“The majority of decisions we make do not come from the conscious (有意识的) mind, but the subconscious mind,” Beni Gradwohl, the co-founder of Cognovi Labs, said. “Our decisions are based on emotions. People think they are very rational (理智的). But they are not. In fact, decisions in the subconscious mind are made in a second before the rational mind recognizes that.”
Gradwohl used to think that cold and hard data defined the world. But when he was exposed to behavioral economics, his world view changed. He said, “Emotional intelligence is more important than intelligence quotient (IQ). Most successful leaders in the world don’t have above-average IQ but above average emotional quotient (EQ).”
Gradwohl co-founded AI company, Cognovi Labs, to better understand how people make decisions, using data and science and technology to measure underlying emotions.
When asked how event organizers could benefit from using emotional AI, Gradwohl said, “The first thing is whether you really understand what’s driving your target audience to an event.” He added, “You can ask them, but what potential registrants tell you may be incorrect.”
According to Gradwohl, registering for an event is not an entirely rational decision, and it goes deeper. Understanding how your target audience makes decisions is important because you don’t want to sell them something they don’t care about. Cognovi Labs’ AI can uncover the underlying emotional drivers or blockers of your target audience’s decision-making.
Beyond using Cognovi Labs’ AI in the marketing leading up to an event, once the event is underway, Gradwohl thinks organizers can know how their participants are feeling via the AI. That involves using feedback (反馈) surveys. He said, “Have attendees talk to the event app and then transcribe that. We call that diagnostic (诊断的) interview because they may generate a strong emotional response. With those conversations about what they are experiencing throughout the program at different times of the day, we will see what the emotional blockers and drivers are. We can get a full picture of the emotional aspects of the attendees.”
1. What may Cognovi Labs mainly focus on?| A．Researching people’s potential emotions. | B．Helping people make rational decisions. |
| C．Training people to develop conscious minds. | D．Leading people to study science and technology. |
| A．Registering for an event is important. | B．Believing target audience is necessary. |
| C．Cognovi Labs’ AI helps event organizers. | D．Cognovi Labs’ AI benefits lots of drivers. |
| A．Cognovi Labs’ AI’s feedback surveys. | B．Cognovi Labs’ AI’s additional function. |
| C．The ways to organize a marketing event. | D．The attendees’ strong emotional response. |
| A．The Founder of an Emotional AI | B．The Future of Behavioral Economics |
| C．An AI Company Improves Intelligence | D．An Emotional AI Helps Make Decisions |
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【推荐1】If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars, we would go in darkness happily, the midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal (夜间活动的) species on this planet. Instead, we are diurnal (白天的) creatures, with eyes adapted to living in the sun’s light. This is a basic evolutionary fact, even though most of us don’t think of ourselves as diurnal beings. Yet it’s the only way to explain what we’ve done to the night: We’ve engineered it to receive us by filling
The benefits of this kind of engineering come with consequences — called light pollution — whose effects scientists are only now beginning to study. Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design, which allows artificial light to shine outward and upward into the sky. III-designed lighting washes out the darkness of night and completely changes the light levels — and light rhythms — to which many forms of life, including, ourselves, have adapted. Wherever human light spills into the natural world, some aspect or life is affected .
In most cities the sky looks as though it has been emptied of stars, leaving behind a vacant haze (霾) that mirrors our fear of the dark. We’ve grown so used to this orange haze that the original glory of an unlit night — dark enough for the planet Venus to throw shadow on Earth, is wholly beyond our experience, beyond memory almost.
We’ve lit up the night as if it were an unoccupied country, when nothing could be further form the truth. Among mammals alone, the number of nocturnal species is astonishing. Light is a powerful biological force, and on many species it acts as a magnet (磁铁). The effect is so powerful that scientists speak of songbirds and seabirds being “captured” by searchlights on land or by the light from gas flares on marine oil platforms. Migrating at night, birds tend to collide with brightly lit tall buildings.
Frogs living near brightly lit highways suffer nocturnal light levels that are as much as a million times righter than normal, throwing nearly every aspect of their behavior out of joint including most other creatures ,we do need darkness .Darkness is as essential to our biological welfare, to our internal clockwork, as light itself.
