马斯克败诉

近日，美国加州法院陪审团裁定马斯克针对OpenAI的“世纪诉讼”败诉。此前，马斯克指控OpenAI创始人奥尔特曼和布罗克曼将非营利组织转为营利实体，违背“造福人类”的创立使命，要求赔偿1500亿美元，并恢复OpenAI非营利性质。

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🤔️小作业：

1. According to the article, what was the jury's reason for dismissing Elon Musk's lawsuit?

A. The court lacked jurisdiction over the case.

B. The arguments presented by Musk were not convincing.

C. The legal time limit for filing the lawsuit had expired.

D. The case was considered a private dispute between oligarchs.

无注释原文：

After Elon Musk's Court Loss Comes the Long Hot A.I. Summer

From: The New York Times

Elon Musk lost his bid to derail OpenAI. Few will feel sorry for him.

Unless you are a corporate chieftain or a venture capitalist, you might want to take a moment, however, to feel sorry for yourself. The juggernaut of artificial intelligence bearing down on the world is probably not your friend.

If you are a clerk, a programmer, an administrator, a writer, an entry-level knowledge worker of any sort, you have already been warned that A.I. might replace you. Even if those worries prove overblown in the short term, the new technology could push down incomes.

The speedy collapse of Mr. Musk's legal case on Monday will not slow down the juggernaut. If anything, it will speed up. With rising emotions around the country, this could be a long, hot A.I. summer.

A.I. critics dismissed the three-week trial in federal court in Oakland, Calif., as a power struggle between oligarchs that was of little concern to the masses. But it was also a rare glimpse into the seething maw of Silicon Valley as it makes a bid to transform, and possibly take over, the world.

As the A.I. industry likes to remind us, the stakes could not be higher. “The worst-case situation,” Mr. Musk pointed out in his trial testimony, is one where A.I. will “kill us all.”

Mr. Musk was undoubtedly seeking to benefit Elon Musk in his pursuit of OpenAI, the leading A.I. company, and its chief executive, Sam Altman. Mr. Musk, 54, argued that OpenAI was trying to make as much money as possible from the beginning, a violation of its self-proclaimed mission as a charity putting humanity first.

Was A.I. fundamentally a bait and switch? It's a question that was emphatically worth asking. It would have been nice to have a court ruling that provided a definitive answer.

“The fundamental issue still stands,” said Oren Etzioni, a veteran A.I. researcher who was the founding chief executive of the Allen Institute for A.I., a nonprofit. “Can a nonprofit of any kind become a for-profit willy-nilly?”

The nine men and women of the jury did not consider the merits of Mr. Musk's argument but decided the statute of limitations meant his lawsuit could not proceed.

“The A.I. trial of the century ends with a whimper,” wrote Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist who is a prominent critic of A.I. companies. “And so there are some things we will never know.”

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为纽约时报官方译文，仅供参考

含注释全文：

After Elon Musk's Court Loss Comes the Long Hot A.I. Summer

From: The New York Times

Elon Musk lost his bid to derail OpenAI. Few will feel sorry for him.

埃隆·马斯克试图阻止OpenAI的努力失败。很少有人会为他感到遗憾。

bid /bɪd/ 作名词，1）可表示“努力争取；努力；竞争；努力尝试；企图得到”，英文解释为“A bid for something or a bid to do something is an attempt to obtain it or do it. An effort to do sth or to obtain sth”如：a bid for power 权力之争，举个🌰：Her bid for re-election was unsuccessful. 她争取连任的努力没有成功。

📍2001年7月13日北京申奥成功，就是won the bid in 2001. 申奥，奥运会申办，the bid for the Olympic Games. 竞选总统（白宫），说的是the bid for the White House.

