Grammer
1. what did she mean by historic twist?
...computers are solving subjective problems for the first time in history.
2.To audit something means....
...to examine it closely.
3. Similar meaning:
perturbing: 使焦虑 使不安
troublesome: 令人厌烦的 令人痛苦的
reassuring: 令人感到宽慰的 令人放心的
worrisome: 令人担心的 令人担忧的
2）benchmark， criterion ，standard
soothing: 安慰 劝慰
benchmark 基准 用基准检测
deviation 背离 偏差
criterion 标准 准则
conclusion 结论 推论 结束
standard. 标准 水平 规格
4.选词填空
Another problem is this: these systems are often trained on data generated by our actions,
human imprints.
Well, they could just be reflecting our biases, and these systems could be picking up on our
biases and amplifying them, and showing them back to us, While we're telling ourselves, "
We're just doing objective, neutral computation.
5. 排序
1) Currently, computational systems can infer all sorts of things about you from your digital crumbs, even if you have not disclosed those things.
2) They can infer your sexual orientation, your personality traits, your political learnings.
3) They have predictive power with high levels of accuracy.
4) Remember, for things you haven't even closed. This is inference.
5. 完形填空：
I have a friend who developed such computational systems to predict the likelihood of clinical or postpartum（产后的） depression from social media data.
Her system can predict the likelihood of depression months before the onset（开端 发生） of any symptoms.
She hopes it'll be used for early intervention(干涉 干预).
however, what would happen if we put this in the context of hiring.
Speaking
1. I don't even want to think what "error" means in the context of lethal autonomous weapons.
2. They can detect credit card fraud and block spam and they can translate between languages.
3. We have no such anchors and benchmarks for decisions in messy human affairs.
4. The impressive system also made an error that a human would never make.
5. These systems can also be wrong in ways that don't resemble human systems.
