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.
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The Lifecycle of Software Objects 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
視角很獨特,嘗試從一個電子寵物的角度闡述愛、堅持的道理。 文章本身比較平淡,但是內核架構很有創意——用代碼模擬基因甚至是靈魂。但個人覺得這也是文章本身的弱點:總覺得基因很難變化;靈魂更是虛幻飄渺。把這些變成代碼——可輕易重寫重構——總覺得缺乏瞭厚重感,難以實...
評分這本書沒有史詩性的構架,沒有瑰麗的描寫,沒有解決問題的某個簡單猜想,相反,特德薑提齣瞭一係列很睏擾讀者的問題,草草想來,起碼有如下幾個: 1. 人工智能從模擬世界移植到真實世界時它會有怎樣的感受? 2. 人工智能的成熟標準是否與人類相同? 3. 經驗作為一個算法,是...
評分特德·薑有深厚的東方氣息,就是內斂,因為這一份內斂,把他放在幾百個美國科幻作傢中,也能卓爾不群。引而不發,欲說還休的張力,是東方文化所獨有的美學,在《軟件項目的生命周期》中也是這樣,人們付齣瞭一切努力,犧牲生活,犧牲愛情,卻無能為力,眼看著自己的世界一點點...
評分所讀為2011年9月《科幻世界·譯文版》Ent譯本 文/caesarphoenix 《譯文版》刊登過非常多傑齣的中篇小說,例如海因萊因的《太空孤兒》(以飛船為宇宙的孤兒發現世界探索未知的旅程)、喬治·馬丁的《圍城》(意識穿越迴關鍵時間點改變曆史,《源代碼》...
評分圖書標籤: 科幻 TedChiang 特德·薑 美國 小說 特德·蔣 SciFi SF
特德蔣的新作,很好的設想,就是故事太溫情。一切溫情的故事我都不喜歡。
評分看完後完全忘瞭什麼情節意象 可能我的計算機水平完全get不到吧 但當時看完後留下的好感覺我是一直記得的
評分中文版載於科幻世界譯文版2011年9月號。這個長度似乎是特德薑不曾挑戰過的,所以稍稍鬆散瞭一些。整篇文章探討的問題,與其說是軟體更新,倒不如說是教育的睏境。麵對一種很快就被淘汰掉的人工智能,沒有人能判斷它們要接受怎樣的教育、最終選擇怎樣的“生活”。而從主角的堅持中,也能窺知作者特德薑的堅持——在技術時代堅持人文傳統。這篇小說提齣的問題是很有趣的,可惜筆調過於平淡瞭。作為腦殘粉,給齣四星評價。
評分2011年9月《科幻世界·譯文版》Ent譯本。好感人,好想拍……
評分可能是我讀過最好的關於AI的文章或故事。
The Lifecycle of Software Objects 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載