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 effectively. Computers need artificial emotion to understand their 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. Emotions are among the tools that we use to process the tremendous amount of stimuli in our environment. They also pay a role in human learning and decision making. Feeling bad about a wrong decision, 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 error 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 computer 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 person'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."
In the future computers will tend to be made ______.
A.fictional
B.humanized
C.economical
D.operational
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One day a bookseller(书商)let a big box of books fall on his foot. “Go to see the doctor,“ said his wife. “No, “he said. “I‘ll wait until the doctor comes into the shop next time. Then I‘ll ask him about my foot. If I go to see him, I‘ll have to pay him.“
On the next day the doctor came into the shop for some books. When the bookseller was getting them ready, he told the doctor about his bad foot. The doctor looked at it.“You must put that foot in hot water every night. Then you must put something on it,“ said the doctor.
He took out a piece of paper and wrote on it. “Buy this and put it on the foot before you go to bed every night,“ he said.“Thank you,“ said the bookseller. “And now, sir, here are your books.““How much?“ said the doctor.“Two pounds.““Good,“ said the doctor. “I shall not have to pay you anything.““Why?“ asked the bookseller.“I told you about your foot. I want two pounds for that. If people come to my house, I ask them to pay one pound for a small thing like that. But when I go to their houses, I want two pounds. And I came here, didn‘t I?“
1)、What happened to the bookseller one day?
A.He lost a box of books.
B.His foot was wounded by a box of books.
C.He lent the doctor a box of books.
D.He sold out all his books.
2)、The bookseller‘s wife asked him ______.
A.to go out for some medicine
B.to send somebody for a doctor
C.to go to see the doctor
D.to wait for the doctor to come
3)、The bookseller didn‘t take his wife‘s advice because ______.
A.he was afraid of the doctor
B.he didn‘t like to take medicine
C.he couldn‘t walk by himself
D.he didn‘t want to pay the doctor
4)、The doctor paid ______ for the books.
A.one pound
B.two pounds
C.nothing
D.something
5)、The bookseller paid ______ money for seeing the doctor in the end.
A.more
B.less
C.the same amount of
D.no
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A、It has a big nose and two big eyes
B、It has a big nose and two big ears
C、It has a big mouth and two big eyes