And people who study this often claim to be studying neural network modeling to try to build smart machines by modeling them after brains.

神经网络的研究者们,通常会说他们是在研究神经网络模型,试图通过模仿大脑反应,而制造出智能机器

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We saw some students who are trying to make a machine that automatically decorates cakes.

我们看到有些同学在制造能自动装饰蛋糕的机器。

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A different response, of course, is why couldn't we have robots that just build more robots?

另一种不同的回应,为什么我们不能拥有制造机器人的机器人呢

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We want to say, "Well, gee, that wasn't produced by a machine.

我们想说：“哎呀，那不是由机器制造的。

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They differentiate, they make many copies of themselves - I'm sorry they proliferate, they make many copies of themselves, and then they differentiate into antibody production machines.

它们开始分化,再制造很多自身的拷贝,对不起应该是先扩增,扩增出很多自身的拷贝,然后分化成为制造抗体的机器

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Well, for instance, you could build machines that when babies suck on a pacifier they hear music or they hear language, and then you could look at how much they suck on the pacifier to determine what they like.

举例来说,你可以制造一个机器,每当婴儿吮吸奶嘴,他们就会听到音乐或是话语,然后你可通过观察婴儿有多喜欢吮吸奶嘴,来确定他们喜欢音乐还是话语

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So we can build a machine that could sort red balls from blue balls.

我们就能制造一台,可以分辨红球和蓝球的机器

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And in the last 20 years or So, this has been a huge and vibrant area of study where people are trying to wire up machines that can do brain-like things from components that look a lot like neurons and are wired up together as neurons are.

在过去的二十多年里,这是一个非常活跃的研究领域,研究者们试图应用,外表和连结方式均与神经元相类似的元件,制造出具备大脑功能的机器

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