IELTS English Podcast - Speaking Topic: AI

[@XIYANAVEROSKAFIGUERAMICHAL]

Actually AI has been around in our daily lives for longer than people think. But the systems were a lot simpler than they are nowadays and that is why they didn’t receive much attention. I am glad to hear you are optimistic about AI because I am a AI researcher myself. I am also working in the field of robotics driven by AI, and I hope robots get to have good impact on the lives of people in the near future because there is just so much potential. As for the jobs I think that just as any revolution, such as the first, second and third Industrial Revolution, the job market will just transform. Some jobs outdated and new ones appeared and that is what is going to happen with this one but the transition might occur faster and people, specially younger people will need to adapt faster and prepare for the new market. And even though there are powerful AI systems now, we will still need human beings who are expert in areas such as physics, biology and medicine among others because AI systems can be wrong so they DO need a human who knows whether they are inferring correctly or not. So I believe children and young people should learn about AI regardless of what they study so they understand the applications and limitations of these AI systems. Also they should choose a career path that is needed in the future. I knew before choosing path that STEM was one of the only choices for this decade (of course there are more but nothing safer than it). But I do see why you are worried about the market.

[@XIYANAVEROSKAFIGUERAMICHAL]

And one note about AGI, actually is more complex than that but I liked your answer anyway. Since you are interested in AI, I would like to let you know that AI can self learn at this moment (though human guided, called self-supervised learning), GPT used this self learning method and that is one of the reasons it is such a powerful system, joined together with human feedback (more specifically through RLHF). The definition of AGI at this moment, as far as I know, is a system capable of handling multiple different tasks using the same algorithm it learned. the definition by Wikipedia is: “AI that matches or surpasses human capabilities across a wide range of cognitive tasks” This is the reason OpenAI (the creators of GPT) were claiming its new version that can get images and audio is AGI because usually this requires several separate “narrow” AI systems. Yet GPT is considered emerging AGI. As there are five levels of AGI: emerging, competent, expert, virtuoso, and superhuman GPT is considered AGI by some but others think it is too simple to be considered even the beginning of these type of systems because it should be able to do a broader number of different tasks better than human beings.

[@JacksEnglish]

Thanks for sharing your insights as an AI researcher! I'm fascinated by AI and I couldn't say as much as I would have like to in such a short podcast. It's great to hear there is hope for the job market. I wonder if Universal Basic Income will ever be necessary. There are so many questions and things are happening so quickly! Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and from an IELTS point of view, your answer was fantastic!😀

[@JacksEnglish]

@@XIYANAVEROSKAFIGUERAMICHAL Yes, AGI is beyond me, but I understand there is a number of definitions depending on perspective. Thanks for elaborating; it's always great to learn more👍I've pinned your comment as this is a great resource for other students.

[@JacksEnglish]

One of my favourite topics nowadays! Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future of AI?🤔

[@sherrymohamed7874]

No doubt that artificial intelligence would replace human activities on upcomin years.On one hand, this is considered to be positive as robots would have the ability to do housework, make surgeries, but on the other hand, they would replace humans and therefore would lead them to be unemployed.For instance, they would be cashiers in supermarkets,gas stations and A.T.M. would replace accountants at a bank.if humans and robots work side by side to fulfill the scientific and intellectual aspects together then we would feel optimistic about A.I.

[@JacksEnglish]

@@sherrymohamed7874 Great points and a well-structured answer! By the way, 'would have been' suggests that something was intended to be something in the past but it didn't happen. For example, I would have been a doctor if I studied harder. (third conditional). Is this the grammar you intended for your example? Well done and thanks for sharing!

[@sherrymohamed7874]

@@JacksEnglish thanks 4 ür words..i corrected the mistake n grammar..thanks❤

[@JacksEnglish]

@@sherrymohamed7874 You’re very welcome👍

[@LiveId2514]

Hi

[@airrzv]

That's awesome. I have enjoyed and written your answers to use them in future.Thanks a lot.

