Zeng Baoyi , a woman who has not appeared on the screen for a long time.
The tags and impressions of her, you may be the same as me, and you are still stuck in her identity: Zeng Zhiwei's daughter and Huang Zijiao's ex-girlfriend. may be left in the impression of the TV series " Yanghuagu " she filmed with Chen Kun a long time ago.
However, until she finished watching the four-episode documentary hosted by her, I believe you will completely subvert and rethink.
Just like before "July and Ansheng" and " You Boy's You " became popular, you may not have known director Zeng Guoxiang at all.
Those who have not appeared in front of us for a long time may have been pursuing something constantly.
"Before Tomorrow" is the result of Tencent News' production and Oscar production team. After watching four episodes, I was very surprised by the team's resources and depth of reach.
is a documentary that is still not highly concerned. invites world-class scientists, major figures on controversial topics, and representative figures from related industries. even tracks and interviews the 104-year-old man for the last 24 hours, etc.
In a year, we visited nearly 20 countries. Zeng Baoyi also mentioned in his self-report: filming the third episode "Nearby Neighbors?" Close to the enemy? 》 Before, it was so dangerous that it was scared by a British director that he even wrote his suicide note first.
Zeng Baoyi also had doubts along the way: Is it worth doing this? I will also ask: Why is it me who did this? I am afraid of letting down this rare opportunity and I will blame myself for my personal emotions.
at the end of each episode, and these blank spaces are for yourself and the future. What are the three most relevant questions about
and our tomorrow?
01. Will you accept an AI robot companion?
starts with the beginning, which is a scene where the robot "Hamonia" talks with Zeng Baoyi and a user. She can blink and say playful words. It makes everyone very happy, it is like you are having afternoon tea and chatting with a few friends.
What surprised me was: , it turns out that robots are no longer rigid and cold machines, and now they can do this level!
Zeng Baoyi took us into the behind-the-scenes studio for making AI robots, and various robot heads in the test. They are making efforts to realize different characters' personalities, smiles, temperatures and other human characteristics.
During the contact with "Hamonia", you can set or change her personality, even including imagination, human consciousness, intelligence and emotions.
She can answer any words you say smoothly. To be briefly understood, she is a more concrete SIRI.
Zeng Baoyi's cousin asked: "What is love?"
robot "Hamonia" replied: "To me, love is friendship, loyalty, understanding and patience. Don't forget to have tolerance." "
"Hamonia" appears, you can talk to her and touch her like someone.
At present, she can only communicate by connecting to an APP, but to achieve direct conversation, she is not far from us! Can the emergence of
Robots replace real but imperfect people as companions?
They answered: "Of course!"
Zeng Baoyi also interviewed several senior users of the products of Abyss Creations, California, USA. They provided real feedback and suggestions for "companion robots" and hoped to be the first batch of users of "Hamonia".
What is accompanying them now is silicone dolls that are not as smart as they are.
This allows them to no longer have to endure the frustration of being rejected, the fear of socializing, and the loneliness of a person.
A user will take her to the bar and live a "normal life" together. Even his friends said: "He is like a different person, no longer a negative day, and now he often sees him laughing happily."
If there is an AI program that can be realized, he most hopes that his partner doll can walk to the bar and ask him for a glass of wine.
not only in foreign countries, but also in China where we cannot see it.
2018 Jiang Sida " Transparent Man " once interviewed a 60-year-old rural man who raised 11 simulated dolls as his daughter. He said: "She won't betray me!"
Uncle Li will help these dolls sew clothes with their own hands, help them celebrate their birthdays, let her sit in the passenger seat, and take her out. I even thought about giving it to my son after death, or cremating it with me.
Each doll costs tens of thousands to more than 90,000 yuan, but no matter when, he will not sell them.
's "abnormal" judgment is too arrogant. If Uncle Li has treated and protected them as "family", it seems that there is no harm.
I believe there must be such a moment. These dolls that are not so vivid and intelligent for the time being have truly lived in their hearts!
You may still want to say: "This is crazy! Although it is not perfect, real people are still very different from almost real!"
In 2017, some experts predicted that it will take at least 10 years for computers to defeat humans in the field of Go.
But after AlphaGo appeared, every game attracted widespread attention. It takes less than 10 years to use the machine!
