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《荒潮》出版后，帆布袋訂做15838231350很多人問陳楸帆，原來你是潮汕人啊。這位剛獲得了茅盾新人獎的80后科幻作家曾任職于百度和谷歌中國，目前定居上海。
《荒潮》的英文版書評中，不少老外驚艷于作者塑造出一部充滿張力的科幻史詩。在這部史詩里，作者對中國古老傳統和現代精準技術的描寫無縫對接。
他節假日回潮汕幾乎每天喝功夫茶，上海的辦公室里也有一套茶具，參加文學活動或者約人卻總在咖啡館。他和李開復合作的新書《AI2041》大約就是在咖啡和功夫茶的輪換中完成的。
這本新書被《紐約時報》和《華爾街日報》等很多外媒評為2021年度必讀的科幻佳作，也是陳楸帆的一次新嘗試。李開復放眼20年后的世界，架構了10幅人工智能的“技術藍圖”，陳楸帆則據此構思了10個發生在世界各地的故事。
早在《人生算法》里，陳楸帆就曾經嘗試AI寫作。他讓一個名為“陳楸帆2.0”的AI程序對其既往作品進行“學習”，然后再根據他輸入的關鍵詞自動生成一些文字章節。他說AI生成的文風和他很像，但是并沒有完整的故事情節，更像散文。
最后AI所寫的部分大約占了整篇小說的百分之十。有意思的是，當年《思南文學選刊》用AI程序來評出最佳短篇小說，《人生算法》力壓莫言拔得頭籌。也許人工智能在茫茫的作品中識別了同伴？
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."
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