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Marvin Minsky - AI pioneer
Marvin Minsky is one of the great pioneers of artificial intelligence -- and using computing metaphors to understand the human mind. His contributions to mathematics, robotics and computational linguistics are legendary and far-reaching.

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Marvin Minsky is the superstar-elder of artificial intelligence, one of the most productive and important cognitive scientists of the century, and the leading proponent of the Society of Mind theory. Articulated in his 1985 book of the same name, Minsky's theory says intelligence is not born of any single mechanism, but from the interaction of many independent agents. The book's sequel,The Emotion Machine (2006), says similar activity also accounts for feelings, goals, emotions and conscious thoughts.

Minsky also pioneered advances in mathematics, computational linguistics, optics, robotics and telepresence. He built SNARC, the first neural network simulator, some of the first visual scanners, and the first LOGO "turtle." From his headquarters at MIT's Media Lab and the AI Lab (which he helped found), he continues to work on, as he says, "imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning."

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Marvin Minsky: Health and the human mind

Marvin Minsky 談人類心智與健康。

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仔細聽好了---在Marvin Minsk 充滿調皮、迷人的即興演講中,他談論健康、人口膨脹及人類心智,整個演講充滿機智、風趣、智慧和一點點的狡猾....他在開玩笑嗎?他給的其實是很好的建議。
- AI pioneer
Marvin Minsky is one of the great pioneers of artificial intelligence -- and using computing metaphors to understand the human mind. His contributions to mathematics, robotics and computational linguistics are legendary and far-reaching. Full bio

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If you ask people about what part部分 of psychology心理學 do they think is hard,
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如果你問別人,關於心理學,哪一部份是他們覺得最難理解的?
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and you say, "Well, what about thinking思維 and emotions情緒?"
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如果把思想和情感相比較又怎麼樣呢?
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Most people will say, "Emotions情緒 are terribly可怕 hard.
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大部份的人會說:「情感相當難以理解,
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They're incredibly令人難以置信 complex複雜. They can't -- I have no idea理念 of how they work.
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它們非常地複雜,我完全不知道它們的運作方式。
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But thinking思維 is really very straightforward直截了當:
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但是思考卻很簡單、明確,
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it's just sort分類 of some kind of logical合乎邏輯 reasoning推理, or something.
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它僅僅只是某種邏輯解釋或是其他形式而已,
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But that's not the hard part部分."
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但那不是最難理解的部份。」
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So here's這裡的 a list名單 of problems問題 that come up.
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這些是衍生出來的一些問題,
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One nice不錯 problem問題 is, what do we do about health健康?
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其中一個很棒的問題是:我們為健康做了甚麼?
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The other day, I was reading something, and the person said
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有一天我在讀書的時候,有人說
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probably大概 the largest最大 single cause原因 of disease疾病 is handshaking握手 in the West西.
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或許在西方引發疾病的單一最大原因是握手。
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And there was a little study研究 about people who don't handshake握手,
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有一些研究是將不握手的人
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and comparing比較 them with ones那些 who do handshake握手.
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和握手的人做比較,
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And I haven't沒有 the foggiestfoggiest idea理念 of where you find the ones那些 that don't handshake握手,
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我其實並不知道要如何找到不握手的人,
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because they must必須 be hiding.
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我猜他們一定是躲起來了。
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And the people who avoid避免 that
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而那些避免握手的人,
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have 30 percent百分 less infectious傳染病 disease疾病 or something.
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感染疾病的機率會降低百分之30,
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Or maybe it was 31 and a quarter25美分硬幣 percent百分.
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或是百分之31.25吧。
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So if you really want to solve解決 the problem問題 of epidemics流行病 and so forth向前,
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如果你真的想解決流行傳染病之類的問題,
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let's start開始 with that. And since以來 I got that idea理念,
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可以先從不握手開始。自從我知道這個觀念後,
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I've had to shake hundreds數以百計 of hands.
