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

　　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.

　　你觉得什么样的风景最吸引人?英国的研究人员通过在线照片评估游戏向志愿者提出了这一问题，结果可能跟你想的一样。“美丽的山峦，繁茂的植被，湖泊和海洋等美丽的水景。”华威商学院的数据科学家查努基.谢瑞新尼说道。

　　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.

　　她说，更令人惊讶的发现是，人造建筑——教堂、塔楼和别墅——可以增强人们对美景的感知。而像体育场里那种大片的绿色草地，实际上并没有得到很高的评价。

　　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.

　　然后，他们运用数据科学继续开展研究：他们将已经过在线游戏评估过的160，000幅图片输入计算机，要求计算机把每幅图片与自己储存的风景照片进行匹配。白雪皑皑的山脉、瀑布、人行横道、建筑工地，等等。

　　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.”

　　不过，虽然计算机聪明得可以欣赏美景，但还不至于让导游失业。“实际上，我认为计算机可以帮助导游。我想它或许会发现一些尚不为人知、还未大受欢迎的美景。”

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