IELTS Speaking Idioms: AI

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Idioms, idioms.

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- I love AI.

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- And it goes on and on and on, right?

It's idioms is indeed.

It's time for some idioms like this one over here.

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But listen, let me switch around.

I'm gonna show you some idioms

if I can find my right picture.

Where are we? We're over here.

I'm gonna show you a picture

and I'd like you to tell me what you think the idiom is

connected to AI.

Okay?

Here's the first picture.

What do you think the idiom is?

So, as Lucia says,

"Idioms are phrases that convey a different message

despite their own literal meaning."

That's right. Very good, Lucia.

Thank you for that.

That one.

So let's see.

"On cloud nine." Lovely idea.

Lovely.

"Felt over the moon."

Not a bad one, not a bad one.

"AI pilot."

Almost.

Ah, Dina, I think you are almost there.

"Spaceship."

But what's the idiom?

Ernesto, very good, very good.

I think you are there.

Uh-huh.

Anybody else? Ege, Ege, Ege?

Yeah, absolutely, yes.

It could be over the moon,

but actually it's not quite there.

Not quite there.

"I'm over the cloud." Hmm.

"Over the moon."

Ah.

"On cloud nine means very happy."

You are right there, you are right.

Anything else?

Something connected with autopilot.

Yeah.

You're right.

So this one, right?

This particular one is the following.

I can do it now. I can show you this one.

"To be on autopilot

means to use a system that operates automatically."

Autopilot.

Notice the stress?

Autopilot, autopilot, autopilot.

Autopilot. To be on autopilot.

Stress should be there.

"To use a system that operates automatically."

I'm gonna try and help you with the stress.

For example,

"I use Google maps so whenever I travel,

my navigation is on autopilot."

Okay.

Sometimes when I'm driving, right?

I'm not thinking.

I'm just driving.

Listening to the music

and then suddenly I've arrived.

And I think, "How did I do that?"

I was on autopilot, right?

I'm not thinking about it.

I can do it on autopilot.

Sometimes I can almost teach English on autopilot.

I'm not thinking about it.

It's just natural, it's automatic.

Sometimes. (laughs)

Google maps whenever I travel,

my navigation is on autopilot, right? (clears throat)

Okay, that's the first one.

Let's have a look at the next one,

which is not this one,

but number two.

What do you think?

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- [Keith] What do you think this one is?

Look carefully at the name.

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- [Keith] Interesting.

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- [Keith] It's a good expression.

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- [Keith] Ooh, Dina.

"Out of the box" like thinking out of the box.

Nice idea.

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- Yuwei, you are on form today.

You're on a roll.

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Ernesto as well, guys, you are fantastic.

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ANRN as well is talking about Pandora's magic.

Think out of the box is a very good expression,

but a different one here.

Ah, Zlatiborka, you're actually getting it.

Yeah, you're there, you're there.

Luis as well. Absolutely, yes.

"Pandora was opened."

Almost, almost. Yeah.

You're very, very close.

I think you've...

Most of you, some of you have got it spot on.

So the expression is,

if I just bring me back in,

is to open Pandora's box.

You can say, "To open a Pandora's box."

Sometimes we have a, sometimes we don't.

And it means "To create a lot of unexpected problems."

It's nothing to do with opening a box,

but the idea is that you open a box

and all of these spirits come out

and problems come out that you did not expect.

Unexpected, right?

For example, "I'm unsure about using AI in healthcare.

I think it's opening a Pandora's box

and will lead to ethical problems we're not ready for."

Okay.

So I think it's gonna create unexpected problems.

And this is very common, I think, in many areas of AI.

On the news this morning I was listening to about the big...

Not the problem, but the worry politicians have.

In the UK, we've got the elections coming

and in the US the elections this year,

a big worry about AI creating deep fakes,

fake videos that influence the voter

and we get the wrong result or a different result.

So people think, "Yeah, AI good.

But it's opening a Pandora's box."

Because all of these unexpected problems

are going to appear.

Very, very true.

Even if we get regulation.

So it's a good expression, right?

To open a Pandora's box.

Good.

So it's more negative.

Yes, Kristen, yes.

Yeah, I think it's negative 'cause...

Yeah, Abdula, you were saying that it's a happy event.

Not really.

I think Pandora's box is a very...

It's more negative where people are worried.

So very often we say, "Don't do that

because you'll open a Pandora's box." Right?

It can lead to a negative consequence.

Excellent. Good.

Christian, hello.

Happy to see you again as well.

Hi. Yes. (chuckles)

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Salman, I like your comment. That's nice.

And FinOsin says, interestingly,

"In fact, lots of graduate programs

they teach about using the combination

between data and AI to improve the health system."

Interesting. Great.

Excellent. Thank you for sharing.

That's lovely.

Okay.

We're going to go onto...

I'm looking for number, I've lost it.

We're on idioms, right?

But where is the next one?

Number three.

Here, idiom number three.

Here we go.

What's this one?

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Pablo says the vocabulary is mind blowing.

Great, good.

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"To leg it." Dhoni, that's amazing.

I love that expression.

To leg it, to run away.

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Not quite.

