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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 托福阅读练习：谷歌的海马体 托福考试阅读练习：托福阅读练习：谷歌的海马体 托福考试精品课程辅导  Artificialintelligence  Google’shippocampus  Alphabethas plenty of AI expertise, so why does it need DeepMind?  人工智能  谷歌的海马体  Alphabet已拥有大量人工智能专门技术，为何还需要DeepMind?  DEEPMIND’Soffice is tucked away in a nondescript building next to London’s Kings Crosstrain station. From the outside, it doesn’t look like something that two of theworld’s most powerful technology companies, Facebook and Google, would havefought to acquire. Google won, buying DeepMind for ￡400m ($660m) in January2014. But why did it want to own a British artificial-intelligence (AI) companyin the first place? Google was already on the cutting edge of machine learningand AI, its newly trendy cousin. What value could DeepMind provide?  人工智能(以下简称AI)科技公司DeepMind的办公室藏身于伦敦国王十字火车站旁边一座不起眼的建筑物内，从外看去，完全不像是Facebook和谷歌这两大科技巨头争相收购的对象。最终，谷歌胜出，在2014年1月以4亿英镑(6.6亿美元)成功收购了DeepMind。但谷歌当初为何要收购这样一家英国AI公司呢?在机器学习及与之相近的AI技术方面，谷歌早已走在前列。DeepMind能给谷歌带来什么价值?  Thatquestion has become a little more pressing. Before October 2015 Google’sgigantic advertising revenues had cast a comfortable shade in which ambitious,zero-revenue projects like DeepMind could shelter. Then Google conjured up acorporate superstructure called Alphabet, slotting itself in as the onlyprofitable firm. For the first time, other businesses had their combinedrevenues broken out from Google’s on the balance-sheet, placing them under morescrutiny (see next article). But understanding DeepMind’s worth is not a simplefinancial question. Its value is deeper than that.  这个问题现在变得更迫切了些。2015年10月之前，谷歌的巨额广告收入为DeepMind这类雄心勃勃的零收入项目提供了充足的庇荫。而后谷歌构建了名为Alphabet的母公司架构，并成为公司旗下唯 一盈利的公司。其他业务的综合营收首次从谷歌的资产负债表中拆分出来，因而会受到更多审视。但要了解DeepMind的价值所在并非一个简单的财务问题。其意义更为深远。  DeepMind’smost immediate benefit to Google and Alphabet is the advantage it gives in thestrategic battle that technology companies are waging over AI (see chart). Ithoovers up ta