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The next big breakthrough in artificial intelligence could come from giving machines not just
more logical capacity, but emotional capacity as well.
Feelings aren"t usually associated with inanimate machines, but Rosalind Picard, a professor of
computer technology at MIT, believes emotion may be just the thing computers need to work effec-tively. Computers need artificial emotion to understand thei human users better and to achieve self-analysis and self-improvement.
The more scientists study the “wetware" model for computing-the human brain and nervous
system-the more they conclude that emotions are a part of intelligence, not separate from it. Emo-tions are among the tools that we use to process the tremendous amount of stimuli in our environ-ment. They also paly a role in human learning and decision-making. Feeling bad about a wrong deci-sion, for instance, focuses attention on avoiding future error. A feeling of pleasure, on the other hand, positively reinforces an experience.
"If we want computers to -be genuinely intelligent, to adapt to us, and to interact naturally with
us, then they will need the ability to recognize and express emotions, to have emotions, and to have what has come to be called "emotional intelligence" ," Picard says.
One way that emotions can help computers, she suggests, is by helping keep them from crashing. Today"s computers produce erroneous messages, but they do not have a "gut feeling" of knowing when something is wrong or doesn"t make sense. A healthy fear of death could motivate a com-
puter to stop trouble as soon as it starts. On the other hand, self-preservation would need to be subordinate to service to humans. It was fear of its own death that prompted HAL, the fictional computer in the film 2002: A Space Odyssey, to kill most of its human associates.
Similarly, computers that could "read" their users would accumulate a store of highly personal information about us-not just what we said and did, but what we likely thought and felt.
"Emotions not only contribute to a richer quality of interaction, but they directly impact a per-
son"s ability to interact in an intelligent way," Picard says. "Emotional skills, especially the ability
to recognize and express emotions, are essential for natural communication with humans. "
51.1n the future computers will tend to be made________ . .
[A] fictional
[B] humanized
[C] economical
[D] operational请帮忙给出正确答案和分析,谢谢!

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正确答案:B
参考译文人工智能的下一个大突破可能不仅仅是逻辑能力的提高,也包括被赋予的感情。感情一般和无生命的机器无关,但是麻省理工学院的一位计算机技术教授罗斯兰德?皮卡德,相信感情可能就是使计算机可以有效工作的因素。计算机需要人造的感情来更好地理解人类使用者,来完成自我分析和自我提高。科学家越深入研究计算机技术“湿件”模型——人类大脑和神经系统——他们就越确信感情是智能的一部分,是不可分割的。感情是我们处理环境中大量的刺激的工具之一。它们同样也在人类学习和作出决定中起着重要作用。比如,错误的决定引起的糟糕的感觉,会促使集中注意力,避免将来再出错。另一方面,良好的感觉必定会积累经验。“如果我们希望计算机能真正智能化,适应我们并和我们自然地交流.那么他们就需要识别和表达感情的能力,就需要有感情,和有被称为‘情商’的东西。”皮卡德说。皮卡德认为感情能帮计算机的一个方法就是阻止它受到损害。今天的计算机会产生错误的信息,但是没有“真正的感情”来了解什么时候的信息是错的或是毫无意义的。对死亡的恐惧可以推动计算机在一开始就避免麻烦。另一方面,自我保护要服从于为人类服务。2002年电影《太空遨游》中的那台科幻计算机HAL,就是因为惧怕自己的死亡而杀害了很多人类同事。相似的是,可以理解使用者的计算机会积累很多关于我们的私人信息——不仅仅是我们所说所做的,而且还有我们可能想到和感受到的。“感情不仅可以提高交流的质量,而且可以直接影响一个人以智能方式交流的能力”皮卡德说。“感情技巧,尤其是识别和表达感情的能力,是和人类进行自然交流的必要因素。”51.B【精析】推理题。题干为“未来的计算机趋向于被…”,文章第一段指出人工智能的突破也来自于情感能力的突破。所以未来的计算机可能会被情感化,故选B。

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