Science fiction writer Chen Jiafan: In the future, or AI algorithms tell humans what beauty is

co-wrote a novel with artificial intelligence, and in the artificial intelligence score at the end of the year, this novel was ranked first, surpassing the original first-placed Mo Yan work. In the eyes of such a science fiction writer who has worked with artificial intelligence in depth, which artificial intelligence should support and which should be worried? A few days ago, Chen Jiefan gave a speech on the topic of "Artificial Intelligence in Science Fiction" in the above picture. The label of "companies that develop artificial intelligence technology" has made the audience curious, and artificial intelligence has become the current development process of the era that modern people cannot ignore. How do science fiction writers who are actively following the development of artificial intelligence technology imagine or reason about AI?

Chen Jiafan gave a lecture on “Artificial Intelligence in Science Fiction

artificial intelligence should be human? No, the value lies in the trial tool

In the early science fiction works, the imagination of artificial intelligence "They" generally have the appearance of "human". Classics such as Terminator, Blade Runner, and David, the robot child in artificial intelligence, etc. Therefore, the relationship between artificial intelligence and humans in science fiction works is often set to exist there. The relationship between my death and mutual substitution. In the novel, artificial intelligence is the "Pinocchio" who wants to become a real human being. Artificial intelligence is a member of the ethical society of human beings. Artificial intelligence is the future master who wants to eliminate humans and replace them. Artificial intelligence is far more evolved than human beings.

The image of artificial intelligence in classic film and television works

As a science fiction writer, Chen Jiafan believes that artificial intelligence is regarded as an existence that can replace humans. Perhaps we have overestimated it. Through the history of artificial intelligence development, most of the artificial intelligence in reality does not have a human shape. In 1999, the robot dog artificial intelligence BO launched by Sony Corporation simulates the shape of a creature, which is considered to have a biological shape, and more. More are images such as sweeping robots, Siri applications in Apple mobile phones, , AlphaGo, etc.Using the network cloud, through a similar mobile phone terminal, it becomes a tool to accompany everyone in modern times. In short, artificial intelligence does not need a human appearance, its value lies in the usefulness of tools.

Artificial intelligence surpasses humanity: imitating artists’ creations, auction houses get high prices

After graduating from the Chinese Department of Peking University, he worked in high-tech companies such as Google and Baidu. Unfamiliar, it can be said that he took the initiative to get close to the development of artificial intelligence technology. Regarding artificial intelligence, Chen Jiafan also believes that "we should not underestimate them." In 1997, the supercomputer Deep Blue defeated the famous chess master Kasparov. In 2017, Alpha Go defeated the world's number one Ke Jie . In the pharmaceutical field, the participation of artificial intelligence technology has greatly shortened the drug development cycle. Chen Jiafan said that "artificial intelligence as the existence of analyzing data, executing decisions, and finding optimal solutions" may have surpassed humans in certain rigid intelligence.

In art, artificial intelligence is gradually invading. At the lecture site, Chen Jiafan showed the artwork created by artificial intelligence. Artist Pierre Fortere and his team allowed artificial intelligence to learn 15,000 portraits from the 14th to 15th centuries, and then created the oil painting "Portrait of Edmund Bellamy". In October 2018, this oil painting was sold at Christie for USD 432,500. There are also sculptures created by artificial intelligence. After being selected by humans, they were sold at the Phillips auction house for $6,875. In addition, artists from all over the world also have many works of art that have been co-created with artificial intelligence. Chinese artist Qiu Zhijie and He Xiaodong and Xie Zhouyi of the artificial intelligence research team of Jingdong Group realized the real-time interactive work "Jingdong Artificial Intelligence Generated Map" with the help of artificial intelligence technology. Artificial intelligence can follow the artist's way of thinking and diverge the words spoken by the audience into a continuous map containing landscapes, building shapes and other key words. Artificial intelligence is "creation".

The oil painting "Portrait of Edmund Bellamy" created by artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence is an author with copyright,Who gives word honor?

Facing the works created by artificial intelligence, Chen Jiafan questioned "whether artificial intelligence has copyright and authorship rights". And he answered in the affirmative. He said that artificial intelligence is more than just a tool. It's like we use word to write, but we never think of giving word this honor. But in his science fiction novels, artificial intelligence really made the creation.

