If I'm right, we should foster a creative spirit because a dose of illogical creativity will complement the rationality of the machine.

如果我是对的，我们应该培养一种创新精神，因为不合逻辑的创造力可以与机器的理性互补。

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But if CAPTCHAs are broken it might not be a bad thing, because it would signal a breakthrough in machine vision that would, for example, make automated book-scanners far more accurate.

而验证码系统被破解倒也未尝不是一件好事，因为这标志着机器视觉取得突破，或许，自动书刊扫描系统将由此变得远比现在精准。

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That’s because the technology being tested is an X-ray machine that makes a full body scan of passengers to see if they are carrying concealed weapons or explosives.

这是因为被实验的技术是一种X光机，对乘客进行全身扫描来查看他们是否携带隐藏武器或炸药。

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So one of the things that the Allies very specifically wanted to do in World War II was to hijack one of these devices, take it from a U-boat because if they had this physical machine, certainly can they start decrypting then the German messages.

所以同盟国在二战中想做的一件事,就是劫持其中一个装置，携带在U型潜水艇中，因为如果他们拥有了这种物理装置，他们就可以解码,德国人的密文。

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