Zhao Yishen, the 33-year-old artist, is carving a woodblock (雕刻木板) carefully, with a chisel in his right hand. To carve the woodblocks, he has to hold this position for six hours. He has been carving woodblocks since 2012. “It feels good and looks beautiful when a Chinese character slowly appears on the woodblock under your chisel," says Zhao.

    Zhao is now the only full-time carver working at a workshop that creates woodblock-printed books in Beijing. As a teenager he loved to read ancient Chinese books in the library, and the curiosity of how the books were made led him to get a job at an ancient books woodblock printing studio in Yangzhou in 2011 after graduating as a law major from university.

    Block printing was listed as a UNESCO World Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2009. Zhao started to learn the skill from Chen Yishi, one of the skill's masters, in 2012.

    "The first step is to learn how to sharpen your chisel, "says Zhao. “After using it for a while, you need to sharpen it again." After that, the woodblock must be put at a certain angle that is deep enough to show up the characters and also to make sure the cuts are deep enough-but not too deep. Then Zhao puts the paper, face down, onto the wood after brushing oil on the paper. This helps to transfer the characters onto the block. Once the carving is finished, the woodblock is brushed with ink and paper pressed onto it. It is ready to print.

    In Zhao's mind, the inked woodblock is a work of art. After a year of learning from Chen, Zhao found a job at Zhuyu Shanfang in 2013. His carved woodblocks have been used for several books over the past six years. "I just learned the basic skills, but to master it, I still need years of practice,” says Zhao. “A good craftsman can carve an entire book with every single character aligned in order."

    Roald Dahl was one of the most successful writers of children's books. He sold millions of books all over the world. Many of his books have been made into films and videos. He is so famous that there is even a Roald Dahl Museum you can visit.

    Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Wales, Britain. His father was rich but he died when Roald was very young. Roald and his mother lived a hard life. He had to leave school and went to Africa where he worked for an oil company.

    In 1939, Roald became a pilot, but he had a bad accident. It made him limp(瘸的)for the rest of his life. After this, Roald went to America where he wrote a story about his experience as a pilot. It was so good that it was put in a magazine.

    Roald married an American film star. They bought a house in England and had five children. From 1960 to 1965, ：Theo, one of his children, was hit by a taxi and was seriously hurt. Oliva, one of Roald's daughters, died of a strange illness. Soon after this, his wife also had a serious illness. It took her years to get completely better.

    Gradually Roald became more and more successful. He always did his writing in an old shed(棚)at the back of his house. He always sat in the same old armchair with a wooden board on his lap.

    "One of the nice things about being a writer," he once said, "is that all you need is what you've got in your head and a pencil and a bit of paper."

    In 1983 Roald won a big prize for his book The BFG. During his life, Roald wrote many famous books, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Fantastic Mr Fox.

    After he died in 1990, Roald left money to help people with serious illness and those with problems with reading and writing.

①AI（artificial intelligence 人工智能） and machine learning refer to the ability of machines to learn and act intelligently.It means they can make decisions，finish tasks，and even tell the possible future results based on what they learn from data （数据）.

②AI and machine learning already play a bigger role in everyday life than you might imagine.Health care，banking，video games，every search on the Internet you make...，all are driven by AI.

③AI is going to change almost every field of modern life.Stephen Hawking said，"Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history."And Hawking added at once，"Unluckily，it might also be the last，unless we learn how to avoid the risks."

④ ▲  ， especially when you consider some countries are racing to develop AI—enabled autonomous weapons（人工智能自主武器）.It is also going to change and take the place of many human jobs.The same worries also come from the public.According to the survey result from Centre for the Governance of AI，91%of the people （tend to and totally） agree that "AI is a technology that requires careful management" in Europe.

⑤But rather than agreeing with an idea of a helpless future where all human jobs are given over to robots.some people believe AI will make on working lives better.It will improve the work of humans，and new jobs will appear to take the place of the old ones.

⑥What's more，machines become more intelligent and they are able to finish more human tasks.Things which only belong to humans like creativity and critical （批判性的） thinking，will become even more valuable in the future.

⑦Like it or not，AI is here.Maybe changing ourselves and managing it well are the best way out .Just as Benjamin Franklin once said，"When you're finished changing，you're finished."

There are some persons' plans for the coming summer. You are welcome to post yours!

Many people have their name cards. Do you have one? Is your name card beautiful? There are four name cards here. Let's have a look.

Developed by US company OpenAI, ChatGPT has taken the internet by storm, winning 100 million users since it came out in January， 2023.  People can ask the robot to write storics and e-mails， create recipes（食谱），translate languages, and answer all kinds of questions. In its own words, it is "a language model trained in a large amount of Internet text to help users get human-like text. "

Compared with Siri or other chatbots（聊天机器人），ChatGPT úses a much bigger database（数据库）for training. It also uses stronger software and hardware to learn things by itself. For example, if it provides a wrong answer to your question, you can tell it the right one and it will make corrections. 

OpenAI has now introduced a powerful new language model: GPT-4. On March 14, 2023, GPT-4 showed the world how smarter it is than GPT-3. 5. One of its best new features is that it can understand pictures. 

But GPT-4＇s developments don＇t stop there.  The new language model can code（用代码编写）classic games in a matter of minutes ，  and it can also change the tone（语气） and style based on what you ask it to do. GPT-4 is much better than the older GPT at passing tests. Some students use it in exams, which is not allowed. This may worry teachers. According to CNN, GPT-4 did reallywell on a law school test, with a score in the top 10 percent of test takers. But GPT-3. 5 only got a score in the bottom 10 percent.