【双语学习】机器人时代下的我们何去何从？

数字时代下，我们的生活也在发生着日新月异的变化。不知何时起，扫地机器人、全自动家居控制系统已经为我们的生活带来极大的便利，机器人的作用早已不可同日而语。在大数据和人工智能时代之下，我们人类会面临怎样的挑战？我们的工作又是否会发生极大的变化呢？

如果你在做一项单调而又乏味的工作，你可能会认为机器人完全可以代替你做这项工作。但是，也许我们低估了现有技术，实际上我们的生活中已经有很多工作是机器人在做，只不过我们不知道而已。随着人工智能的发展，我们可能在未来某一天发现它已经完全取代了我们在职场中的位置。

目前，机器人更多应用在一些低成本人力工作上，为企业提供帮助，最典型的例子便是制造业，它能帮助人类更有效、准确地完成工作。例如，在网上购物时，机器人已经成为巨大仓库中的必需品。如果全靠人工来搬运货物，成本将十分巨大。但有了机器人，它们能对数百万不同形状和大小的物体进行分类和移动，虽然最后还是需要人来确认挑选和分配这些物品。

机器人在职场中的不断进化对那些研究、开发、建造和使用它们的人更加有利。英国政府估计，到2035年，人工智能可能为英国经济增加约6300亿英镑的收入。但机器人仍有一些无法完成的任务，这是Automata等公司面临的挑战。该公司的联合创始人Suryansh Chandra告诉BBC，他的技术将代替人类做一些我们不喜欢和不擅长的枯燥、重复的工作，并为我们创造新的工作。

机器人最终将能够完成越来越多目前由人类完成的工作，这似乎是不可避免的。我们应该为机器人的崛起感到担忧吗?一些专家担心，随着机器人取代人类，成千上万的工作岗位可能会消失。经合组织(OECD)的一份报告显示，14%的工作“面临高度自动化的风险”，32%的工作可能“彻底转变”，其中制造业面临的风险最大。但由于机器人实现完全自动化还有一段路要走，在他们学会把我们踢出门外之前，我们还是要想尽一切办法与他们和睦相处！

【原文出处】CHINA DAILY

【原文】

If you're in a job performing tedious tasks, you might think that a robot could do the work instead. But perhaps we underestimate how much technology already helps with the activities that we would otherwise have to do. And as artificial intelligence progresses we might find it replaces us in the workplace altogether.

For now, robotic technology is providing a helping hand for businesses, particularly in manufacturing, assisting humans in performing work more efficiently and sometimes more accurately. For online shopping, for example, robots have become essential in giant warehouses. They sort and move millions of objects of all different shapes and sizes, although humans are still needed to pick and distribute the goods.

The advancement of robotics in the workplace is good for some businesses; the ones who research, develop, build and use them. The British government estimates that by 2035, artificial intelligence could add around £630bn to the UK economy. But there are still tasks that robots can't yet do, and that's the challenge for companies such as Automata. Its co-founder, Suryansh Chandra, told the BBC that his technology will eliminate boring, repetitive jobs that humans don't like and aren't very good at, and also create new ones that are likely to replace them.

It seems inevitable that robots will eventually be able to do more and more of the jobs that are currently performed by humans, so should we be worried by the rise of the machines? Some experts fear hundreds of thousands of jobs could disappear as robots replace human workers. A report by the OECD suggests that 14 percent of jobs are "at high risk of automation" and 32 percent of jobs could be "radically transformed", with the manufacturing sector at the highest risk.

But as complete automation is some way off, for now we'll have to work side-by-side with our robot colleagues — and manage to get along with them before they learn to kick us out of the door!