6 Minute English: Should we fear chatbots?

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2023/ep-230706

◎ Vocabulary 

➤ sophisticated (adj.)

• intelligent or made in a complicated way and therefore able to do complicatedtasks

✔I think a more sophisticated approach is needed to solve this problem.

➤ coherent (adj.)

• If an argument, set of ideas, or a plan is coherent, it is clear and carefullyconsidered, and each part of it connects-or follows in a natural or reasonable-way

✔Acknowledging the prior operation of group selection provides an evolutionarily coherent explanation of the survival of human behavioral predispositions that enable social cooperation.

➤ authoritative (adj.)

• showing that you are confident, in control, and expect to be respected and obeyed

✔She has an authoritative manner that at times is almost arrogant.

➤ provoke (v.)

• to cause a reaction, especially a negative one

✔The prospect of increased prices has already provoked an outcry.

➤ sentient (adj.)

• able to experience feelings

✔As a result, they are unlikely to enhance sentientforms of reconciliation.