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Let me show you what we've built so far. So right off the bat, you can see how this -- it got the the overall aesthetic of the scene, right. You know, everything fits well globally. It got the environment, got the background. It got the pagoda to be the tallest structure. You have these houses next to it and you have the trees behind. So all of that sounds good. 让我给你们看看我们目前构建的成果。...

I'm excited to present a new way to design 3D games with AI. Now, many of you may have used AI to produce text or images or even code, but 3D, with that extra dimension, is incredibly hard. 我很兴奋地向大家展示一种用人工智能设计3D游戏的新方式。现在，你们许多人可能已经用AI来生成文字、图像甚至是代码，但3D，由于它多了一个维度，是非常困难的。 So today, in the next few minutes, you and I are going to c...

What we see here is Vancouver, a combination of tree height data, Landsat vegetation data and information from the affordable housing district, showing the blue dots right now. What we can start to identify is patterns, things that we can see about the city that affect the way that people live in it. You can tell that the areas that have a lot of trees protect us against heat. This is heat data sh...

I'm a digital cartographer by trade, and honestly, the last two, three, four presentations have been incredible. Maps, historically, they do really two things, and we've really seen an amazing amount of the first: understanding our world. But historically, maps weren't just about understanding. They were also about creating, about building, about shaping the built environment around us. They help...

It looks like some kind of underwater ballet: two killer whales rubbing their bodies together as they move through the water. What's trickier to see in this new research footage, that was captured by scientists using drones, is a piece of kelp between the bodies of the two animals. 这种看上去就像某种水下芭蕾舞的动作其实是两只虎鲸在水中移动时一起摩擦着身体。在科学家用无人机拍摄的这段研究画面中，更...

You can't beat a holiday, but would you ever consider going away for just one day? Extreme day trips are a new trend that squeeze international adventure into just 24 hours. It might sound exhausting, but for lots of people, the appeal lies in time efficiency, budget-friendly prices and the excitement of going somewhere and doing something completely new. 没有什么能比得上一场假期，但你有...

Now these are simple things for many businesses to do, but they're very hard for creative people to do. But artist corporations will take these same capabilities and put them in the hands of the entire creative community. And creative people are already leaders and entrepreneurs. We just don't think of them that way. The painter Mike Kelley once said, "I started out an anarchist and a hippie, and...

Eventually I got so frustrated, I started a new project to help creative people release work together. It's called Metalabel. And one of the first releases was by myself and 10 other writers who'd all independently written about the same subject. So I reached out to these people who I didn't know, and I proposed a way that we would work together. We would publish our pieces together in a book, and...

So if you want to understand how challenging the future could be for creative people, just look at what's happening with musicians right now. Up until the late '90s, people either listened to music for free on the radio or by buying a physical copy to listen to at home. But then the internet happened, and now Spotify and other streaming services give us access to an infinite catalog of music. We d...

When's your next big birthday? How do you feel about that? Do you feel you need to do something spectacular to mark it? Are you excited by the prospect, or dreading the future? 你的下一个重要生日是什么时候？你对它有什么感受？你是否觉得需要做一些特别的事情来纪念这个日子？你是对它感到兴奋，还是对未来感到担忧？ We usually think of birthdays as a time to celebrate, but they can also cause stress and w...

Ballot pops up on my screen, and the ballot itself is simple and easy to use, and I go through it, I take my time, no rush. Whenever I'm ready, I hit submit. And when I hit submit, three things happen. First, my ballot is encrypted. Second, it's anonymized. Third, I get a tracking code, like if it were a FedEx package, so I can track the progress of my ballot all the way through the process. 选票...

About a decade or so ago, I helped run a lot of the campaigns around the US to legalize Uber. And I know that now when you guys think of Uber, it's this giant corporation. But back then, we were a tiny little tech startup, and taxi was this big, politically powerful industry who really didn't like us. 大约十年前，我协助推动了美国各地让 Uber 合法化的许多宣传活动。我知道现在大家一想到 Uber，就觉得它...

So let me ask you a question. How many of you do your banking, your health care on your phones? Right, of course you do. How about like, your love life, your entertainment, travel planning, all that kind of stuff? Right. How many of you vote on your phones? That's the problem. 那我问你们一个问题。你们当中有多少人是在手机上处理银行业务或健康事务的？对吧，当然是这样。那你们的恋爱、娱乐、旅行计划这些...

