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Academic English Skills Coursework 1: Source Report

Essay title or question:

Title: Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of developing and integrating artificial intelligence in modern technology and daily life. Consider the social and economic effects.

Plan for overall structure of essay:

Plan for overall structure Introduction: As the development of artificial intelligence, many moral or ethical questions were raised by people. Some people think that AI will replace human in the future, others argue that AI will benefit us in many aspects. Personally, I believe AI will make people’s lives better and will benefit both society and economy. P1. Background about AI: when did the concept of AI appear/ what is AI/ what can AI do P2. Drawbacks of developing AI: improper usage/ job losses/ privacy problem P3. The influence of AI to people’s lives: daily life/ education/ technology P4. The benefits of AI in medicine: boost the development of medicine/ health care/ predict diseases P5. The benefits of AI in business: use AI to analyse data/ recognize job bundles/ release labours Conclusion: Repeat my own opinions

Part 1: Annotated List of Sources

Select TWO sources you have read and plan to use in your essay and complete the table below outlining:

 why the text is useful for your essay  how you found the source.

You will focus on three different sources in part 2. Include a reference in the following format:

Books / chapters of books: Surname, I. and Surname, I. (Year) Title of the book Place of Publication: Publisher Surname, I. (Year) ‘Chapter of the book’ In: I. Surname & I. Surname (Eds) Title of the book Place of Publication: Publisher pp - 18

Journal articles (print/ online) Surname, I. (Year) ‘The Title of the Article’ The Name of the Journal 1 (1), pp. 1- 18

Reports / articles online Surname, I. (Year) ‘The Title of the Article or Report’ [Online] The Name of the Organisation or website. Available at: url [Last Accessed 23.07]

Lectures / talks Surname, I. (Year) ‘The Title of the Lecture or Talk’ [Online] TED Available at: url [Last Accessed 23.07]

Note that you should summarise and paraphrase key information in the text in order to demonstrate that you have understood the sources. You may use bullet points. You are not marked for your language accuracy, but you will be penalised for copying text from the source.

Type of source: Reference

Journal article Băjenescu T.-M. I. (2018) “The Risk of Artificial Intelligence”, Journal of Engineering Science (Chişinău) , 25(4), pp-

This source is relevant because...It illustrates that artificial intelligence is something that can do things as humans do.

It shows the global risks of AI: cause trouble to the education of young people; job losses; kmIt discusses some risks relating to AI: algorithmic bias; overestimating the ability of AI; errors in program; attack by hackers; little legal restriction to AI; privacy problem.It talks about the misuse risks of AI: people lose the control of machine intelligence; become a power tool of some power-seeking individuals or organizations.It compares the advantages and disadvantages of AI, and says AI is still at the beginning stage, the reason to why people against AI is their fear of the unknown.It gives examples on how people treat AI: google banned AI applications; EESC’s assessment on AI shows that AI can raise many moral, ethical, societal problems.

I found this source by... Using Google Scholar. I entered ‘the risk of artificial intelligence’, then used the filter to get the articles published in years from 2016 to now, because I think AI is a technological area that changes very fast, only recent 3 years articles are up to date.

Source 1

Part 2: Source Report

Complete the source report for THREE more sources you have read. Include:

 The reference  How you have identified the source as suitable for academic use  Three main points from the text which are useful for your essay, including the supporting information for each idea or argument.  The section of your essay the information will be useful for – make sure each source covers a different aspect of your essay  Conclusions you have drawn from your reading

Source 3 Reference: Mazilescu V. (2018) “Artificial Intelligence as a New Factor of Global Economic Growth”, Annals of Dunarea de Jos University. Fascicle I: Economics and Applied Informatics, 24(3), pp-

Source Evaluation Currency When was the text published? Are the citations and references used in the text current?

This article was published in 2018 by Dunarea de Jos University which is a historical university in Romania. The references it used were all very current, the published years of which range from 2009-

Authority Who is the author / organisation? Are they qualified? Is the source peer- reviewed?

