Maybe the best robot demo ever | Marco Tempest

翻译人员: Qingqing Mao 校对人员: Rong Han

Let me introduce you to

让我向你们介绍

something I've been working on.

我一直忙于的项目。

It's what the Victorian illusionists

维多利亚时代的魔术师们

would have described as a mechanical marvel,

会将其描述为一个机械奇迹，

an automaton,

一台自动机，

a thinking machine.

一台思考机器。

Say hello to EDI.

来和艾迪（EDI）打个招呼。

Now he's asleep. Let's wake him up.

他正在睡觉，让我们来叫醒他。

EDI, EDI.

艾迪，艾迪

These mechanical performers were popular

这类机械表演

throughout Europe.

曾经风靡于欧洲，

Audiences marveled at the way they moved.

观众们惊叹于它们的运动方式，

It was science fiction made true,

就像科幻成真。

robotic engineering in a pre-electronic age,

那是电子时代之前的机器人工程学，

machines far in advance of anything

这些机器远远超前于

that Victorian technology could create,

当时的维多利亚时代的技术，

a machine we would later know

后来我们把这种机器称为

as the robot.

机器人。

EDI: Robot. A word coined in 1921

艾迪：机器人，一个创造于1921年的名词，

in a science fiction tale

最早出现在一篇科幻故事里，

by the Czech playwright Karel Čapek.

作者是捷克剧作家卡雷尔·恰佩克。

It comes from "robota."

它来源于单词“robota”

It means "forced labor."

意为“强迫劳动力”

Marco Tempest: But these robots were not real.

马可：但是那些机器人不是真的，

They were not intelligent.

它们没有智能，

They were illusions,

它们只是幻象，

a clever combination of mechanical engineering

是机械工程学

和魔术师的骗术的聪明结合。

and the deceptiveness of the conjurer's art.

EDI is different.

艾迪则不同，

EDI is real.

艾迪是真实的。

EDI: I am 176 centimeters tall.

艾迪：我有176厘米高

MT: He weighs 300 pounds.

马可：他体重300磅

EDI: I have two seven-axis arms —

艾迪：我有两个七轴的手臂

MT: Core of sensing —

马可：传感核心

EDI: A 360-degree sonar detection system,

艾迪：一台360度的声纳探测系统，

and come complete with a warranty.

还有完全的质量保证。

MT: We love robots.

马可：我们热爱机器人

EDI: Hi. I'm EDI. Will you be my friend?

艾迪：嗨，我是艾迪。做我的朋友吧？

MT: We are intrigued by the possibility

马可：我们着迷于这样一种可能性，

of creating a mechanical version of ourselves.

能创造一个机械版本的我们自己。

We build them so they look like us,

我们把它们造成类似于我们的外形，

behave like us, and think like us.

像我们一样行动，像我们一样思考，

The perfect robot will be indistinguishable

完美的机器人

from the human,

将无法区别于人类,

and that scares us.

这让我们感到害怕.

In the first story about robots,

在第一个关于机器人的故事里,

they turn against their creators.

机器人们转为反对他们的创造者,

It's one of the leitmotifs of science fiction.

这是大量科幻小说的主题之一.

EDI: Ha ha ha. Now you are the slaves

艾迪：哈哈哈，你们现在是奴隶了,

and we robots, the masters.

而我们机器人是主人,

Your world is ours. You —

你们的世界是我们的。你们——

MT: As I was saying,

马可：正像我刚才所说的,

besides the faces and bodies we give our robots,

除了我们给于机器人的面貌和肢体,

we cannot read their intentions,

我们无法解读他们的意图.

and that makes us nervous.

这使得我们紧张.

When someone hands an object to you,

当某人递给你一个东西的时候,

you can read intention in their eyes, their face,

你可以从他的眼神、他的表情

和他的身体语言里读出他的意图,

their body language.

That's not true of the robot.

但是对机器人却不行.

Now, this goes both ways.

这个问题是双向的.

EDI: Wow!

艾迪：哇！

MT: Robots cannot anticipate human actions.

马可：机器人也不能预测人类的动作,

EDI: You know, humans are so unpredictable,

艾迪：要知道，人类是非常难以捉摸的,

not to mention irrational.

更别说还有无理性的时候.

