電腦也會欣賞風景並進行打分評估雙語美文

What sort of scenery do you find most appealing? Researchers in the U.K. asked volunteers that question, through an online photo-rating game, and the result was sort of what you’d expect. "Beautiful mountains, abundant greenery, beautiful water features like lakes and oceans." Chanuki Seresinhe, a data scientist at the Warwick Business School.

你覺得什麼樣的風景最吸引人?英國的研究人員通過在線照片評估遊戲向志願者提出了這一問題，結果可能跟你想的一樣。“美麗的山巒，繁茂的植被，湖泊和海洋等美麗的水景。”華威商學院的數據科學家查努基.謝瑞新和說道。

She says the more surprising finding was that human-built structures—churches and towers and cottages—could enhance the perception of the beauty of a scene. And big expanses of green grass—like athletic fields—didn’t actually rate that highly.

她說，更令人驚訝的`發現是，人造建築——教堂、塔樓和別墅——可以增強人們對美景的感知。而像體育場裏那種大片的綠色草地，實際上並沒有得到很高的評價。

What they did next is where the data science comes in: They fed a computer 160,000 photographs rated through the online game. And they taught the machine to break each image into the scenic elements it contained. Snowy mountains, waterfalls, crosswalks and construction sites.

然後，他們向計算機提出了一個挑戰：他們要求它評估以前從未見過的其他風景照片。事實上，它在評估人們普遍欣賞的美景方面做得相當不錯。這項研究發表在《皇家學會開放科學》雜誌上。

As smart as it is, the scenery-loving computer probably won’t be putting tour guides out of business. "Actually I think it can help tour guides. I think it can actually maybe uncover places we didn’t know about that might have not been that popular.”

不過，雖然計算機聰明得可以欣賞美景了，但它還不至於讓導遊失業。“實際上，我認爲計算機可以幫助導遊。我想它或許會發現一些尚不爲人知、還未大受歡迎的美景。”

And Seresinhe says the system might also help city planners more objectively evaluate the scenic beauty of new urban developments. "We can also now look at how to design cities that people find more beautiful, and people might want to actually spend more time in."

謝瑞新和說道，該系統還可以幫助城市規劃者更客觀地評估新城市發展的風景規劃。“我們現在還可以研究如何利用計算機設計出讓人感覺更漂亮、願意花更多時間生活在裏面的城市。”

Assuming, that is, the computer doesn’t become truly intelligent… and, like humans, starts spitting out subjective opinions entirely its own.

假設計算機並非變得真正的智能化……而是開始像人類一樣能夠吐露完全屬於自己的主觀意見了。