이번주 수요 시사영어 강의 기사 : 착오 없고 월급도 없는 AI 비서, 엄마들에게 희망일까

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이번 주에는

어린 아이가 있고 애 키우는 것이 힘든 엄마들에게

과연 AI 비서가 큰 도움이 될 수 있을 것인지에 관한 내용으로

영어훈련하겠습니다.

글쓴이는 지난 두 달 동안의 힘겨웠던 시간에 대한 얘기와

그릇된 금전적 선택에 대한 고백을 하면서
과연, AI 비서가 있었다면 잘못된 판단을 하지 않을 수 있었을까 상상을 하면서

글을 전개하고 있습니다.

비단 아이 엄마뿐만 아니라

인간의 삶 자체가 수많은 선택의 연속인데

AI 비서가 큰 도움이 될 수 있을까요?

글쓴이의 의견을 감상해 보시죠.

그리고,
원어민 중에서도 탑클래스에 속하는 글쓴이의

창의적인 글솜씨도 저와 함께 감상하시죠.

Is AI the answer to moms’ mental overload?

Earlier this year, I made a dumb financial decision. I bought a car that was beyond our budget. We had just been through an eight-week stretch of demanding work schedules, kitchen renovations and checking-account fraud. Our daughter’s day-care center closed three times, for a COVID outbreak, a bout of norovirus and a water leak. Not exactly tragedies, but when our old car died, my fried brain had no bandwidth for comparison shopping. I walked into a dealership and said I’d look at whatever they had on the lot. I left with a car -- and a car loan.

How did I become the kind of person who buys a car on impulse? Cognitive overload. It can have real financial costs. In my case, they were steep -- and came with 6.9 percent interest.

But what if I’d had an AI assistant to keep track of the chaos -- or offloaded the car research to ChatGPT? Maybe my brain would have been clearer and capable of better decisions. Maybe my bank account would look a little healthier now.

Entrepreneur Avni Patel Thompson thinks families like mine could use some automated support. She’s working on a subscription service called Milo that uses a mix of GPT-4 and human intervention to keep track of family schedules, grocery lists and other mundanities. One parent might text a screenshot of a school email to Milo, which would realize that buried in the fifth paragraph is a reminder that Pajama Day is May 18. Milo could then send each parent reminders to make sure the kids go off to school in their sleepwear.

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