微软的人工智能“代理”旨在接管许多人类职责
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Microsoft is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) tool offerings to include “personal agents” which are designed to take over different human processes.
微软正在扩展其人工智能（AI）工具产品，将纳入旨在接管各种人工流程的“个人代理”。
The American software company said the new offerings are designed to help users complete certain business activities with little or no human involvement.
这家美国软件公司表示，这些新产品旨在帮助用户在人很少或无人参与的情况下完成某些业务活动。
The agents are expected to be offered to some users starting in the coming weeks.
预计未来几周将开始向部分用户提供这些代理。
A full release is expected sometime next year.
预计明年某个时候会全面发布。
Microsoft has said its agents are designed to expand on so-called chatbots.
微软表示，其代理程序旨在对所谓的聊天机器人进行扩展。
A chatbot is an AI tool that can work by itself to produce human-level writing or discussion.
聊天机器人是一种人工智能工具，它可以自行运作，生成达到人类水平的文字或讨论。
Such systems – also known as generative AI – can also produce images and videos based on short text descriptions.
这类系统——也被称为生成式人工智能——还能根据简短的文字描述生成图像和视频。
While chatbots perform some functions on their own, they also depend heavily on humans to operate and guide them.
虽然聊天机器人能自行执行一些功能，但它们也严重依赖人类来操作和引导。
The idea behind AI agents is to give them the ability to take over whole business processes with little or no guidance from people.
AI代理背后的理念是赋予它们能力，使其在极少或无需人工指导的情况下接管整个业务流程。
In a statement last month, Microsoft said it was preparing for a world where every organization would have a collection of AI agents to perform different business activities.
微软在上个月的一份声明中表示，它正在为一个每个组织都将拥有一系列AI代理来执行不同业务活动的世界做准备。
In another statement issued last week, the company said the agents being developed are designed to “operate around the clock” to ease the workload of human workers.
在上周发布的另一份声明中，该公司表示，正在开发的代理程序旨在“全天候运行”，以减轻人类员工的工作负担。
Examples of agent duties include processing customer orders or returns and examining shipping records to prevent errors.
代理人职责的示例包括处理客户订单或退货，以及检查发货记录以防止出错。
Microsoft has moved quickly to offer AI technologies to everyday users of its business software products.
微软迅速采取行动，向其商业软件产品的日常用户提供人工智能技术。
The methods are largely based on models built by AI developer OpenAI, creator of the ChatGPT chatbot.
这些方法主要基于ChatGPT聊天机器人的创造者、人工智能开发商OpenAI所构建的模型。
Microsoft has invested about $13 billion in OpenAI.
微软已向OpenAI投资约130亿美元。
Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer, Jared Spataro, said the public should “think of agents as the new apps for an AI-powered world.”
微软首席营销官杰瑞德·斯帕塔罗表示，公众应“将智能体视为人工智能驱动世界中的新型应用”。
The company added that its customers will be able to use its Copilot Studio service to create their own AI agents to meet specific needs.
该公司还表示，其客户将能够使用其Copilot Studio服务创建自己的人工智能代理，以满足特定需求。
Copilot is Microsoft’s existing AI chatbot tool.
Copilot是微软现有的AI聊天机器人工具。
In addition, the company said it has introduced 10 ready-to-use agents to carry out routine business activities.
此外，该公司表示已推出10个即用型智能体，用于执行日常业务活动。
Charles Lamanna is the corporate vice president of business and industry for Copilot.
查尔斯·拉曼纳是Copilot商业与行业部门的企业副总裁。
He told Reuters news agency, "The idea is that Copilot is the user interface for AI."
他告诉路透社：“我们的想法是，Copilot 是人工智能的用户界面。”
He added, "Every employee will have a Copilot, their personalized AI agent. And then they will use that Copilot to interface and interact with the sea of AI agents that will be out there."
他补充道：“每个员工都会有一个Copilot，即他们的个性化AI代理。然后他们会使用这个Copilot与外面大量的AI代理进行对接和互动。”
In an online explanation of the AI tools, Microsoft said “instead of just assisting you, agents can work alongside you or even on your behalf.”
在关于这些AI工具的在线说明中，微软表示：“智能体不仅能为你提供协助，还能与你并肩工作，甚至代你行事。”
This could include “a range of things, from responding to customer questions to more (complex) or multistep assignments,” the company added.
该公司补充说，这可能包括“从回答客户问题到更（复杂）或多步骤任务的一系列工作”。
The abilities of AI agents remain limited for now.
目前，AI智能体的能力仍然有限。
But ongoing development of the tools has raised concerns about certain risks linked to the technology.
但工具的持续发展引发了人们对这项技术相关某些风险的担忧。
Microsoft officials have said the company had developed responsible AI guidelines to protect users from possible security or privacy problems.
微软官员表示，公司已制定了负责任的人工智能指导方针，以保护用户免受可能的安全或隐私问题的影响。
Other big technology companies also aim to develop such agents.
其他大型科技公司也致力于开发此类代理。
These include Salesforce, Nvidia, Google and Oracle.
这些公司包括Salesforce、英伟达、谷歌和甲骨文。
Industry experts have said the tools could provide companies with an easier path to earn money from the billions of dollars they are investing in AI systems.
业内专家表示，这些工具可以为企业提供一条更便捷的途径，从它们在人工智能系统上投入的数十亿美元中获利。
I’m Bryan Lynn.
我是布莱恩·林恩。
The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse and Microsoft reported this story.
美联社、路透社、法新社和微软报道了此事。
Bryan Lynn adapted the reports for VOA Learning English.
布莱恩·林恩为VOA慢速英语改编了这些报道。
