Task 2. Read the story “Online Attack” and do the given tasks. Veronica logged onto her Facebook wall and checked her messages.
Her last post was a joke she made about why pigs like to roll around in mud. Most of her friends replied with smiley faces or LOLs, but the last comment made Veronica’s mouth drop. Millie Andrews posted, “Veronica is an ugly pig.”
Veronica closed her browser window and walked away from the computer. She didn’t know how many people from school had seen Millie’s comment or why Millie would say something so mean. She barely slept wondering what she was going to do.
The next morning, Veronica walked into school with her head down. She felt like everyone was looking at her, and whenever she heard laughter, she feared it was directed at her. Veronica ran to the girls’ bathroom with tears in her eyes. She went into an empty stall. “What am I going to do?” she asked herself.
Things to Discuss: ( Write down the answers ) 1. List some words to describe how Veronica felt after she saw the Facebook comment from Millie. LOLs
2. If you were Veronica's friend, and you saw this Facebook post, what would you say to Veronica? Fantastic pic, keep going!
3. Who could Veronica talk to about this problem? She talked herself
4. What should Veronica do? Have no idea on veronica
5. Do you think it would be a good idea for Veronica to post something mean on Millie's Facebook wall to get even? Why or why not?
VII. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Task 1. Read the text “Artificial intelligence ” and do the given tasks. Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. Specific applications of AI include expert systems, natural language processing, speech recognition and machine vision.
How does AI work?
As the hype around AI has accelerated, vendors have been scrambling to promote how their products and services use AI. Often what they refer to as AI is simply one component of AI, such as machine learning. AI requires a foundation of specialized hardware and software for writing and training machine learning algorithms. No one programming language is synonymous with AI, but a few, including Python, R and Java, are popular.
In general, AI systems work by ingesting large amounts of labeled training data, analyzing the data for correlations and patterns, and using these patterns to make predictions about future states. In this way, a chatbot that is fed examples of text chats can learn to produce lifelike exchanges with people, or an image recognition tool can learn to identify and describe objects in images by reviewing millions of examples.
AI programming focuses on three cognitive skills: learning, reasoning and self-correction.