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我已經握了好幾百人的手了。
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And I think the only way to avoid避免 it
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我想唯一能避免握手的方法,
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is to have some horrible可怕 visible可見 disease疾病,
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就是染上一種明顯可見的嚴重疾病,
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and then you don't have to explain說明.
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那你就用不著解釋了。
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Education教育: how do we improve提高 education教育?
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教育:我們該如何讓教育變得更好?
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Well, the single best最好 way is to get them to understand理解
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最好的辦法是讓他們了解,
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that what they're being存在 told is a whole整個 lot of nonsense廢話.
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他們在學的是一堆沒用的東西。
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And then, of course課程, you have to do something
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所以,當然,你得要做些甚麼,
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about how to moderate中等 that, so that anybody任何人 can -- so they'll他們會 listen to you.
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你得走溫和路線,讓大部份的人都聽你的。
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Pollution污染, energy能源 shortage短缺, environmental環境的 diversity多樣, poverty貧窮.
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污染、能源短缺、環境多樣性、貧窮--
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How do we make stable穩定 societies社會? Longevity長壽.
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我們如何讓社會穩定?延長壽命。
02:14
Okay, there're有很 lots of problems問題 to worry擔心 about.
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好的,現在有一堆的問題值得我們憂慮。
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Anyway無論如何, the question I think people should talk about --
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我認為人們現在應該討論的問題,
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and it's absolutely絕對 taboo忌諱 -- is, how many許多 people should there be?
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絕對是一個禁忌話題---就是,世界上能容納多少人口?
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And I think it should be about 100 million百萬 or maybe 500 million百萬.
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我認為世界上的人口如果只有1億或是5億的話,
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And then notice注意 that a great many許多 of these problems問題 disappear消失.
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這些問題大部份都會消失。
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If you had 100 million百萬 people
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假設世界上有一億的人口,
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properly正確 spread傳播 out, then if there's some garbage垃圾,
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而且適當地分布在各個地方,即使產生一些垃圾,
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you throw it away, preferably優選 where you can't see it, and it will rot腐爛.
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你也可以把它丟掉,最好是丟在看不到的地方,然後它會自行腐爛掉。
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Or you throw it into the ocean海洋 and some fish will benefit效益 from it.
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即使你把垃圾丟進海洋裡,魚也可以從中獲得一些養份。
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The problem問題 is, how many許多 people should there be?
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問題是,世界上能容納多少人口?
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And it's a sort分類 of choice選擇 we have to make.
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這是我們必須做出抉擇的事。
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Most people are about 60 inches英寸 high or more,
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大部份的人的身高是60英吋,或更高,
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and there's these cube立方體 laws法律. So if you make them this big,
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我們佔滿了整個星球。所以如果我們能讓人變成這麼小--
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by using運用 nanotechnology納米技術, I suppose假設 --
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用奈米科技,我認為--
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(Laughter笑聲)
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(笑聲)
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-- then you could have a thousand times as many許多.
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這個世界就可以容納1000倍之多的人口。
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That would solve解決 the problem問題, but I don't see anybody任何人
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這樣就可以解決問題了,但是我還沒有看過
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doing any research研究 on making製造 people smaller.
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有人從事可以讓人變小的相關研究。
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Now, it's nice不錯 to reduce減少 the population人口, but a lot of people want to have children孩子.
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減少人口是很棒的概念,但是很多人會想要生小孩,
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And there's one solution that's probably大概 only a few少數 years年份 off.
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這大概要在幾年後才會有解決的辦法。
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You know you have 46 chromosomes染色體. If you're lucky幸運, you've got 23
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大家都知道我們有46條染色體。如果你幸運的話,你會從父母親身上
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from each parent. Sometimes有時 you get an extra額外 one or drop下降 one out,
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分別得到23條染色體;有時候你會得到額外的一條,或是少了一條,
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but -- so you can skip跳躍 the grandparent祖父母 and great-grandparent曾祖 stage階段
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但是--你可以跳過祖父母和曾祖父母的階段,
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and go right to the great-great-grandparent偉大偉大祖父母. And you have 46 people
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直接跳到曾曾祖父母。現在總共有46個人,
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and you give them a scanner掃描器, or whatever隨你 you need,
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然後給他們掃描器,或是其他你需要的東西,
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and they look at their chromosomes染色體 and each of them says
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讓他們看他們自己的染色體,然後要每個人決定
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which哪一個 one he likes喜歡 best最好, or she -- no reason原因 to have just two sexes兩性
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哪一條染色體是他或她最喜歡的--現在不能只說二種性別了吧...
