Our era is really changing with each passing day, and a few days ago, because of the unimaginability of the ChatGPT function, all kinds of voices on the Internet were boiling for a while, which had an impact on many traditional and even less traditional professions. For example, for practitioners of traditional painting, it is a subversion. Since the "machine" can already draw as much as you want, do you still need to work hard to draw again? Of course, not only painting, but many professions and occupations face this problem. Some friends talked about this phenomenon in private exchanges and asked me what I thought. I replied that I am not so up-to-date with the times, but I am wrapped up in this era and have become a networm hanging on the Internet all day, even so, I still have optimistic confidence in the profession or life of traditional handicrafts, such as reading paper books, such as traditional calligraphy and painting and imported shelf paintings, such as collecting books. For such a new era of AI, I gave an outdated example, that is, although the top professional chess players can no longer play "computers", it does not affect these chess players to continue to play and play chess, but no longer find "computer" giants to play, people and "computers" should not be on the same track.
Of course, I say that these are just a reader's understanding, that is, I am just talking about it. For many phenomena, in fact, the opinion of an ordinary reader is not important, what is important is to see who says it. Therefore, when I read Wei Li's article "AI Era, the Meaning of Book Collection", I couldn't help but be surprised, Wei Li's words can be used as theoretical evidence, if I say personal book collection today - the collection here is the collection of ancient book versions in the traditional Chinese sense - in my isolated vision, I don't know who else can compare with Wei Li's personal collection of ancient books.
Wei Li's "The Meaning of Book Collection in the AI Era" is actually a preface to Green Tea's new book "Reading and Collection", in which Green Tea interviews the study rooms of 26 cultural masters. At present, the bibliophilic life of the 26 cultural masters in this book is naturally a minority phenomenon, and Wei Li compares the difference between traditional wire-bound books and modern books, as well as the difference between ancient and current bibliophiles. He took Chen Pingyuan and Xia Xiaohong, a professor of the Department of Chinese of Peking University, as an example, if compared with ancient bibliophiles, 100,000 volumes was already the top achievement of Qing Dynasty bibliophiles, and in modern times, Jiayetang's collection exceeded 500,000 volumes, which was the ceiling of private collections in that era... Based on this number theory, the collection of books of Chen and Xia is not inferior to that of Jiayetang, so if their collection of books is placed in ancient times, it is estimated that they will have to buy a few villas in the current community to put them down. Wei Li said: "The progress of production technology has brought too much convenience to human beings, and modern printing technology has made it possible for today's readers to have a study room to basically meet the general needs. From this, it can be concluded that today's study is basically equivalent to the ancient library. Everything must be discussed under the same conditions, such as comparing the library building with the study above, and the condition is to compare the physical book, otherwise the rules of the game will be wrong. ”
The reason why Wei Li said this is, of course, because he felt it: "For example, someone says that his computer or mobile hard drive has millions of books in it, which I believe, but if he wants to say that the collection of physical books is far less fashionable than e-books, I will smile sincerely: Indeed, you hide these hard drives well, they are too valuable." Can summer worms be ice-spoken? In addition to emotional acceptance, in fact, e-books do have many conveniences in practicality, especially in terms of search keywords, reducing many time to turn books and find, so for most readers, if the purpose of their collection is to read, not to do some aspect of research, then a few more hard disks are enough, which is much more economical than buying physical books, and a more economical place is not to worry about buying more houses to hold books. But Wei Li's words changed: "Those who have a good collection of books, whether ancient or modern, their average IQ is above the middle people, so why don't you understand such a low-level economic account?" Many people's collections have been piled up to the point where they have almost no foot, but they still can't help but buy books... People are not machines, physical people are not AI, people have emotional activities, but AI is rational, alpha dog can defeat the Go world champion, because it does not have the problem of mood swings, similarly, it will not have people's kind of spiritual victory method, in the eyes of people, although defeat is glorious: you win, you are not human. ”
ChatGPT is on fire, and the popularity far overshadows the popular metaverse. The prophets quickly got excited and went on to repeat the same old joke about which industries would be eliminated, including editing and publishing. According to this statement, the end of the book is about to come: Is that really the case?" So far, artificial intelligence is still based on the summary of human existing knowledge, in fact, human development is not so, books are the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancestors, and the descendants are standing on the shoulders of the predecessors to go further and higher. No matter how far AI develops, it is always necessary to extract more advanced ideas on the basis of existing information, whether it is humans or AI, you can't forget it, right?" In addition to the preference for content, the emotions that book lovers place in the study are difficult for outsiders to appreciate.
The reason why Wei Li is quoted in this way about collecting books and paper books is because it puts aside the habit of collecting books and reading paper books, and can also be used to illustrate the same situation for traditional painting at present. For example, in the AI era, is traditional hand-drawn still necessary? Without quoting others, let's take an example of my own current experience. I am compiling a book about Qingdao specialties, and in addition to the text content, there are many pictures to present the pictures and texts, and the photos are naturally about these Qingdao specialties. The whole book has been arranged, but the main person asked if he could find a painter to draw some illustrations, which is about these specialties. It stands to reason that since there are photographs to be taken, do you still need traditional painting? Or isn't it simple to "create" paintings from photos directly on the computer with a "machine"? The answer, of course, is no, and "machine" still cannot replace traditional hand-drawing.
Another example is the painting and text of the painter Tang Yinfang, who said, "Painting bamboo people is a happy topic: shouting and ke!" With the high and near far, the call does not come. This question should only be enjoyed by His Holiness blindly. My generation occasionally has to call hand-painted bamboo, only to call the village sages as an old man, if he hears about it, he must be disgusted: Boy, shouting slogans must also be taken from the law!" If such a temperament text is copied by a "machine", it can only be "concocted" after the artist has written it - it can "concoct" a number of ink and bamboo drawings of Zheng Banqiao, but obviously it cannot be "created out of nothing" before the painter writes and writes it.
There is also a ready-made example, such as a continuous "reading painting" graphic column that my daughter Xue Hanbing, who is a graduate student in oil painting, which is copying and "redrawing" classic paintings of Western masters on an iPad, and then accompaniing her text interpretation. That is to say, it is "hand-drawn" on the electronic "tablet" with the help of current scientific and technological means. Is such a "repaint" necessary? If it is only "copying", of course, it is not necessary, just take the electronic version of the classic works of these masters. However, it is clear that she is not just for copying and "copying", but has her personal experience and deconstruction in the process of "repainting" - and this personal feeling and deconstruction cannot be replaced by the "machine" "copying" of the original. In other words, her "repaint" will have her personal "mistakes", and the "machine" will not make "mistakes". This is also one reason why "machines" cannot replace personal "hand-drawing" after all. Perhaps "making mistakes" is also a person's characteristic and a "personality" that others cannot replace.
In fact, no matter what era it is, finding the reason and pleasure of your own life will also have the power to resist the wind and rain outside the window.
Source: Qilu Evening News