厲害了人工智能！看眼睛就能判斷性格

當代的人工智能已經很發達，但是因爲缺少“第六感”，所以無法看透人心，也就不能和人類進行深層次的“交流”。日前一個跨國研究團隊發現，人工智能可以通過眼球運動判斷人的性格，這意味着機器人看透人心的那一天不遠了。

Eyes really do tell a story.

眼睛確實會說話。

Using machine learning, earlier this year scientists discovered a connection between people's personalities and their eye movements. They then deployed artificial intelligence to track and analyze the eye movements of 42 students. They announced the results last week.

今年早些時候，科學家藉助機器學習法發現了人的性格和眼球運動之間的關聯，之後科學家用人工智能追蹤和分析了42名學生的眼球運動，上週他們宣佈了結果。

The new technology can detect four of the "Big Five" basic personality traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extroversion, and neuroticism. It could not judge openness to experience.

這項新技術可以識別出五大基本人格特質當中的四種：隨和型、盡責型、外向型和神經質型，但不能判斷出開放型人格。

The good news, according to one of the researchers, is that this finding could improve how humans and machines interact. If the machine can interpret what a person is like, the thought is, it can act accordingly.

一名研究人員指出，好消息是，這一發現能夠增進人和電腦間的互動。如果電腦能解讀一個人的性格和想法，那它就能據此採取相應行動。

"People are always looking for improved, personalized services," said University of South Australia senior lecturer Tobias Loetscher, who served as the lead researcher of the global team — which also included the University of Stuttgart, Flinders University, and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany — that worked on this study.

這個跨國研究團隊的首席研究員、南澳大學的高級講師托比亞斯·勒切爾說：“人們總是在尋求完善的個性化服務。”該研究團隊還包括斯圖加特大學、福林德斯大學、德國麥克斯·普朗克信息學研究所的科學家。

"However, today's robots and computers are not socially aware, so they cannot adapt to non-verbal cues. This research provides opportunities to develop robots and computers so that they can become more natural, and better at interpreting human social signals."

勒切爾說：“然而，現在的機器人和計算機沒有社交意識，所以不能適應非言語提示。這項研究提供了一個改良機器人和計算機的機會，讓它們變得更自然，更善於解讀人類的社交信號。”

On the more negative side, this discovery also screams of privacy implications. Targeted advertising could be taken to a whole new level, and websites would have uncomfortably personal information of its visitors.

消極的一面是，這一發現有侵犯隱私之嫌。定向廣告可能會全面升級，網站將會得到瀏覽者極爲私密的個人信息。

Here are some personality traits related to eye movements. Which one are you?

來看看不同眼球運動對應的都是什麼人格特質吧。你屬於哪一種呢？

Curious: look around more

好奇型：四處看的頻率更高

Open-minded: stare at abstract images for longer periods of time

開放型：盯着抽象圖片的時間更長

Neurotic: blink faster

神經質型：眨眼更快

More conscientiousness: have greater pupil size changes

盡責型：瞳孔更頻繁地擴大縮小

Optimistic: spend less time looking at negative emotional things

樂觀型：花更少時間看消極的情緒化的內容

Watch where you look, kids!

小毛孩，眼睛不要亂看哦！