Chapter 5

5 I WAS JUST ABOUT TO COME GET YOU," SAYS GRAMPA AL. "DID YOU SPACE out and forget what you went in the lab to get?" Frank, standing empty-handed in the kitchen doorway, smiles. "Toaster? Appliance that converts electrical energy into heat? Aluminum piece about this big?" Grampa Al teases Frank. "Ah, don't worry about it. We can find it later. Listen, I

我正要来接你，”爷爷说。 “你是不是走神了，忘了去实验室拿什么？”弗兰克空手站在厨房门口，笑了。 “烤面包机?把电能转换成热能的器具？ 铝片有这么大吗？”爷爷逗弗兰克。 “啊，别担心。 我们可以稍后再找。听着,我

have to drive the truck over to the other side of town and pick up some stuff from the old factory getting shut down. Idiots are dumping perfectly beautiful machines I'd like to save. Can you and your pal Watson man the shop for the morning while I'm gone?" "Oh, sure," says Frank, still smiling. "And I did forget the toaster. But you are never going to believe what I found." "My truck keys?" guesses Grampa Al, shuffling around the kitchen, patting his baggy sweater pockets, looking around for his lost keys. "The missing remote?" "No... and no," says Frank. "Let me introduce you to..." Frank steps out of the doorway and waves a hand toward Klink and Klank. Grampa Al finishes his coffee in a quick gulp. "Hmm, that's great, Frank. But I don't really need the Shop-Vac or the trash can right now. What I need are my keys."

我得把卡车开到镇子的另一边去从关闭的老工厂拿点东西回来。 白痴们把我想保存的漂亮机器扔了。 上午我不在的时候，你和你的朋友华生能照看一下商店吗？”“哦，当然，”弗兰克说，仍然微笑着。 “我确实忘了带烤面包机。 但你绝对不会相信我发现了什么。” “我的卡车钥匙？”爷爷猜想着，在厨房里拖着脚步，拍着宽松的毛衣口袋，四处寻找丢失的钥匙。 “丢失的遥控器？”“不… 不，”弗兰克说。“让我把你介绍给……” 弗兰克走出门口，向克林克和克兰克挥挥手。 爷爷一饮而尽咖啡。 “嗯，太好了，弗兰克。 但我现在真的不需要吸尘器或垃圾桶。 我需要的是钥匙。”

The Shop-Vac's webcam eye dilates open and scans the kitchen. "Keys are hanging from the nucleus of the carbon-atom model." "Ha! So they are," says Grampa Al, lifting his truck keys off the lamp. "Put them right in the heart of carbon so I wouldn't forget. Thanks—" Grampa Al freezes, then slowly looks back. "Whaaaaa? Did I just—? Did you just—? Did the Shop-Vac just—?" Frank laughs at Grampa Al's shocked look. "Yes! He did. Grampa Al, meet Klink— Einstein Laboratories' first self-assembled artificial intelligence." Klink wheels into the kitchen and shakes Grampa Al's hand. "Very pleased to meet you, Mr. Einstein. Your E = mc squared is most perceptive." Grampa Al holds his head in both hands, his eyes open wide in surprise. "Wow! Wow.

Shop-Vac的摄像头眼睛放大，扫描厨房。 “关键就在碳原子模型的原子核上。” “哈!爷爷说着，把卡车钥匙从灯上拿了下来。 “把它们放在碳的中心，这样我就不会忘记。 谢谢——”阿尔爷爷僵住了，然后慢慢地回头看。 “Whaaaaa ?我刚才是不是——？你刚才是——？ 商店吸尘器刚才——？”看到爷爷震惊的表情，弗兰克笑了。 “是啊!他做到了。ai爷爷，来见见Klink——爱因斯坦实验室的第一个自组装人工智能。” link转着车走进厨房，握着爷爷的手。 “很高兴见到你，爱因斯坦先生。 你的E = mc²是最有洞察力的。” 阿尔爷爷双手抱头，惊讶地睁大了眼睛。 “哇!哇。

Wow. Wow. Are you kidding me?" Klink turns his glass-dome head. "Do I look like I am kidding you?" "Frank, you did it! You made your thinking robot!" "Well, not exactly," says Frank. "It made itself. A stray spark triggered everything. But Klink here is a neural-net, self-teaching, thinking robot." Grampa Al bends down to check out Klink. "Very nice to meet you, Mr. Klink. I have to tell you, I am not that Einstein. But over the years I have dabbled in a bit of physics." Klank clomps suddenly into the room, wrapping both Grampa Al and Klink in a big aluminum-hose hug. "Me too! Me too!" says Klank. "Love Al Einstein! Love matter changed to energy!" "What the—?" says Grampa Al, almost

哇。哇。你在开玩笑吧？”克林克转了转他的玻璃圆顶头。 “我看起来像在跟你开玩笑吗？”“弗兰克，你做到了！你制造了一个会思考的机器人！”“嗯，不完全是，”弗兰克说。 “它自己造的。星星之火触发了一切。 但Klink是一个神经网络、自学、会思考的机器人。” 阿尔爷爷弯下腰去看看克林克。 “很高兴见到你，克林克先生。 我得告诉你，我不是那个爱因斯坦。 但这些年来，我涉猎了一些物理学。” 克兰克突然噔噔地走进房间，把阿尔爷爷和克林克紧紧地搂在一起。 “我也是!我也是！”克兰克说。 爱你的爱因斯坦！爱的物质变成了能量！”“这是怎么回事？”阿尔爷爷几乎说

falling over. "That's Klank," says Frank. "More self- assembled artificial intelligence." "Amazing," says Grampa Al, still wrapped in Klank's enthusiastic hug. "And they get smarter and smarter by teaching themselves?" "One of us does," says Klink. "Klank, stop hugging!" "Um-beep-beep, um-beep-beep," answers Klank happily in a POLKA 3 beat, unwrapping his arms from Klink and Grampa Al. Klink reaches into his storage compartment. He pulls out the toaster pieces and calls up a repair diagram.

跌倒。“那是克兰克，”弗兰克说。 “更多的自组装人工智能。” “太棒了，”阿尔爷爷说，仍然沉浸在克兰克热情的拥抱中。 “他们通过自学变得越来越聪明吗？”“我们中的一个知道，”Klink说。 “克兰克，别抱了！”“嗯-哔-哔，嗯-哔-哔，”克兰克在波尔卡3的节拍中开心地回答道，同时从克林克和阿尔爷爷身上伸开双臂。 克林克把手伸进他的储物间。 他拿出烤面包机的零件，调出修理图。