添加微信好友, 获取更多信息
复制微信号
《荒潮》出版后，帆布袋订做15838231350很多人问陈楸帆，原来你是潮汕人啊。这位刚获得了茅盾新人奖的80后科幻作家曾任职于百度和谷歌中国，目前定居上海。
《荒潮》的英文版书评中，不少老外惊艳于作者塑造出一部充满张力的科幻史诗。在这部史诗里，作者对中国古老传统和现代精准技术的描写无缝对接。
他节假日回潮汕几乎每天喝功夫茶，上海的办公室里也有一套茶具，参加文学活动或者约人却总在咖啡馆。他和李开复合作的新书《AI2041》大约就是在咖啡和功夫茶的轮换中完成的。
这本新书被《纽约时报》和《华尔街日报》等很多外媒评为2021年度必读的科幻佳作，也是陈楸帆的一次新尝试。李开复放眼20年后的世界，架构了10幅人工智能的“技术蓝图”，陈楸帆则据此构思了10个发生在世界各地的故事。
早在《人生算法》里，陈楸帆就曾经尝试AI写作。他让一个名为“陈楸帆2.0”的AI程序对其既往作品进行“学习”，然后再根据他输入的关键词自动生成一些文字章节。他说AI生成的文风和他很像，但是并没有完整的故事情节，更像散文。
最后AI所写的部分大约占了整篇小说的百分之十。有意思的是，当年《思南文学选刊》用AI程序来评出最佳短篇小说，《人生算法》力压莫言拔得头筹。也许人工智能在茫茫的作品中识别了同伴？
Sci-fi writer experiments with and examines the effects of AI
Tea or Coffee?
This routine question carries more weight for sci-fi writer Chen Qiufan, a native of Chaoshan who is now based in Shanghai.
Chaoshan, the eastern region in Guangdong Province, and its residents are well noted for keeping with many centuries-old traditions, including the intricate tea etiquette.
Chens debut novel "Waste Tide," translated into English by Ken Liu, was set in Chaoshan, on a fictional island that processes electronic waste recycling. Chinese myths and traditions as well as future tech are intertwined in the cautionary tale.
Chen, a Peking University graduate, has worked for many tech companies, including Google and Baidu, based mostly in Beijing or Shanghai. It wasnt until "Waste Tide" that many realized that one of Chinas sci-fi rising stars is from the area most famous for its cuisines and traditions.
"When I go back home to Chaoshan, I rarely drink coffee at all. Everyone there has those tea sets at home, and of course, the same is true for my grandparents," Chen said.
"Then in Shanghai, there are so many coffee shops where you meet friends, hold book events or just go for the coffee. Like many young Chinese, coffee is also a must for me, but yet I also keep a full tea set in my office."
It was in between his traditional Chaoshan tea etiquette and the large modern selection of coffee in Shanghai that Chen finished "AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future," a combination of scientific analysis and predictions and fiction.
Co-written with Kai-Fu Lee, a guru of artificial intelligence and former head of Google in China, Chen was in charge of the fiction part, turning Lees visions into 10 alarming tales across the global landscape. They include an Indian teenagers fight against a discriminatory algorithm, a German scientists evil quest for a "slaughter bot," a smart toilet that analyzes human excrement or food recommendations based on purchase records and risk preference.
"AI 2041" has been selected as sci-fi or AI book of the year by various media including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
"It was a very intriguing first for me and for readers, too, I hope," Chen said. "As a sci-fi writer, I usually let my imagination run wild based on my research, and this time, the research comes from those working with the most advanced, updated and cutting-edge AI technologies and visions."
The sci-fi writer is no stranger to artificial intelligence. In 2018, he had already tried co-writing with AI. It was included in Chens collection of short stories "Algorithm for Life."
The program was trained on all of Chens past writings with predictive keyboards imitating his use of words and combinations. Chen gave it some keywords and let the algorithm run free for a few paragraphs before he realized it made no sense or didnt have a cohesive plot.
"It was more like essays instead of storytelling. It cant produce a cohesive plot," he said as he explained how he began with the paragraphs generated by AI and imagined from there.
The AI part comprised about 10 percent of the story, but intriguingly, it was selected as the best Chinese short story of 2018, followed in second by Nobel laureate Mo Yan. The ranking, organized by a Shanghai literary magazine, experimented with AI for the lists selection.
Did AI recognize its only peer, even though the AI wrote just 10 percent of the story?
Creative writing using algorithms has further developed since Chen tried it in 2018. Last year, he joined 10 other Chinese sci-fi writers in a writing experiment with a new AI writing program to create science fiction.
When Chen tried the new algorithm, it wrote the following sentence: "Einstein from Beijing told us it was once a black hole, a black hole still in operation ..."
Chens vision for AI has also expanded far beyond creative writing.
"AI 2041 is basically us imagining in 2021 what AI will look like 20 years later," he explained. "Twenty years in the future, we will collaborate and co-exist with robots on multiple levels. You can see such experiments today in China, where there are quite a lot of test zones where artificial intelligence co-manages a place."
He added: "Isnt it intriguing to have AI in our daily life, from tailor-making your favorite coffee to planning your career? That brings convenience and efficiency, but it also comes with risks of data leaks, discriminatory algorithms and information bubbles, among others. Solving such challenges requires more than just tech companies."
特别声明：以上文章内容仅代表作者本人观点，不代表新浪网观点或立场。如有关于作品内容、版权或其它问题请于作品发表后的30日内与新浪网联系。