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📢【新聞標題】
Intempus thinks robots should have a human physiological state
Intempus 認為機器人應該具有人類生理狀態
📰【摘要】
Intempus is building tech to retrofit existing robots with human-like emotional expressions to help humans better interact with these machines and better predict their movements. Giving these robots human-like reactions will also produce data that can be used to better train AI models. These robots will show expression through kinetic movements.
Intempus 正在開發一種技術，可以改造現有機器人，使其具有類似人類的情感表達，以幫助人類更好地與這些機器互動，並更好地預測它們的運動。賦予這些機器人類似人類的反應也將產生可以用於更好地訓練AI模型的數據。這些機器人將通過動態運動來表達情感。
🗝️【關鍵詞彙表】
📝 retrofit (v.)
- 改造、翻新
- 例句: Intempus is building tech to retrofit existing robots with human-like emotional expressions.
- 翻譯: Intempus 正在開發技術來改造現有機器人，使其具有類似人類的情感表達。
📝 physiological state (n.)
- 生理狀態
- 例句: Robots don’t have physiological state.
- 翻譯: 機器人沒有生理狀態。
📝 kinetic (adj.)
- 動態的、運動的
- 例句: These robots will show expression through kinetic movements.
- 翻譯: 這些機器人將通過動態運動來表達情感。
📝 uncanny (adj.)
- 怪異的、不可思議的
- 例句: If we want robots to understand the world like a human can, and be able to communicate with humans in a way that is innate to us, that is less uncanny, more predictable, we have to give them this B step.
- 翻譯: 如果我們希望機器人像人類一樣理解世界，並能夠以一種對我們來說是天生的、不那麼怪異、更可預測的方式與人類交流，我們必須給它們這個 B 步驟。
📝 innate (adj.)
- 天生的、固有的
- 例句: If we want robots to understand the world like a human can, and be able to communicate with humans in a way that is innate to us...
- 翻譯: 如果我們希望機器人像人類一樣理解世界，並能夠以一種對我們來說是天生的方式與人類交流...
📝 cohort (n.)
- 群體、隊伍
- 例句: Intempus is also part of the current cohort of Peter Thiel’s Thiel Fellowship program.
- 翻譯: Intempus 也是 Peter Thiel 的 Thiel Fellowship 計劃的當前隊伍成員。
📝 microvascular (adj.)
- 微血管的
- 例句: photoplethysmography, which measures the blood volume changes in the microvascular level of the skin
- 翻譯: 光電容積脈搏波描記法，它測量皮膚微血管層的血容量變化
✍️【文法與句型】
📝 looks to + verb
- 說明: Means 'intends to' or 'aims to'.
- 翻譯: 意為「打算」或「旨在」。
- 例句: Now Warner is building a robotics company of his own, Intempus, that looks to make robots a bit more human.
- 翻譯: 現在，華納正在建立自己的機器人公司 Intempus，該公司旨在使機器人更像人類。
📝 have to + verb
- 說明: Expresses necessity or obligation.
- 翻譯: 表示必要性或義務。
- 例句: If we want robots to understand the world like a human can...we have to give them this B step.
- 翻譯: 如果我們希望機器人像人類一樣理解世界……我們必須給它們這個 B 步驟。
📝 as opposed to
- 說明: Used to contrast two ideas or things.
- 翻譯: 用於對比兩種想法或事物。
- 例句: ...AI models that understand and make decisions based on the dynamics of the real world and spatial properties, as opposed to just cause and effect.
- 翻譯: ...AI 模型，它理解真實世界的動力學和空間特性並基於此做出決策，而不是僅僅因果關係。
📖【全文與翻譯】
Teddy Warner, 19, has always been interested in robotics. His family was in the industry, and he says he “grew up” working in a machinist shop while in high school. Now Warner is building a robotics company of his own, Intempus, that looks to make robots a bit more human.
19 歲的 Teddy Warner 一直對機器人技術感興趣。他的家人從事這個行業，他說他在高中時「長大」並在一家機械師店工作。現在，華納正在建立自己的機器人公司 Intempus，該公司旨在使機器人更像人類。
Intempus is building tech to retrofit existing robots with human-like emotional expressions to help humans better interact with these machines and better predict their movements. Giving these robots human-like reactions will also produce data that can be used to better train AI models. These robots will show expression through kinetic movements, Warner told TechCrunch.
Intempus 正在開發一種技術，可以改造現有機器人，使其具有類似人類的情感表達，以幫助人類更好地與這些機器互動，並更好地預測它們的運動。賦予這些機器人類似人類的反應也將產生可以用於更好地訓練AI模型的數據。這些機器人將通過動態運動來表達情感，華納告訴 TechCrunch。
“Humans derive a lot of our subconscious signals, not from face, not from semantics, but solely from the movement of your arms and your torso,” Warner said. “This extends to dogs and cats and other animals that aren’t humans.”
