The Lifecycle of Software Objects

出版者:Subterranean

作者:Ted Chiang

页数:150

出版时间:2010-7-31

价格:USD 25.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781596063174

图书标签:科幻TedChiang特德·姜美国小说特德·蒋SciFiSF

What's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, 'Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English. This process could follow the normal teaching of a child. Things would be pointed out and named, etc. Again I do not know what the right answer is, but I think both approaches should be tried.'

The first approach has been tried many times in both science fiction and reality. In this new novella, at over 30,000 words, his longest work to date, Ted Chiang offers a detailed imagining of how the second approach might work within the contemporary landscape of startup companies, massively-multiplayer online gaming, and open-source software. It's a story of two people and the artificial intelligences they helped create, following them for more than a decade as they deal with the upgrades and obsolescence that are inevitable in the world of software. At the same time, it's an examination of the difference between processing power and intelligence, and of what it means to have a real relationship with an artificial entity.

读后感

人工智能题材一直是科幻的最爱之一。从哈尔9000到天网，从AI中的小男孩到机器人瓦力，大家对这些AI形象耳熟能详。但仔细想想AI是怎么发展过来的？很少有作家写清楚。绝大多数科幻小说里，AI似乎都是一下子觉醒了过来，接下来就开始和人类展开各种复杂关系了。而老姜的这篇《软...  

所读为2011年9月《科幻世界·译文版》Ent译本 文/caesarphoenix 《译文版》刊登过非常多杰出的中篇小说，例如海因莱因的《太空孤儿》（以飞船为宇宙的孤儿发现世界探索未知的旅程）、乔治·马丁的《围城》（意识穿越回关键时间点改变历史，《源代码》...  

这本书没有史诗性的构架，没有瑰丽的描写，没有解决问题的某个简单猜想，相反，特德姜提出了一系列很困扰读者的问题，草草想来，起码有如下几个： 1. 人工智能从模拟世界移植到真实世界时它会有怎样的感受？ 2. 人工智能的成熟标准是否与人类相同？ 3. 经验作为一个算法，是...  

视角很独特，尝试从一个电子宠物的角度阐述爱、坚持的道理。 文章本身比较平淡，但是内核架构很有创意——用代码模拟基因甚至是灵魂。但个人觉得这也是文章本身的弱点：总觉得基因很难变化；灵魂更是虚幻飘渺。把这些变成代码——可轻易重写重构——总觉得缺乏了厚重感，难以实...  

用户评价

可能是我读过最好的关于AI的文章或故事。

2011年9月《科幻世界·译文版》Ent译本。好感人，好想拍……

SFW译文版

这几年对科幻小说的喜爱淡了，对人工智能之类的题材也不抱太大兴趣~都是被生活的压力逼的~~

中文版载于科幻世界译文版2011年9月号。这个长度似乎是特德姜不曾挑战过的，所以稍稍松散了一些。整篇文章探讨的问题，与其说是软体更新，倒不如说是教育的困境。面对一种很快就被淘汰掉的人工智能，没有人能判断它们要接受怎样的教育、最终选择怎样的“生活”。而从主角的坚持中，也能窥知作者特德姜的坚持——在技术时代坚持人文传统。这篇小说提出的问题是很有趣的，可惜笔调过于平淡了。作为脑残粉，给出四星评价。