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Move over, Aristotle: can a bot solve moral philosophy?
让一让，亚里士多德：机器人能解决道德哲学问题吗？
Corporal punishment, wearing fur, pineapple on pizza – moral dilemmas, are by their very nature, hard to solve. That’s why the same ethical questions are constantly resurfaced in TV, films and literature. But what if AI could take away the brain work and answer ethical quandaries for us? Ask Delphi is a bot that’s been fed more than 1.7m examples of people’s ethical judgments on everyday questions and scenarios. If you pose an ethical quandary, it will tell you whether something is right, wrong, or indefensible.
体罚、穿皮草、披萨上放菠萝，道德问题就其本质而言，很难解决。这就是为什么同样的道德问题总不断地在电视、电影和文学作品中出现。但是，如果人工智能可以取代脑力工作，并为我们解决道德问题呢？Ask Delphi是一个机器人，它已学习了人们对各类日常问题和场景应用的道德判断标准，学习的数据样本超过170万个。如果你提出一个道德方面的难题，它会告诉你这件事是对的、错的还是站不住脚的。
Anyone can use Delphi. Users just put a question to the bot on its website, and see what it comes up with. The AI is fed a vast number of scenarios – including ones from the popular Am I The Asshole sub-Reddit, where Reddit users post dilemmas from their personal lives and get an audience to judge who the asshole in the situation was.
任何人都可以使用Delphi。用户只需在机器人网站上向它提问，看看它会给出什么答案。人工智能会学习海量的应用场景，包括红迪网热门版块“我是混蛋吗？”里的各种场景，红迪网用户一般在这个版块上发布个人生活中遇到的难题，然后让其他网友们来判断在该情况下谁是混蛋。
Then, people are recruited from Mechanical Turk – a market place where researchers find paid participants for studies – to say whether they agree with the AI’s answers. Each answer is put to three arbiters, with the majority or average conclusion used to decide right from wrong. The process is selective – participants have to score well on a test to qualify to be a moral arbiter, and the researchers don’t recruit people who show signs of racism or sexism.
另外，研究人员在机械特克（Mechanical Turk）的平台招募参与者，看他们的答案是否与人工智能的答案一致。机械特克是一个供研究人员寻找付费参与者的平台。每个答案都会交给三名仲裁员，以多数或中立意见来进行是非裁决。这个过程是有选择性的，参与者必须在测试中获得高分，才有资格成为道德仲裁者，而且研究人员不会招募那些有种族歧视或性别歧视迹象的人。
