W10 reading response-The Great AI Awakening

The author argues that AI is approaching human capability. Recent development in the machine learning technique gave rise to address the improvement in google translate. This thesis is consistent with the whole article. Studying from the title the great AI awakening, we can see that the word “awakening” describing the big potential of AI and emphasizing a human aspect with it. It also has another connotation considering that newer network technology arises from the concept exists decades ago. To tell the story about AI, the article has a clear organization, it structures like an expanding story starting with two main parts which focus on the explanation of the technology, its application and an epilogue which argues a lot of questions about the possibility of a thinking machine. Non-fiction technique was used to gradually expand on the development of AI, particularly starting with a hook, an astonishment of a distinguished professor on a recent improvement of Google translate. Then the article moves on the scene at a conference at a Google office and gradually brought up the topic of AI. Also, the article ends with a quotation ”the new code base is going to grow, everything grows by using this open ending”. The author was arguing the possibility of AI. For most parts of the article. The author is also objective because it’s a series of factual events as well as the explanation of how the technology works. The language is quite dry and informative. The author was also not hiding the limitation of AI, for instance, the author described the struggle of Google team “Google translate is indistinguishable from human”.

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