2）表示“买方的出价”，英文解释为“an offer by a person or a business company to pay a particular amount of money for sth”举个🌰：Granada mounted a hostile takeover bid for Forte. 格兰纳达公司向福特公司出价进行敌意收购。

3）表示“投标”，英文解释为“an offer to do work or provide a service for a particular price, in competition with other companies, etc.”举个🌰：The company submitted a bid for the contract to clean the hospital. 该公司投标承包这所医院的清洁工作。

4）作动词，表示“打招呼，致意；请求”，英文解释为“to give a greeting to someone, or to ask someone to do something”举个🌰：I must now bid you farewell (= say goodbye to you). 我现在必须向您道别了。

derail /dɪˈreɪl/ 1）表示“打乱（原定计划）；阻挠”，英文解释为“To derail something such as a plan or a series of negotiations means to prevent it from continuing as planned.”举个🌰：Renewed fighting threatens to derail the peace talks. 重燃的战火对和谈构成了威胁。

2）表示“脱轨”，英文解释为“If a train is derailed or if it derails, it comes off the track on which it is running.”举个🌰：At least two people were killed when a train was derailed in an isolated mountain region. 火车在一片偏僻的山区脱轨，导致至少两人死亡。

📺美剧《24小时》（24）第八季中的台词提到：but the allegations alone could derail the peace process. 但光这谣言就能破坏和谈进程。

🎬电影《超级8》（Super 8）第八季中的台词提到：How could a pick-up truck derail a train? That's impossible. 一辆卡车怎么能让整个火车脱轨 不可能啊。

Unless you are a corporate chieftain or a venture capitalist, you might want to take a moment, however, to feel sorry for yourself. The juggernaut of artificial intelligence bearing down on the world is probably not your friend.

但如果你不是企业高管或风险投资家，你或许应该花点时间为自己感到遗憾。正在向全世界压来的这台人工智能巨无霸很可能并不是你的朋友。

chieftain /ˈtʃiːf.tən/ 表示“（部落）酋长，首领”，英文解释为“the leader of a tribe”

venture capitalist /ˈven.tʃə ˌkæp.ɪ.təl.ɪst/ 表示“风险资本家；投机资本家”，英文解释为“a person or company that invests money (= gives or lends it in order to make a profit) in new companies, especially when this involves risk”举个🌰：Many biotech companies are small start-ups, backed by venture capitalists. 许多生物技术公司是得到风险资本家支持的小型初创企业。

juggernaut /ˈdʒʌɡ.ə.nɔːt/ 1）表示“重型货车”，英文解释为“a very large, heavy truck”举个🌰：The peace of the village has been shattered by juggernauts thundering through it. 轰隆隆开过的重型卡车打破了村庄的平静。

2）表示“不可抗拒的强大力量（或组织）”，英文解释为“a large powerful force or organization that cannot be stopped”

If you are a clerk, a programmer, an administrator, a writer, an entry-level knowledge worker of any sort, you have already been warned that A.I. might replace you. Even if those worries prove overblown in the short term, the new technology could push down incomes.

如果你是一名文员、程序员、行政人员、作家，或任何初级知识工作者，你早已被警告说人工智能可能会取代你。即使这些担忧在短期内被证明言过其实，这项新技术也可能压低收入。

overblown /ˌəʊ.vəˈbləʊn/ 表示“夸张的；过分渲染的”，英文解释为“bigger or more important or impressive than it should be”如：an overblown news story 过分渲染的新闻报道。

The speedy collapse of Mr. Musk's legal case on Monday will not slow down the juggernaut. If anything, it will speed up. With rising emotions around the country, this could be a long, hot A.I. summer.

马斯克的诉讼在周一的迅速崩溃不会减缓这台巨无霸的前进速度。如果有什么影响的话，它只会加速。随着全国情绪不断高涨，这可能将是一个漫长而炎热的人工智能之夏。

A.I. critics dismissed the three-week trial in federal court in Oakland, Calif., as a power struggle between oligarchs that was of little concern to the masses. But it was also a rare glimpse into the seething maw of Silicon Valley as it makes a bid to transform, and possibly take over, the world.