You listed travel as one of your passions. 你说旅行是你的兴趣之一。 Yeah. But actually my passion is airport to airport, what happens between airports. 是的。但实际上，我热爱的部分是“从一个机场到另一个机场”，也就是机场之间发生的一切。 So you like the flying then, the journey? 所以你喜欢的是飞行本身，也就是这个旅程？ Absolutely. 完全是。 What about that do you like? 那你喜欢飞行中的什么？ I love ai...

The phenomenon that many people believe is a mass psychogenic illness, with a particularly modern twist. 许多人认为这是一种群体性心因疾病，但带有鲜明的现代特征。 The thing about mass hysteria is that it's a line of sight thing, right? Part of the reason you get the symptoms is because you see somebody having the symptoms themselves. 群体癔症的关键在于"视觉传染"——你出现症状，部分原因是你亲眼目睹了...

The spread of the contagion tends to be a function of how connected the victims are to each other. So students at a small town high school, or workers on a factory floor, or even nuns in a convent. 这种"传染"的传播程度往往取决于受害者之间的关联性。比如小镇高中的学生、工厂工人，甚至修道院的修女。 In the Middle Ages, there were several cases reported in Europe in convents, including one extended cas...

I make audio documentaries, and I recently spent some time in a town called Le Roy, New York. It's a town about 50 miles outside of Buffalo. It's a small town. Its claim to fame is that it's the birthplace of Jell-O. 我制作音频纪录片，最近在纽约州一个叫勒罗伊的小镇待了一段时间。这个镇位于布法罗市外约50英里，是个小地方，最出名的是它是果冻（Jell-O）的诞生地。 There's a museum and everything. 那里甚...

Piecing together thousands of fragments of 2,000-year-old plaster has been the ultimate archaeological jigsaw puzzle, but stunning frescoes have emerged. 将数千块两千年前的灰泥碎片拼接在一起是一个终极的考古拼图挑战，不过好在这幅拼图向人们展现出了令人惊叹的壁画。 The lower wall sections are pale pink and dotted with paint to imitate marble. Above them are bright yellow panels with soft gr...

It's been named Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, which means 'Dragon Prince of Mongolia', and the University of Calgary scientists say that this species is a window into how tyrannosaurus evolved to become the powerful predators that terrorised North America and Asia until the end of the reign of the dinosaurs.  这个新物种被命名为 “蒙古汗库鲁龙”，意思是 “蒙古龙王子”。卡尔加里大学的科学家们...

Picture your dream living room. You're sitting on the sofa with the window open. What do you hear? Is it the sound of a flowing river? The murmuring of human chatter as friends enjoy a hot drink at the neighbouring cafe? A soundscape is your aural environment – everything you can hear around you, and researchers say the soundscape where you live can influence your wellbeing. 想象您梦dream以求的客...

If they find themselves in a particularly cool environment, they can enter a dormant state and survive over a year without feeding. While bedbugs can easily move around, they usually stay within 20 feet of where their human host is regularly sitting or sleeping. So new infestations are most often the result of humans accidentally transporting bugs via furniture, clothing, or other items. 如果它们...

In 1834, the British Royal Navy ship, the Chanticleer, was dealing with a terrible cockroach infestation. The ship's surgeon, however, wrote enthusiastically about the stowaways, describing them as a “most valuable insect.” Their shining characteristic? Devouring every bedbug on board. 1834年，英国皇家海军舰艇“雄鸡号”（Chanticleer）遭遇了严重的蟑螂侵扰。然而，船上的外科医生却热情洋溢地描述了这些偷...

So a final thought experiment. Imagine trying to explain your life right now to a Luddite. Better yet, just imagine trying to explain the life of some ordinary British working-class stiff whose great, great, great, something, great grandfather was out there smashing machines. And I'm not just talking about the ordinary stuff about daily living standards like indoor plumbing. I mean, indoor plumbin...

Very few people in this room have ever worried about how they were going to obtain food or shelter or heat, or how they were going to bury a child who died of diarrhea before its first birthday. Those worries are the normal condition of humanity. We escaped them only through massive chronological luck. That is a precious and totally unearned inheritance, and I think we have an obligation to pay th...

Well, I gather I'm not the only one who spends a lot of time thinking about AI these days. And by think I mean panic. 嗯，我想，最近花大量时间思考人工智能的人不止我一个。我说的“思考”指的是恐慌。 I'm not even worried about the doomsday scenarios because I have no way to assess those. I just think about what's going to happen to jobs, because even if we solve the AI safety problem, it's still going...