【推荐3】Angus, Doris, Gabriel and Kamil are some of the 21 names that have been chosen to be given to storms in the UK in the 2016/17 season.

The Met Office, the UK's national weather service, decided to give storms boys' and girls 'names in 2015 in the same way as they did in America.

The Met Office hopes that naming big storms will make people more aware(意识到） of them and how dangerous they can be. Derrick Ryall, from the Met Office, said,“We have seen how naming storms elsewhere in the world raises people's awareness of storms before they break. ”

In the past,the same UK storm could be given different names by different organizations. “We noticed that many organizations during the last couple of winters started giving names to them.Think back to the St Jude's Day storm in 2013,and the so-called(所谓的）Hurricane Bawbag in Scotland in 2011.But it led to confusion(混淆），”a Met Office spokeswoman said.

According to the Met Office, there is a name for each letter of the whole alphabet (字母表），except for Q, U, X, Y and Z. That is the same as the naming tradition used in America. And not all storms will be big enough to get names-only those expected to cause great damage(损失）。

If there are more than 21 storms in a year,the Met Office will start again with another name beginning with “A”。 However, according to Met Office spokeswoman Lindsay Mears, "It's less possible we would get through the whole alphabet in one season. We had 14 storms in the very bad winter of 2013/14, and if the naming system had been in operation then we wouldn't have used the whole alphabet. ”

【推荐2】A snow leopard stared down from a steep rock high in the peaks of Mongolia. She was on the lookout for a snack. Noticing a wild goat below, the snow leopard rocketed down the mountainside. The wild goat struggled to escape. But with one 30-foot leap, the cat caught up. Seconds later, she was secured her meal and looked for a place to enjoy it.

These endangered cats are nearly impossible to see. Their spotted coats act as invisible cloaks(披风)by mixing into the rocky mountains of the 12 Central Asian countries where the cats live. The mountains the snow leopards call home are rough and extremely cold in the winter. But these cats have some amazing body parts that make living in the area no big deal. In addition to hiding them, a snow leopard’s soft, thick fur keeps it warm in the bitter cold.

Few humans have seen snow leopards in real life, but hunting scenes like the one above have been recorded on video. Snow leopard experts need to gather more information about the secretive cats’ lives to help protect them. To do that, researches use high-tech tools to spy on the shy animals. They gently trap the wild cats to put on satellite radio collars to know where the cats wander.

Even though snow leopards live in some of the most rugged mountains on Earth, people pose the biggest threat to their survival. Poachers(盗猎者)can sell a snow leopard’s hide and bones for thousands of dollars. Sheepherders(牧羊人)often kill any snow leopard that attacks their sheep. Hunters target goats, wild sheep, and other animals for food-removing important snow leopard food. The more scientists can learn about snow leopards, the better they can protect these rarely seen cats from humans who harm them.

【推荐3】Is it time to put the brakes on the development of artificial intelligence? If you've quietly asked yourself that question, you're not alone. In late March, a group of AI experts signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause on the development of more powerful models than GPT-4; European researchers called for tighter AI   regulations; and long-time AI researcher Yudkowsky demanded a complete shutdown of AI development.

Meanwhile, the industry shows no sign of slowing down. In March, a senior AI executive at Microsoft spoke of “very, very high”   pressure from chief executive to get GPT-4 and other new models to the public   “at a very high speed ”. GPT-4 is much larger and has been trained on significantly more data. Like other large language models, GPT-4 works by guessing the next word in response to prompts(提示). In tests, it passed legal and medical exams, and can write software better than professionals in many cases. And its full range of abilities is yet to be discovered.

GPT-4 and models like it are likely to have huge effects across many layers of society. They could facilitate personalized phishing(网络钓鱼) attacks, produce disinformation at scale, and be used to hack through the net -work security around computer systems. Open   AI's own research suggests models like GPT-4 are   “general-purpose technologies” which will influence 80 percent of the US workforce.   Professions such as customer services, primary translations and editing, and security guard will be greatly impacted. Moreover, technology is accelerating much faster than our ability to understand and regulate it. If we're not careful, it will also drive changes that are too fast for safety. The US sociologist E. O. Wilson described the dangers of change like so:   “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have   Paleolithic(旧石器时代的) emotions, medieval(中世纪的) institutions and god-like technology.”

I believe a wise course of action is to slow down and think about where we want to take these technologies. It is not about stopping, but rather moving at a sustainable pace of progress. We can choose to steer this technology, rather than assume it has a life of its own we can't control.