双语阅读英语外刊精讲：计算机智能化

2019-04-27 08:45:00来源：酷学英语

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　　计算机智能化（computer intelligence）就是要求计算机能模拟人的感觉和思维能力，也是第五代计算机要实现的目标。本文选自Scientific American。主要内容是，计算机可根据自我判断对所展示的风景进行评判打分，这是计算机智能化的发展进程中很有趣味的突破。

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　　What sort of scenery do you find most appealing? Researchers in the U.K. asked volunteers that question, through an online photo-rating game, and the result was sort of what you’d expect. "Beautiful mountains, abundant greenery, beautiful water features like lakes and oceans." Chanuki Seresinhe, a data scientist at the Warwick Business School says.

　　She says the more surprising finding was that human-built structures—churches and towers and cottages—could enhance the perception of the beauty of a scene. And big expanses of green grass—like athletic fields—didn’t actually rate that highly.

　　What they did next is where the data science comes in: They fed a computer 160,000 photographs rated through the online game. And they taught the machine to break each image into the scenic elements it contained. Snowy mountains, waterfalls, crosswalks and construction sites.

　　As smart as it is, the scenery-loving computer probably won’t be putting tour guides out of business. "Actually I think it can help tour guides. I think it can actually maybe uncover places we didn't know about that might have not been that popular.”

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