The author was a researcher in University of Galati, Romania. He had published lots of articles about fuzzy reasoning (a specific area of artificial intelligence) before the publish of this article. It was published in Annals of Dunarea de Jos University, which is a peer reviewed journal, so it can be used as an academic source.

Accuracy Where does the information in the article come from? Are academic conventions used?

The text used many academic languages and analysed problems in a neutral position, so the article is objective. The sources of the article were academic books, journal articles, report, websites, which are all academic contents, so the article is reliable.

Which point will the information and arguments from the text be used to support or explain?

  1. The abstract states that AI becomes a new factor contributing to the global economic growth (Para+Para)
  2. It predicts and explains that in the next few years, the focus of AI will its Internet applications, such as speech recognition, telephone service, translation, searches and so on. (Para+Para)
  3. The third part of the article (Economic applications of AI technologies) states that AI can be used to provide personalized brand experiences for customers. (Para)
  4. The third part of the article (Economic applications of AI technologies) also explains why AI will have a huge impact on automotive field. (Para+Para)
  5. The third part of the article (Economic applications of AI technologies) also illustrates how AI can improve productivity. (Para)
  6. The conclusion of the article summarises that the business will benefit from AI because it let the business more efficient. (Para+Para)

Relevant points from the text Supporting evidence / example/ data in the text AI will have a huge impact on the global economic and become the biggest trading opportunity in the uncertain economy.

Page AI can help to analyze data, procedures, histories of people and identify customer needs, there will be more opportunity for the company to engage customers. e. (Page) Facebook, Pinterest, Amazon use AI to analyse people and objects from the comments they made in order to optimize their services and the platform.

AI can help marketers to provide personalization to customers and benefit the development of the company.

Page Nearly 33% of marketers use AI to create personalized brand experiences. The main benefits are the increase in the consumer conversion rate (63%), and the improvement in consumer experiences (61%).

Source 4 Reference: Hamet P. and Tremblay J. (2017) “Artificial intelligence in medicine”, Metabolism , Vol supplement, pp-S

Source Evaluation Currency When was the text published? Are the citations and references used in the text current?

This article was published in 2017 so it is current. Most the citations it used were published between 2014-2016. However, two of the references were published in 1965 and 1948, but the theories in these two articles that were cited were not been changed, so they have no influence on the currency of the article.

Authority Who is the author / organisation? Are they qualified? Is the source peer- reviewed?

Both authors worked in department of medicine in University of Montreal which is a highly ranked university in the world. Both of them published many articles relating to AI and biology in recent years. The article was published in Metabolism which is an academic journal focusing on human metabolism, so the article was a peer reviewed article.

Accuracy Where does the information in the article come from? Are academic conventions used?

According to the reference of the article, the citations it used came from academic books, journal articles, which are all academic sources. The authors used appropriate academic conventions to support their statements. They also used references and researches to give specific examples and data for AI used in medicine and pointed out where the application of AI in medicine can be improved, so the article is objective. The article was cited by 173, so it is reliable. Which point will the information and arguments from the text be used to support or explain?

  1. The second part of the article (AI in Medicine: The Virtual Branch) shows: AI can be used in virtual areas of medicine such as analysing the history of diseases, predicting diseases and so on. (Para)
  2. The third part of the article (AI in Medicine: The Physical Branch) states: AI can be applied in real objects such as medical machines and advanced robots used to care old people. (Para+Para)
  3. The fourth part of the article (Use of Robots to Monitor Effectiveness of Treatment) illustrates: AI would be helpful to monitor the guided transformation of the medicine to the aim organs, tumours or tissues. (Para)
  4. The conclusion of the article suggests: The data from patients are needed to record and analyse clearly in time, so AI will be useful to that and prevent the situation of patients getting worse. (Para+Para)

Relevant points from the text Supporting evidence / example/ data in the text Machine learning algorithms and knowledge management can promote the discoveries in genetics and molecular medicine.

