Can AI write a novel by Haruki Murakami?
Shanghai Translation Publishing House recently held a sharing meeting for the first release of new books "The Future of Mankind, the Future of AI" and "New Forms of Future Consumption" at Tsutaya Bookstore (Shangsheng Xinshou Store).
Around "Can AI write a novel by Haruki Murakami?" This interesting topic was specially invited to discuss Jiang Jianqiang, who is committed to the study of Japanese philosophy and culture, Yan Feng, professor of the Department of Chinese and Chinese Literature of Fudan University and doctoral supervisor, and Chen Feixue, the chief planner of "Translation Vision". As "observers" of the future society, the guests shared with readers the future world in their vision.
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There's so much information trying to tell us that the future is full of variables and challenges, and belongs only to those who are prepared.
At the beginning of the new year, Shanghai Translation Publishing House launched a new brand book series of "Translation Vision" and published two new works of the book series, "The Future of Mankind, the Future of AI" and "New Forms of Future Consumption", which opened up the most cutting-edge topics.
Focusing on artificial intelligence, "The Future of Humanity, the Future of AI" is a dialogue between Nobel prize winner Shinya Yamanaka and Yoshiharu Yui, known as the strongest chess player in history, and two celebrities with top wisdom talk about "what the world will become in ten years, a hundred years later".
The topic expands from the forefront of life sciences to the boundaries and possibilities of artificial intelligence. The two used their expertise in their respective fields to analyze the future development of their respective fields and the possible impact on human society.
Focusing on the economy and consumption, "New Forms of Future Consumption" is compiled by Kenichi Ozene, a management scientist and trend expert who invented the concept of "low-desire society", and brings together the thoughts of YAOKO Yukio Nagakawano, MUJI President Masaaki Kanai, ABEJA President Yosuke Okada, and tourism startup FREEPELUS Suda Kentaro on the consumption trend.
It not only discussed the success of its enterprises, but also focused on the topic of "how to face future changes in the face of new economic development trends", and analyzed and predicted future consumers, consumption habits and consumption development trends.
Jiang Jianqiang, translator of the best-selling book "Low Desire Society", said that like "Low Desire Society", these two books are also a weather vane thing, "How will this society develop in the future, and is the topic of AI artificial intelligence talking about it an inflection point today?" Whether it can defeat or replace human beings in the final sense, philosophers, scientists, and economists around the world are now thinking about this question. ”
Yan Feng pointed out, "How do we build a relationship with AI? This relationship is not an open relationship, and many of us today may focus on whether AI will surpass humans, whether it will eliminate humans, and think very scarily. So do we want to strangle it in the cradle now? There are also people who think that AI is the savior of our future humanity, and there are fewer such people. ”
In his view, "we can imagine more of a symbiotic relationship between us and AI." In fact, we can't do without AI, it is impossible to eliminate it, and AI will definitely evolve and grow, our relationship with it continues to develop, how do we build such a relationship with it with a constructive and open mind. “
In the answer to the question "Can AI write a novel by Haruki Murakami?" When asking this question, the two scholars gave completely different answers.
Jiang Jianqiang's view is that no matter how AI develops, it can write Bach's songs, but it cannot write novels by Haruki Murakami. "What will this AI do in the future?" AI may coexist with humans in the future, and then help human beings get out of such a dilemma and move into a new era. ”
Yan Feng believes, "If AI may write Haruki Murakami, now it is only technical, if it is upgraded up, it can be written." In his opinion, technology to a certain extent is OK.
Readers on the scene also joined the discussion, and some readers proposed: "If AI can write a novel by Haruki Murakami, then he must not be the perfect Haruki Murakami, but he thinks of Haruki Murakami." ”
Source: Thoughtful Shanghai