「人類從我們的潛意識信號中獲得很多信息，不是來自面部，不是來自語義，而是僅僅來自你的手臂和軀幹的運動，」華納說。「這也適用於狗、貓和其他非人類的動物。」
Warner said he got the idea for Intempus while he was working at AI research lab Midjourney. He said Midjourney, like many other AI research labs, was working on world AI models, or AI models that understand and make decisions based on the dynamics of the real world and spatial properties, as opposed to just cause and effect.
華納說，他在 AI 研究實驗室 Midjourney 工作時，產生了 Intempus 的想法。他說，像許多其他 AI 研究實驗室一樣，Midjourney 正在研究世界 AI 模型，或者說，AI 模型理解真實世界的動力學和空間特性並基於此做出決策，而不是僅僅因果關係。
But it will be really hard for these models to achieve this spatial reasoning, Warner realized, because a lot of the data the models were being trained on came from robots that didn’t have this spatial reasoning, either.
但華納意識到，這些模型很難實現這種空間推理，因為模型訓練的大部分數據來自於本身也沒有這種空間推理的機器人。
“Robots currently go from A to C, that is observation to action, whereas humans, and all living things, have this intermediary B step that we call physiological state,” Warner said. “Robots don’t have physiological state. They don’t have fun, they don’t have stress. If we want robots to understand the world like a human can, and be able to communicate with humans in a way that is innate to us, that is less uncanny, more predictable, we have to give them this B step.”
「機器人目前是從 A 到 C，即從觀察到行動，而人類和所有生物都有這個中間 B 步驟，我們稱之為生理狀態，」華納說。「機器人沒有生理狀態。它們沒有樂趣，沒有壓力。如果我們希望機器人像人類一樣理解世界，並能夠以一種對我們來說是天生的、不那麼怪異、更可預測的方式與人類交流，我們必須給它們這個 B 步驟。」
Warner took that idea and started to research. He started with fMRI data, which measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow and oxygen, but it didn’t work. Then his friend suggested trying a polygraph (lie detector test), which works by capturing sweat data, and he started to find some success.
華納採納了這個想法並開始研究。他從 fMRI 數據開始，fMRI 數據通過檢測血流和氧氣的變化來測量大腦活動，但它沒有奏效。然後他的朋友建議嘗試測謊儀（測謊試驗），測謊儀通過捕捉汗液數據來工作，他開始取得一些成功。
“I was shocked at how quickly I could go from capturing sweat data for myself and a few of my friends and then training this model that can essentially allow robots to have an emotional composition solely based on sweat data,” Warner said.
「我很震驚，我能夠多快地從為我自己和我的幾個朋友捕捉汗液數據，然後訓練這個模型，這個模型基本上可以讓機器人僅僅基於汗液數據就具有情感成分，」華納說。
He’s since expanded from sweat data into other areas, like body temperature, heart rate, and photoplethysmography, which measures the blood volume changes in the microvascular level of the skin, among others.
從那以後，他已經從汗液數據擴展到其他領域，例如體溫、心率和光電容積脈搏波描記法，光電容積脈搏波描記法測量皮膚微血管層的血容量變化等。
Warner launched Intempus in September 2024 and spent the first four months exclusively on research. He’s spent the last few on a mix of building up these emotional capabilities for robots and engaging potential customers. He’s already signed seven enterprise robotics partners.
華納於 2024 年 9 月推出了 Intempus，並在前四個月專門從事研究。在過去的幾個月裡，他一直致力於為機器人建立這些情感能力，並與潛在客戶互動。他已經簽署了七家企業機器人合作夥伴。
Intempus is also part of the current cohort of Peter Thiel’s Thiel Fellowship program, which gives young entrepreneurs $200,000 over two years to drop out of school and build their companies.
Intempus 也是 Peter Thiel 的 Thiel Fellowship 計劃的當前隊伍成員，該計劃在兩年內向年輕企業家提供 20 萬美元，讓他們輟學並建立自己的公司。
Warner said the next step for Intempus is to hire — he’s done everything until now as a team of one — and get some of the tech that’s already been built in front of humans to start testing. While Intempus is currently working on retrofitting existing robots and plans to focus on that, Warner said he’d never rule out Intempus building its own emotionally intelligent robots in the future.
華納說，Intempus 的下一步是招聘——到目前為止，他一直以單人團隊完成所有工作——並將一些已經建立的技術展示在人類面前以開始測試。雖然 Intempus 目前正在改造現有機器人並計劃專注於此，但華納表示，他永遠不會排除 Intempus 在未來製造自己的具有情感智能的機器人。
“I have a bunch of robots, and they run a bunch of emotions, and I want to have someone come in and just understand that this robot is a joyful robot, and if I can innately convey some emotion, some intents that the robot holds, then I’ve done my job properly,” Warner said. “I think I can, you know, really prove that I’ve done this over the next four to six months.”
「我有一堆機器人，它們運行一堆情感，我想讓某人進來並理解這個機器人是一個快樂的機器人，如果我可以天生地傳達一些情感，一些機器人所持有的意圖，那麼我就完成了我的工作，」華納說。「我認為我可以，你知道，在接下來的四到六個月裡真正證明我已經做到了這一點。」