TED演讲:我们能在打造人工智能的同时掌握控制权吗?(2)

It's as though we stand before two doors. Behind door number one, we stop making progress in building intelligent machines. 我们就像站在了两扇门前。在第一扇门后面,我们停下打造智能机器的脚步。 Our computer hardware and software just stops getting better for some reason. 某些原因也使我们停止了对电脑软件和硬件的升级。 Now take a moment to consider why this might happen. 现...

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TED演讲:为什么你应该知道你同事的工资(2)

It turns out that pay transparency — sharing salaries openly across a company 结果表明,薪资透明–在整个公司中公开薪资数据 makes for a better workplace for both the employee and for the organization. 会为雇员和雇主营造更好的工作环境。 When people don't know how their pay compares to their peers', 当人们不知道他们同事的工资时, they're more likely to fe...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 为什么健康的生活方式几乎把我害死(4)

So I finished. And I kind of went overboard on the week after the project was over. 我于是停止了这些健康计划。健康计划中止后的一周,我让自己稍微放纵了一下, I went to the dark side, and I just indulged myself. It was like something out of Caligula. 开始了不健康的生活方式,尽情放任自己,有点像《罗马帝国艳情史》里那样。 Without the sex part. Because I have three young kids, so...

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TED演讲之入门 用前所未有的好方法诠释数字统计(11)

But I think it's very important to have all this information. We need really to see it. 我认为这些信息很重要。大家很有必要看到这些。 And instead of looking at this, I would like to end up by showing the Internet users per 1,000. 另外,我最后要给大家展示每千人中的网民数量。 In this software, we access about 500 variables from all the countries quite easily. 这个软件能让我...

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TED演讲之入门 我们需要谈谈不公(1)

Well this is a really extraordinary honor for me. 很荣幸来到这里。 I spend most of my time in jails, in prisons, on death row. 我大多数时候都在管教所,在监狱里,在死囚室中。 I spend most of my time in very low-income communities in the projects and places where there's a great deal of hopelessness. 大部分时间我在低收入的社区里工作,在充满绝望的地区,做前途暗淡的项目。 An...

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TED演讲:货币的未来(10)

We're not at this world yet, but it's coming. 那样的世界还未到来,但很快就能实现。 Right now, it's like we're in a world that is seeing the first automobile. 现在的状况就类似于当初汽车的首次亮相。 The first cryptocurrency, like the first car, is slow and hard to understand and hard to use. 首次出现的加密货币就像那第一辆汽车,速度慢、令人费解,也不好操作。 Dig...

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TED演讲:无创治疗心脏疾病的新方法(1)

The most complex problems in our time can be solved with simple techniques, if we are able to dream. 现如今,只要有梦想,就可以用最简单的手段解决最复杂的问题。 As a child, I discovered that creativity is the key to cross from dreams to reality. 在孩童时期,我发现让梦想照进现实的关键在于创造力。 I learned this from my grandmother, Dr. Ruth Tichauer, a Jewish refugee that sett...

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TED演讲:为什么头盔不能预防脑震荡?(7)

Now, what's there at the bottom of this fissure? 所以,裂缝的底部有什么? It's the wiring of your brain, and in fact this red bundle here at the bottom of that fissure is the single largest fiber bundle 那里有脑部的“线路”,事实上,裂缝底部红色的那一捆“线路”是最大的单个纤维束, that is the wiring that connects the right and left sides of your brain. It's called th...

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TED演讲之入门 我们需要谈谈不公(9)

Well that orientation of the spirit is very much at the core of what I believe even TED communities have to be engaged in. 这个心灵的指向,就是我的核心信念,我们的TED社会也要参与进来。 There is no disconnect around technology and design that will allow us to be fully human 这里不应有任何东西把高新的科技和完美的设计和我们的人性间隔开来, until we pay attention to suffering, t...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 休假的力量(9)

Second insight. So far, until that point I had been mostly involved or used the language of design for promotional purposes, which was fine with me. 第二种体会:在那次长假之前,多数时候,我都使用设计语言帮助促销,那并没有什么不好。 On one hand I have nothing against selling. My parents are both salespeople. 一方面我不反对销售,我父母都是销售员。 But I did feel that I spent s...

