如果有一天，盲人能重新看见世界……_风闻

很多科幻小说电影中，经常出现这样的场景，主人公即使看不见前方的敌人却能通过电子设备识别出来。

也许，这种在科幻中的场景很快就能运用到我们生活当中。来自美国的五位高中毕业生带着自己的人工智能识别产品来到了中美创客大赛。

解读中国工作室将推出“2018中美青年创客”系列短纪录片，带你到现场一起深入感受中美青年创客精神！今天推出第三集《“盲视”，让你重新看见世界》。

第三集《“盲视”，让你重新看见世界》

Blindsight（盲视）是他们小组的名字，队里的负责人杰维·辛格告诉小编，之所以取这个名字的用意就是希望通过他们的产品，能让盲人重新看见世界。

那么他们是怎么做到的呢？

杰西是这样说的：“人工智能现在应用十分广泛，在我们的程序上尤其如此。我们用人工智能来帮助用户识别物体，比如识别一杯水。如果盲人站在了一杯水面前，我们能帮助他意识到他面前有一杯水。”

Well obviously AI is everywhere now, and especially in our app where we use AI to help recognize objects, like we can identify, for example, a cup of water. If a blind person is standing in front of a cup of water, we can help that blind person realize that that’s what’s in front of them.

小伙伴们是不是很激动，想看一看这设备到底长啥样？

这不，就有一个外国小帅哥过来试戴了。

小组队长对他讲解道：“我们的设备由一个计算机的中央盒子和像这样放在你手臂上的手臂带组成。手臂带内装有电动机，计算机和内部摄像头。计算机能通过你的手机响应。当你对着手机说：“嘿，克里斯蒂“，设备会开始工作并使用摄像头拍照。相机能看到周围的世界，并了解正在发生的事情。然后计算机会在耳边告诉他们：“这是一部个人电话。这是一瓶水。””

Our device is composed of a central box from the computer and an arm band that goes on your arm like this. The arm band has motors inside it and its computer and a camera inside this device. The computer is able to respond to your phone. When you say ‘Hey Christy’ into your phone, the cleaner works on and starts taking a picture with the camera. The camera will see the world around the person and figure what’s going on. Then the computer will tell the person in their ear ‘This is a personal phone. This is a water bottle.’

不得不说，如果这个产品投入到市场，或许真的会给盲人及视觉受损人群带来很大的便利。

那这小组的产品有没有晋级呢？

看看这位小哥的反应就知道了——“我当时都不知道发生了什么？ 我做错了什么？这就是我对于刚刚演讲的感受。我们希望能赢。不过，讲真，我真的很紧张。我应该再喝点红牛。我有些疲惫。”

I was like, what’s happening, what am I doing wrong? That’s how I feel about the presentation. Well we expect to win. But like seriously, I was really nervous. I don’t think I have enough Red Bull. Nonempty, I was kind of tired as well.

想必小伙伴们也明白了，很遗憾他们没进入决赛。但是对他们来说，能跟来自世界各地的顶尖年轻人才互相交流学习，已经是非常棒的经历了！

队长说道：“我们来到这次青年创客大赛，最重要的就是想要借此机会认识一些世界各地最有智慧的人。这真的是个很棒的活动，将中美两国的顶尖人才聚在了一起。我们很感激有这个机会认识大家，了解他们的好点子和创意过程。我觉得中国和美国之间的良好关系真的非常重要，因为很多新技术都是在这两个国家的公司中最先研发出来的。美国常常是软件技术发展的最前沿，但中国却有着最好的硬件设备，并通过最严谨、最合适的方式将技术应用于现实。所以只有当这两个国家合作的时候才能实现最好的技术和创新。所以我想如果我们两国之间的关系能够更好的话，对整个世界来说都是一件好事。我们两国应当友好相待，共同努力将这个世界变得更加美好。”

So while we are at this Young Maker Competition, we mostly came here to have the opportunity to meet some of the best people with the brightest minds from across the world. This is obviously a very great event to have the top minds of China and the United States coming together in one building. And we appreciate the opportunity to network and meet these people, understand their great ideas and their creative processes. I think that a good relationship between China and the US is very important because a lot of new technologies are designed and published in these two companies. The United States is often the forefront of technology development in software and ideas but China has some of the best hardware implementation and the best, rigidest and great actual technologies and bring them to life. So the best technologies and the best innovations they can only happen with the partnership between these two countries. And I think it’s to the benefit of everybody including the whole world if we can get a better relationship between these two countries and making sure that we are treating each other as friends and working together to make this world a better place.

虽然没能进入决赛，但小编仍要为他们点赞。敢于创新，勇于实践，这才是新时代的创客精神！