VOA常速英语:美科学家将机器人训练地更像人类

The robot is called Jackrabbot, and it is the one of the most popular students at Stanford University.
这个机器人的名字叫做Jackrabbot，它可是斯坦福大学最受欢迎的学生之一呢。

“I honestly thought it was really cute.I didn’t know what it was, but, like I saw the hat and the tie and I thought it was really cute.”
“我真心觉得这个小机器人可爱极了。我不知道它以前是什么样子的，不过就像我现在看到的一样，它戴着帽子，打着领带，太讨人喜欢了。”

One of Jackrabbot’s teachers is research scientist Alexandre Alahi.
而研究科学家Alexandre Alahi便是Jackrabbot的老师之一。

“We basically want to develop a more polite robot that will understand how people behave.”
“我们就想要开发出来一种更具社交性的机器人，它会明白人们行事的方式。”

Alahi says a robot with social skills can have many applications,such as helping the blind, or the elderly, or even offering drinks at a party, a skill some say can work if done correctly.
Alahi称，掌握各种社交技巧的机器人可以有很多用途，例如帮助盲人或者老年人，甚至是在聚会上帮人们递酒水，有些人说如果操作正确，这门技巧确实很奏效。

“If it works, yeah, then it becomes kind of invisible.It’s just like a service to me, but if I see it doing weird things and like kind of getting in my way of getting that drink or whatever then I start to think I could just get it myself.Why do we have this robot slowing me down?”
“如果这门技巧确实可行，那么某些意义上来说机器人就变得无形了。因为对我来说它就是一项服务，但如果我看到它做一些怪异的举动，比如说在我去拿饮料的时候挡住去路等等，不管是什么，我肯定会开始想，我什么都可以自己做的话。为什么还要留着这个机器人来拖累我呢？”

Alahi says seamlessly interacting with humans is what Jackrabbot is trying to learn through what’s called a data-driven approach.Instead of following pre-defined rules,Jackrabbot is learning by collecting data or experiences to understand human behavior so it can predict what humans will do next and even discern cultural differences.
Alahi表示，与人类实现无缝交流是Jackrabbot正在努力的方向，而这个过程则需要通过所谓的数据驱动方法来实现。Jackrabbot并没有遵守预定义的规则，而是通过收集数据和吸取经验来了解人类的行为，从而预测人类下一步的举动，当中甚至还能识别文化差异。

“The way we interact in the U.S. is different than the way we interact in the U.K. or in Asia or in Iran,and therefore if you have a software that can automatically learn from all these data without having humans in the loop,it will therefore make the machine smarter and adapt quickly to the new environment.”
“我们在美国交流的方式与我们在英国、亚洲或者伊朗交流的方式是不同的，因此要是能有一个软件自动从所有数据中学习，中间根本不需要人为参与，那么这种软件就能让机器人更加智能，并且很快适应新环境。”

There are sensors attached to Jackrabbot that help it learn.
Jackrabbot身上有很多传感器，可以帮助它进行学习。

“I think it’s really interesting.The fact that we’ve always seen robots as not necessarily autonomous, but the idea that we’re trying to teach it social cues and, like human give that human quality, I think that’s really cool.”
“我觉得特有意思。以前一直认为机器人可能也未必完全自动，但我们设法教它们社会线索，就像是人类赋予另一种人类特质，真是太酷了。”

By studying human behavior to become more human, robots may one day, become more integrated into the everyday lives of humans.
通过不断学习人类行为，机器人如今变得越来越像人类，或许有一天，它们能够进一步融入到人类的日常生活中去。

Elizabeth Lee , VOA news, Palo Alto, California.
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