The Disappearing Computer — and a World Where You Can Take AI Everywhere | Imran Chaudhri | TED

譯者: 麗玲 辛 審譯者: Zoe Walmsley

I spent 22 incredible years at Apple,

我在蘋果過了 22 年 快樂的職業生涯，

helping to design experiences and devices

幫忙設計各種體驗裝置設備，

ranging from the Mac

從 Mac 到 iPhone， 再到 Apple Watch。

to the iPhone to the Apple Watch.

And as the power of compute increased,

隨著演算能力的進步，

the size of our computers or our devices decreased.

我們的電腦裝置的體積卻逐漸變小。

The desktop paved the way for extraordinary interconnectedness,

桌上型電腦為網際網路鋪了路，

but it was stuck to your desk.

但它只能在辦公桌上使用。

The laptop provided portability,

筆記型電腦能隨身攜帶，

but you still had to be sitting down to use it.

但你仍得坐下才能使用。

And the smartphone evolved us into the modern, connected humans we are,

智慧手機則讓人與人間的 連結方式更進一步地演化，

providing millions the ability to access the internet from our pockets.

數百萬人往口袋一伸手就能連上網。

And the smart watch was a window to that phone.

智慧手錶則是這手機的窗口，

A companion device with a whole host of health insights,

具有各式各樣健康監測的配備，

all shrunk down to your wrist.

所有的功能都在手腕上。

But what comes next?

接下來呢？

Some believe AR/VR glasses like these are the answer,

有些人認為答案是螢幕上這種 擴增實境、虛擬實境的眼鏡，

but they merely move the screens we already have in our lives today

但它們其實只是將現有的螢幕

to being just millimeters away from our eyeballs.

挪到離我們眼球幾公釐的位置。

A further barrier between you and the world.

你和世界之間又多了一個屏障。

And the future is not on your face.

而且，未來也不是那麼近在眼前。

In fact, in 2017,

事實上，在 2017 年，

the legendary tech journalist Walt Mossberg wrote in his final column

知名的科技記者沃爾特·莫斯伯格 在結束他的專欄時寫道，

that he felt that soon, one day, technology would become invisible.

他覺得科技完全隱形的一天 很快就會來臨，

And that the computer would disappear.

並且電腦會消失不見。

And we agree.

我們都贊同。

(Ringing)

（鈴聲）

Sorry.

對不起。

This is my wife.

我太太打來的。

I'm going to have to get this.

我得接一下。

Hello?

喂？

Bethany Bongiorno: Hey, babe.

Bethany Bongiorno：嗨，寶貝。

IC: Hey, Bethany.

IC：嗨，貝瑟尼。

How's it going?

怎麼了？

BB: Good. Are you at TED?

BB：沒事。你在 TED 會場了？

IC: Yeah, I'm on the red circle right now, actually.

IC：是的，我此刻已經站在 講台上那個紅圈圈裡了。

Bethany: Oh, great, good luck.

BB：哦，那好，祝順利。

And don't forget to mention me.

也別忘了提到我。

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

IC: I won't, babe, thank you.

IC：我不會忘記的，寶貝，謝謝。

Bethany: Love you.

BB：愛你。

IC: Love you, too. Bye.

IC：我也愛你。再見。

It's going to get different in a minute.

等等就會不一樣了。

(Applause)

（掌聲）

So my wife, Bethany, and our entire company, Humane,

我太太貝瑟尼 和我們公司 Humane，

have been working to answer the question of what comes next.

一直致力於回答 「接下來呢？」這個問題。

And you may ask yourself, why?

你也許納悶為什麼。

Why would anybody do this?

怎麼會有人想做這件事？

It's because we love building technology

因為我們真心熱愛科技，

that genuinely makes people's lives better.

我們想做出能真正 改善生活品質的科技。

And we believe that artificial intelligence or AI

我們相信人工智慧或 AI

would be the driving force behind the next leap in device design.

會是促成下一波裝置設計突破的動力。

And there is an incredible amount of stuff that's happening in this space.

這個領域近來有許多驚人進展，

Huge, huge advancements.

