Name: 【TED】肯-詹寧斯。沃森、《危情》和我，過時的知音（肯-詹寧斯：《沃森、《危情》和我，過時的知音）。 (【TED】Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all (Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:29:04.000Z
Duration: 17 min 53 s

Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton Bast

In two weeks time, that's the ninth anniversary

再過兩週，就是我首次踏上電視競賽節目

of the day I first stepped out onto that hallowed "Jeopardy" set.

And given "Jeopardy's" average demographics,

鑒於「危險邊緣」觀眾平均年歲，

is most of the people who saw me on that show are now dead.

當初看我上節目的大部分觀眾都已離世了。

Occasionally I still get recognized at the mall or whatever.

偶爾在商場等地方，我也會被人認出來。

And when I do, it's as a bit of a know-it-all.

I think that ship has sailed, it's too late for me.

我想木已成舟，我已無力改變。

For better or for worse, that's what I'm going to be known as,

是好是壞，我就是人們心裡那個，

as the guy who knew a lot of weird stuff.

I feel like that was always sort of my destiny,

although I had for many years been pretty deeply in the trivia closet.

儘管多年來我一直隱藏對百科知識的著迷。

If nothing else, you realize very quickly as a teenager,

不難料想，少年時你很快會發現，

it is not a hit with girls to know Captain Kirk's middle name.

知道卻克船長的中間名對女生而言沒有任何吸引力。

And as a result, I was sort of the deeply closeted kind of know-it-all for many years.

因此，許久我都算是個韜光養晦的「通天曉」

But if you go further back, if you look at it, it's all there.

不過若你回顧更早些年，一切不言自明。

I was the kind of kid who was always bugging Mom and Dad

with whatever great fact I had just read about --

興緻勃勃告訴他們書本中讀到的世界奇事

or the size of the world's biggest pumpkin pie or whatever it was.

或是世上最大的南瓜派有多大，諸如此類。

I now have a 10-year-old of my own who's exactly the same.

我有個十歲的孩子，和我當年一模一樣。

And I know how deeply annoying it is, so karma does work.

因此我知道那多麼煩人，所以說是因果循環。

And I loved game shows, fascinated with game shows.

我喜愛遊戲節目，為此深深著迷。

I remember crying on my first day of kindergarten back in 1979

我記得 1979 年我在上幼稚園的第一天哭了

because it had just hit me, as badly as I wanted to go to school,

因為我突然意識到，儘管我想去上學，

that I was also going to miss "Hollywood Squares" and "Family Feud."

但我會因此錯過「好萊塢廣場」和「家庭問答」

I remember running home from school every day to watch the show.

It was my favorite show, even before it paid for my house.

它是我最喜歡的節目，當時我還沒有贏得獎金。

And we lived overseas, we lived in South Korea where my dad was working,

我們當時住在韓國，我父親在那兒工作，

where there was only one English language TV channel.

and if you didn't speak Korean, that's what you were watching.

如果你不懂韓文就只能看這個臺。

So me and all my friends would run home every day and watch "Jeopardy."

我和我的夥伴們每天都會跑回家看「危險邊緣」

I was always that kind of obsessed trivia kid.

我一直都是那種沉迷於百科知識的孩子。

I remember being able to play Trivial Pursuit against my parents back in the '80s

我記得80年代和我父母玩棋盤遊戲

and holding my own, back when that was a fad.

當你知道一些父母不知道的百科知識時

when you know some bit of boomer trivia that Mom and Dad don't know.

You know some Beatles factoid that Dad didn't know.

當你知道一些爸爸都不知道的有關披頭四的傳聞時，

And you think, ah hah, knowledge really is power --

你會想，啊哈，知識果然是力量，

the right fact deployed at exactly the right place.

準確的資訊落到了對的人手裡。

who thought this was a legitimate career path,

認為這是一個可以從事的職業，

or be a professional ex-game show contestant.

或成為一個職業的前遊戲競賽選手。

I didn't try to figure out what one does with that.

沒有試著搞清楚如何發揮特長。

I studied computers because I heard that was the thing,

not an especially happy one at the time when I was first on "Jeopardy" in 2004.

2004年上節目的時候工作也不是特別開心。

And it made it doubly ironic -- my computer background --

更加諷刺的是，我的電機背景，

when I got another phone call from "Jeopardy" saying,

“現在為時尚早，但IBM告訴我們

they want to build a supercomputer to beat you at 'Jeopardy.'

他們想造一台超級電腦與你競賽。

And of course I said yes, for several reasons.

我當然一口答應了，原因有幾點：

One, because playing "Jeopardy" is a great time.

其一，我喜歡參加「危險邊緣」。

It's fun. It's the most fun you can have with your pants on.

它充滿樂趣，是你能穿著褲子做的最有樂趣的事。

but I would go back and play for Arby's coupons.

但就算給我快餐券我也願意去。

I just love "Jeopardy," and I always have.

我真心熱愛「危險邊緣」，一直都是。

And second of all, because I'm a nerdy guy and this seemed like the future.

其二，我是個書呆子，而電腦看似是未來趨勢。

was the kind of thing I always imagined would happen in the future,

我一直認為會在未來某天發生。

而現在我能和它在臺上一決高下。

is because I was pretty confident that I was going to win.

是因為我很有信心可以贏得比賽。

I had taken some artificial intelligence classes.

I knew there were no computers that could do what you need to do to win on "Jeopardy."

知道電腦不具備贏得「危險邊緣」的能力。

People don't realize how tough it is to write that kind of program

人們不知道要寫出那樣的程序有多難

that can read a "Jeopardy" clue in a natural language like English

可以聽懂英語這一種人類自然語言的遊戲提示

and understand all the double meanings, the puns, the red herrings,

The kind of thing that a three- or four-year-old human, little kid could do,

And I thought, well this is going to be child's play.

Yes, I will come destroy the computer and defend my species.

沒錯，我會打敗電腦捍衛我人類的尊嚴。

as IBM started throwing money and manpower and processor speed at this,

IBM在電腦上投入了大量的金錢、人力、高速處理器，

I started to get occasional updates from them,

and I started to get a little more worried.

I remember a journal article about this new question answering software that had a graph.

我記得一篇帶圖文章專門討論過這種答題軟體。

【TED】肯-詹寧斯。沃森、《危情》和我，過時的知音（肯-詹寧斯：《沃森、《危情》和我，過時的知音）。 (【TED】Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all (Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all))

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