Artificial Intelligence人工智能Those were the years after the ice caps had melted because of the greenhouse gases, and the oceans had risen to drown so many citiesalong all the shorelines of the world.Amsterdam(), Venice(), New York...forever lost.Millions of people were displaced(移位,转移,意为背井离乡,无家可归).Climates became chaotic(a.混乱的,无秩序的).Hundreds of millions of people starved in poorer countries.Elsewhere(adv.在别处), a high degree of prosperity(n.繁荣, 幸运, 成功) survivedwhen most governments in the developed worldintroduced(引入, 采用) legal sanctions(批准,认可) to strictly license(许可,执照)pregnancies,which was why robots,who are never hungry and who did not consume resources...beyond those of their first manufacture, were so essential an economic link...in the chain mail(锁子甲,铠甲) of society.To create an artificial being has been the dream of man since the birth of scienceNot merely the beginning of the modern agewhen our forbearers astonished the world with the first thinking machinesprimitive monsters that could play chessHow far we have come(那是好久以前的事) The artificial being is a realityof perfect simulacrum(像,影像,假像)articulated(以关节连接的,发音咬字清晰的,一字一板的) in limbarticulated in speechand not lacking in human responseAnd even pain-memory responseHow did that make you feel? Angry? Shocked?I don't understand.What did I do to your feelings?You did it to my handAll rightThere's the rub(the rub难处,障碍 There's the rub困难就在这里)Undress.At Cybertronics(公司名,意为拟真电子) of New JerseyThe artificial being has reached its highest formThe universally-adopted(全球通用的) Mecha(机器人,来自machine/mechanic)the basis for hundreds of models serving the human race...in all the multiplicity(多样) of daily lifeThat's far enough(与前面的脱衣指令呼应,意为到此为止,可以穿上了)But we have no reason to congratulate ourselves(沾沾自喜)We are rightly(恰当地) proud of itbut what does it amount to(相当于,等于)?Sheila, openA sensory(感觉的,知觉的) toywith intelligent behavioral circuitsusing neurone(神经元)-sequencing(排序) technologyas old as I amI believe that my work on mapping(绘制...的地图,映射) the impulse pathways in a single neuronecan enable us to constructa Mecha of a qualitatively(性质上,质量上) different orderI proposethat we build a robotwho can loveLove?But we ship(把…装上船;航运 意为卖出) thousands of love models every month.Of courseYou're your own best customer(客户,顾客,服务对象), Syatyoo-Sama.Quality control is very important.Tell me. What is love?Love is first widening my eyes a little bitand quickening my breathing a littleand warming my skin and touching my...And so on. Exactly so. Thank you, SheilaBut I wasn't referring to(指的是) sensuality(好色;淫荡) simulators(模拟器)The word that I used was "love".Love like the love of a child for its parentsI propose that we build a robot child who can loveA robot child who will genuinely lovethe parent or parentsit imprints(盖印,铭刻) onwith a love that will never endA child-substitute Mecha?(取代小孩的机器人)But a Mecha with a mind, with neuronal() feedbackYou see, what I'm suggesting is that love will be the keyby which they acquire a kind of subconscious(a.下意识的,潜意识的n.[the ~]下意识,潜意识) never before achievedAn inner world of metaphor(隐喻,暗喻), of intuitionof self-motivated(自我启发) reasoning(推理力) of dreams.A robot that dreams?Yes.How exactly do we pull this off?(这怎么可能?)You know, it occurs to mewith all this animus(敌意,意图,基本态度) existing against Mechas todayit isn't simply a question of creating a robot who can love But isn't the real conundrum(迷,难题), can you get a human to love them back? Ours will be a perfect child caught in a freeze-frame(冻结图像,停格,定格)always loving, never ill, never changing With all the childless couples yearning(yearnv.渴望,想念) in vain for a licenseour little Macha will not only open up a completely new marketbut it will fill a great human needBut you haven't answered my question If a robot could genuinely love a person what responsibility does that person hold toward that Macha in return? It's a moral question, isn't it? The oldest one of allBut in the beginning, didn't God create Adam to love him?TWENTY MONTHS LATER The baby was born as the first leaves of autumn fell. A baby boy. And Marian's wish came true The boy had white hair He was baptized Martin, after his grandfather(和祖父同名) Dr. Frazier. Hi. Good to see you. Hello, HenryListen, there was an article by Random Bach in the Journal of Chinese Medicine.They talked about these virus locators(定位器,探测器), Hello again, MonicaMicroscopic(a.显微的,微观的) synthetic(合成的,人造的) hunter killersDid you read that article?I can still hear you I'm worried about her, Henry.She's really got me worried.Yeah, I know She's in the most difficult position of feel。