{"id":7147,"date":"2017-10-01T21:13:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T19:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=7147"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:27:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:27:11","slug":"what-computers-cant-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2017\/10\/what-computers-cant-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What Computers Can&#8217;t Do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>B2 &#8211; Upper Intermediate<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artificial Intelligence or AI\u00a0is everywhere. \u00a0As a matter of fact, we use and deal with them every day. It may seem\u00a0like science fiction is starting to become reality due to these machines&#8217; ability to\u00a0assimilate our behavior. However, machines can only perform human-like tasks so much. Currently, there are still some things that are difficult to get these machines to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s listen to Neil and Tim talk about what machine thinking and the limitations artificial intelligence has at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/english\/features\/6-minute-english\/ep-170928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/english\/features\/6-minute-english\/ep-170928<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What sorts of things do we take for granted that are cutting edge for machines?<\/li><li>What do you think will the future of artificial intelligence be?<\/li><li>How is artificial intelligence helping us today?<\/li><li>What are the dangers of AI?<\/li><li>What would our current lives be like without artificial intelligence?<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B2 &#8211; Upper Intermediate Artificial Intelligence or AI\u00a0is everywhere. \u00a0As a matter of fact, we use and deal with them every day. It may seem\u00a0like science fiction is starting to become reality due to these machines&#8217; ability to\u00a0assimilate our behavior. However, machines can only perform human-like tasks so much. 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