手机已经成为日常生活中不可分割的一部分。但是当你刚出生的时候，这类小巧、功能强大的计算机简直就是科幻般地存在，而现在这些设备无处不在，与生活紧密相连以至于没有手机简直无法生存。
Cell phones have become an integral part of everyday life. But when you're first born, these tiny, powerful computers are literally science fiction-like, and these devices are now ubiquitous and so closely connected to life that without a cell phone they can't survive.
我们现在处于科技新纪元，注定从本质上改变孩子们的生活。这是人工智能的时代，当地时间周六，一批学者和行业领导者齐聚 MIT 技术峰会，向全体观众表示机器人革命的种子早已埋下，正在茁壮成长。
We are now in a new era of technology, destined to change the lives of our children in essence. This is an era of artificial intelligence, where a group of scholars and industry leaders meet on Saturday to show the audience that the seeds of the robotic revolution have been buried and are flourishing.
「我们还处于早期阶段，」IBM Watson 首席技术官 Rob High 在峰会发表演讲说。「接下来，我们将看到人工智能领域大量成果。」
"We're in the early stages," IBM Watson's Chief Technical Officer Rob High said at the summit, "We'll see a lot of work in the field of artificial intelligence."
考虑到如今人工智能领域取得的一些成果，这无疑令人兴奋。我们已经开发出了可以安慰人的微笑机器人、可以固定在鼓手身上的第三只机械手臂，随着鼓手击打以及无人驾驶汽车软件。现在，科技开发者最重要的目标是开发相应程序和机器人可以完全理解人类语言和表情的细微区别。
We have developed a smiling robot that can comfort people, a third mechanical arm that can be fixed to drummers, with drumming and unmanned car software. Now, the most important goal of technology developers is to develop programs and robots that fully understand the nuances of human language and expression.
一旦成为现实，机器就能处理海量数据——包括书籍、医学研究、社交媒体动态更新、以及人类面部暗示。
Once it becomes a reality, the machine can handle big data — books, medical research, social media dynamic renewals, and human facial insinuations.
比如，IBM Watson 正在进行一个项目，可以让电脑为医生提供治疗建议。这些建议是基于海量医学研究数据，并与医生对特定患者的观察相结合。
For example, IBM Watson is working on a project that allows computers to provide doctors with treatment advice. These recommendations are based on medical research data and are combined with doctors’ observations of specific patients.
对于那些还在努力学习新设备的人来说，人工智能程序可以让计算机使用起来更自然。目前的设备操作起来需要一系列的动作，如鼠标双击、下载特定的 APP 实现特定的功能。如果你不能将你的意图转化成计算机可理解的动作，那么计算机不会有任何反应。
For those who are trying to learn new devices, an artificial intelligence program can make computers more natural. The current device needs to operate with a series of actions, such as double-clicking on the mouse, downloading specific APPs to perform specific functions. If you cannot translate your intentions into a computer action that can be understood, the computer will not react.
「这样，我们人类必须调整以适应机器的理解模式。」Rob High 说，他表示在未来，人类与机器之间的隔阂将不复存在，机器可以理解人类的语言交流的细微区别。这听起来很棒，峰会上很多演讲者都表达了类似的主题。
"So, we humans have to adapt to the machine's mode of understanding." Rob High said he said that in the future, the divide between humans and machines will cease to exist, and the machine will understand the subtle differences in human language communication. That sounds great, and many speakers at the summit have expressed similar themes.
但是，还有另一种可能。
But there is another possibility.
黑暗的未来
Dark future
霍金一直认为人工智能将会毁灭人类，而且持此观点的不止他一人。这类担忧不是什么新鲜事，但是随着科技越来越先进，担心与日俱增。
Hawking has always believed that artificial intelligence will destroy humanity, and that he is not alone. Such fears are not new, but as technology becomes more advanced, fears grow.
比尔 · 盖茨也赞同这种看法。
Bill Gates shares this view.
「我们一直说狼来了、狼来了，狼来了，最后狼真的来了。」他说。
"We keep saying the wolf is coming, the wolf is coming, the wolf is coming, and the wolf is coming." He said.
他警告说人工智能发展的可能带来「严重的后果。」机器可以轻易替代人类的工作，当机器比创造它的人类更聪明的时候，将会发生什么？
He warned of the “serious consequences” of artificial intelligence development. Machines can easily replace human work. What happens when machines are smarter than the humans who created them?
这看起来还有点遥远。机器还在学习掌握最基本的指令。但是比尔 · 盖茨指出技术将会急速扩张——这也是知名的未来派学者 Ray Kurzweil 的看法。他也在峰会上做了分享。
It seems a little remote. The machine is still learning the most basic instructions. But Bill Gates points out that technology will expand rapidly -- and that's what Ray Kurzweil, a leading future scholar, thinks. He shared it at the summit.
「技术以指数级扩张，」Ray Kurzweil 说。
"Technology expands exponentially," Ray Kurzweil says.
有些学者也明白这一点，其中有一位对未来特别表示担忧。
This is also understood by some scholars, one of whom expressed particular concern about the future.
「当机器比人类做得更多的时候，人类活着的意义是什么？」卡内基 · 麦隆大学教授 Illah Nourbakhsh 说。
"What does it mean to be alive when machines do more than humans?" says Illah Nourbakhsh, Professor at Carnegie Malone University.
「最终，我们的社会契约需要某种巨变... 你需要给人类活下来的理由，一种骄傲自豪感。」他说，「我们需要在全球范围内解决这个问题。」这说起来容易，做起来难，但也不是不可能。
"In the end, our social contract needs some kind of big change... you need to give humans a reason to survive, a sense of pride." He said, "We need to solve this problem on a global scale." It's easy, it's hard, but it's not impossible.
「技术是继火之后有一把双刃剑，」Ray Kurzweil 说，「既可以让我们取暖，也能烧坏我们的房子。」
"Technology is a double-edged sword behind a fire," Ray Kurzweil says, "We can both warm up and burn down our house."
文章来源：huffingtonpost 由 TECH2IPO / 创见 陈刚编译，首发于创见科技，转载请注明出处。
Source: huffingtonpost, edited by TECH2IPO/Inventive Chen Kong, first published in creative technology, reprinted and referenced.
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