 投入
Expertise: 专业度
In effect: 从效果上说
- My computer is a desktop computer of excellent quality.我的计算机是品质卓越的台式计算机。
- Do you know which one is better,a laptop or a desktop?你知道哪一种更好，笔记本还是台式机？
- to work in computing 从事信息处理
- Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 1980, they started a software company. 早在计算机尚未普及的时代（约1980年），他们就创办了软件公司。