
“Since I can make you real, I can also remake Dung Foo Kei for you, so that in my narration, through the imaginative mode of the text workshop, I can recreate all things that have become the past.”
Works And Creations, As Vivid As Real
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Why Should I Publish a Book Using NFT?
Works and Creations, As Vivid As Real is going to be republished in the form of an NFT book. Nearly twenty years after the initial edition, the new version has been thoroughly revised and a brand new chapter added as a preface. It is natural to ask: Why not reprint in physical form? Let me assume you are a reader who primarily buys physical books, with the occasional eBook purchase. I will try to explain my reasons for publishing using NFT in a thousand words, and I hope to win your support.
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Literary Writing in the Age of AI Dominance
Saying that ChatGPT dominates the world is not an exaggeration. Its emergence will change the way future generations use language, in turn affecting human language abilities and the criteria for evaluating language works. As a machine that mimics and generates natural language, it will make language no longer natural but entirely artificial. The boundary between human and machine writing will become blurred, or even no longer important. It thoroughly subverts human cognition of language.
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The Fault of AI? Or of Man?
When OpenAI first introduced GPT-2 in early 2019, I once compared it to Calvino’s perspective on literary machines. Calvino believed that language itself is a combinatorial game of signs, a matter of how to put one word after another. The operation of large language models (LLM) like GPT-2 is to predict the best possible next word based on massive learning data and high-speed computation, following the conventions of natural language. There are indeed superficial similarities between the two. Now that the latest GPT-4 has been released, I find it necessary to correct my original view.
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The Showdown between AI and Web3?
Since OpenAI launched its chatbot program, ChatGPT, and Microsoft integrated similar functions into its search engine, Bing, investors have been eagerly investing in artificial intelligence technology. Some even predict that funds will flow from the cryptocurrency market to AI projects, further impacting blockchain-related businesses that have recently been hit hard by the US financial sector. As the two revolutionary technologies of our time, is AI really in direct competition with Web3 (which includes blockchain, applications built on it, and cryptocurrencies)?
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Literary Writing in the Age of AI Domination (English version by ChatGPT)
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) has had a profound impact on numerous fields, including literature. With the rise of language models such as ChatGPT, which have the ability to produce coherent and sophisticated language, there are concerns that AI may replace human writers altogether. In this essay, we will explore the impact of ChatGPT on the reading and writing of literature and suggest how writers can react to this situation.