Living in a glare of our making, we have cut ourselves off from our evolutionary and cultural heritage — the light of the stars and the rhythms of day and night .In a very real sense light pollution causes us to lose sight of our true place in the universe, to forget the scale of our being, which is best measured against the dimensions of a deep night with the Milky Way — the edge of our galaxy arching overhead.
1. According to the passage, human being .| A．prefer to live in the darkness |
| B．are used to living in the day light |
| C．were curious about the midnight world |
| D．had to stay at home with the light of the moon |
| A．The night. | B．The moon. |
| C．The sky. | D．The planet. |
| A．provide examples of animal protection |
| B．show how light pollution affects animals |
| C．compare the living habits of both species |
| D．explain why the number of certain species has declined |
| A．light pollution dose harm to the eyesight of animals |
| B．light pollution has destroyed some of the world heritages |
| C．human beings cannot go to the outer space |
| D．human beings should reflect on their position in the universe |
【推荐2】Plastic is the workhorse material of the modern economy (经济). Lightweight and durable, it’s been used to make a vast number of products since its introduction over 100 years ago.
However, a study carried out by the World Economic Forum, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and McKinsey Company showed the status of the breakdown in the global plastic system. A full 32% of the 78 million tons of plastic packaging produced annually is left to flow into our oceans.
The Ocean Cleanup, a start-up founded in 2013, is the brainchild of Boyan Slat, who came up with the idea for the company when he was just 17 years old. Since then, it’s received more than $2 million in funding(基金). The company plans to use a large array (列阵) that will be fixed to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. This will have arms that spread out over 100 km, getting all of the plastic garbage pushed into its nets. This is then collected by a 10,000-metre-cube container that will be emptied monthly.
Most recently, the Ocean Cleanup launched a team of explorers aboard a specially refitted C-130 Hercules aircraft heavily loaded with specialized sensor equipment. It discovered that the problem was worse than expected with an abundance of plastics measuring up to 1.5 m across and at a higher density than previously thought. The organization will continue to pilot the array and will start cleaning the pile before the end of the decade.
Once the plastic is out, what should we do with it? The foundation (基金会) hopes that the plastic from the ocean will have a commercial value which can help to fund the project. Ocean plastic is not easy to use, it’s mixed by nature consisting of everything from intact PET bottles to micro plastics. However, some of the world's biggest companies also see the chance to market oceans plastic products.
Transforming today’s plastics economy from its present form (take-make-waste) to a zero waste circular economy (take-make-take-make) is a difficult challenge. However, with cooperative action from producers, recyclers, governments and consumers alike and continuing innovation (革新) it can be done.
1. What’s Boyan Slat’s idea about?| A．A way to collect ocean plastic waste. |
| B．A new product made of ocean plastic. |
| C．A machine to recycle plastic garbage. |
| D．An organization to research into plastic. |
| A．Flexibility. | B．Thickness. |
| C．Width. | D．Strength. |
| A．It’ll be turned into treasure. | B．It’ll sponsor the foundation. |
| C．It’ll cooperate with the government. | D．It’ll take the form of take-make-waste. |
| A．A diary. | B．A guidebook. |
| C．A novel. | D．A magazine |
【推荐3】Companies which sell liquids like drinks or shampoo depend on bottles made of plastic or glass for their packaging. But as customers have become more worried about the environment, many companies have begun working to develop paper bottles.
Paper bottles have many advantages. They are easy to recycle and weigh less than glass or plastic bottles, meaning they’ll require less energy to produce and to move around.
A company called Paboco has been working with many large companies to develop paper bottles. Clearly, one of the biggest challenges is keeping a paper bottle from leaking (渗漏). Therefore, many companies are lining their bottles with a thin sheet of plastic. Though this liner can be taken away and recycled, many recycling programs don’t have the right machines to deal with these liners.