[@JacksEnglish]

That's great to hear the podcast was useful! Thanks for the feedback👍

[@AMHP7]

Thank you you have been very helpful

[@JacksEnglish]

You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed the episode👍

[@Afifamarium1749]

Hey Jack! You are an amazing IELTS teacher of this era. I really apprecite for the creation of high quality laudable content. Incredibly amazing and terrific.......🎉🎉🎉🎉❤

[@JacksEnglish]

What amazing feedback! Thank you for the wonderful adjectives you have used to describe the podcast!😀

[@NedaDod]

Hi, I would say that I am optimistic because it is really beneficial specially for learning languages

[@JacksEnglish]

I absolutely agree! I'm excited to see what will be possible with ChatGPT 5 in language learning👍

[@rollinmusic]

Hi Teacher. Waiting for your new vid in Bussiness English channel. Keep up your good work

[@JacksEnglish]

Hi! It's great to meet someone who is aware of my other channel😀I still have plenty planned for the business channel and will be back on there as soon as I can!

[@anne-mariemaron7318]

Hello, I found your videos on Spotify, and today, here on KZbin. I can't find a papersheet to print , same for the tbook you spoke about. Maybe because I live abroad? Could you please give some informatisation, Thanks for your help Last year, I experienced chat GPT it was deceiving, perhaps my questions and answers were not enough clear for the robot. So I abandoned quickly. Today after your video, I'll make another try...

[@JacksEnglish]

I'm glad you found me! You should be able to access www.britplus.net to get my textbook. Let me know if you have trouble accessing the website. And yes, I recommend trying ChatGPT a little more; it can be incredibly useful!😀

[@AMHP7]

If you can make a video about writing task 1 techniques

[@JacksEnglish]

I'll keep this in mind for future videos. Thanks for the suggestion.

[@farzanamjadi3071]

Hi, hope you are doing well. I think part 2 is a little not to the point. the question was about replacing jobs in the future, but you answered about your experience. can you explain? thank you.

[@JacksEnglish]

Hi! Good question and I answered this below. Here is my answer: The question asked about a job which will be replaced by AI, and my direct answer was 'business/life coach'. However, as I don't know much about this topic area, I talked about it related to my life and business. In part 2, sometimes you will get questions or topics you are uncomfortable or unfamiliar with, so I recommend focusing your answer on areas you do feel comfortable talking about. In this case, I talked about business and my experiences with an AI business coach, so it was totally relevant to the question.

[@reyhansaylam3415]

Hi Teacher,I go to the website but I cannot open the content.

[@JacksEnglish]

@@reyhansaylam3415 Hi. Which content are you trying to open? Is it the textbook? Let me know and I will check for any problems.

[@SaharHsn-c1f]

HI Hope you are doing well i watched this video but I noticed that the answer of part two was not related to the question(it asked about a job which will be replaced by AI, although you just said about the influence of AI in you life) Am i right?

[@JacksEnglish]

Hi! It's a good question! The question asked about a job which will be replaced by AI, and my direct answer was 'business/life coach'. However, as I don't know much about this topic area, I talked about it related to my life and business. In part 2, sometimes you will get questions or topics you are uncomfortable or unfamiliar with, so I recommend focusing your answer on areas you do feel comfortable talking about. In this case, I talked about business and my experiences with an AI business coach, so it was totally relevant to the question. I hope this answers your question!

[@BijoyHossain-l4y]

Can I help you with Podcast..?

[@JacksEnglish]

In what way would you like to help?

[@hedtube1]

To be honest, I am quite pessimistic about AI. Because I think It can cause a huge rise in the number of cybercrime and criminal break the law more easily than before. Apart from that, employees will lose their jobs which can lead to serious mental disorders.

[@JacksEnglish]

A great answer and it's nice to see the other view (pessimistic). You could be right, and I also worry about the mental health of those who lose their jobs. Thanks for your comment!

[@Wandererdoc]

Keep it free man, or show the handout in video atleast 😢