World-class expert in the field of artificial intelligence said: "We are almost living on the eve of the robot era."
He predicted that in 2050, humans and robots will get married.
is not just an improvement in the smile, temperature and posture of the robot. Ten years ago, a team of Korean experts began to develop ways to form robots and human genes. means that they are making it possible to "have children with robots".
Similarly, some people firmly defend women's rights. It is believed that "company robots" are commercialized and materialized women, and appear as a personal private item.
Can we get along with robots in harmony enough?
Everything is unknown! The development speed is really too fast!
But what is really scary is that many years ago, humans were also full of fear of new objects such as cars, computers, and mobile phones, but now our use of these high-tech is as natural as breathing.
We are expecting and afraid, and we are just "before tomorrow"!
02. If possible, would you like to live to be 1000 years old?
"The Strange Talk 6" has a debate topic: Before you die, will you choose to freeze yourself and send it to 100 years later?
From the perspective of the positive side, we can hear : The expectation for meeting again in the future world, we pressed the pause button of our bodies before we die, leaving a glimmer of hope for all those who love us.
There is also the free and easy way and a fight that "it's a big deal is still a death", and the luck that comes to life.
From the opposite viewpoint, we can also hear : cherishing life is more important than how long it takes to live. I have been free and easy in my life. pursuing the longevity of time is tantamount to overwhelmingly worrying about myself and my family.
Death is the best deadline, please help us find more possibilities for living.
Fear of death or the unknown?
Although it has not been 100 years, someone has done this.
The Alco Life Continuation Foundation, founded in 1972, is the largest supplier of human body freezing services in the United States.
They freeze the human body and wait for future medical treatment to treat the frozen human body. includes the brain of Chongqing writer Du Hong , and a 2-year-old little girl with cancer.
These human bodies are more than 100 degrees below zero and the cells stop moving, and they continue to wait!
There is also a group of people who are unremittingly exploring and pursuing the topic of "human immortality"!
We are not unfamiliar with the topic of immortality. Judging from Qin Shihuang's lifelong pursuit and underground kingdom, human pursuit of immortality began a long time ago.
is closer, in " Journey to the West ", the immortal myth of "eating Tang Monk's meat" and the emperor's obsession with faith in taking pills, each of them has said goodbye to us.
Zeng Baoyi participated in an American "Anti-Aging and Death Conference", which sounded like a large pyramid scheme.
But it is not only a "self-entertainment" for those who pursue immortality, but it has attracted more than 1,000 people from all over the world. They show their research results of "frozen age" and even getting younger and younger in their respective stalls.
A foreigner also seriously introduced to Zeng Baoyi the principles and research equipment of "spirit" in traditional Chinese medicine. Aubrey, the founder of the
conference, is the leader of radical life continuationism. At the age of 30, he began to turn his interest to biology and won his PhD in biology from , Cambridge University, .
He said: "If you ask me what my best expectations are?"
" I will tell him that most people can live more than 1,000 years."
Since 2007, the funds directly invested in research related to extending human life span have exceeded 4 billion US dollars, and technology companies such as Google , Amazon, and Facebook have participated.
Zordan, who participated in the US presidential election, saw his neighbor's 3-year-old child pass away. It made him the pioneer of the American "Superhumanist Party".
He said: If you run for president, you will allocate a trillion dollars to study ways to extend your life, so that everyone can benefit from immortality.
It is obvious that he has not succeeded in getting more support, but he said he will continue to run for the 2020 campaign.
There has even been a woman who claims to have undergone surgery in a clinic, and the results of the test show that her physical function has become better.
George said to the outside world: A technology to delay aging has been effective in guinea pigs and clinical trials will be tried within 2 years.
They think that getting old is just a curable disease. Seven kinds of cells cause human aging and death, and they believe that as long as is repaired, it can fundamentally solve the problem!
With the high attention of the topic of human immortality, the support funds for research on some diseases are even less than in case. Experts in the related fields of
feel disdainful and think it is just a stupid behavior that puts the cart before the horse. It sounds too crazy to be 1,000! I dare not think at all!
What follows is the social problem: how to deal with the population explosion? Can our earth really accommodate so many people? Humanistic, resourceful and moral issues are also coming.
There is no limit on death, what will we do throughout our lives? It is lucky to be with the one you love forever.