巨大的突破。

And even Bill Gates has said of OpenAI's GPT

甚至比爾·蓋茲也說 OpenAI 的 GPT 是──

that it's only the second most revolutionary technology demonstration

他有生以來見過 排名第二的革命性科技。

that he's seen in his entire lifetime.

But what do we do with all these incredible developments,

但是我們能如何利用這些驚人的發展？

and how do we actually harness these to genuinely make our life better?

如何駕馭這些工具 來真正改善我們的生活？

If we get this right,

如果我們做對了，

AI will unlock a world of possibility for all of us.

AI 將為所有人打開 一個充滿可能性的世界。

And today I want to share with you

今天我想與大家分享的是

what we think is a solution to that end.

我們覺得能達到那個目標的解決方案。

And it's the first time we're doing so openly.

這也是首次的公開展示。

It's a new kind of wearable device

這是一種全新的可穿戴裝置，

and platform that's built entirely from the ground up

搭配的平台也是從零開始， 完全為人工智慧所打造。

for artificial intelligence.

And is completely standalone.

而且，整套設備完全獨立，

You don't need a smartphone or any other device to pair with it.

無須與手機或任何裝置配對。

In fact, I'm wearing one right now.

其實，我現在就已經穿戴著。

And it interacts with the world the way you interact with the world.

而且它並不改變 你與周遭世界的互動方式。

Hearing what you hear, seeing what you see.

聽你所聞，見你所睹。

While being privacy-first and safe

不僅顧慮到隱私優先和安全，

and completely fading into the background of your life.

並且完全融入你的生活背景中。

We like to say that the experience is screenless, seamless

我們想說這體驗不僅是 沒有螢幕、無縫接軌及全感應，

and sensing,

allowing you to access the power of compute

同時也仍擁有電腦運算資源，

while remaining present in your surroundings,

又不與當下的現象脫鉤，

fixing a balance that's felt out of place for some time now.

彌補了長久以來的格格不入的平衡感。

And I can't wait to share more details about what we've built,

我迫不及待想跟大家分享我們的進度，

and I will in the next few months.

以及接下來幾個月內的計畫。

But today I want to talk to you about what it unlocks.

但今天我想跟大家說的是 這產品所解鎖的功能，

And what it means to be able to take AI with you everywhere.

以及能夠將 AI 隨身帶著走，

還有科技愈來愈趨於無形 會是甚麼樣的景況。

And what happens when technology increasingly disappears.

Technology becoming invisible affords us new opportunities

科技趨於無形帶來全新的機會，

of how we interact with compute.

改變我們和演算能力的互動方式。

We've become so accustomed to tapping on an app

我們已經習慣了點擊應用程式

or moving a cursor with a mouse

或用滑鼠移動游標，

that it feels second nature.

感覺就像第二天性，

But that's by design.

但其實是設計使然。

When I was working on the iPhone,

當時在設計 iPhone 時，

I used to test interactions like slide-to-unlock

我的女兒還是嬰兒， 我拿她來測試滑動解鎖的功能。

with my infant daughter.

She was the best possible focus group.

她是最佳的焦點測試群。

她現在 16 歲了，

She’s 16 now,

and she's got a lot more ideas than she did back then.

早已不復當年的一知半解。

This also, by the way, is the only non-AI generated image

順便一提，這是今天唯一一張 非人工智慧生成的圖像。

that you'll see from me today.

And as I look at it now,

現在，當我看著這張照片，

I see more than ever why a future driven by AI

我更加明白為何 一個由 AI 驅動的未來

is far better than a future that would involve more screens.

會比用上更多螢幕的未來要好得多。

Like this.

比方說，像這樣。

He's cute, though.

他是很可愛沒錯，

But for the human-technology relationship to actually evolve beyond screens,

但要讓人與科技的關係真正擺脫螢幕，

we need something radically different.

我們需要截然不同的東西。

Let me show you.

容我展示。

Where can I find a gift for my wife before I have to leave tomorrow?

明天離開前，我能去哪 買個禮物給我太太？

(Voice) Vancouver's Granville Island is a lively shopping district.

AI: 溫哥華的格蘭維爾島 是一個熱鬧的購物區。

IC: That's an incredibly simple response for a very complex query.