人工智能批评者将这场在加州奥克兰联邦法院进行的为期三周的审判斥为寡头之间的权力斗争，与普通民众无关。但它也罕见地让我们一窥硅谷的血盆大口——它正试图改造世界，并可能接管世界。

dismiss /dɪˈsmɪs/ 1）表示“对…不予理会，摒弃，（从头脑中）去除”，英文解释为“to decide that something or someone is not important and not worth considering”举个🌰：I think he'd dismissed me as an idiot within five minutes of meeting me. 我认为他和我见面5分钟后就把我归入了傻瓜之列。

2）表示“解雇；免职；开除”，英文解释为“to officially remove sb from their job”举个🌰：She claims she was unfairly dismissed from her post. 她声称自己被无理免职。

3）表示“（常指法官因证据不足而）驳回，不受理”，英文解释为“When a judge dismisses a court case, he or she formally stops the trial, often because there is not enough proof that someone is guilty.”举个🌰：The defending lawyer asked that the charge against his client be dismissed. 辩护律师请求驳回对其委托人的指控。

oligarch /ˈɒl.ɪ.ɡɑː.k/ 表示“寡头政治家；寡头统治集团成员”，英文解释为“one of the people in an oligarchy”

seething /ˈsiː.ðɪŋ/ 1）表示“怒火中烧的，强压怒火的”，英文解释为“extremely angry but unable or unwilling to express it clearly”举个🌰：A feeling of seething resentment led to angry exchanges between the teams. 两支队伍都强压着怒火，这引发了他们之间的争执。

2）表示“充满，充斥(人、动物)”，英文解释为“moving quickly around in small space, or full of people doing this ”举个🌰：A seething mass of children crowded around the tables. 每张桌子周围都挤满了孩子。

1）表示“（凶猛动物的）口部，嘴巴”，英文解释为“the mouth of a fierce (= frightening) animal”如：the lion's maw 狮子的嘴。

2）表示“无底洞，深渊”，英文解释为“something that seems to surround and absorb everything near it”举个🌰：She fears that the matter will simply be swallowed up by the maw of bureaucracy. 她害怕这件事只会被官僚体制的无底洞所吞没。

As the A.I. industry likes to remind us, the stakes could not be higher. “The worst-case situation,” Mr. Musk pointed out in his trial testimony, is one where A.I. will “kill us all.”

正如人工智能行业喜欢提醒我们的那样，此案至关重要。马斯克在庭审证词中指出，“最糟糕的情况”是人工智能会“杀死我们所有人”。

testimony /ˈtes.tɪ.mən.i/ 表示“证词；证言；口供”，英文解释为“a formal written or spoken statement saying what you know to be true, usually in court”，如：a sworn testimony 宣誓证词。

📍be (a) testimony to sth 表示“清楚地证明”，英文解释为“to be clear proof of something”举个🌰：The reports are testimony to the many hours of research completed by this committee. 这些报告充分表明该委员会花了很多时间进行研究。

Mr. Musk was undoubtedly seeking to benefit Elon Musk in his pursuit of OpenAI, the leading A.I. company, and its chief executive, Sam Altman. Mr. Musk, 54, argued that OpenAI was trying to make as much money as possible from the beginning, a violation of its self-proclaimed mission as a charity putting humanity first.

马斯克无疑是在追求自身利益，他试图挑战领先的人工智能公司OpenAI及其首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼。54岁的马斯克辩称，OpenAI从一开始就试图尽可能多地赚钱，这违反了它自称的作为优先考虑人类的慈善机构的使命。

self-proclaimed /ˌself.prəˈkleɪmd/ 表示“自称的，自命的”，英文解释为“said or announced about yourself”举个🌰：He's a self-proclaimed expert on national defence. 他自称是位精通国防的专家。

Was A.I. fundamentally a bait and switch? It's a question that was emphatically worth asking. It would have been nice to have a court ruling that provided a definitive answer.

人工智能是否从根本上是在挂羊头卖狗肉？这是一个非常值得提出的问题。要是能从一份法庭裁决中得到明确答案就好了。

Bait and switch是一种商业欺诈手段，字面意思是“用诱饵吸引，再偷换成次品”。具体来说：Bait（诱饵）：商家用很低的价格、很好的质量或很吸引人的承诺来引诱顾客上钩。Switch（偷换）：当顾客决定购买或使用时，才发现实际得到的东西根本不是当初宣传的那样——可能性能差、功能受限、价格暴涨、充满限制，或者根本就是另一套东西。

emphatically /emˈfæt.ɪ.kəl.i/ 1）表示“坚决地，断然地”，英文解释为“in a forceful way”举个🌰："The violence must stop, and it will stop," he said emphatically. 他强调说：“暴力必须停止，而且会停止。”