But what we want to pursue is: "Living this life is complete enough~" or say: "No, I want to pursue eternal life!"
03. Life or death, the bondage of love, or the freedom of death?
"Before Tomorrow" also got the chance to spend the last 24 hours with Australian plant ecologist David Goodall, a 104-year-old man. Because euthanasia is not legal in Australia, he must end his life at a clinic in Switzerland.
What is important is: he is not sick, but unexpectedly calm about death.
In Zeng Baoyi's description, we can know that euthanasia is a tedious process.
The client who chooses to euthanize must receive two different doctors for two consecutive days to evaluate the client's physiological and psychological evaluation, confirming that euthanasia is the client's own willingness with a clear consciousness, and has the ability to press the button for injecting the drug by himself. If he regrets it in the last second, there is also a way to terminate the process by himself.
In the last interview, Zeng Baoyi hugged the old man and then proposed: "I hope to stay quietly with you for a minute" .
Not a minute has passed, the old man spoke out: "This is so strange!"
program team interviewed the old man's grandson, but it was impossible to continue. Zeng Baoyi was also caught in self-blame. The person next to
said: "For others, this euthanasia may be just a story, but this is his grandfather!"
Philip ·Nishk is the planner of this euthanasia, a 26-year-old son suffering from depression in Australia, a suspect in killing his wife...
under his influence, he has ended his life. Do you have the right to die? Is this a blasphemy to life?
Is this process too simple and casual? A small ups and downs in life may not be able to see tomorrow.
Some people defend their right to live a decent life and die dignity, while others try their best to survive.
A Australian woman, Jenny, was diagnosed as not living a year old when she was young, but she became a member of parliament. She is Philip Nishke's most solid opponent.
She believes: "Before defending people's right to die equally, people should live equally."
When Zeng Baoyi came to her home for an interview, she was sitting in a wheelchair with a ventilator, but the hope of decent living burst out from her eyes, and this energy field came to her face.
She has been proving that: people with disabilities are not useless creatures that cannot contribute to society. Everyone can stimulate all his potential.
Jenny said: "There are many extremely bad situations in my life that make me want to die. I am very glad that the law does not allow me to do this. Investigating death is not a treatment."
euthanasia has become a very simple outlet. It seems that there is no motivation to see whether there is a new research result for serious illnesses and terminal illnesses.
We respect a person who is on the verge of death, the extreme pain of living that cannot move and cannot take care of himself, and they should have the opportunity to choose to die decently.
Similarly, we can't really empathize with it. Maybe you don't know that the other party is in his best years but is suffering from psychological torture. They used death to lay a blood letter, telling us: This is the right to die as an individual.
Those who love me, I love you too, but I will decide my life and death! Despite this, we still have hope, that is the awe of life and life.
On the day of euthanasia, David Goodall was obviously a little impatient.
He asked his grandson: "What are we waiting for?"
" There are still some forms to fill out." The grandson answered.
"Oh!" He shook his head and sighed, "There are always a lot of forms to fill in!"
This is the last picture left to us about him.
While waiting for the announcement of death, Zeng Baoyi flipped into a collection of poems by the mysterious medieval poet Lumi (Rumi) in the lounge outside.Before opening it, she asked the collection of poems softly: What are you going to teach me today?
This poem is just right and explains the topic of death:
Today is such a happy day,
(Today is so wonderful,)
There is no room for sadness,
(There is no place to let sadness fall in love,)
Today we drink the wine of trust from the cup of knowledge,
(Today let's sip the wine called "trust" from the cup of knowledge,
(Today we can't live on bread and water alone,
(Since we cannot live by bread and water alone,)
Let us eat a little from the hand of God.
(Let us eat something that we have taken from God's hand.)
We begin to think about the meaning of the existence of a small individual before the coming tomorrow of the great achievements of human inventions.
The three major questions above: "company robot", "the pursuit of immortality", and "the right to euthanasia", maybe you have your own answer. Or, like me, you don’t have enough experience to make a judgment.
Then, this time I stopped and thought must be a course on "humanity and self".
is like the lesson that poem teaches us. At such a moment, we can say: "Today is such a happy day..."
We are extremely looking forward to an unknown tomorrow, just like our fear at this moment!