I literally have no idea

我真的完全不知道

what you guys are going to do next, you know,

你们接下来要做什么,

but it scares me.

但是这使我感到恐惧.

MT: Which is why humans and robots find it difficult

马可：这就是为什么人类和机器人

to work in close proximity.

觉得很难近距离地工作.

Accidents are inevitable.

事故在所难免,

EDI: Ow! That hurt.

艾迪：嗷！好疼

MT: Sorry. Now, one way of persuading humans

马可：对不起。

为了说服人类机器人是安全的,

that robots are safe

is to create the illusion of trust.

有一个办法是创造信任的幻觉.

Much as the Victorians

就像维多利亚时代的人们

faked their mechanical marvels,

伪造他们的机械奇迹,

we can add a layer of deception

我们也可以添加一些欺骗手法,

to help us feel more comfortable

来帮助我们习惯于

with our robotic friends.

我们的机器人朋友.

With that in mind, I set about teaching EDI

考虑到这一点，我开始教艾迪

a magic trick.

一个魔术戏法.

Ready, EDI? EDI: Uh, ready, Marco.

准备好了吗，艾迪？ 艾迪：准备好了，马可

Abracadabra.

唵嘛呢叭咪吽

MT: Abracadabra?

马可：唵嘛呢叭咪吽？

EDI: Yeah. It's all part of the illusion, Marco.

艾迪：对啊，魔术里都要这么说，马可.

Come on, keep up.

来吧来吧

MT: Magic creates the illusion of

马可：魔术创造幻觉,

an impossible reality.

不可能的现实.

Technology

技术,

can do the same.

也可以做同样的事情.

Alan Turing, a pioneer of artificial intelligence,

艾伦·图灵，人工智能的先驱

spoke about creating the illusion

曾谈及关于创造

that a machine could think.

机器可以思考的幻觉.

EDI: A computer would deserve

艾迪：计算机可以

to be called intelligent

被称为拥有智能,

if it deceived a human into believing

如果它可以欺骗人类,

使人相信它是人类.

it was human.

MT: In other words, if we do not yet have

马可：换句话说，如果我们还没有

the technological solutions,

技术上的解决方法,

would illusions serve the same purpose?

那是否可以使用幻觉来达到同样的目的？

To create the robotic illusion,

为了创造机器人幻觉,

we've devised a set of ethical rules,

我们已经设计了一系列伦理规则,

a code that all robots would live by.

所有机器人都需遵守的规范.

EDI: A robot may not harm humanity,

艾迪：机器人不得伤害人,

or by inaction allow humanity to come to harm.

也不得见人受到伤害而袖手旁观.

Thank you, Isaac Asimov.

谢谢你，艾萨克·阿西莫夫.

MT: We anthropomorphize our machines.

马可：我们赋予机器人格,

We give them a friendly face

我们给它们友善的面貌,

and a reassuring voice.

和令人安心的声音.

EDI: I am EDI.

艾迪：我是艾迪,

I became operational at TED in March 2014.

我在2014年3月的TED大会上投入运行.

MT: We let them entertain us.

马可：我们让它们取悦我们.

Most important, we make them indicate

最重要的是，我们让它们显示出

that they are aware of our presence.

它们能感觉到我们的存在.

EDI: Marco, you're standing on my foot!

艾迪：马可，你踩到我的脚了

MT: Sorry. They'll be conscious of our fragile frame

马可：对不起。它们会感知到我们脆弱的肢体,

and move aside if we got too close,

当我们靠得太近时它们会移开.

and they'll account for our unpredictability

它们会考虑到我们的不可预测性,

and anticipate our actions.

并预测我们的行动.

And now, under the spell of a technological illusion,

现在，凭借技术幻觉的魔法,

we could ignore our fears

我们可以抛开我们的恐惧

and truly interact.

来真正地互动.

(Music)

（音乐）

Thank you.

谢谢你们

EDI: Thank you!

艾迪：谢谢你们

(Applause)

（掌声）

(Music)

（音乐）

MT: And that's it. Thank you very much,

马可：就是这样，非常感谢大家

and thank you, EDI. EDI: Thank you, Marco.

谢谢你，艾迪 艾迪：谢谢你，马可

(Applause)

（掌声）