IC: 對於一個非常複雜的問題， 這是十分簡潔的回應。

How often do we find ourselves in a new city,

多少次我們剛到一個陌生的城市，

wrestling with our phones,

笨拙地滑著手機，

trying not to bump into people,

還要小心不要撞到人，

trying to figure out where we're going and where we're supposed to be?

只是想搞清楚自己及目的地的位置。

It's even harder when we don't speak the language, right?

如果我們不懂當地語言， 那就更難了吧？

Let me show you something.

我現在來做個示範。

Invisible devices should feel so natural to use

隱形設備使用起來應該非常自然，

that you almost forget about their existence.

自然到讓你幾乎忘記它的存在。

(Voice speaking in French)

（AI 用法語說話）

IC: You'll note that's me and my voice, speaking fluent French,

聽到了嗎？那是 我的聲音說著流利的法語，

using an AI speech model that's part of my own AI.

那是 AI 語音模組， 我個人專屬的 AI 的一部分。

This is not a deepfake.

這不是深偽技術。

In fact, it's deeply profound.

不過，也的確很深。

This is my AI giving me the ability to speak any language

這是我個人的 AI 讓我有 使用任何語言的能力，

and you having a chance to hear me speak that language

同時在你聽到我講那個語言時，

in my own emotion and my own voice.

用的是我個人的聲音及我個人的情緒。

Thank you.

謝謝。

(Applause)

（掌聲）

This is moving away from the experiments that make us all concerned

人們看到演算能力的發展走向的實驗 不免擔心，而這是完全相反的。

about the direction compute is going in.

But it's instead using technology

因為它是利用科技

to create real, responsible compute products

來創造出真實、負責的演算產品，

that are in service to us and built on trust.

目的是為我們提供服務， 且建立在信任的基礎上。

This is good AI in action.

這是優質 AI 的運作方式。

And we spent thousands of hours

我們花了幾千個小時，

reimagining and redesigning new types of compute interactions,

重新構想、設計全新的演算互動方式，

ranging from complex voice commands to intricate hand gestures,

從複雜的語音命令到複雜的手勢，

all in service of trying to find more natural ways to interact with compute.

就是為了找到更自然的 人跟演算能力間的互動方法。

Why fumble for your phone when you can just hold an object

如果按著一個東西就可以直接發問，

and ask questions about it?

那還需要拿出手機嗎？

The result almost feels like the entire world becomes your operating system.

結果差不多就像整個世界 變成你的操作系統。

And when compute disappears,

而且，一旦電腦消失無形，

it allows us to get back to what really matters:

我們還能找回真正重要的東西：

a new ability to be present.

一種全新的活在當下的能力。

Like riding a bicycle in the park and just ripping through emails

例如，在公園裡騎著自行車， 一邊翻閱電子郵件，

or going to a concert without having to hold up your phone to capture it.

或者參加音樂會， 無需舉起手機來拍照。

Or experiencing your toddler's first steps

甚至在目睹你的小孩跨出第一步的時候，

without a screen between you and your child.

也沒有螢幕在你和孩子的中間。

In the future,

未來，

technology will be both ambient and contextual.

科技會融入週遭環境，也符合情境。

And this means harnessing AI to really understand you

這意味著如果能駕馭 AI， 讓它真正了解你和周圍環境，

and your surroundings

in order to achieve the best results.

就能取得最佳效果。

Imagine this.

想像一下。

You've been in meetings all day

在開完一整天的會後，

and you just want a summary of what you've missed.

你想要知道今天有哪些事沒辦的。

Catch me up.

幫我回顧一下。

(Voice) Patrick is coming to tomorrow's design meeting.

AI：帕翠克會參加明天的設計會議。

Bethany wants to move next week's dinner,

貝瑟尼想改下週晚餐的時間，

and Oliver is asking about soccer this weekend.

還有，奧利弗問你關於這週末的足球。

IC: These are emails, calendar invites and messages,

這些是從電子郵件、日曆邀請和訊息，

all surfaced up to the top.

首先跳出來的資訊。

You can use these to help guide your decision making,

你可以用這些來做決定、

manage your workload

管理工作量，

and sculpt tailored responses in your own voice.

還能以你的聲音做個別的回應，

And in the context of your life.

而且完全符合你的生活情境。

And we gain this context through machine learning.

