我們就是要讓機器人擁有感覺

Artificial intelligence is already making great strides forward, but taking it to the next level might require a more drastic approach. According to two researchers, we could try giving AI a sense of peril and the fragility of its own existence.

人工智能已經(jīng)取得了巨大的進步，但要把它提升到新的層次，可能需要采取更極端的方式。兩位研究人員表示，我們可以嘗試賦予人工智能一種危機感，讓它們感知到自身存在的脆弱性。

For now, the machines we code don't have a sense of their own being, or the need to fight for life and for survival, as we humans do. If those feelings were developed, that might give robots a better sense of urgency.

目前我們編碼的機器沒有關乎自身的存在感，也不像我們?nèi)祟惸菢有枰獮樯娑鴳?zhàn)。如果它們的這些感覺被開發(fā)出來，可能會讓機器人更有緊迫感。

The idea is to instil a sense of homeostasis – that need to balance conditions, whether that's the temperature of an environment, or the need for food and drink, that are required to ensure survival.

這一設想是為了(給人工智能)灌輸一種自我平衡的意識，也就是需要平衡各種條件，包括環(huán)境溫度以及確保生存所需的食物和飲料。

That would in turn give AI engines more of a reason to improve their behaviours and better themselves, say neuroscientists Kingson Man and Antonio Damasio from the University of Southern California.

南加州大學神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)科學家金森·曼和安東尼奧·達瑪西奧表示，這會促進人工智能提高行為能力，并完善自身。

"In a dynamic and unpredictable world, an intelligent agent should hold its own meta-goal of self-preservation, like living organisms whose survival relies on homeostasis: the regulation of body states aimed at maintaining conditions compatible with life," write Man and Damasio in their published paper.

曼和達瑪西奧在他們發(fā)表的論文中寫道：“在一個不斷變化且不可預測的世界里，一個智能體應該擁有自我保護的基本目標，就像生物體的生存依賴于體內(nèi)平衡一樣：調整身體狀態(tài)以維持與生存相容的條件。”

In short, we're talking about giving robots feelings. Making them care might make them better in just about every aspect, and it would also give scientists a platform to investigate the very nature of feelings and consciousness, say Man and Damasio.

總之，我們說的就是讓機器人擁有感覺。曼和達馬西奧表示，讓它們有了心事可能會讓它們在各方面都變得更好，這也會為科學家提供一個研究情感和意識本質的平臺。