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any more, even. So each child兒童 has 46 parents父母,
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所以,每個小孩有46個父母親,
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and I suppose假設 you could let each group of 46 parents父母 have 15 children孩子.
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你可以讓每46個父母親生15個小孩--
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Wouldn't豈不 that be enough足夠? And then the children孩子
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這樣會覺得不夠嗎?然後小孩可以
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would get plenty豐富 of support支持, and nurturing培育, and mentoring師徒,
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得到大量的支持、養育及指導,
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and the world世界 population人口 would decline下降 very rapidly急速
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世界人口就會快速地減少,
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and everybody每個人 would be totally完全 happy快樂.
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每個人也都會很快樂。
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Timesharing分時 is a little further進一步 off in the future未來.
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未來,我們或許可以更進一步用時間分享來解決人口問題。
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And there's this great novel小說 that Arthur亞瑟 Clarke克拉克 wrote twice兩次,
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有一本很棒的小說,作者Arthur Clarke總共寫了兩次,
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called "Against反對 the Fall秋季 of Night" and "The City and the Stars明星."
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叫做「對抗夜幕低垂、城市和星辰」(Against the Fall of Night and The City and the Stars),
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They're both wonderful精彩 and largely大部分 the same相同,
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二本都很棒,而且內容大致相同,
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except that computers電腦 happened發生 in between之間.
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除了電腦在兩部小說之間發明出來。
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And Arthur亞瑟 was looking at this old book, and he said, "Well, that was wrong錯誤.
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然後Arthur看著這本他寫的書,他說,噢,這樣不對,
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The future未來 must必須 have some computers電腦."
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未來一定會有電腦啊...
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So in the second第二 version of it, there are 100 billion十億
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所以在第二個版本裡,世界上的人口變成了一千億
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or 1,000 billion十億 people on Earth地球, but they're all stored存儲 on hard disks磁盤 or floppies軟盤,
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或是一兆,但是他們都被存在硬碟或軟碟裡,
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or whatever隨你 they have in the future未來.
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或是任何其他未來的儲存形式。
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And you let a few少數 million百萬 of them out at a time.
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每次你只讓其中的幾百萬人出來,
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A person comes out, they live生活 for a thousand years年份
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每個人出來活個一百年,
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doing whatever隨你 they do, and then, when it's time to go back
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做他們自己該做的事,等時候到了,就再回到裡面,
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for a billion十億 years年份 -- or a million百萬, I forget忘記, the numbers數字 don't matter --
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放個10億年--還是一百萬年,我忘記確切數字,反正那不重要--
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but there really aren't very many許多 people on Earth地球 at a time.
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但是在某個時間內,地球上並沒有太多人同時存在。
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And you get to think about yourself你自己 and your memories回憶,
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然後你必須思考你本身和你的記憶,
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and before you go back into suspension懸掛, you edit編輯 your memories回憶
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在你回去被暫存之前,你可以編輯你的記憶,
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and you change更改 your personality個性 and so forth向前.
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並且可以選擇改變自己的個性之類的。
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The plot情節 of the book is that there's not enough足夠 diversity多樣,
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這本書的情節是描述世界上的人缺乏多樣的個性,
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so that the people who designed設計 the city
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所以設計這個城市的人,
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make sure that every一切 now and then an entirely完全 new person is created創建.
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就得確保每隔一陣子要有一個全新的人誕生。
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And in the novel小說, a particular特定 one named命名 Alvin阿爾文 is created創建. And he says,
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在這本小說裡,有一位很特別的人叫做Alvin被創造出來。
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maybe this isn't the best最好 way, and wrecks沉船 the whole整個 system系統.