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Lovely idea, ERFAN.

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Krithika, good idea.

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"Last straw." Maybe?

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It's all downhill now. Good.

That's a good one, actually. Yes.

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Alex, you're almost there.

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DW, very, very good.

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Yeah.

Ernesto and Zlatiborka are on the ball today.

As is Hiyan Let.

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Yeah. Excellent, excellent.

You're all very, very, very, very, very close, okay?

Whoa, (laughs) come down.

Very, very, very close.

So this one is,

slippery slope.

Let me show you.

A slippery slope.

A slippery slope is "A bad situation that will get worse."

Right?

You can imagine you're starting to slide.

Whoa, that's bad,

but it's gonna get worse

'cause you're going down and down and down

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Until you explode.

So a slippery slope is idiomatic

and it just means a bad situation that will get worse.

For example,

"Relying on AI for hiring decisions..."

Well let's call it hiring new recruits, bit easier.

"Is a slippery slope that could lead to more people

being discriminated against."

Okay?

So it is a slippery slope.

It's a bad situation that will get worse

because more people can be discriminated against.

Now, I don't know if you know this,

I'm sure most of you do,

but AI is based on language models.

And so some companies use AI to filter candidates

who want to join their company.

But of course, if AI is trained on a language model

that is biased or that discriminates against people,

then the results will be discriminating against people.

And so there's a big controversy,

a big worry,

that using AI for recruitment

will discriminate against people.

In fact, AI in any role might discriminate against people,

especially minority groups.

And that's a slippery slope.

'Cause you start going down,

it gets worse, it gets worse, it gets worse,

and the problem will just keep on getting worse.

So this expression, a slippery slope,

it's a nice one that we can use for this context, right?

(indistinct) Thank you.

Saima Jahan, "Relying on AI for writing a scientific paper

is a slippery slope."

Also, relying on AI to create IELTS answers

is a slippery slope.

I think it can be good,

but to rely too much is a slippery slope.

What's discrimination?

Discriminate is to do something in favor

or against a group of people.

To discriminate against

is to do something either in favor of some people

or against a group of people.

Yeah.

Okay.

(laughs) It's my first time joining

and my mind just feels like gotten awakened. (laughs)

You've just woken up.

Good, good.

Here's another one from Salman,

"Using AI-driven decision..."

Oh, beautiful English.

"Using AI-driven decision in laws and judgments

might be a slippery slope."

Oh, Salman Abrar, your English is beautiful

and the idea is phenomenal.

Fantastic.

Like it very, very much. Lovely one to share.

Okay.

Excellent.

Number four, idiom number four.

Let's move on.

We've had...

Where are we?

Here's number four.

I'm just gonna take that off for a moment.

Right.

Now, I think a lot of you know this one.

Looking at the comments earlier on,

I think a lot of you know this.

Let me know. Let's see your comments, what you think.

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Hmm.

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Eshan, yeah, very good comment.

Absolutely.

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It's a nice idiom, jump on the bandwagon.

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Mohamed Shamo Hamedee, lovely comment. Thank you.

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Rue, you're almost there.

Almost.

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Elvira, spot on.

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Well done, Julia. Nice to see you.

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Alex, this is a really good one.

Hold your horses is another expression.

Actually, it's not the same one, but it's a different idiom.

Yes.

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Alberto's got the same here.

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Nelson, "To put the cart before the horse." Yes.

"Don't put your cart before the horses."

Horses or horse?

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Yeah.

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Sourav, very, very good. Excellent.

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Excellent. Very, very nice.

Good.

So let me bring this one back in

because you're absolutely right

to put the cart before the horse

which means to do things in the wrong order.

For example, "I think using AI-driven..."

Nice, right?

"Using AI-driven teaching assistants

before we understand their impact on learning is a mistake.

It's putting the cart before the horse."

I think using AI-driven teaching assistance is a mistake.

Well, before we understand their impact

on learning is a mistake.

It's putting the cart before the horse,

meaning that we should understand their impact

on learning first,

and then use AI-driven teaching assistants.

If we use them first

and then later discover their impact,

it's too late.

It's putting the cart before the horse.

So very often with AI,

there are things that we are doing in the wrong order,

right?

Letting everybody use AI

before having rules and regulation

is putting the cart before the horse.

We should have the rules first and then everybody using AI.

So I'm just gonna add here

the expression that a few of you said,

hold your horses,

which is an interesting one,

which just means wait.

It is also a...

It's an idiom.

It's not used as a verb.

It's used as a imperative.

When you say, "Wait, just hold your horses."

So whenever somebody...

You're in a meeting

and somebody has an idea and says, "Let's do this."

And you say, "Hold your horses.

We need to think carefully first."

Wait, right?

Hold your horses.

It's another nice...

Oops.

Another nice idiom, subliminal advertising. (laughs)

Excuse me.

Hold your horses, wait.

The other one put the cart before the horse.

So that's it.

So excellent, we've got all of them there.

We've got totally bum, bum, bum, bum.

We've got to be on autopilot, number one.

To open a Pandora's box, number two.

A slippery slope, number three.

And to put the cart before the horse, number four.

And these are your idioms for today.

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