As an experiment, I asked about building a humanoid robot. Learn About didn’t just cite an encyclopedia on what that would entail. Instead, I got a whole list of necessary elements broken down with images, context boxes, and further reading. The ‘get images’ button at the bottom did exactly what it said it would, while the double-check with Google just seemed to confirm the information was accurate. The ‘go deeper’ button quickly led me down a path of technical details for machining an arm joint. Two paragraphs in, I was lost.

在一项实验中，我问了如何制作一个仿人机器人的问题。Learn About 并未止步于引用百科全书中的概述，相反，它给我提供了一份详尽的必要元素清单，其中穿插着图片、上下文解释框以及拓展阅读资料。底部的“get images”按钮完全按照提示操作，而与谷歌进行的二次核对似乎只是为了确认信息的准确性。点击“go deeper”按钮，我迅速被带入了一个关于手臂关节加工的技术细节的世界，两段内容过后，我便犯迷糊了。

I had much more fun with the ‘simplify’ button because each time I tapped it, the AI would get more creative in being simple. First, it talked about building a robot like a toy, then it tried to explain how to build a robot like a gingerbread man, then a puppet show, and then a magic Lego man. After that, the AI apparently decided I didn’t understand analogies and used very small words to explain robots without any window dressing. Still, the analogies and accompanying images and diagrams were like a window into textbooks for ever-younger children.

“simplify”按钮让我乐趣倍增，每次点击它，AI都以更有创意的方式简化说明。起先，它将制作机器人比作生产玩具，随后尝试用制作姜饼人的方法来阐释，接着是木偶戏，然后是神奇的乐高人。之后，AI明显察觉到我无法理解这些类比，于是开始使用非常简单的词汇来解释机器人，不加任何修饰。尽管如此，这些类比及其所配的图片和图表，为更多的孩童打开了一扇通往课本的窗户。

People don’t always want a personal tutor. Sometimes, the trivia expert version of AI is preferable. But Gemini and LearnLM point out that Google wants people to continue thinking of it as the source of all knowledge, whether that’s a simple yes or no answer about where a famous landmark is located or a full lecture on its history and place in local culture. Learn About helps Google set itself up as an information resource and a digital learning companion. And I have to give credit to Learn About for inspiring my upcoming gingerbread puppet show about robots.

人们并不总是想要一个私教。有时，他们更喜欢那种擅长处理琐碎事务的专业AI。然而，Gemini 和 LearnLM 指出，Google希望人们继续将其视为所有知识的源泉，它能给出关于某个著名地标在哪里这种简单的是非问题的答案，也能全面解释其历史及在当地文化中的地位。Learn About助力Google 将自身塑造为信息资源库和数字学习伙伴的形象。我还要感谢Learn About，因为它给我即将上演的机器人主题姜饼木偶戏提供了灵感。