So do you think intelligent machines could replace us?

那么，你觉得智能机器能够取代我们吗？

These intelligent machines can be operated by teachers and students themselves.

这些智能设备可以由老师和学生自己操作。

He says intelligent machines can help humans solve many of our most difficult problems.

他表示，智能机器可以帮助人们解决许多最困难的问题。

For most workers the crucial question is will the intelligent machines take away our jobs.

对大多数工人来说，关键问题是智能机器是否会抢走他们的工作。

To put it another way: How can we make sure that the thinking of intelligent machines reflects humanity's highest values?

人类如何才能使那个会思想的铁盒子真正放射出人性的光辉。

To become an agent at the insurance group, the world's largest by market capitalisation, candidates must take questions from an intelligent machine.

要成为这家全球市值最大的保险集团的代理，候选人必须接受一台智能机器的提问。

We will continue to improve our intelligent machines.

我们将继续改进我们的智能机器。

People enjoy the benefits and convenience brought by intelligent machines.

人们享受着智能机器带来的好处和便利。

Human cooperation with intelligent machines will define the next era of history.

人类与智能机器的合作将定义下一个历史时代。

What does it mean to be human in an era of intelligent machines?

在智能机器时代做人意味着什么？

Admittedly, a lot of work has been done by intelligent machines.

不可否认，智能机器已经完成了很多工作。

70. What does the author think of the safety problem of super intelligent machines?

70.作者如何看待超级智能机器的安全问题？

There are probably decades in which to plan for the arrival of super intelligent machines.

可能需要几十年的时间来规划超级智能机器的到来。

As a matter of fact, thanks to intelligent machines, people can expand their creative energy and add new varieties.

事实上，得益于智能机器， 人们可以扩展他们的创造力并增加新品种。

Intelligent machines can treat plants individually, applying not just herbicides but fungicides and insecticides and fertilizers on a plant-by-plant, rather than field-by-field basis.

智能机器可以单独处理植物，不仅可以逐株施用除草剂， 还可以施用杀真菌剂、杀虫剂和肥料， 而不是逐个田地。

So the only alternative, and this is what lies behind door number two, is that we continue to improve our intelligent machines year after year after year.

那么，我们唯一剩下的选择，就藏在第二扇门的后面，那就是我们持续改进我们的智能机器，永不停歇。

Unfortunately, that plan seems unlikely to work: we have yet to invent a firewall that is secure against ordinary humans, let alone super intelligent machines.

不幸的是，这个计划似乎不太可能奏效：我们还没有发明出对普通人安全的防火墙， 更不用说超级智能机器了。

On the other hand, people are still concerned about its negative impact, for example, whether our brains will regress with intelligent machines to do the thinking.

另一方面，人们仍然担心它的负面影响， 比如我们的大脑会不会退化到智能机器去思考。

Tyler Cowen of George Mason University thinks the population will soon be divided into two groups: those who are good at working with intelligent machines, and those who can be replaced by them.

乔治梅森大学的泰勒考恩，认为人口将分成两类：一类擅长用智能机器工作，另一类则可能被前一类替代。

Artificial Intelligence is the ability of machines to copy human intelligent behaviour – for example, an intelligent machine can learn from its own mistakes, and make decisions based on what’s happened in the past.

人工智能是机器模仿人类智能行为的能力。例如，智能机器可以从其错误中吸取经验，根据过去发生的事做出决策。