今天小编给大家带来了一篇PTE阅读文章，里面有一些解析，希望通过这样的文章能够让同学们的PTE阅读能力提升上去。这篇文章是关于人工智能Artificial Intelligence。在文中通过对control进行解读来破题，指出人工智能与人的差距。作者态度客观，他既没有一味的吹捧科技新贵，也没有对未来产生恐慌，这一点很难得。

　　A Little Common Sense, and Control

　　Control. Most of us like to feel we have some semblance of it in our daily lives. And we tend to get a little edgy when it looks like it’s slipping away. It’s why the thought of self-driving cars mixing it up with human drivers on the roads makes us pause. Certainly our brains’ inherent predictive powers supersede what’s been programmed into a car’s computer, right?

　　semblance (/’sembləns/): 外观，外表

　　an insubstantial semblance 不实在的表象

　　a little edgy 些许愠怒

　　bear the semblance of an angel 有天使的外表

　　not a semblance of truth to the story. 故事里没有丝毫真实的成分

　　句子里的代词it都是指control

　　整句：控制— 在日常生活中，大多数人都会感触到它的表象。甚至当它要溜走的时候，我们都会感到几许愠怒。 这是阻止我们自动驾驶和人类驾驶并驾齐驱的理由。当然了，我们大脑固有的预计能力取代了车载电脑的编程，对吗?

　　That factor — prediction —is a key objective for the artificial intelligence research team featured in our cover story. For all the stories we’ve read and heard about machines that are geared up to drive, grocery shop and pick up our kids for us, AI is still in its infancy. Researchers are working hard just to get AI into the throes of toddlerhood(分娩的阵痛).

　　最后一句：研究者们正在努力让人工智能渡过分娩的阵痛!研究者们寄希望于为人工智能一朝分娩!

　　Machines will do only as they’re told; their actions and “smarts” only as good as the data they’re fed. While scientists design neural networks and write algorithms to gradually teach them, we are a long way from the point where machines can independently predict behavior of people or things in any situation. As babies, we learn to predict the path of a dropped ball, and, though it’s in fits and starts(凭一时高兴),we also learn a bit of common sense about how our world works.

　　机器只会听命而行。机器的行为和才智则由输入的数据决定。尽管有科学家们设计神经系统，编写算式来逐渐教会机器，我们距离机器能独立预判人类行为和估算情形还有很长一段路要走。在孩童时期，尽管有时我们仅凭一时兴起，就能预判掉落皮球的轨迹，但是我们也能了解到这个世界运行的一些常识。

　　It’s common sense that is the underpinning(基础，支柱) of our feelings of control. We’re still in the driver’s seat. At least for now.

　　正是这常识才是我们控制感的基础。我们也仍然在支配地位，至少目前来说如此。