新奇事件簿 未来机器人将比人聪明

A scientist said robots will be more intelligent than humans by 2029. The scientist's name is Ray Kurzweil. He works for Google as Director of Engineering. He is one of the world's leading experts on artificial intelligence (A.I.). Mr Kurzweil believes computers will be able to learn from experiences, just like humans. He also thinks they will be able to tell jokes and stories, and even flirt¹. Kurzweil's 2029 prediction is a lot sooner than many people thought. The scientist said that in 1999, many A.I. experts said it would be hundreds of years before a computer was more intelligent than a human. He said that it would not be long before computer intelligence is one billion times more powerful than the human brain.

一位科学家表示，到2029年，机器人将比人类更加聪明。这位科学家的名字叫Ray Kurzweil。他是谷歌的工程总监。他也是全球人工智能的顶尖专家之一。库茨魏尔博士相信计算机能够像人类一样从经验中学习。他还认为机器人能够讲笑话和故事，甚至还能调情。库茨魏尔对于2029年的预测比许多人的预期要早。科学家认为，1999年的时候，许多人工智能专家认为数百年以后，计算机才有可能超过人类。他说用不了多久的时间，计算机的大脑将会比人类强大10亿倍。

Mr Kurzweil joked that many years ago, people thought he was a little crazy for predicting computers would be as intelligent as humans. His thinking has stayed the same but everyone else has changed the way they think. He said: "My views are not radical² any more. I've actually stayed consistent. It's the rest of the world that's changing its view." He highlighted examples of high-tech³ things we use, see or read about every day. These things make us believe that computers have intelligence. He said people think differently now: "Because the public has seen things like Siri [the iPhone's voice-recognition technology] where you talk to a computer; they've seen the Google self-driving cars."

Kurzweil博士开玩笑说，许多年以前，人们认为他预言计算机的智商要追上人类是非常疯狂的。如今，他的思维方式没有改变，但是我们却改变了我们思考的方式。他说：“我的观点不再那么激进。我一直在坚持我的看法，但是世界的其他地方却改变了看法。”他着重举出了我们每天使用，观看或阅读的高科技产物。这些事物让人们相信计算机拥有智慧。他说人们现在的想法不同了：这是因为公众的看法就像是Siri（iPhone上的语音控制功能），你可以与计算机对话；他们已经见到了谷歌的自动驾驶汽车。

1 flirt   

v.调情，挑逗，调戏；n.调情者，卖俏者

参考例句：

• He used to flirt with every girl he met.过去他总是看到一个姑娘便跟她调情。
• He watched the stranger flirt with his girlfriend and got fighting mad.看着那个陌生人和他女朋友调情，他都要抓狂了。

2 radical   

n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的

参考例句：

• The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
• She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。

3 high-tech   

adj.高科技的

参考例句：

• The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展，这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
• The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。