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他認為這或許不是最好的方法,所以破壞了整個系統。
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I don't think the solutions解決方案 that I proposed建議
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我不認為我舉出來的方法
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are good enough足夠 or smart聰明 enough足夠.
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有多好,多聰明。
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I think the big problem問題 is that we're not smart聰明 enough足夠
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我認為最大的問題是我們沒有足夠的聰明才智,
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to understand理解 which哪一個 of the problems問題 we're facing面對 are good enough足夠.
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去了解我們現在所面對的問題,到底哪一個是比較好的。
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Therefore因此, we have to build建立 super intelligent智能 machines like HALHAL.
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因此,我們必須建造超級人工智慧的機器,像HAL。
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As you remember記得, at some point in the book for "2001,"
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還記得嗎?書上說在2001年的某個時刻,
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HALHAL realizes實現 that the universe宇宙 is too big, and grand盛大, and profound深刻
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HAL發現對那些愚蠢的太空人來說,
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for those really stupid astronauts宇航員. If you contrast對比 HAL'sHAL的 behavior行為
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宇宙是如此深遠且無邊無際。如果你將HAL的行為
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with the triviality雞毛蒜皮 of the people on the spaceship飛船,
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和那些只在乎枝微末節的太空人相比,
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you can see what's written書面 between之間 the lines.
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你就可以瞭解作者想要表達的涵意。
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Well, what are we going to do about that? We could get smarter聰明.
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那麼我們現在應該要怎麼做?我們應該要變得更聰明。
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I think that we're pretty漂亮 smart聰明, as compared相比 to chimpanzees黑猩猩,
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我認為跟黑猩猩比起來,我們的確聰明很多,
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but we're not smart聰明 enough足夠 to deal合同 with the colossal龐大 problems問題 that we face面對,
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但是我們還是沒有能力去處理現在所面對的龐大問題,
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either in abstract抽象 mathematics數學
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不管是去解答數學問題、
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or in figuring盤算 out economies經濟, or balancing平衡 the world世界 around.
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或是去了解經濟的本質,又或是讓世界處於均衡狀態。
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So one thing we can do is live生活 longer.
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所以我們唯一能做得是活得更久一點,
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And nobody沒有人 knows知道 how hard that is,
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但沒有人知道那有多困難,
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but we'll probably大概 find out in a few少數 years年份.
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但是過幾年後我們可能會找到解答。
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You see, there's two forks叉子 in the road. We know that people live生活
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有二種可能的解釋方式。我們知道大部份人類的
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twice兩次 as long as chimpanzees黑猩猩 almost幾乎,
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壽命是黑猩猩的兩倍,
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and nobody沒有人 lives生活 more than 120 years年份,
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而且沒有人活超過120年,
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for reasons原因 that aren't very well understood了解.
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我們還不是很瞭解這其中的原因。
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But lots of people now live生活 to 90 or 100,
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但是現在有很多人活到90或100歲,
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unless除非 they shake hands too much or something like that.
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除非他們握太多的手之類的。
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And so maybe if we lived生活 200 years年份, we could accumulate積累 enough足夠 skills技能
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假如我們可以活到200歲,我們就能累積足夠的技術
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and knowledge知識 to solve解決 some problems問題.
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和知識去解決問題。
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So that's one way of going about it.
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所以這是其中一種方式。
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And as I said, we don't know how hard that is. It might威力 be --
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我們不知道要活得更久有多困難,
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after all, most other mammals哺乳動物 live生活 half as long as the chimpanzee黑猩猩,
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畢竟,其他哺乳類動物的壽命也只有黑猩猩的一半,
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so we're sort分類 of three and a half or four times, have four times
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所以我們的壽命大概是其他哺乳類動物的
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the longevity長壽 of most mammals哺乳動物. And in the case案件 of the primates靈長類動物,
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3.5倍或4倍。而就靈長類動物來說,
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we have almost幾乎 the same相同 genes基因. We only differ不同 from chimpanzees黑猩猩,
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我們幾乎有著相同的基因。我們跟黑猩猩的差別,
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in the present當下 state of knowledge知識, which哪一個 is absolute絕對 hogwash泔水,
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以我們現有乏善可陳的智慧來說,
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maybe by just a few少數 hundred genes基因.
