B2 · 26 words
Otti and artificial intelligence
Otti asks a chatbot to write his birthday card for Frau Hilde, and Lotte frowns. Learn to talk about artificial intelligence - what it can do, where it makes mistakes, who is responsible - and to give a balanced opinion.
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Lotte
Eine künstliche Intelligenz generiert deine Glückwünsche? Hm …
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Translation
An artificial intelligence is generating your birthday wishes? Hmm …
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Otti
Oh. Das hat der Algorithmus einfach erfunden?
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Translation
Oh. The algorithm just made that up?
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Lotte
Solche Anwendungen wirken intelligent, aber sie irren sich. Das ist die Gefahr.
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Applications like that seem intelligent, but they get things wrong. That's the danger.
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Otti
Und wer ist dann verantwortlich? Die Maschine oder die Leute, die sie programmiert und entwickelt haben?
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Translation
And who's responsible then? The machine, or the people who programmed and developed it?
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Otti
Die Entwicklung hat aber auch Vorteile: Langweilige Arbeit kann man automatisieren.
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But the development has advantages too: you can automate boring work.
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Words and Phrases
- die Intelligenz intelligence
- der Chatbot chatbot
- der Algorithmus algorithm
- der Fortschritt progress
- die Entwicklung development
- die Maschine machine
- der Roboter robot
- die Anwendung application
- das Urheberrecht copyright
- die Kreativität creativity
- die Gefahr danger
- programmieren to program
- entwickeln to develop
- äußern to express
- automatisieren to automate
- generieren to generate
- künstlich artificial
- menschlich human
- kritisch critical
- ethisch ethical
- intelligent intelligent
- verantwortlich responsible
- der Vorteil advantage
- der Nachteil disadvantage
- die Verantwortung responsibility
- der Computer computer
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