情境的資訊是透過機器學習得來的。

The more you use our device powered by AI,

你使用 AI 驅動的設備越頻繁，

the more we can help you in all times of need.

我們就越能在需要的時候 提供越多的協助。

Your AI effectively becomes an ever-evolving,

基本上，你的 AI 就越能 不斷進化成為你個人的記憶形式。

personalized form of memory.

And we think that's amazing.

我們認為這點非常好。

In fact, let's say you're health conscious

還有，假設你很注重健康，

or you have certain types of food considerations.

或者有某些飲食注意事項，

Let me just show you.

讓我再示範一下。

Picked up one of these chocolates.

我剛拿了一塊這種巧克力，

Used to eat a ton of these when I was a kid.

這我小時候常吃。

Can I eat this?

我可以吃這個嗎？

(Voice) A milky bar contains cocoa butter.

AI: 牛奶巧克力棒含有可可脂。

Given your intolerance, you may want to avoid it.

因為你乳糖過敏，最好不要吃。

IC: So I can’t eat these anymore.

所以我最好不要再吃這個了。

(Applause)

（掌聲）

But what's cool is my AI knows what's best for me.

很酷的一點是，雖然我的 AI 知道什麼對我最好，

But I'm in total control.

但我才是自己的主人，

I'm going to eat it anyway.

不管，我還是要吃。

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

(Voice) Enjoy it.

AI: 請享用吧！

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

IC: Your AI figures out exactly what you need.

你的 AI 完全知道你的需求。

And by the way, I love that there's no judgment.

順帶一提，我最愛它的不加評判。

I think it's amazing to be able to live freely.

我認為能夠自由地生活真是太棒了。

Your AI figures out what you need at the speed of thought.

你的 AI 就在你思考的瞬間 就已經知道你的需求。

A sense that will ever be evolving as technology improves too.

而隨著科技進步， 感知能力也會不斷地進化。

And these examples are just the start.

這些例子僅僅是個開始。

As AI advances,

隨著 AI 的進化，

we will see how it will transform nearly every aspect of our lives.

我們將看到它如何徹底改變 生活的方方面面，

In ways that will seem unimaginable right now.

而那些改變是目前難以想像的。

In fact, Sam Altman from OpenAI feels the way we do.

其實，OpenAI 的 山姆.阿特曼也有同感，

And that AI is grossly underestimated.

他認為 AI 被嚴重低估了。

And I'll add, so long as we get it right.

我還要補充一句：只要我們抓對方向。

We really believe

我們真心覺得

that we're only beginning to scratch the surface of what's possible.

我們現在才剛開始， 這些都還只是很粗淺的 AI，

Embed advancements of AI, like

還有更高深的可能性尚待開發，

in our device that's actually built to disappear

比如我們的那個設備， 設計重點在讓它隱而不見，

and allow experiences to come forward,

讓使用者的體驗成為主角，

and we open up entirely new possible ways of how you interact with technology

我們開闢了全新的 與科技互動的可能性，

同時包括你與周遭世界的互動方式。

and how you interact with the world around you.

More humane, intuitive interactions

一個更人性化、更直覺的互動，

that are screenless, seamless and sensing.

免螢幕、無縫接軌、全感應。

This is so much more than devices just getting smaller or more powerful.

這遠遠超過做出體積更小 或功能更強的設備，

This is the possibility of reimagining the human-technology relationship

因為這是重新想像我們所熟知的

人與科技間的關係。

as we know it.

And that's what's so exciting.

而那就是最讓人興奮的一點。

It's a huge challenge, no doubt.

這毫無疑問是個巨大的挑戰，

But it's the world that we want to live in.

但重點是我們想要活在怎樣的世界。

One where technology not only helps you get back into the world

科技不該僅是幫你活在世界上，

but enhances our ability to do so.

它應該還能增進我們的能力。

It's within reach.

而這應該是能辦得到的，

And you saw some of it today.

就像你今天見識到了其中一部分。

The future will not be held in your hand,

未來將不再是被握在手上的，

and it won't be on your face either.

也不會是被戴在臉上。

The future of technology might almost be invisible.

未來的科技可能幾乎是看不見的。

Thank you.

謝謝。

(Applause)

（掌聲）