A Danish beer company called Carlsberg is working with Paboco on a paper bottle called the “Green Fiber Bottle”. In the future the company hopes to use a “bio-plastic” that will break down naturally over time. A company named Diageo has just announced the first paper bottle that’s completely plastic-free. Instead of a plastic liner, a non-plastic coating will be used on the inside of the bottles. This should make the bottle fully recyclable. Diageo says they’ll use the bottle with their whiskey in 2023.
However, there’s still lots of testing to be done before paper bottles can replace glass or plastic bottles. Companies will need to see how long liquids can be stored in the bottles, and make sure the bottles don’t influence the taste. But with so many companies working toward the same goal, it’s likely that we can expect to see paper bottles on store shelves in the near future.
1. What forces many companies to develop paper bottles?| A．The cost of making plastic or glass bottles. |
| B．The customers’ caring about the environment. |
| C．The energy needed to produce ordinary bottles. |
| D．The difficulty in shaping the plastic or glass bottles. |
| A．To make them easy to recycle. | B．To make bottles reusable. |
| C．To prevent liquid from escaping. | D．To lower the production cost. |
| A．Non-plastic coatings may be hard to recycle. |
| B．Paper bottles can’t go without a plastic liner. |
| C．There’s still a long way to go to reach the goal. |
| D．Not all paper bottles are better than glass bottles. |
| A．Traditional Bottles or Paper Bottles |
| B．Companies Work to Develop Paper Bottles |
| C．Paper Bottles Are Getting Increasingly Popular |
| D．Advantages and Disadvantages of Paper Bottles |
【推荐1】Boris Eldagsen submitted an Al-generated image to a photography contest as a “cheeky monkey” and sparked a debate about AI’s place in the art world.
In March, the Sony World Photography Awards announced the winning entry in their creative photo category: a black-and-white image of an older woman embracing a younger one, titled “PSEUDOMNESIA：The Electrician.”(伪失忆症，电工). The press release announcing the win describes the photograph as “haunting” and “amazing. ”
But the artist, Berlin-based Boris Eldagsen, turned down the award. His photograph was not a photograph at all, as he announced, he had crafted it through creative prompting of DALL-E2, an artificial intelligence image generator.
“I applied as a ‘cheeky monkey’, to find out if the ‘competitions’ are prepared for AI images to enter. They are not.” Eldagsen explained on his website. His entry image has stirred up controversy and conversation about when Al-generated or assisted images should be considered art. Eldagsen started with photography because he thought drawing was a lonely job. When AI generators started, he was hooked from the very beginning. “For me, as an artist, AI generators are absolute freedom. If you are older, you can put all your knowledge into prompting and creating images. If you are 15, you may have probably just generated Batman. ”
The idea of “Electrician" sparked off from a project that was related to his father, who went to war at 17, but, like most of that generation in Germany, never talked about it. After his father’s death, he found some images from the 1940s he hadn’t seen before. He learned a lot about their time just by looking at these images. “Can I recreate images of that time using AI?” And then the “Electrician” just grew.
With DALL-E 2, the image was all done by text prompts and inpainting and outpainting. Can it be regarded as art? There is not a yes-or-no for that.
1. What do we know about PSEUDOMNESIA:The Electrician?| A．It was created by AI technology. |
| B．It was an oil painting by Boris Eldagsen. |
| C．It was about a cheeky monkey. |
| D．It was a black-and-white photo of the war. |
| A．Because people held a negative attitude towards his entry image. |
| B．Because the press announced that it brought people nightmare. |
| C．Because the image done by AI technology was not a real photo. |
| D．Because the image was considered “haunting”and “amazing”. |
| A．To show his extraordinary AI skills. |
| B．To find out the limitation of Art competition. |
| C．To express his deep emotions to his late father. |
| D．To stir up a heated discussion about AI images. |
| A．Can AI images never make their way to art? |
| B．Will AI technology take the place of artists? |
| C．Will DALL-E 3 be applied to image creation? |
| D．How do people view AI images diversely? |
【推荐2】More cities, states and regions are committing to comprehensive climate plans to decarbonize (减少碳排放) transportation by 2040. The need for action is now, and we need to rise to the challenge quickly. Google technology is unlocking our ability to generate climate-related insights and impact on the globe.
