"I heard that you have tried to fish for the moon as a friend, I think it is not tolerate that the moon alone to guard the dome of the sky. However, since ancient times, the moon has been accompanied by the breeze every night, and it may not be possible to fish for it. If I am a son, I should know that all things are destiny, can not be forced, fishing for the moon is also in vain."

If not heard personally, no one would have expected this passage from the mouth of "Sister Lin". And its "conversation", is four dynasties back to the "poet" Li Bai.

At the beginning of May, B station up master "AI-Talk" released the work "AI Li Bai and Lin Daiyu poetry". 3 minutes and a half of the video, every word is generated by GPT4, similar "mix and match" video and "AI Nietzsche to talk about AI clowns" "Tom Cruise dialog Kant" and so on. AI Nietzsche on AI Clown", "Tom Cruise Dialogues with Kant" and so on.

"The content is harmonious, the language is exquisite, and the logic is good. It can be seen that the AI's level of text creation has reached a medium level, 80 points upwards." Jin Yuanpu, director of Renmin University of China's Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries and professor at the School of Arts, commented.

Recently, Jin Yuanpu was a guest at the Shenzhen Citizen's Cultural Lecture Hall on the topic of "The current development of the big model of artificial intelligence and the new situation of the 100-model war". The traditional cognitive talk about poetry and song professor of the Faculty of Letters turned to talk about AI, you can see the big model in all walks of life "out of the circle" degree.

Jin Yuanpu said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from Southern Finance and Economics that ChatGPT, a type of AI language model, cannot be understood only from a technical point of view. Because the big model can be integrated with all the words, culture and thinking left behind in the past era, it is actually about the boundaries of human intelligence, and the exploration of the big model should focus on the long term.

In the short and medium term, as long as the big model is "fed" enough, it will be able to generate qualified content, and therefore become a double-edged sword - empowering creators and replacing or partially replacing them.

The use of AI is especially prevalent in the fields of literature, journalism, foreign languages, and fine arts. Eye-catching news headlines such as "30 seconds to generate a picture, the cost as low as 20 cents" and "AI machine flip to reduce the cost to 1%" have caused a large number of "workers" to be replaced by the occupation of anxiety. Anxiety.

Conveyed to the younger generation, with the admission scores of colleges and universities across the country one after another, many colleges and universities news, Chinese, small languages and other traditional liberal arts majors in varying degrees of "cold".

"The belief that literature, new communication, small languages and other related professions will immediately be replaced by AI is actually an exaggeration of the impact of AI." Jin Yuanpu believes that, with a large number of public materials as a reference, AI can help complete the repetitive and consumptive work at the practical level, and its work is often higher than that of the medium and low level industry practitioners. And once you delve into fully autonomous and innovative literary creation, including the expression of vivid and delicate human emotions and the exploration of deep philosophical issues, AI is not up to the task.

AI with "moderate to high" grades

In February this year, Jim Mullen, CEO of Reach, publisher of the Daily Mirror and Daily Express, said publicly that he would explore the use of ChatGPT to assist journalists in writing short reports on topics such as local weather and transportation. During the same period, it was rumored that a domestic financial media outlet issued a "Notice on the Use of ChatGPT by All Editorial Departments".

Gradually, enabling ChatGPT in news creation is no longer new, and practical tips for media people have begun to appear on the Internet, including how to quickly generate headlines, how to write TV or radio promotional scripts, how to quickly generate social media posts such as tweets and collaterals from published news content, and so on.

"The quality of AI generation depends on how well the big models are pre-fed. In some relatively simple areas, if the big model has already focused on more comprehensive background material, it can instantly produce a good quality story, at least moderately high, which will greatly enhance news industry productivity." Jin Yuanpu said.

Ditto in the literary field. Recently, the ReadWrite Group released the first large model of the domestic online literature industry, "ReadWrite Wonderful Brush," which is said to understand the content (story, characters, and worldview settings), creation (understanding the creative techniques of online literature), and the "online literature terriers" formed in the process of interaction between writers and readers. ".

According to the statistics of the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China's online literature market in 2022 amounted to 38.93 billion yuan, an increase of 8.8% year-on-year, and the cumulative number of online literature writers exceeded 22.78 million.

In the face of such a huge market, Jin Yuanpu said that if writers can effectively leverage the big model, human-computer collaboration will realize the level of writing from "medium to high" to "excellent", and the time and labor costs will be significantly reduced.

However, AI is also a "double-edged sword", so that human beings on the one hand, pleased with the liberation of labor, and on the other hand, fell into the once "Lee Sedol defeated Alpha Dog" type of anxiety: whether AI will be an all-round "victory" over human beings? AI will "defeat" human beings in all aspects?

In March, the famous American linguist and philosopher Chomsky responded: "The human brain is an extremely efficient and even elegant system that requires only a small amount of information to operate; it seeks not to infer brute correlations between data points, but to create explanations."

In the comment section of the video "AI Li Bai and Lin Daiyu Poem Pairing", there are also many netizens who have found the pain point of AI creation, "There are rhymes but no chapters, and there are words but no feelings."

How humans and machines coexist

Even if human beings have their emotional perception that can not be replaced by ChatGPT, at the level of social opinion, the panic that liberal arts majors and jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence is still rampant, and even affects the enrollment of this year's college entrance exams for traditionally liberal arts majors such as journalism, Chinese language, and small languages at some domestic colleges and universities.

In the face of AI this "double-edged sword", man and machine how to explore a mutually reinforcing state of balance?

Jin Yuanpu believes that the "useless theory of liberal arts" actually exaggerated the influence of AI, but also underestimated the subjective initiative of human beings. But in the age of science and technology, the training mode of "liberal arts students" does need to be optimized and adjusted, focusing on improving its cross-border composite ability.

"Liberal arts talents should have at least threefold composite nature. One is to have received the cultivation of literature and art, literature and art is a hotbed of creativity; the second is to master a certain amount of technical knowledge, to be able to use the latest scientific and technological achievements to improve the quality and efficiency of learning; the third is to master a certain amount of knowledge of finance and accounting, with the ability to manage." Kim Wonpo explained.