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Innovation English Lessons
2 lessons covering innovation English vocabulary, grammar, and real-world phrases.
B1Artificial Intelligence
I tried using AI. It scared me.
After using ChatGPT to solve a complex coding issue with his email backup, the author reflects on the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence and its potential to cause massive societal disruption. Drawing a parallel between current AI technology and Napster in the late 1990s, he suggests that tools like ChatGPT may signal the start of a steep new technological adoption curve that could radically change established workflows, industries, and daily life.
C2Energy Transition
How Hong Kong Became a Giant Refrigerator
Driven by status symbols, commercial incentives, misperceptions of health, and regressive electricity pricing for large corporations, Hong Kong has developed an extreme reliance on air conditioning. AC units account for 34 percent of the city's total electricity consumption, aggravating local heat islands and driving global carbon emissions. Because cooling demand is projected to triple globally by 2050, addressing this issue requires adopt higher-efficiency cooling technologies, implementing stricter government policies, improving architectural design, and reducing personal AC usage.