2）表示“（对于所说的）强调地”，英文解释为“used to emphasize what you are saying”举个🌰：He most emphatically does not speak for me. 他的话绝对不能代表我。

definitive /dɪˈfɪn.ɪ.tɪv/ 1）表示“最终的，决定性的；不可更改的”，英文解释为“not able to be changed or improved”如：a definitive judgment/ruling 最终的判决。

2）表示“最佳的；最完整可靠的”，英文解释为“considered to be the best of its type”举个🌰：He's written the definitive guide to Thailand. 他写出了最完整可靠的泰国旅游指南。

“The fundamental issue still stands,” said Oren Etzioni, a veteran A.I. researcher who was the founding chief executive of the Allen Institute for A.I., a nonprofit. “Can a nonprofit of any kind become a for-profit willy-nilly?”

“根本问题依然存在，”非营利机构艾伦人工智能研究所创始首席执行官、资深人工智能研究员奥伦·埃齐奥尼说。“一个非营利组织能否随意变成营利组织？”

veteran /ˈvetərən/ 1）表示“老手，（在某方面）经验丰富的人”，英文解释为“someone who has had a lot of experience of a particular activity”，如：veteran leader/veteran journalist/actor/goalkeeper etc 资深领袖/资深记者/资深演员/经验丰富的守门员等。

2）表示“老兵，退伍军人”，英文解释为“someone who has been in the armed forces during a war”如：a Vietnam veteran 越战老兵。

willy-nilly /ˌwɪl.iˈnɪl.i/ 1）表示“不管愿不愿意；无可奈何地”，英文解释为“If something happens willy-nilly, it happens even if the people who are involved do not want it to happen.”举个🌰：Both sides were drawn, willy-nilly, into the conflict. 双方都不由自主地被卷进了冲突中。

2）表示“杂乱地；乱糟糟地”，英文解释为“without any order”举个🌰：She threw her clothes willy-nilly into a drawer. 她把她的衣服乱糟糟地扔进抽屉里。

The nine men and women of the jury did not consider the merits of Mr. Musk's argument but decided the statute of limitations meant his lawsuit could not proceed.

陪审团的九名男女成员没有考虑马斯克的论述的价值，而是裁定诉讼时效已过，他的诉讼无法继续。

statute /ˈstætʃ.uːt/ 表示“成文法；法令，法规”，英文解释为“a law that has been formally approved and written down”

区分：

📍statue /ˈstætʃ.uː/ 表示“（尤指石头或金属的）雕像，雕塑，塑像”，英文解释为“an object made from a hard material, especially stone or metal, to look like a person or animal”如：a statue of a boy 一尊男孩儿雕像。

proceed /prəˈsiːd/ 表示“（做完某事后）接着做；继续进行，继续做”，英文解释为“to do something after you have done something else”举个🌰：She sat down and proceeded to tell me about her holiday. 她坐了下来，接着告诉我有关她度假的事情。

“The A.I. trial of the century ends with a whimper,” wrote Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist who is a prominent critic of A.I. companies. “And so there are some things we will never know.”

“这场人工智能世纪审判就这样虎头蛇尾地结束了，”著名人工智能公司批评者、认知科学家加里·马库斯写道。“因此，有些事情我们永远不会知道了。”

whimper /ˈwɪm.pər/ 表示“（尤指动物因疼痛或不高兴而）呜咽，抽泣”，英文解释为“(especially of an animal) to make a series of small, weak sounds expressing pain or unhappiness”举个🌰：A half-starved dog lay in the corner, whimpering pathetically. 一条饿得半死的狗趴在角落里，可怜地呜咽着。

prominent /ˈprɒm.ɪ.nənt/ 1）表示“重要的；著名的；杰出的”，英文解释为“important or well known”举个🌰：He played a prominent part in the campaign. 他在这次运动中发挥了重要作用。

2）表示“突出的，显眼的”，英文解释为“Something that is in a prominent position can easily be seen.”举个🌰：New books are displayed in a prominent position on tables at the front of the store. 新书陈列在商店前面桌子上的一个显眼位置。

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