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TED演讲:有关激情的故事(4)

In the green room I received my uniform. 在绿色房间中我接到了我的制服。 It was not the kind of outfit that I normally wear, but it was far from the Michelin Man suit that I had anticipated. 这并不是我平时所穿衣服的类型,但是这并不是我之前所想象的米其林男孩似的服装。 Not bad, really. I looked like a refrigerator. 实际上并不差。我看上去像台电冰箱。 But so did most of the flag-...

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TED演讲:为了关闭监狱 就要创办学校(3)

It was a cold day in January when my scholar, Vidal Chastanet, met Brandon Stanton, the founder of the popular blog "Humans of New York." 那是一月寒冷的一天,我的学生维达·沙塔遇到了布兰登·斯坦顿,这位热门博客“纽约众生”创始人。 Brandon shared the story of a young man from Brownsville who had witnessed violence firsthand, by witnessing a man being thrown off of a roo...

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TED演讲:个体DNA检测的时代来了(4)

You would have thought, "Wow! I can now call my Aunt Glenda from the car and wish her a happy birthday. 你一定会想:“哇喔!我现在可以在车里打电话给我姨妈Glenda,祝她生日快乐了。 I can call anyone, anytime. This is the future!" 我现在能给任何人在任何时间打电话了。这就是未来!” Little did you know, you would tap on that phone to make dinner reservations for you and A...

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TED演讲之入门 单一故事的危险性(1)

I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call "the danger of the single story." 我是个说书之人。在这里,我想和大家分享一些我本人的故事,一些关于所谓的“单一故事的危险性”的经历。 I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. 我成长在尼日利亚东部的一所大学校园里。 My mother says that I started reading at th...

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TED演讲:货币的未来(3)

Now when this works, it's because there are large institutions underwriting every 1 or 0 that changes on a computer. 这是因为有庞大的机构来保障电脑程序里1、0之间变化的可靠性。 And when it doesn't, it's often the fault of those large institutions. 如果不能顺利进行,说明那些庞大机构们出现了故障。 Or at least, it's up to them to fix the problem. And a lot of tim...

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TED演讲之入门 细菌是怎样交流的(8)

So we went back to molecular biology and started studying different bacteria, 所以我们回到分子生物学的方法,开始研究不同的细菌, and what we've found now is that in fact, bacteria are multilingual. 我们现在已经发现,事实上,细菌可以讲多国种语言。 They all have a species-specific system — they have a molecule that says "me." 它们都有一个菌种特别识别系统,...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(7)

And I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. 我倾慕大学教授的学识,但我们不应该用这样一个头衔作为衡量一个人成功与否的分水岭。 They're just a form of life, another form of life. 其实大学教授只是360行中的一行。 But they're rather curious, and I say this out of affection for them. 只不过他...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 休假的力量(11)

We are also working on the start of a bigger project in Bali. It's a movie about happiness. 我们还在巴厘岛开始了一个更大的项目,是一个讲关于快乐的电影。 And here we asked some nearby pigs to do the titles for us. They weren't quite slick enough. 在这里,我们请了附近的一些猪为我们做标题。却嫌它们不够仔细。 So we asked the goose to do it again, and hoped she would do s...

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TED演讲:如何培养出成功的小孩(2)

And here's what the checklisted childhood looks like. 清单式的生活就是: We keep them safe and sound and fed and watered, and then we want to be sure they go to the right schools, 我们确保他们安全、健康、吃好、喝好,然后期望他们进入好学校, that they're in the right classes at the right schools, 并且是好学校的好班级, and that they get the right grades in the right c...

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TED演讲之入门 内向性格的力量(12)

Okay, number two: Go to the wilderness. Be like Buddha, have your own revelations. 好的,第二,去旷野探索吧。像佛祖一样,有自己的启示。 I'm not saying that we all have to now go off and build our own cabins in the woods and never talk to each other again, 我不是在说我们马上要去盖个山中小屋隐居起来,也不是要你们互不往来, but I am saying that we could all stand to unplug ...

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