B: Now, are you sure you don’t want to bring Goldie? Since we have the car and the pet-friendly hotel, we might as well just take both of them. She might be lonely at home.
A: She’s a home dog, and my friend will stop by twice a day to feed her and take her out for a walk. They get on like a house on fire. She’ll have a blast.
B: It’s just a shame she won’t get to see the sites we’ll be visiting.
Photo: Paul Cooper, Taipei Times 照片:台北時報古德謙
A: She has a habit of running off the minute you take your eyes off her. If she gets lost miles from home, I’m worried we’ll never find her again.
B: Have you thought about putting a bell around her neck? Or a flashing light for when it is dark?
A: We’ll take Cocoa. He’ll love visiting the different sites, and he’ll be as good as gold. Goldie, however, stays at home. My decision is final.
B: 你確定不要帶小黃去嗎?現在我們有車、有可以帶寵物的旅館,我們乾脆就兩隻都帶去。不然小黃自己在家大概會覺得寂寞。
A: 牠是很戀家的狗,而且我朋友每天會來餵牠、帶牠出去散步兩次。我朋友跟小黃感情很好,小黃會很愉快的。
B: 只是很可惜牠沒法跟我們一起去看看我們玩的地方。
A: 牠常常趁我們一不注意就亂跑。如果牠在離我們家很遠的地方走丟了,恐怕就再也沒辦法找回來了。
B: 你有沒有考慮在牠脖子上掛鈴鐺?或是在天黑的時候掛閃爍的燈?
A: 我們帶可可去,牠喜歡到不同的地方去,而且牠會非常乖。那小黃呢,就待在家。就這麼決定了。
(Paul Cooper, Taipei Times/台北時報林俐凱譯)
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A: Artificial intelligence technology has been causing controversy lately: a student was caught cheating with AI to win the grand prize in an art contest. B: That’s so absurd. Does this mean that AI paints better than humans? A: Maybe. Luckily, the student was later disqualified. B: And more absurdly, it’s becoming more and more popular to use AI technology to “resurrect” people. A: Yeah, some netizens even posted videos featuring the late singer CoCo Lee, who was “resurrected” by them with AI software. A: 人工智慧的爭議不斷,有學生違規使用AI參加美術展,甚至贏得首獎。 B: 真誇張,這是不是代表AI比人類還強大? A: 或許吧,幸好得獎資格被取消。 B: 還有更誇張的︰讓死者重現的「AI復活」技術越來越熱門。 A: 對啊,還有網友製作已故歌后李玟「復活」的影片呢! (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
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