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或許只是幾百個基因的差別而已。
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What I think is that the gene基因 counters計數器 don't know what they're doing yet然而.
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而我認為,基因計數器實際上不知道它自己計算到哪裡了。
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And whatever隨你 you do, don't read anything about genetics遺傳學
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不管如何,在你有生之年,千萬不要閱讀
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that's published發表 within your lifetime一生, or something.
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任何有關基因學的書籍。
08:12
(Laughter笑聲)
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(笑聲)
08:15
The stuff東東 has a very short half-life半衰期, same相同 with brain science科學.
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目前人類對於基因學的研究才剛起步,就跟我們對大腦的研究一樣,
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And so it might威力 be that if we just fix固定 four or five genes基因,
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所以有可能我們只要改善其中四條、五條基因,
08:25
we can live生活 200 years年份.
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我們就可以活到200歲,
08:27
Or it might威力 be that it's just 30 or 40,
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或是有可能變成只活30或40年,
08:30
and I doubt懷疑 that it's several一些 hundred.
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我想也有可能人類可以活好幾百年。
08:32
So this is something that people will be discussing討論
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所以這是人們會討論的話題,
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and lots of ethicists倫理學家 -- you know, an ethicist倫理學家 is somebody
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而且會有很多道德倫理家會講話--你知道,道德倫理家就是那種
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who sees看到 something wrong錯誤 with whatever隨你 you have in mind心神.
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會看到你早就已經知道的錯誤的人。
08:42
(Laughter笑聲)
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(笑聲)
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And it's very hard to find an ethicist倫理學家 who considers考慮 any change更改
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要找到一個認同改變的道德倫理家是很困難的,
08:49
worth價值 making製造, because he says, what about the consequences後果?
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因為他們會說,那後果由誰負責?
08:53
And, of course課程, we're not responsible主管 for the consequences後果
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當然,我們並不需要對我們目前
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of what we're doing now, are we? Like all this complaint抱怨 about clones克隆.
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所做的事情負責,對吧?就像大家都在抱怨複製動物一樣。
09:02
And yet然而 two random隨機 people will mate伴侶 and have this child兒童,
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任由兩個隨機選取的人結婚、生小孩,
09:05
and both of them have some pretty漂亮 rotten genes基因,
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若這二人都有相當差的基因,
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and the child兒童 is likely容易 to come out to be average平均.
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他們生出來的小孩可能會很普通。
09:13
Which哪一個, by chimpanzee黑猩猩 standards標準, is very good indeed確實.
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如果是根據黑猩猩的標準,那個小孩已經算是很好了。
09:19
If we do have longevity長壽, then we'll have to face面對 the population人口 growth發展
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如果人人都很長壽,我們就必須要面對人口
09:22
problem問題 anyway無論如何. Because if people live生活 200 or 1,000 years年份,
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增加的問題。因為如果我們活個200年或1000年,
09:26
then we can't let them have a child兒童 more than about once一旦 every一切 200 or 1,000 years年份.
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每一代小孩出生的間隔就不能短於200年或是1000年。
09:32
And so there won't慣於 be any workforce勞動力.
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在那種情況下,也不會有勞動人口。
09:35
And one of the things Laurie勞瑞 Garrett加勒特 pointed out, and others其他 have,
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Laurie Garrett點名的其中一件事,其他人也曾指出相同問題,
09:39
is that a society社會 that doesn't have people
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那就是如果一個社會沒有人
09:44
of working加工 age年齡 is in real真實 trouble麻煩. And things are going to get worse更差,
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屬於勞動人口的話,那就麻煩大了。而且事情還會變得更糟,
09:47
because there's nobody沒有人 to educate教育 the children孩子 or to feed飼料 the old.
