On January 20, the new open source strong reasoning model of the official version of O1 was released. With its low-cost and high-performance features, the application topped the Apple app stores in China and the United States for free in just one week. APP download rankings.

The shock wave brought to the global technology circle in the New Year of the Snake is no less than the shock brought by the emergence of two years ago. Many creators have also begun to use it to try to create literature, and the quality of the generated text has caused complex emotions such as surprises and concerns. Faced with the new phenomenon of domestic advanced artificial intelligence intervening in creation, this article provides observations and interpretations from the perspectives of human tool evolution and ethical construction.

Text/Xu Zhaoshou

In the 1990s, when we started writing with computers, many criticisms appeared in newspapers, saying that computers would ruin writing and even the human soul. At present, it only greatly expands our hands. Looking further, it is said that when Huangdi ordered Cangjie to create characters, "The sky rains and millet, and ghosts cry at night." Modern people must not believe it, but the ancients believed it.

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When the Internet appeared, there was also a "wailing" in the media. Many people have predicted the death of literature. In fact, the expression of literature is rapidly permeating popular literature and art. When short videos appear, writers and scholars also pessimistically examine it, but now many people cannot do without it.

On the other hand, when cars were invented, people were happy because it extended our feet infinitely; when photography technology, the Internet and short videos appeared, many people were excited because it expanded us infinitely. The eyes allow us to see the world that we could not see before; when the telephone was invented, we must have been surprised how it could communicate with our distant relatives through a thread, and now, even that thread does not exist anymore; When we use electricity to boil water instead of fire, we are no longer surprised that we can boil water without fire, because the magic of electricity is not surprising; the "Internet Generation" may not be surprised by the Internet and artificial intelligence technology. They may think that the world is like this.

I was thinking that when the ancients were creating words by listening to the sound of ghost crying and trying to carve words on the rock wall or on the tortoise shell with stones, they must have hoped that there would be more advanced tools to replace the stone. As a result, tools made by wood and diamond are gradually replaced by metal tools, and how panicked the moment when machines replace human labor. When we are desperately learning all the knowledge in the world, how we hope that all this process will disappear and we have all the knowledge in the world without any effort. Science fiction, gods and time travel dramas are all expressing all these fantasies, so the dictionary appears , but it is still artificial and has not caused panic to humans. Only when the Internet appears, humans have real panic, especially teachers, those of us who teach human knowledge, are panic. Now, artificial intelligence is emerging again, and people don’t know how to deal with it.

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So, my conclusion is that vehicles such as cars extend our feet, digital devices such as computers and mobile phones extend our hands, hearing, vision, and the Internet and artificial intelligence expand our brains infinitely. Yes, everything is a tool created by our human thoughts. Without our thoughts, these things will have no roots, no chance to come out, and it will be even more impossible to evolve.

Now let’s talk about the evolution of artificial intelligence. There is always a group of people talking about how artificial intelligence will replace humans in the future, but I firmly believe it cannot replace humans. In a more general sense, it is still just a tool, even if it has computing power that humans cannot have, it is still just a tool. We have lost one ability and at the same time we have another ability, but we have different habits.

Recently, I used an attempt to write a group of poems on the theme of Kumarajiva, with a total of eleven poems, and my students also wrote one. Different, because the commands are different. After I posted it on the official account, I signed my name and I, which was a co-signature. A friend immediately said that it was writing, not mine. And I want to say that we are currently co-signed, and when people use it universally, it will disappear and still become only ourselves. It's still a tool.

Ultimately, people’s panic about artificial intelligence comes from whether it will eventually have a soul, and people worry that it surpasses itself in the mind. Perhaps so far, all organs of our human beings have tools to extend, and the "six senses" of eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind have been infinitely extended. What else can't be extended? It seems that only the soul is left. Modern people do not believe in the soul, but they still realize that we have a unique ability to feel, temporarily calling it the soul, and some people also refer to it as the spirit and consciousness. We are afraid that artificial intelligence will one day control humans, which involves the ethics, consciousness and other aspects of human souls and technology.

The elderly in the countryside have a sense of houses, that is, houses are conscious. When you want to live in it, they are alive and full of vitality. When you don’t live, they will break for no reason and eventually collapse. Lose. This is just a superficial phenomenon. The more common understanding of houses among the elderly is that they must conform to the ethics set by ancient saints for us, which is the ethics of ancient architecture. These ethical ideas are mastered by a group of Feng Shui masters. There are rules in operation wherever the center of the house is built, where the main door and back door are built, where the bedroom is built, where the bed is installed, and the desk is placed. The buildings completed according to this rule, such as the courtyard house in the north, including the Forbidden City, the Wudang Mountain complex, and many famous temples and ancient cities. To put it another way, ancient people had their own big data system about architecture. Fuxi's painting of the Eight Trigrams is a big data result obtained by the ancients' observation and experience for hundreds of thousands of years. Nuwa repairing the sky is also a revision of the rules derived from this big data. These are all sciences of the ancients, and the people use them every day without realizing them.

Cars are called machines. Most people think they have no soul, but if you love it, you will have joyful emotions every day and praise it, it will be one with you, people and cars, and will protect you. It actually has a soul. Zhuangzi said, where is the Tao? In the middle of everything. Tao is the spirit and soul. People and all things are tools, so Tao is in tools. It’s just that people have a higher understanding of Tao. More things may not exist, but they only exist naturally unconsciously.

I think the Internet and artificial intelligence are the same. What we like is that it extends our capabilities infinitely, but we also worry that it is unethical. Now it is time for us to think about what kind of ethics it should have. With ethics, we will believe it, adapt to it, and use it unconsciously. On the contrary, it may be dangerous. Therefore, people's worries are not without reason. Some technologists say it will evolve infinitely and even replace humans, obviously because they are not aware of ethical issues. Without ethical rules, computers, the Internet and artificial intelligence will certainly control us one day. So, what kind of artificial intelligence can be created to conform to the laws of human development?

One of the answers is to find traditional Chinese philosophy. If the Tao follows nature, then the heaven and man will be united. Everything must have rules and ethics of unity with nature, which is auspicious new thing for mankind.