Passage 60
学霸导读 势不可当的人工智能潮流，会对人类的职业生涯产生怎样的影响？
Today’s world is one f 1 with ideas， innovation and imagination. Some of the ideas have been likely， some a little more speculative （ 推测的 ） and others wishful （ 基于希望的 ）， but one thing that companies the world over are barrelling （ 飞驰 ） toward is autonomous （ 自动化的 ） systems.
Fortunately， this won’t l 2 to an ominous （ 不祥的 ） revolution of robots and their artif icial intelligences， but rather an integration of autonomous systems into nearly every facet （ 方面 ） of our lives. If we look around us today we can see that this change has already begun. Stock brokers rely on algorithms to predict f luctuations in the stock market； Facebook programs dig through our Internet cookies to l 3 the right advertisements to feed us； and fast food chains are replacing staff with robots.
There are many reasons for this major cultural shift. Algorithms and robots will prove c 4 ， more eff icient， and when handling data， simply far superior than any human counterpart （ 同等地位的人 ）. The only major hurdle （ 障碍 ） to overcome in the following years might be teaching machines how to perform a job optimally （ 理 想 地 ）. But as long as they’ve learnt it， you can be c 5 that they’ll be much more capable than their human predecessors （ 前任 ）.
So what does this mean for jobs？ For some， it’ll mean a much easier working life. Such benef iciaries will of course i 6 most large business owners. Disciplines such as medicine—and the patients that they treat—will be enhanced by artif icially intelligent support. A multitude of disease diagnoses （ 诊断 ）， for instance， are still assessed by eye alone. This approach has an element of subjectivity （ 主观性 ） and is prone to error， but machines that have been t 7 on tens of thousands of images will be able to help by accurately diagnosing diseased tissue.
Yet for many others careers， AI workers will s 8 offer a favorable alternative to human employers. One study estimated that certain sectors （ 行业 ） could see up to 50 percent of jobs being handed over to robots and AI by 2030， and many other careers will come under t 9 . Jobs that require empathy and creativity are currently believed to be immune to the incoming inf lux of automation， but can we be so c 10 that a machine won’t be able to outperform a human in these areas by 2050？
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高频词汇
prone /prəʊn/ adj. 倾 向 的；易于 遭受……的
favorable /'feɪvərəbl/ adj. 给人好印象的；赞 同的；有助于……的
alternative /ɔː l'tɜː nətɪv/ n. 可供选择的事物
immune /ɪ'mjuː n/ adj. 有免疫力的；不受影响的