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因為沒有人會去教育小孩或是撫養老人。
09:53
And when I'm talking about a long lifetime一生, of course課程,
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所以當我談論到延長壽命時,
09:55
I don't want somebody who's誰是 200 years年份 old to be like our image圖片
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我當然不希望一個活到200歲的人,
10:01
of what a 200-year-old-歲 is -- which哪一個 is dead, actually其實.
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會像我們現在所想的200歲一樣---那其實已經算是死掉了。
10:05
You know, there's about 400 different不同 parts部分 of the brain
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你知道,人腦大概有400個不同的部位,
10:07
which哪一個 seem似乎 to have different不同 functions功能.
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它們彼此有不同的功能。
10:09
Nobody沒有人 knows知道 how most of them work in detail詳情,
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沒有人確切知道他們實際上的運作方式,
10:12
but we do know that there're有很 lots of different不同 things in there.
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我們只知道大腦裡面有很多的東西,
10:16
And they don't always work together一起. I like Freud's弗洛伊德 theory理論
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而他們不會同時一起運作。我喜歡Freud的理論,
10:18
that most of them are cancelling取消 each other out.
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他認為大腦裡大部分的工作是去抵消彼此的作用。
10:22
And so if you think of yourself你自己 as a sort分類 of city
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如果你把自己想像成是一座城市,
10:26
with a hundred resources資源, then, when you're afraid害怕, for example,
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你很多的資源。比如說,當你害怕的時候,
10:32
you may可能 discard丟棄 your long-range長距離 goals目標, but you may可能 think deeply
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你就會拋棄你的大範圍目標,專注深入地
10:36
and focus焦點 on exactly究竟 how to achieve實現 that particular特定 goal目標.
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思考如何達到某個特定的目標。
10:40
You throw everything else其他 away. You become成為 a monomaniac獨斷論者 --
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你把所有的東西都丟掉,變成了一個偏執狂--
10:43
all you care關心 about is not stepping步進 out on that platform平台.
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你在乎的只是不要離開這個平台。
10:47
And when you're hungry飢餓, food餐飲 becomes more attractive有吸引力, and so forth向前.
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當你很餓的時候,食物變得更加迷人之類的。
10:51
So I see emotions情緒 as highly高度 evolved進化 subsets of your capability能力.
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我認為情感是高度演化下的附屬功能,
10:57
Emotion情感 is not something added添加 to thought. An emotional情緒化 state
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情感不是思想的附屬品。
11:01
is what you get when you remove去掉 100 or 200
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情感是當你移除100個或200個正常有用的資源後,
11:05
of your normally一般 available可得到 resources資源.
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你所會得到的東西。
11:08
So thinking思維 of emotions情緒 as the opposite對面 of -- as something
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所以,情感並不亞於思想,
11:11
less than thinking思維 is immensely非常 productive生產的. And I hope希望,
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同時我希望,
11:15
in the next下一個 few少數 years年份, to show顯示 that this will lead to smart聰明 machines.
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在接下來的幾年內,這些東西能引導智慧機器的誕生。
11:19
And I guess猜測 I better skip跳躍 all the rest休息 of this, which哪一個 are some details細節
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我想我最好跳過這些關於如何
11:22
on how we might威力 make those smart聰明 machines and --
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建造這些智慧機器的細節--
11:27
(Laughter笑聲)
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(笑聲)
11:32
-- and the main主要 idea理念 is in fact事實 that the core核心 of a really smart聰明 machine
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超級智慧機器最重要的核心,
11:37
is one that recognizes識別 that a certain某些 kind of problem問題 is facing面對 you.
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是去清楚定義自己所面對的是哪種問題。
11:42
This is a problem問題 of such這樣 and such這樣 a type類型,
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這些是這一類的問題,
11:45
and therefore因此 there's a certain某些 way or ways方法 of thinking思維
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這些是解決這些問題
11:50
that are good for that problem問題.
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可能的思考方向。
11:52
So I think the future未來, main主要 problem問題 of psychology心理學 is to classify分類
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所以我認為未來心理學的主要問題,
11:56
types類型 of predicaments困境, types類型 of situations情況, types類型 of obstacles障礙
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是去區分出各種困境型態、各種情境及各種障礙,
12:00
and also to classify分類 available可得到 and possible可能 ways方法 to think and pair them up.
