In this unit, we’ll talk about AI’s

• applications 应用

• basic things 基本概念

• brief history 简短的历史

• humanistic thoughts 人文思考

• future 未来

本节先讨论人工智能的应用：

Do you think machines can think? 你认为机器可以思考吗？

Alan Turing 艾伦·图灵：

• Proposed in his paper“Computing Machinery and Intelligence” that machines could think.

在他的论文《计算机与智能》中提出到：机器可以思考

• The father of theoretical computer science and Artificial Intelligence

他是计算机科学与人工智能理论之父

• Turing test 图灵测试：

His turing test was a significant characteristically provocative and lasting contribution to debate regarding artificial intelligence.他的图灵测试对有关人工智能的辩论做出了重要的，具有启发性和持久性的重大贡献。

【①His turing test | ③ was a significant characteristically provocative and lasting contribution | ②to debate regarding artificial intelligence.】

【significant 重要的】【provocative 具有启发性的】【lasting 持久的】

Two examples of applications of AI 人工智能应用的两个例子

1)AlphaGo: strongst Go player in history 2016 阿尔法狗：2016最强的围棋选手

Go is the most challenging classical game for AI because of its complexity.

围棋因其复杂性是最具有挑战性的经典游戏。

Winning this board game requires multiple layers of strategic thinking.

赢得这场棋盘游戏需要多层策略思考。

【Go 围棋】【board game 棋盘游戏】【strategic thinking策略思考】

2017 DeepMind's Co-Founder & CEO Demis Hassabis said DeepMind would disband the team that worked on Go and spend their time exploring new AI in other area instead of Go.

2017年，深度思考的联合创始人及首席执行官德米斯·哈萨比斯说：深度思考将会解散围棋攻克团队并花时间探索除围棋以外的其他人工智能领域。

【disband 解散】

2）Google's self-driving cars 谷歌自动驾驶汽车

下期文章我们接着来谈。