软银CEO孙正义：通用人工智能将在两三年内实现
LearnAndRecord约 7 分钟近日，软银集团首席执行官孙正义在演讲中重申了他对人工智能的乐观预测，称通用人工智能将在两三年内实现。
🤔️小作业：
1. According to the passage, which of the following best describes Masayoshi Son's view on the competition in the AI industry?
A. Collaboration is more important than speed in AI development.
B. The AI industry is saturated, and new entrants have little chance of success.
C. Rapid advancement is crucial to winning in the AI "gold rush."
D. Financial investment is the only determining factor for success in AI.
无注释原文：
AI to Have Human-Level Abilities in a Few Years, SoftBank CEO Son Says
From: The Wall Street Journal
SoftBank Group Chief Executive Masayoshi Son reiterated his bullish forecasts for artificial intelligence in a speech Thursday that stressed advances made by OpenAI.
OpenAI raised $6.6 billion in a recent round of new funding that included a $500 million investment by SoftBank, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Son said he believed artificial general intelligence, in which computers have human-level cognitive abilities, would be achieved in two to three years. He reiterated that he believes “artificial super intelligence,” in which computers have 10,000 times the intelligence of humans, will be achieved within a decade.
“A gold rush of intelligence has arrived. The one who goes fastest will win,” Son said at SoftBank World 2024, a conference organized by his company.
He praised OpenAI’s recently introduced o1, a series of models designed to spend more time thinking before they respond. Such models “have developed the ability to think,” Son said.
He said he got up early Monday morning and asked the AI program how to turn 10 million yen into 100 million yen. He said the program took 75 seconds to give an answer, but he didn’t say what it was.
News Corp, owner of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, has a content-licensing partnership with OpenAI.
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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为华尔街日报官方译文，仅供参考
含注释全文：
AI to Have Human-Level Abilities in a Few Years, SoftBank CEO Son Says 软银CEO孙正义：通用人工智能将在两三年内实现
From: The Wall Street Journal
SoftBank Group Chief Executive Masayoshi Son reiterated his bullish forecasts for artificial intelligence in a speech Thursday that stressed advances made by OpenAI.
软银集团（SoftBank Group）首席执行官孙正义（Masayoshi Son）周四在演讲中重申了他对人工智能（AI）的乐观预测，并强调了OpenAI取得的进展。
reiterate
reiterate /riˈɪt.ər.eɪt/ 表示“反复地说，反复讲；重申”，英文解释为“to say something again, once or several times”举个🌰：She reiterated that she had never seen him before. 她一再重申自己以前从未见过他。
bullish
bullish /ˈbʊlɪʃ/ 表示“乐观的；充满信心的”，英文解释为“giving your opinions in a powerful and confident way”举个🌰：She's being very bullish about the firm's future. 她对公司的未来很有信心。
📍有没有发现这个词是bull+ish构成的，bull本身表示“公牛”（A bull is a male animal of the cow family）bullish还有“股票行情看涨的；牛市的”（A bullish financial market is one in which share prices are rising）的含义。
forecast
forecast /ˈfɔː.kɑːst/ 可以作名词，也可作动词，表示“预测；预报”，英文解释为“to say what you expect to happen in the future”举个🌰：Snow has been forecast for tonight. 预报今晚有雪。
📍这个词由“fore-”（前面的）和“cast”（投，抛）组成，表示“向前投掷”的意思，引申为“预测”。近义词：prediction（预言），同根词：forecaster（预报员），常用短语：weather forecast（天气预报）
OpenAI raised $6.6 billion in a recent round of new funding that included a $500 million investment by SoftBank, according to a person familiar with the matter.
据一位知情人士透露，OpenAI最近在一轮新融资中筹集了66亿美元，其中包括软银集团投资的5亿美元。
Son said he believed artificial general intelligence, in which computers have human-level cognitive abilities, would be achieved in two to three years. He reiterated that he believes “artificial super intelligence,” in which computers have 10,000 times the intelligence of humans, will be achieved within a decade.
孙正义表示，他相信通用人工智能（即计算机具有人类水平的认知能力）将在两三年内实现。他重申，他相信“超级人工智能”（即计算机的智能是人类的1万倍）将在10年内实现。
cognitive
cognitive /ˈkɒɡ.nə.tɪv/ 表示“认知的；感知的；认识的”，英文解释为“Cognitive means relating to the mental process involved in knowing, learning, and understanding things.”举个🌰：As children grow older, their cognitive processes become sharper. 随着孩子们长大，他们的认知过程也变得越来越敏锐了。
“A gold rush of intelligence has arrived. The one who goes fastest will win,” Son said at SoftBank World 2024, a conference organized by his company.
“智能淘金热已经到来。速度最快的人将赢得胜利，”孙正义在软银集团组织的“软银世界2024”（SoftBank World 2024）大会上说。
gold rush
gold rush /ˈɡəʊld ˌrʌʃ/ 表示“淘金热（指涌向新采金地的热潮）”，英文解释为“a situation in which a lot of people move to a place to try to find gold because they have heard that gold has been found there”
He praised OpenAI’s recently introduced o1, a series of models designed to spend more time thinking before they respond. Such models “have developed the ability to think,” Son said.
他称赞了OpenAI最近推出的o1，这是一系列旨在花更多时间思考后再做出反应的模型。孙正义表示，这些模型“已经发展出了思考能力”。
He said he got up early Monday morning and asked the AI program how to turn 10 million yen into 100 million yen. He said the program took 75 seconds to give an answer, but he didn’t say what it was.
他说，他周一早上早早起床，询问这个AI程序如何将1,000万日圆变成1亿日圆。他说，该程序花了75秒给出了答案，但他没有透露答案是什么。
yen
the yen /jen/ 表示“（相对于其他货币的）日元（价格）”，英文解释为“the value of the yen, used in comparing the values of different types of money from around the world”举个🌰：The yen fell/rose against (= was worth less/more compared to) the dollar today. 今天，日元对美元价格下跌/上升了。
News Corp, owner of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, has a content-licensing partnership with OpenAI.
《华尔街日报》（The Wall Street Journal）和道琼斯通讯社（Dow Jones Newswires）的所有者新闻集团（News Corp）与OpenAI建立了内容授权合作关系。
licensing
licensing /ˈlaɪ.sən.sɪŋ/ 表示“许可；授权”，英文解释为“the act of giving people official permission to do, have, or sell something”举个🌰：In many countries, licensing is used as a method of deciding who should sell what. 在许多国家，授权被用作决定谁应该销售什么的方法。
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