-
剑桥雅思
13Te
st1
阅读
passage3
真题
+
翻译
READING PASSAGE
3
You should spend about 20 minutes on
Questions 27-40, which are based on Reading
Passage 3 below.
Artificial
artists
人工智能艺术家
Can computers
really create works of art?
电脑真的能创作艺术吗
?
The Painting
Fool is one of a growing number of computer
programs which, so their
makers
claim,
possess
creative
talents.
Classical
music
by
an
artificial
composer
has
had
audiences enraptured, and even tricked them into
believing a human was behind the
score.
Artworks painted by a robot have sold for
thousands of dollars and been hung
in
prestigious
galleries.
And
software
has
been
built
which
creates
art
that
could
not
have
been imagined by the programmer.
傻瓜绘图和不断增多的电脑程序一
样
,
是有着创作才能的
--
至少它们的开发者如是说。
一个
智能作曲家所谱曲
的古典音乐曾让听众们极度痴迷
,
以至于坚信这些乐谱是人类所
作。
一台机器
人作画的艺术作品被卖到上千美元
,
也曾被挂进名声斐然的艺术馆。
而某些软件创作出的
艺术品
也曾让开发它的程序员们感到意外。
Human
beings
are
the
only
species
to
perform
sophisticated
creative
acts
regularly.
If we can break this process down into
computer code, where does that leave human
creativity? This is a question at the
very core of humanity,
，
says
Geraint Wiggins,
a computational
creativity researcher at Goldsmiths, University of
London. It scares
a lot of people. They
are worried that it is taking something special
away from what
it means to be human.'
人类是
唯一一个会经常创作复杂艺术作品的生物。假设我们把这个创作过程解构成电脑代
码
,
那人类的创作性又将如何自处
?
“事关人性最为核心的本质。
”
伦敦大学戈德史
密斯学院电脑
创作研究人员
Geraint
< br>Wiggins
说。
“这可吓坏了许多人。他们担心这将
会使独属于人的某种特
质从人性中分除。
”
To some extent, we are all familiar
with computerised art. The question is: where
does the work of the artist stop and
the creativity of the computer begin? Consider
one of the oldest machine artists,
Aaron, a robot that has had paintings exhibited in
London
’
s Tate
Modern and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Aaron can pick up
a
paintbrush
and
paint
on
canvas
on
its
own.
Impressive
perhaps,
but
it
is
still
little
more
than a tool to realise the
programmer
’
s own creative
ideas.
从某种程度上来说
,
我们对于电脑艺术并不陌生。问题
是
,
人类艺术和电脑创造力的分界线