人工智能

We tend to think of AI as faster and better versions of human brains, but if we want technology to progress by leads and bounds, we must make AI that is like nothing else on Earth, says digital visionary Kevin Kelly.

Here’s one example of a machine-generated joke: “Why did the chicken cross the road? To see the punchline.” Learn about the work that scientists are doing to make AI more LOL.

随着人工智能与机器人技术的飞速发展，未来的人类是否会将机器人视为情感伴侣？研究表明，年龄是影响人们接受机器人伴侣的最关键因素，年轻一代对此更为开放。与此同时，我们也需警惕过度依赖机器人可能带来的社会孤立风险。

At 16, Brittany Wenger created a tool to diagnose breast cancer, helping women detect cancer early. Here’s how, and why, she did it.

Historian Yuval Noah Harari offers a bracing prediction: just as mass industrialization created the working class, the AI revolution will create a new unworking class.

AI聊天机器人自问世以来迅速风靡全球，与之交流往往令人感觉像在和真人对话。本文从五个维度剖析这一现象：AI内容源于人类、被设计为模仿人类、经由人类训练师调教、语言本是人类专属，以及人类大脑天生倾向于将语言互动识别为社交行为。

谷歌的布莱斯·阿奎拉·伊·阿尔卡斯提出未来30年将颠覆一切的六大趋势，涵盖机器智能的崛起、性别格局的重塑，以及生产力与劳动力脱钩所催生的后温饱经济，深刻探讨技术加速对人类社会的根本性影响。

人工智能在提升工作效率的同时，也对人类的道德决策产生深远影响。研究表明，AI更倾向于做出功利主义选择，缺乏人类特有的”温情”；而当人们通过AI进行互动时，其道德行为水平可能下降，更易欺骗他人。重要决策仍应由人类亲自参与完成。

通往未来智能家居的竞赛方兴未艾，但机器人至今仍无法独立完成家务。抓取物体、计算摩擦力等看似简单的任务，背后却需要极其庞大的算力支撑，这一难题困扰了机器人学家数十年。云端机器人、信念空间等前沿概念或许将带来突破。

We’re on the brink of a future beyond what we can fathom — a future with driverless cars, designer babies, intelligent robots, and digital doppelgangers. Who will you choose to be in that future? How will it change you?