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Well, of course, we're primed by science fiction and pop culture to really want to personify these things,
不可否認，我們都被科幻小說及流行文化所影響，想要將這些東西擬人化，
but it goes a little bit deeper than that.
但真實情況還有著更深層的含義。
It turns out that we're biologically hardwired to project intent and life onto any movement in our physical space that seems autonomous to us.
事實表明，我們天生就具有將意圖和生活投射到物理空間中，在我們看來能自主行動的任何運動物體上。
So people will treat all sorts of robots like they're alive.
所以人們像對待活物一樣對待各種各樣的機器人。
These bomb-disposal units get names.
這些拆彈機器人有自己的名字。
They get medals of honor. They've had funerals for them with gun salutes.
它們能獲得榮譽勛章。人們為它們舉行了葬禮，并用禮炮向它們致敬。
And research shows that we do this even with very simple household robots, like the Roomba vacuum cleaner.
研究還發現，我們即便對非常簡單的家居機器人也會這樣，比如Roomba吸塵器。
It's just a disc that roams around your floor to clean it,
它只是一個在你地板上通過旋轉進行清理的圓盤，
but just the fact it's moving around on its own will cause people to name the Roomba
但僅僅因為它能夠自己移動，就會導致人們想要給Roomba取名，
and feel bad for the Roomba when it gets stuck under the couch.
當它卡在沙發下時，還會替它感到難過。
And we can design robots specifically to evoke this response,
我們可以專門設計機器人來喚起這種反應，
using eyes and faces or movements that people automatically, subconsciously associate with states of mind.
使用諸如眼睛、面孔或動作，這些人們自動地在潛意識中與心智狀態相聯系的特征。
And there's an entire body of research called human-robot interaction that really shows how well this works.
這一整套叫做人機交互的研究顯示了這個方法的效果的確非常好。
So for example, researchers at Stanford University found out that
比如，在斯坦福大學的研究者發現，
it makes people really uncomfortable when you ask them to touch a robot's private parts.
當你叫人們觸摸機器人的私處時，他們會感到很不舒服。
So from this, but from many other studies,
從這個以及更多其他研究中，
we know, we know that people respond to the cues given to them by these lifelike machines, even if they know that they're not real.
我們知道，人們會對這些栩栩如生的機器給他們的線索做出反應，即使他們知道它們只是機器。
