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双语:阿里投资150亿美元研发人工智能等前沿技术

今日美国2017-11-01 11:01

  Alibaba announced Wednesday it will invest $15 billion over the next three years into "cutting-edge technology" including quantum computing and artificial intelligence.

  阿里巴巴公司在上周三宣布将在三年内投资150亿美元用于前沿科技领域,其中包括量子计算和人工智能技术。

  The DAMO Academy will oversea the launch of research labs worldwide and recruit scientists and researchers to join.

  新成立的达摩学院将在世界各地设立实验室以招募来自各国的科学家和学者。

  The Chinese e-commerce giant will open seven labs including ones in San Mateo, Calif., and Bellevue, Wash., as well as Beijing, Moscow and Tel Aviv.

  按计划,这家电商巨头将分别在加利福尼亚的圣马特、华盛顿州的贝尔维尤,另外还有北京、莫斯科以及以色列的特拉维夫等地开设七所实验室。

  The academy will focus on topics such as Internet of things, network security, machine learning, and natural language processing.

  达摩学院重点关注的领域是互联网技术,比如网络安全、机器学习和自然语言处理等。

  "We aim to discover breakthrough technologies that will enable greater efficiency, network security and ecosystem synergy for end-users and businesses everywhere," said Alibaba chief technology officer Jeff Zhang in a statement.

  阿里的首席技术官张建峰在一份声明称:“我们致力于更高效、更安全的网络技术研究,为广大终端用户以及各地商业领域提供一个更加智能协作的生态系统。”

  The academy will create an advisory board featuring educators and researchers to decide where to focus its research.

  另外,达摩学院还将听取广大学者和教育界的建议,让他们自主决定研究的领域。

  Artificial intelligence is a hot market for tech, with many companies using it to power services such as digital voice assistants like Siri or Alexa.

  目前,人工智能领域是科技界一个热门方向,越来越多的公司将此技术用于智能语音助手系统,如苹果公司的Siri和亚马逊的Alexa。

  Among the biggest champions of AI is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said last summer the technology could create safer cars or ways to better detect diseases.

  Facebook的CEO马克?扎克伯格,作为人工智能技术的狂热粉丝,曾在去年夏天称,人工智能技术可以制造更加安全的汽车还能帮助人类更准确地检测疾病。

  However, many critics — notably Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk — have raised concerns about AI’s potential threat to humanity. Musk is calling for governments to institute regulations before the use of AI becomes more common.

  然而,许多人对这项技术持反对态度,其中尤其是Tesla和SpaceX公司的CEO埃隆?马斯克,他担忧人工智能未来将威胁人类的存在,还号召政府在人工智能技术应用越来越普遍之前出台相应的法令条例。

(编辑:何莹莹)

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