人工智能（Artificial Intelligence），英文缩写为AI。它是研究、开发用于模拟、延伸和扩展人的智能的理论、方法、技术及应用系统的一门新的技术科学。人工智能是计算机科学的一个分支，该领域的研究主要包括机器人技术、语言识别、图像识别、自然语言处理等等。
Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that tries to understand the nature of intelligence and to produce new intelligent machines that can react in a similar way to human brains.The research of artificial intelligence includes: robotics ([rəʊˈbɒtɪks] 机器人技术), speech recognition（语言识别）, image recognition（图像识别）, natural language processing （自然语言处理）and so on.
人工智能是近年来英语考试的一个热点话题，人工智能是否会取代人类，人脑会不会退化或者变懒等相关主题都是议论文的出题素材。今天为大家提供两篇关于人工智能的英文作文范文，供大家参考。两篇作文分别从两个不同角度入手，探讨了人工智能与人类的关系。
作文一的中心论点是：人工智能永远无法取代人脑
作文二的中心论点是：有了人工智能，人脑一定程度上会变懒
这两篇作文都堪称佳作，论点清晰，论证有力，结构完整，层次分明，语言通顺，语句之间的衔接流畅，批改网给出的分数分别是93分和95分。
范文一
Human Brains Will Never be Replaced by AI
Recently, artificial intelligence has developed rapidly with the fast development of science and technology, so AI is no longer an alien [ˈeɪliən] （陌生的） notion to the public.（人工智能对公众来说不再是一个陌生的概念。）Based on AI technology, various of automatic machines have emerged and those machines have done more of our thinking, which makes our life become easier and convenient. Meanwhile, we may become so dependent on AI machines that our brains may be starved of mental effort and regress (退化）consequently. Then a thought-provoking problem （一个发人深省的问题）arises, will human brains be replaced by AI?
The answer to this question is definitely （加强语气，肯定地，明确地） no. Frankly speaking, it is those exceptional technicians that invent AI technology. As what is well known to us all, human beings, the only one species that has the ability to use tools and has the emotions to do a lot of thinking, have existed on the earth for a long period of time. That is to say, the existence of us proceeds that of AI. Furthermore, what automatic machines are capable of is all sorts of codes written by related technicians. And what they are doing is just following designed codes. Without those codes, those machines can just do nothing. What remains the most important is that AI machines can never produce real thoughts, participate in innovative programs and put creative ideas into practice,(并列结构，人工智能永远无法产生真正的思想、参与创新计划并将创意付诸实践） at which human brains are exceptionally （特别地） good.
Although AI machines have accomplished much progress in many fields in recent years, it is those brilliant technicians' brains that contribute to （促成） the achievement of automatic machines. We can say that without the mental efforts of those extraordinary minds, there will not exist these fantastic AI machines.（结论部分重申中心论点，总结全文）
本文作者为河南科技大学外国语学院16级任鹏飞同学，批改网给出的分数是93分。
范文二
AI Will Make Human Brains Get Lazy to a Certain Extent
As technical development has advanced by leaps and bounds（突飞猛进）, intelligent machines increasingly play a dispensable role in modern society, which indeed brings about tremendous convenience by virtue of taking over human jobs on a grand scale. Unexpectedly, artificial intelligence is even developed to an unprecedented point where it can handle several problems requiring high levels of precision and logical reasoning(人工智能快速发展的现状）. Nevertheless, what calls for a special attention is whether with the emergence of the electronic assistants, our brains will regress.（转折，提出问题） As far as I'm concerned, the intelligent machines will make human brains get lazy to a certain extent（表明中心论点）.
For one thing, the more dependent upon the convenience provided by the intelligent machines people are, the less skilled at labour and actual operation we become（主题句：人们越依赖智能机器提供的便利，就越不能熟练地从事劳动和实际操作。）. Originally, people spare no efforts（不遗余力） to create them for the purpose of reducing the heavy burdens as well as breaking free of repetitive and tedious work, whereas an increasing number of people take it for granted that the electronic assistants can do everything like a person who is a jack-of-all-trades. With regard to the efficiency of writing, it is generally believed that inputting words directly by computers is much more faster, by a wide margin, than writing on the paper by hand. However, it should be exceptionally noted that the familiarity with each stroke of Chinese characters even the characters themselves has been in a recession, what's worse, people dwell little on the stern reality of forgetting how to write. It is undoubtedly that giving in to the intelligent machines is the starting point for making our brains get lazy.（分论点一）
For another, inundated by the explosive information of the new era of science and technology, people are lacking in the capacity for independent thinking（主题句：被新科技时代的爆炸性信息淹没，人们缺乏独立思考的能力）. On account of the fact that intelligent machines possess a wide array of data bases, it is a piece of cake for people to obtain information by virtue of clicking the mouse or just saying out what we want. When encountering a tough problem, we no longer mobilize the initiative （调动主动性）to make full use of our brains instead of resorting to those electronic assistants that are capable to come up with incalculable solutions. Hence, people indulge ourselves in handing off the job of rational thinking to a variety of intelligent machines like search engines or Siri that is an electronic assistant like a butler embedded in Apple smart phones. With the passage of time, this handoff comes with a downside that outsourcing our thinking is changing our cognitive habits, which indeed makes our brains get lazy.（分论点二）
There is no denying that artificial intelligence is extremely beneficial for us living in an electronic age. Last but not least, it is also taking a toll on （产生负面影响）our brains so that the importance of independent thinking can't be overemphasized（怎么强调都不过分）. What's more, it is high time that we took action to balance the relationship between intelligent machines and initiative thinking.（结论，总结全文，呼吁人们重视独立思考，不要过分依赖人工智能）
本文作者为河南科技大学外国语学院17级李佳玮同学，批改网给分为95分。
重要短语和句型汇总：
- AI is no longer an alien [ˈeɪliən] （陌生的） notion to the public.
- 人工智能对公众来说不再是一个陌生的概念。
- a thought-provoking problem
- 一个发人深省的问题
- by leaps and bounds
- 突飞猛进
- spare no efforts
- 不遗余力
- The importance of independent thinking can't be overemphasized.
- 独立思考的重要性怎么强调都不为过。
- balance the relationship between A and B
- 平衡两者之间的关系
- be exceptionally good at
- 特别擅长
- repetitive and tedious work
- 重复乏味的工作
- independent thinking / rational thinking / initiative thinking
- 独立思考/理性思考/主动思考
- take a toll on
- 对......产生负面影响;造成损失