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第一步：泛读原文（盲听1遍，泛读1遍，对照文本听1遍）

As a rule, when companies can substitute machines for people, they will. AI can do work currently done by paralegals, copywriters, digital-content producers, executive assistants,entry-levelcomputer programmers, and, yes, some journalists. That means such jobs might change, and soon. But even if ChatGPT canspit outa pretty good paragraph on AI, it can’t interview AI and labor experts, nor can it find historical documents, nor can it assess the quality of studies of technological change and employment. It creates content out of what is already out there, with no authority, no understanding, no ability to correct itself, no way to identify genuinely new or interesting ideas. That implies that AI might make original journalism more valuable and investigative journalists more productive, while creating an enormousprofusionof simpler content. AI might spit out listicles and summaries of public meetings, while humans will write in-depth stories. “In many ways, AI will help people use expertise better,” the MIT professor David Autor, one of the world’s foremost experts on employment and technological change, said. “It means that we’ll specialize more.”

第二步：精读原文（精读1遍，对照文本听1遍，精读1遍）

读原文（精读1遍，对照文本听1遍）

1. 学一个短语：entry-level

Meaning：basic and suitable for new users who may later move on to a more advanced product 适合初级用户的；入门级的

比如说：an entry-level computer 供初学者使用的计算机。

2. 学一个句子：That means such jobs might change, and soon.

本句当中，and soon表达的意思是：很快，也就意味着变化会来的很快。这种写法的比较具有高级感。按理说直接表达That means such jobs might change soon. 就完全可以啦，但是加上一个逗号，再加一个and soon，让句子更有顿挫感和节奏感。

3. 学一个短语：spit out

Spit out原意是吐出的意思，比如说：Spit out the gum before you talk to me. 这里用ChatGPT spit out就比较形象了，经常用在快速说出，快速表达，比如下面这个句子。

The answers are fed into a series of formulas created by Google's mathematicians that spit out a score from zero to 100. 回答将被输入一系列谷歌数学家编辑的公式中，最后得出0到100的分数。

4. 分析一个长句：It creates content out of what is already out there, with no authority, no understanding, no ability to correct itself, no way to identify genuinely new or interesting ideas.

这是主谓宾补的形式，主语是it，谓语create，宾语content out of what is already out there，补语是with引导的内容。With这个介词还是非常好用的，经常在写作中用到。

如：With the sky brightening, the birds rejoiced in the morning air, singing their songs of joy and celebration, as the sun slowly rose above the horizon, its golden rays casting a warm light over the sleeping city below. 随着天色渐亮，鸟儿在清晨的空气中欢呼雀跃，高唱喜庆的歌曲，太阳慢慢从地平线上升起，它的金色光芒将一片温暖的光线洒在正在沉睡的城市上空。

5. 学习一个单词：profusion

Meaning：a very large quantity of sth 大量；众多，同义词：abundance

如何快速记住他：pro-表示“向前”；fus-表示“流出”；ion表示“行为”；可以将profusion理解为“大量向前流出的行为”，即“极大的丰富”。

e.g. a profusion of colours 色彩斑斓。

第三步：阅读双语文章

上下滑动阅读双语全文

As a rule, when companies can substitute machines for people, they will. AI can do work currently done by paralegals, copywriters, digital-content producers, executive assistants, entry-level computer programmers, and, yes, some journalists. That means such jobs might change, and soon. But even if ChatGPT can spit out a pretty good paragraph on AI, it can’t interview AI and labor experts, nor can it find historical documents, nor can it assess the quality of studies of technological change and employment. It creates content out of what is already out there, with no authority, no understanding, no ability to correct itself, no way to identify genuinely new or interesting ideas. That implies that AI might make original journalism more valuable and investigative journalists more productive, while creating an enormous profusion of simpler content. AI might spit out listicles and summaries of public meetings, while humans will write in-depth stories. “In many ways, AI will help people use expertise better,” the MIT professor David Autor, one of the world’s foremost experts on employment and technological change, said. “It means that we’ll specialize more.”

一般来说，当公司可以用机器代替人力时，它们就会这么做。人工智能可以承担目前由律师助理、文案、数字内容制作人、行政助理、初级计算机程序员，当然还有一些记者完成的工作。这意味着这些工作可能很快就会改变。但是，即使ChatGPT可以生成一段关于人工智能的佳作，它不能采访人工智能和劳工专家，无法找到历史文献，也无法评估关于技术变革和就业的研究的质量。它根据已有的东西进行内容创作，没有权威，没有理解，没有自我纠正的能力，没有办法识别真正新颖或有趣的想法。这意味着，人工智能可能会让原创新闻更有价值，让调查记者更有成效，同时创造出大量更简单的内容。人工智能可能会生成列表和公共会议的摘要，而人类则会写出深刻的故事。麻省理工学院教授大卫·奥托是世界上最著名的就业和技术变革方面的专家之一，他说：“在许多方面，人工智能将帮助人们更好地利用专业知识，这意味着我们将更加专业化。”

第四步：回答问题（评论区回答问题）

Reading Questions：

What can AI do according to the passage?

A. Interview AI and labor experts.

B. Create content with authority.

C. Substitute machines for people.

D. Find historical documents.

Q2: What might change for workers in the digital-content producers industry?

A. Their wages might increase.

B. Their jobs might be replaced by machines.

C. They might have to learn new skills.

D. They might move to different companies.