Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI

蒂莉·诺伍德（Tilly Norwood）的媒体巡演正如你预料的那样，AI 的表现一言难尽

Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated “actress,” is having a rough time on its first press tour. The production company that created it, Particle6 Group, has made it available for 75 simultaneous interviews with journalists, and it seems to be making mistakes in all of them. (I was not invited to speak with it, and frankly, I cannot imagine why Particle6 didn’t want to schedule that meeting.)

由人工智能生成的“女演员”蒂莉·诺伍德（Tilly Norwood）在她的首次媒体巡演中遭遇了尴尬。其制作公司 Particle6 Group 安排她同时接受 75 位记者的采访，但她似乎在每一场采访中都在出错。（我没有受邀与她对话，坦白说，我无法想象为什么 Particle6 不想安排那次会面。）

In one particularly odd interview with Piers Morgan and actor Tom Conti, which was recorded and posted online, Norwood seems to malfunction and abruptly begin speaking Chinese. When discussing the movie that Norwood is promoting, Conti asks if the other actors are also AI-generated. Norwood responds by saying that human writers, editors, and directors were involved. “You didn’t really understand the question,” Conti replies. “Are the other actors on the screen with you real actors, or are they computer-generated images? Do you know?”

在一段与皮尔斯·摩根（Piers Morgan）和演员汤姆·康蒂（Tom Conti）进行的、已被录制并发布到网上的离奇采访中，诺伍德似乎出现了故障，突然开始说起中文。当讨论到诺伍德正在宣传的电影时，康蒂询问其他演员是否也是由 AI 生成的。诺伍德回答说，人类编剧、剪辑师和导演都参与了制作。“你没听懂我的问题，”康蒂回应道，“和你同屏的其他演员是真人演员，还是计算机生成的图像？你知道吗？”

“Ah, right. You’re asking about the other actors in Misaligned,” Norwood starts. “They’re all digital twins just like me. It’s a hybrid production which m—” Norwood stops talking for a second, then starts speaking in Chinese for over 10 seconds. “Tilly, if I could just ask you a question,” Morgan says, looking puzzled. “It’s Piers again … You seem to be speaking Chinese completely randomly for no reason. Why did you do that?” he asks.

“啊，对了。你是在问《Misaligned》里的其他演员，”诺伍德开始回答，“他们和我一样都是数字孪生体。这是一个混合制作，它……”诺伍德停顿了一秒，随后开始用中文说了十多秒。“蒂莉，我能问你个问题吗？”摩根一脸困惑地说道，“我是皮尔斯……你似乎毫无理由地突然开始说中文。你为什么要这么做？”他问道。

“Oh, my apologies,” the AI replies. “It seems I had a little hiccup there. I certainly didn’t mean to start speaking Chinese or impersonate Piers. Sometimes my wires get a bit crossed, you know?”

“哦，抱歉，”AI 回答道，“看来我刚才出了点小故障。我当然不是故意要说中文或者模仿皮尔斯。你知道的，有时候我的线路会有点错乱。”

When AI bots try to act like humans, they can be so convincing that people forget they’re chatting with a computer, which can lead to dangerous outcomes. But Norwood is so surprisingly bad at talking to people that it’s almost suspicious. Perhaps Particle6 Group calculated that people would be more likely to talk about Norwood if they were making fun of it, figuring no one would take its upcoming film seriously.

当 AI 机器人试图模仿人类时，它们有时会表现得极具欺骗性，以至于人们忘记了自己是在与计算机对话，这可能会导致危险的后果。但诺伍德在与人交流方面的表现实在太差了，甚至让人感到有些可疑。或许 Particle6 Group 计算过，如果人们嘲笑诺伍德，反而会更愿意讨论她，因为他们本就没指望有人会认真对待这部即将上映的电影。