Page AI can be used to predict come specific problems. e. (Page) The discoveries of unsupervised protein-protein interaction algorithms which can lead to new therapeutic target discoveries. -Theofilatos et al. (2015)

AI can help improve health care system. Page The health care system should not remain unchanged but needs to learn from its previous experiences and try to make continuous process improvements. e. (Page) The applications of AI can promote the development of problematically complex ecosystems for treating chronic mental diseases. -Silverman et al. (2015)

AI can help to predict the situations or Page AI is useful in evaluating changes in human performance in

Conclusions drawn from your reading Positives:AI will have a huge impact in our life.AI can help people interact with technology, better understand data and predict the future.People can use AI to predict diseases, develop targeting medicines and finally extend human’s life span.AI can affect the global economy by influence the workforce, productivity. The business that uses AI will benefit because it becomes more efficient and reliable.AI can help information system study more phenomena and process bigger data. Negatives:AI is now in a beginning stage, many of its function are not perfect for use, so we don’t need to be afraid of it.Due to the lack of laws restricting the use of AI, some criminal organization may use AI to do illegal thing, so the government needs to legislate in the future.The more jobs replaced by AI, the more people will lose their jobs.If AI is used in daily lives, the moral and ethical problems will arise, such as can old people be cared by robots but not relatives, can AI be used as teacher, etc.

You will be given a tutorial following submission of the assessment. In the tutorial, you will be asked to:

 Show your tutor how you found your sources  Talk your tutor through what you think are the useful parts of the sources

You will also be given opportunity to:

 Ask any questions you have on the assessment  Get feedback on the work you have done so far

This assessment is worth 40% of your reading mark. The mark you are awarded for Evidence of Subject Knowledge may be amended based on your tutorial discussion.

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Academic English Skills Coursework 1: Source Report
Essay title or question:
Title:
Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of developing and integrating artificial intelligence in modern technology
and daily life. Consider the social and economic effects.
Plan for overall structure of essay:
Plan for overall structure
Introduction: As the development of artificial intelligence, many moral or ethical questions were raised by
people. Some people think that AI will replace human in the future, others argue that AI will benefit us in many
aspects. Personally, I believe AI will make people’s lives better and will benefit both society and economy.
P1. Background about AI: when did the concept of AI appear/ what is AI/ what can AI do
P2. Drawbacks of developing AI: improper usage/ job losses/ privacy problem
P3. The influence of AI to people’s lives: daily life/ education/ technology
P4. The benefits of AI in medicine: boost the development of medicine/ health care/ predict diseases
P5. The benefits of AI in business: use AI to analyse data/ recognize job bundles/ release labours
Conclusion: Repeat my own opinions
Part 1: Annotated List of Sources
Select TWO sources you have read and plan to use in your essay and complete the table below outlining:
why the text is useful for your essay
how you found the source.
You will focus on three different sources in part 2. Include a reference in the following format:
Books / chapters of books:
Surname, I. and Surname, I. (Year) Title of the book Place of Publication: Publisher
Surname, I. (Year) ‘Chapter of the book’ In: I. Surname & I. Surname (Eds) Title of the book Place of Publication:
Publisher pp.1 - 18
Journal articles (print/ online)
Surname, I. (Year) ‘The Title of the Article’ The Name of the Journal 1 (1), pp. 1- 18
Reports / articles online
Surname, I. (Year) ‘The Title of the Article or Report’ [Online] The Name of the Organisation or website. Available
at:
url [Last Accessed 23.07.19]
Lectures / talks
Surname, I. (Year) ‘The Title of the Lecture or Talk’ [Online] TED Available at: url [Last Accessed 23.07.19]
Note that you should summarise and paraphrase key information in the text in order to demonstrate that you have
understood the sources. You may use bullet points. You are not marked for your language accuracy, but you will be
penalised for copying text from the source.
Type of source: Reference

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