Talking to technology 能与你聊天的“虚拟助手”

近来，一种能和人交谈的新技术变得越来越受欢迎。

这种被称为“虚拟助手”的产品可以在我们的手机、电脑甚至是智能扬声器上找的到。

它们可以给我们提供有用、琐碎的信息，但这些能和我们聊天的“助手”会取代并成为和我们日夜促膝长谈的挚友吗？本期《凯哥聊英语》讨论虚拟助手技术给我们日常生活带来的变化。

测验与练习

1. 阅读课文并回答问题。

2. 请在不参考课文的情况下完成下列练习。选择一个意思合适的单词填入句子的空格处。

1. It's hard to ______ with the teacher because I have to sit at the back of the class.

inactive interact interacted interacting

2. Making contactless payments used to be quite unusual but now it's ______.

real-world agent commonplace cutting-edge

3. The train information screens are not working today because there is a problem with the ______.

software artificial intelligence agent chatbot

4. This new driverless car really demonstrates ______ technology.

edge-cutting cutting-edges cut-edges cutting-edge

5. The local ______ was very different from what I had learnt at school so I couldn't understand what people were saying.

vernacular chatbot brusque chit-chat