The phone rang.
1 point at midnight, laboratory.
(Omitted)
Kunio Suzuki was only transferred to this job last month, and he can't get home until 12 o'clock every night.
Bang Nan yawned and took the phone out of his pocket.
"Is it Kunio Suzuki?"
"Yes, are you?"
"I am the devil."
"Pranks are enough. I'm busy writing a report right now. ”
"I can fulfill any wish in your heart."
"Less of this set, okay, I'm going to hang up the phone."
"Wait a minute, just try it, and you won't lose anything."
"Well, I'm sleepy to death now, so think of a way." The report at hand cannot be written. ”
"It's easy to do."
After the devil silently recited a few incantations on the other end of the phone, bang man's tiredness was instantly swept away. The report at hand was simply impeccably perfect.
However, since then, Bang Nan has never slept again.
This is a miniature novel published in the Japanese "Yomiuri Shimbun". It doesn't label the author, and one might guess "This is Shinichi Hoshi's novel." "Because the Japanese science fiction writer Hoshi Shinichi wrote more than a thousand such miniature novels before his death. But the author of the above novel is not a human, but an artificial intelligence system developed by a Japanese research team.
Writer Shinichi Hoshi once wrote a novel called "Naughty Robot", which tells the story of a mischievous robot and its owner on an island far from human habitation, and at the end of the story, the robot's maker tells the confused owner that being as elusive as a human is the quality of a real robot. Inspired by this, the Japanese research team developed an artificial intelligence system and named it "Naughty Artificial Intelligence System: I Am a Writer", trying to make it create a science fiction work comparable to Shinichi Hoshi's miniature novel. The work at the beginning of this article is one of the results of this project.
The project team also anonymously sent four novels created by the artificial intelligence system to the judges of the "Star New One" Literary Award, and two of them actually passed the preliminary selection of the judges. One judge was surprised to learn of this: "It's amazing to be able to reach such a high level!" ”
Although there was no final award. But the team leader, Professor Matsubara, was very happy to hear the news, because the system still has a lot of room for improvement.
Professor Hitoshi Matsubara, the head of the project team, said that in the process of generating novels, 80% of the work still needs people, and the remaining 20% is the credit of artificial intelligence. From this point of view, the novel can hardly be said to be a work done by artificial intelligence alone.
This artificial intelligence system, by analyzing the stories and styles in xingxinyi's novel, sorts out the basic story form and structure, and establishes a database of adjectives, verbs, nouns, etc. that appear in it, so that the artificial intelligence system can randomly generate hundreds of thousands of stories.
The storyline of the novel that was just generated was very boring, and there was no such element as dramatic plot reversal. In this way, the storyline needs to be set by researchers, who manually input tens of thousands of lines of program instructions and databases into the computer. In the process of generating the novel, the artificial intelligence finally completed a novel of 2500 words through the final calculation according to the instructions of the person. Select appropriate adjectives, nouns, and character conversations from the database.
Not only novels, artificial intelligence is also applied to music, art and other aspects.
A professor at Meiji University in Japan wanted to write a love song for his wife on Valentine's Day, but he was suffering from no artistic cells, so he made a song with his computer technology. Unexpectedly, this became an opportunity for me to establish an artificial intelligence composition system.
The system can also set the musical style according to preferences. The four-line lyrics can be generated in just twenty seconds. Of course, Japanese people still love their own pop music, and of course there are "J-Pop" and "song" options in the style setting options.
Some artificial intelligence systems can also use the original works of famous artists as a base to exert their creativity.
The following is a painting created by an artificial intelligence system that analyzes the style of an art painting and recombines new elements.
When Kandinsky Meets Birth of Venus
Katsushika Hokusai's Alpine skiing
The cat in Kandinsky's eyes
As early as the 1960s, the artistic creation of artificial intelligence was only a beautiful imagination in science fiction, and the French critic Roland Barthes boldly put forward the idea that "the author is dead". Of course, the "author is dead" here is to let the reader ignore the author's authority when reading and appreciating art, not a statement of fact or a "prophecy" of the future. However, with the emergence of artificial intelligence in the field of artistic creativity, we may not be able to trace the figure of the "author" in the work in the near future. But even if there is no "author", I still hope that no matter whose work it is, his or its creation can still shine with the greatness of human nature and exude a warm warmth.
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Text: Zheng Guobing