Lesson 4 The Future Ahead of Us
AI: Opportunity or Threat?
Recently, an artist used an artificial intelligence (AI) system to create the image above for an art ____.
The image won first place in the digital arts ____.
This led to a controversy in the ____ community.
Some people complained that the artist simply ____ the system with basic instructions and let it do all the work.
They felt this wasn’t ____ to the rest of the artists in the contest.
However, there were also people ____ were excited by the potential of AI.
Today, there are ____ AI programs that can create various forms of art including images, songs, and novels.
Example 1 Making Digital Images with AI
AI image generators create images based on our ____ requests.
They do this by copying other images that were ____ by humans.
The generators ____ the ability to analyze millions of images and their corresponding descriptions.
This allows them to create works of art in a short time based on the provided ____.
Moreover, AI programs can ____ the styles of existing images upon request.
For example, you can ____ a photograph of a cat with Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.
These two ____ have a few differences.
However, the overall design, the eyes, and the scarf around the ____ are clearly based on Vermeer’s painting.
A simple ____ was enough to create this complex and detailed image.
Example 2 Making Music with AI
AI programs ____ lead to changes not only in the art world but also in the music industry.
These programs are ____ able to compose songs, and they give you many options.
For example, you can choose the style and key, ____ as C major or A minor.
You can also ____ how long the song will be.
Once ____ entered the information, the program will produce a song that you can edit or use as it is.
Furthermore, computer-generated imagery (____ known as CGI) has opened up new possibilities in the music industry.
Virtual ____ with extremely realistic faces, bodies, and voices have already released several songs.
Some of them have many followers on social media, just like ____ singers.
These types of virtual musicians are able to speak and move realistically with the ____ of their human creators.
The Debate on Using AI
Many AI programs are open to the ____, which means they are free and convenient to use.
However, these programs have sparked a debate over their impact on ____.
Since AI has the potential to learn skills and perform them better than ____, some people view it as a threat.
They ____ that AI will replace humans in more and more areas.
There are also concerns that AI may imitate the styles of ____ artists without their consent.
On the other ____, others think that AI cannot exceed human imagination and that it is still dependent on human assistance.
This is because the ____ that AI uses can have flaws or limitations.
A dependence on imperfect data with little diversity eventually limits the ____ of AI programs.
Human imagination, on the other hand, has no ____ or boundaries.
What kind of future do you think lies ____ of us?
Will more ____ use AI programs to boost their creativity and productivity?
Or will people ____ tired of the limitations of AI tools?
AI ____ many benefits and new opportunities.
What we ____ to do is figure out how to use AI tools ethically and think about how humans and AI can collaborate.