講個故事，曾祖父

技術 (Technology)

Scientists at MIT are working on a project they call “Augmented Eternity.” They want to create a system that could collect your digital identity from your emails, chats, and of course, any writing like this and use that to create a virtual image of you. The result would be a bot that could answer questions as you might. If they also process audio and video, someday it might even look like you and sound like you, including speech patterns. With enough data, this could be quite realistic.

麻省理工學院的科學家正在研究一個名為“ 增強的永恒 ”的項目。 他們希望建立一個系統，該系統可以從您的電子郵件，聊天記錄中收集您的數字身份，當然，也可以從任何類似的文字中收集您的數字身份，并以此來建立您的虛拟形象。 結果将是一個可以回答您所有問題的機器人。 如果他們還處理音頻和視訊，則有一天甚至可能看起來像您，聽起來像您，包括語音模式。 有了足夠的資料，這可能是很現實的。

Imagine being able to talk with your great-grandfather. Imagine setting him to be eighteen or thirty-five and seeing how his answers might have changed. That could be possible soon and may become a popular legacy as people record written and spoken conversations with a bot specifically designed to analyze and learn how to be you. As part of the training, you could converse with it and correct any errors or nuance that you observe.

想象一下能夠與您的曾祖父交談。 想象一下，将他設定為18歲或35歲，然後看看他的答案可能會如何變化。 随着人們使用專門用來分析和學習如何成為您的機器人來記錄書面和口頭對話，這可能很快就會成為一種流行的遺産。 作為教育訓練的一部分，您可以與之交談并更正所觀察到的任何錯誤或細微差别。

At some point, the bots could also learn about you from other bots who have data collected from your relatives and friends. Collecting different impressions of the same incident or relationship could provide more accurate results.

在某些時候，這些漫遊器還可以從其他從您的親戚和朋友那裡收集資料的漫遊器中了解您。 收集同一事件或關系的不同印象可以提供更準确的結果。

I’m assuming that you could set privacy options that would keep your data private, allow you to share it with specific people. You might choose to release it publically only after your death. A truly sophisticated bot might be allowed to answer certain types of questions and be a source of income for some of us with expertise and experience.

我假設您可以設定隐私選項，以使您的資料保持私密性，并允許您與特定人員共享。 您可以選擇僅在去世後公開釋出。 一個真正精巧的機器人可能被允許回答某些類型的問題，并為我們其中一些具有專業知識和經驗的人提供收入。

Some bots might even become famous as Internet celebrities. There may be a market for reconstructed bots: this is what your 16th century ancestor may have been like based on other people from the same time and place.

一些機器人甚至可能以網際網路名人而聞名。 重構機器人可能有一個市場：這就是您16世紀的祖先在同一時間和地點基于其他人的情況。

Or, you might give your grandchildren a version that will tell bedtime stories.

或者，您可以給孫子孫女講講睡前故事。

“Tell me a story, great-grand-papa?”

“告訴我一個故事，曾祖父？”

“Of course, Sandy. When I was a very young man, I visited a castle in a far away land..”

“當然，桑迪。 當我很小的時候，我參觀了一個遙遠地方的城堡。”

“What’s a castle, pop-pop-pop?”

“什麼是城堡，流行音樂流行音樂？”

“Oh, a castle is a special place where kings and queens and princesses live..”

“哦，城堡是國王，王後和公主居住的特别地方。”

“YOU MET A PRINCESS?”

“你是公主嗎？”

“No, sweetheart, but your mom said you have to get up early tomorrow, so let’s do less questions and more story, okay?”

“不，親愛的，但是你媽媽說你明天必須早起，是以讓我們少做些問題，多講些故事，好嗎？”

To a far lesser extent, this has already happened. A woman named Eugenia Kuyda made a chatbot from a dead friend’s text messages. Of course, that was a small set of data, and as she points out, the chatbot only knows how to talk to her. It doesn’t know how her friend might have spoken to a child, a stranger, another friend.

在較小程度上，這已經發生。 一位名叫Eugenia Kuyda的女人用死去的朋友的短信制作了一個聊天機器人。 當然，那隻是一小部分資料，正如她指出的那樣，聊天機器人隻知道如何與她交談。 她不知道她的朋友可能和一個孩子，一個陌生人，另一個朋友說話。

But with enough data, it could be more realistic and accurate. It could be even more so if people deliberately provided data only for the bot’s consumption, as I suggested above. With the consent of all parties, family or other group conversations could provide multiple streams of useful information for the future digital reincarnation.

但是有了足夠的資料，它可能會更加真實和準确。 如我上面建議的那樣，如果人們有意僅為機器人的消費提供資料，那就更是如此。 經過各方的同意，家庭或其他小組對話可以為未來的數字化轉世提供多種有用的資訊流。

If the technology became accurate enough, the digital you might be able to testify in legal actions. Imagine a lawyer asking my iPhone if it can provide guidance on a confusing or contradictory part of my will!

如果技術變得足夠準确，那麼您也許可以在法律訴訟中作證。 想象一下，有一位律師問我的iPhone，它是否可以為我的遺囑中令人困惑或沖突的部分提供指導！

What a fascinating concept! I’d be willing to dump all of my correspondence and storytelling into the digital digestive system and happily spend a few minutes here and there chatting with a bot about my opinions, memories, and wishes. If enough people did this, a future historian would have a valuable resource.

多麼有趣的概念！ 我願意将我所有的通訊和講故事都轉存到數字消化系統中，并樂于在這裡和那裡花幾分鐘與機器人聊天，讨論我的觀點，記憶和願望。 如果有足夠的人這樣做，将來的曆史學家将擁有寶貴的資源。

And someday a child might chat with a far distant ancestor about the toys and games children played hundreds of years in the past.

有一天，一個孩子可能會和遠方的祖先聊起他們過去幾百年來玩的玩具和遊戲。

翻譯自: https://medium.com/tonys-tech-corner/tell-me-a-story-great-grandfather-120d5a48132b