The transportation sector is where global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are rising the quickest. In 2018, Google launched the Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE). Using AI, the systems analyze transportation trends in a city by mode， helping local governments assess their progress in tackling GHG emissions. GHG inventory processes (温室气体排放清单) traditionally take months and multiple data sources to collect, and are now highly efficient, allowing government staff to reduce the cost and personnel burden of reporting.
In pursuit of helping more cities take action against climate change, we will make transportation insights available in EIE for over 20,000 cities and regional governments by the end of the year, making it one of the largest ever collections of high-quality, globally consistent environmental data sources.
With EIE, cities have free access to Google’s unique mapping data and insights so they can decide on cleaner transport policies. As part of Google’s most ambitious decade of climate action, we’ve committed to helping more than 500 cities and local governments reduce a total sum of 1 billion tons of carbon emissions per year by 2030 and beyond.
As the window continues to narrow on carrying out policies and plans to reduce emissions, we’re collaborating with other associations, committed to addressing climate change. Our work with Cities. Climate Leadership Group(C 40) will help us better support the needs of cities. Together we can provide higher-quality transportation activity data to measure and track GHG emissions at a global scale, while also giving state and local governments resources to better understand what’s working at a local level.
1. What can we learn about EIE from paragraph 2?| A．It takes over government staff’s work. |
| B．It predicts transportation trends in a city. |
| C．It results in the rising of GHG emissions. |
| D．It deals with data collection and analysis. |
| A．To promote Google’s ambitious climate action. |
| B．To help cities make more sustainable decisions. |
| C．To provide environmental protection resources. |
| D．To partner with 40 countries for climate solutions. |
| A．Cooperating. | B．Compromising. |
| C．Competing | D．Corresponding. |
| A．Google helps calculate people’s carbon footprint with EIE. |
| B．Local governments benefit from environmental data sources. |
| C．Technology does its part in the action against climate change. |
| D．Technology can increase people’s environmental consciousness. |
【推荐3】At first, they sounded distant, as if they were around a phone in a prison. But as we chatted, they slowly started to sound more like themselves. They told me personal stories I’d never heard. I learned about the first time my dad got drunk. Mum talked about getting in trouble for staying out late. They gave me life advice and told me things about their childhoods, as well as my own. It was amazing. For a moment I forgot I wasn’t really talking to my parents at all, but to their digital copies.
This Mum and Dad live inside an app on my phone as voice assistants created by the company HereAfter Al. The company’s goal is to let the living communicate with the dead. Technology like this, which lets you “talk” to people who have died, has been a mainstay of science fiction for decades. But now it’s becoming a reality, thanks to advances in AI and voice technology. I wanted to test out what it might be like.
My real, flesh-and-blood parents are still alive and well; their virtual versions (虚拟版) were made just to help me understand the technology. But their digital copies offer a glimpse at a world where it’s possible to have conversations with loved ones long after they’re gone. From what I could know over a dozen conversations with my virtual parents, this really will make it easier to keep the people we loved close. It’s not hard to see the attraction. People might turn to digital copies for comfort, or to mark special occasions like anniversaries.
But for some, this tech may be alarming or frightening. When I talked to friends about this article, some of them just went away. There’s a common, deeply held belief that we shouldn’t mess with death.
But I’m only human, and that worry ends up being washed away by the even scarier possibility of losing the people I love. If technology might help me hang onto them, is it so wrong to try?
1. Why does the writer describe “the talk” in paragraph 1?| A．To present his opinion. | B．To create a warm scene. |
| C．To introduce the topic of the text | D．To add some background information. |
| A．It allows users to live on an app. | B．It leads users to lose their friends. |
| C．It is invented by a science fiction writer. | D．It offers a link between the dead and the living. |
| A．Supportive. | B．Unclear. | C．Objective. | D．Doubtful. |
| A．Your can talk to your parents. | B．Parents appear on your phone. |
| C．AI means never having to say goodbye. | D．A breakthrough in AI may benefit you. |
