Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.4 - Future job for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Watch the programme. What is Dr William's attitude towards the way that Artificial Intelligence (AI) might affect her job in the future?
  2. Read and discuss possible answers to the questions below. Then watch the programme again and make notes on the answers.
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  4. Watch the programme from 4:00 and write the words that are used instead of the ones in italics.

Answer

a)

Initially skeptical, then curious, and at the end accepting that AI will change her job (but shows no strong emotions about this).

b)

  1. Pre-1970s people were integral to the workforce. After the 1970s people became less integral as more and more tasks were taken over by robots / automation.
  2. Car factory production lines, help lines, bank clerks.
  3. By asking questions about the symptoms and checking these against a 'knowledge base' - a medical data base.
  4. The computer teaches itself how strongly related the various diseases, symptoms and risk factors are. It looks at past real-life cases to calculate probability.
  5. Parts of the doctor's job are threatened (the diagnosis) but Dr Parsa describes the computer as an aid to a doctor and points out that it can't replace the human touch.
  6. Half of the world's population has little or no access to doctors, so In those parts of the world.

d)

  1. determines
  2. a big future
  3. competition
  4. on the march
  5. superseded
  6. immune from