【读新闻学英语】Ta能预测死亡：不是死神，而是救你一命
2019年4月15日 14:44
If someone could tell you when you are going to die, would you want to know?
如果有人能告诉你什么时候会死，你会想知道吗？
What if that someone was actually a computer programme?
如果那个人实际上是一个计算机程序呢？
Computer programme：计算机程序
UK scientists have trained artificial intelligence to evaluate if people are going to die, reports Newstalk ZB.
据Newstalk ZB报道，英国科学家已经训练了人工智能来评估人类的死亡。
Artificial intelligence：人工智能
However, before anyone starts freaking out about SkyNet and terminators, this technology could actually help save lives.
然而，在任何人对“天网和终结者”感到恐慌之前，（科学家想告你的是）这项技术实际上可以帮助拯救生命。
备注：天网(Skynet)，是电影《终结者》里一个人类于20世纪后期创造的以计算机为基础的人工智能防御系统，最初是研究用于军事的发展，后自我意识觉醒，视全人类为威胁，以诱发核弹攻击为起步发动了将整个人类置于灭绝边缘的审判日。（来源：百度百科）
Freak out：崩溃；吓坏
Terminator：终结者
Michelle Dickinson told Francesca Rudkin that these machines are finding patterns and evaluating whether you are going to die of a chronic disease.
Michelle Dickinson告诉Francesca Rudkin，这些机器正在寻找模式，并评估你是否会死于慢性疾病。
Evaluate：评价；评估；估计
Chronic disease：慢性疾病
"Things like diabetes and cancers, it can predict whether or not you are going to get them based on your lifestyle and potentially offer you solutions such as losing weight or lowering your cholesterol."
“像糖尿病和癌症这样的疾病，人工智能可以预测你的生活方式中是否会出现这些疾病，并可能为你提供减肥或降低胆固醇等解决方案。”
Diabetes：糖尿病
Cholesterol：胆固醇
The discovery was made in a recent study, where AI was fed health data from half a million people in the UK, and then tasked the AI with predicting if people would die prematurely.
这是在最近的一项研究中发现的，该研究向人工智能输入了来自英国50万人的健康数据，然后让人工智能预测人们是否会过早死亡。
Prematurely：过早地
The study found that the AI that had "machine learning" made far more accurate predictions than other models.
研究发现，拥有“机器学习”功能的人工智能做出的预测，要比其他模型准确得多。
Accurate：精确的
Prediction：预测；预言
Previous studies have found that AI can predict whether babies will get autism and the risk of having a heart attack or stroke.
此前的研究发现，人工智能可以预测婴儿是否会患上自闭症，以及心脏病发作或中风的风险。
Autism：自闭症
Heart attack：心脏病发作
Stroke：中风；笔画；钟声；抚摩
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