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同時也要去區分出與之相對應的可能思考方向。
12:06
So you see, it's almost幾乎 like a Pavlovian巴甫洛夫 --
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所以你看,這幾乎就像是巴夫洛夫的古典制約學習--
12:09
we lost丟失 the first hundred years年份 of psychology心理學
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我們因為一些無用的理論,
12:11
by really trivial不重要的 theories理論, where you say,
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而捨棄了心理學最初一百年的研究,你會問:
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how do people learn學習 how to react應對 to a situation情況? What I'm saying is,
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人們如何學習對某種情境做出適當回應?我要說的是,
12:20
after we go through通過 a lot of levels水平, including包含 designing設計
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在我們經歷過各種階段,
12:25
a huge巨大, messy system系統 with thousands數千 of ports港口,
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包括用數千個零組件設計出一個的龐大的系統之後,
12:28
we'll end結束 up again with the central中央 problem問題 of psychology心理學.
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我們還是得面對心理學最核心的問題,
12:32
Saying, not what are the situations情況,
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那就是情境不重要,
12:35
but what are the kinds of problems問題
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問題才是最重要的、
12:37
and what are the kinds of strategies策略, how do you learn學習 them,
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策略及學習的方法才是重要的、
12:40
how do you connect them up, how does a really creative創作的 person
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怎麼把各種事情聯結在一起才是重要的、如何讓一個真正有創意的人
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invent發明 a new way of thinking思維 out of the available可得到 resources資源 and so forth向前.
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從有限的資源裡,發展出新的思考模式才是重要的。
12:48
So, I think in the next下一個 20 years年份,
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所以我想在接下來的20年中,
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if we can get rid擺脫 of all of the traditional傳統 approaches方法 to artificial人造 intelligence情報,
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如果我們能擺脫傳統發展人工智慧的方法,
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like neural神經 nets and genetic遺傳 algorithms算法
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像是神經網路、遺傳基因演算法
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and rule-based有章可循 systems系統, and just turn our sights景點 a little bit higher更高 to say,
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和規則式系統等,然後把我們的視野提高一點點說:
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can we make a system系統 that can use all those things
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我們能否用以上所有的方法,創造出一個
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for the right kind of problem問題? Some problems問題 are good for neural神經 nets;
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可以解決某種問題的系統?有些問題可以用神經網路去解決;
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we know that others其他, neural神經 nets are hopeless絕望 on them.
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但我知道,在某些方面神經網路是沒有用處的。
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Genetic遺傳 algorithms算法 are great for certain某些 things;
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遺傳基因演算法,對某些事情來說是很有用的;
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I suspect疑似 I know what they're bad at, and I won't慣於 tell you.
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我猜我知道它們有一些不好的地方,但我不會告訴你。
13:19
(Laughter笑聲)
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(笑聲)
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Thank you.
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謝謝
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(Applause掌聲)
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(掌聲)
Translated by Chen Sheng-fu
Reviewed by Marie Wu

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Marvin Minsky - AI pioneer
Marvin Minsky is one of the great pioneers of artificial intelligence -- and using computing metaphors to understand the human mind. His contributions to mathematics, robotics and computational linguistics are legendary and far-reaching.

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Marvin Minsky is the superstar-elder of artificial intelligence, one of the most productive and important cognitive scientists of the century, and the leading proponent of the Society of Mind theory. Articulated in his 1985 book of the same name, Minsky's theory says intelligence is not born of any single mechanism, but from the interaction of many independent agents. The book's sequel,The Emotion Machine (2006), says similar activity also accounts for feelings, goals, emotions and conscious thoughts.

Minsky also pioneered advances in mathematics, computational linguistics, optics, robotics and telepresence. He built SNARC, the first neural network simulator, some of the first visual scanners, and the first LOGO "turtle." From his headquarters at MIT's Media Lab and the AI Lab (which he helped found), he continues to work on, as he says, "imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning."

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