BreakingNews·190712 - 亞馬遜Alexa回答健康問題

Technology has taken another step in helping us with our healthcare. We can now ask the digital device Alexa for advice if we are worried about our health. Alexa is a virtual assistant created by the website Amazon.com. It is capable of listening to people and answering their questions. As well as voice interaction capabilities, Alexa can make to-do lists, play music upon voice request, and give us the latest news. Now Alexa can answer our health queries. Amazon has linked up with the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK to add a health advice capability to the software. Alexa will be able to search the NHS website for information and find an answer that is agreed on by many health experts.

科技在幫助我們的醫(yī)療保健方面又邁出了一步。如果我們擔(dān)心自己的健康，現(xiàn)在我們可以向數(shù)字設(shè)備Alexa尋求建議。Alexa是亞馬遜網(wǎng)站創(chuàng)建的虛擬助手。它能夠傾聽人們的聲音并回答他們的問題。除了語音交互功能，Alexa還可以制作待辦事項(xiàng)列表，根據(jù)語音請(qǐng)求播放音樂，并向我們提供最新消息。現(xiàn)在Alexa可以回答我們的健康問題了。亞馬遜已經(jīng)與英國(guó)國(guó)家衛(wèi)生服務(wù)(NHS)建立了聯(lián)系，為該軟件增加了健康咨詢功能。Alexa將能夠在NHS網(wǎng)站上搜索信息，并找到許多健康專家同意的答案。

Alexa's new health advice capability has been met with a mixed response. The UK Health Secretary said: "Technology like this is a great example of how people can access reliable, world-leading advice from the comfort of their home, reducing the pressure on our hardworking doctors and pharmacists." He added: "We want to empower every patient to take better control of their healthcare." Other people say we need to be careful about trusting the advice of a piece of software. They say we must go to a human doctor if we have serious health problems. Other people are concerned about privacy. The group Big Brother Watch is worried about hacking. It said: "It's a data protection disaster waiting to happen."

Alexa新的健康咨詢功能得到了不同的回應(yīng)。英國(guó)衛(wèi)生大臣說:“像這樣的技術(shù)是一個(gè)很好的例子，人們可以在舒適的家中獲得可靠的、世界領(lǐng)先的建議，減輕了我們努力工作的醫(yī)生和藥劑師的壓力。”他補(bǔ)充道:“我們希望讓每位患者都能更好地控制自己的醫(yī)療保健。”另一些人說我們需要小心不要相信軟件的建議。他們說如果我們有嚴(yán)重的健康問題，我們必須去看人類醫(yī)生。其他人關(guān)心隱私。組織“老大哥觀察”擔(dān)心黑客入侵。它表示:“這是一場(chǎng)即將發(fā)生的數(shù)據(jù)保護(hù)災(zāi)難。”