The development of artificial intelligence technology has made artificial intelligence not only connected with humans. There are also some exchanges between artificial intelligence. Chen Jiafan said that sometimes this connection is more sci-fi than the sci-fi novels he wrote. For example, he uses a mobile phone manager 's artificial intelligence system, which can answer incoming calls. Sometimes when he went to the background to check the phone records, he would find some long chat records. These chat records are often exchanges and conversations between the mobile phone housekeeper and another artificial intelligence.

Does artificial intelligence have the ability to evaluate beauty and ugliness?

As mentioned before, artificial intelligence can create creation, but artificial intelligence obviously does not have the ability to judge the quality of artwork. When people examine the value of a work of art, they will consider the position of the artist in history, the position of the art genre in the history of art, and the appeal of the artwork itself. Therefore, the evaluation of beauty belongs only to human beings. But Chen Jiafan wonders whether beauty can be calculated by artificial intelligence in the future. Whether the standard judgment of beauty will be completed by artificial intelligence, and in the future, more people will judge according to the standards given by artificial intelligence. In the future, it is possible for an algorithm and an artificial intelligence to tell humans what beauty is.

The novel co-authored by and artificial intelligence, won the artificial intelligence competition

At the lecture site, Chen Jiafan told the story of him and Mo Yan. In the first half of 2019, Shanghai Sinan Literature Selection selected 771 works from the 20 most important mainstream literary journals in 2018, each of which was scored with artificial intelligence algorithms.Draw a curve for each novel based on "the gracefulness of the structure". The curve with the most balanced and graceful curve will get a high score. In this selection, artificial intelligence became an "evaluator." Among all the works, one of Mo Yan's works published on "October" has always been the first. This result makes everyone feel very relaxed. However, on the last day, Shanghai "Fiction World" packaged its published works and submitted them to the algorithm. As a result, one work surpassed Teacher Mo Yan with a very slight advantage of 0.00001 points and four zeros after the decimal point, and reached the top of the artificial intelligence literature list.

This work is exactly "The State of Tradition" published by Chen Jiafan. The magic is that part of the novel is completely created by artificial intelligence. In other words, an artificial intelligence recognizes the creation of another artificial function. In more than 700 novels, one artificial intelligence accurately identifies the figure of another artificial intelligence.

There is a work with a very small advantage of 0.00001 points and four zeros after the decimal point, surpassing Mr. Mo Yan and reaching the top of the list of artificial intelligence literature. This work is exactly the state of trance published by Chen Jiafan

The development process of artificial intelligence technology is also the process of humans knowing themselves

As a post-80s, Chen Jiafan's attitude towards artificial intelligence is open. of. He and the artificial intelligence program work together to complete the writing. In the second half of 2017, Chen Jiafan published the novel "Trance State". At that time, he wanted to explore the relationship between humans and machines from different angles, when he suddenly thought, "Why can't I let an artificial intelligence learn my writing style? , Put the things written by it and the things I wrote together, so that the form and content complement each other very well.” So Chen Jiefan found Wang Yonggang, deputy dean of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Innovation Workshop, and made a machine learning module. When Chen Jiafan sends a data packet of all works to the machine, after learning it, according to the keywords entered by people, he can complete his own study with "Chen Jiafan's writing style".

For Chen Jiafan, the development process of artificial intelligence technology is actually a process of continuous self-recognition of human beings. Although in terms of rigid intelligence, artificial intelligence seems to have surpassed humans,But humans still have many unquantifiable and vague intelligences, such as emotions, which are capabilities that artificial intelligence does not have. In addition, the current artificial intelligence is all "professional" machines. They generally only have a single performance and cannot realize general intelligence. For example, the algorithm of a sweeping robot can only support it to complete the sweeping work. Regarding human nature, emotions, and self-awareness, these human scientists cannot fully understand the content, let alone simulate these functions of human beings to promote the development of artificial intelligence. Therefore, Chen Jiafan believes that the development of artificial intelligence technology is also to understand humans. Yourself.

Humans and artificial intelligence technology dance together

In 2018, director Zhang Yimou's conceptual performance "Dialogue·Fable 2047" staged a segment of robotic arms dancing with shadows. Two robotic arms appeared on the right side of the stage, and dancers

danced in the middle of the stage, forming a space interaction between the dancers and the robotic arms. Chen Jiafan said, "The future has come, and human beings have entered the era of symbiosis with science and technology. What posture to choose to dance with artificial intelligence is a question worth considering."

Source: Wenhui

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