"Good technology, explore the future with imagination and temperature"
Dr. zhang is a world-famous expert in computer vision and multimedia technology. In the morning conversation, together with Wang Xudong, president of the Palace Museum, philosopher Zhou and science fiction writer Hao, we discussed in depth the relationship between science and technology and culture, and how science and technology can be good. ?
As a science fiction writer, Hao studied in the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University, and later studied for a doctorate in economics. He has been writing novels in his spare time and is currently doing a lot of work related to cross-border. She agrees with Cheng Wu, vice president of Tencent Group and CEO of Tencent Pictures. Science, technology, art and culture are all indispensable forces to promote the development of human history to this day, while science, humanities and art should be human nature in the final analysis. People naturally yearn for the unity of truth, goodness and beauty, and science, technology, humanities and art should not be separated in real life. "Today's technology is the culture of the future. Humans should strive to narrow the cognitive gap between different groups of people and let everyone enjoy the beautiful life brought by technology. "
When the philosopher Zhou talked about the understanding of "goodness", he thought that goodness was a particularly important concept in philosophy. From Socrates, Plato to Aristotle, the core of their philosophical discussion is goodness. "Goodness is a beautiful life", Zhou thinks that from the perspective of science and technology, how science and technology bring people a beautiful life is the meaning of goodness. In his view, science and technology should be understood from four levels. The first is the functional level: technology brings progress, convenience and efficiency to all fields of human life, and can also protect human culture. The second is the social level: fairness, justice and universal access to science and technology, taking into account knowledge and intellectual property rights. "How to make scientific and technological achievements more equally enjoyed by all sectors of society? Science and technology inclusiveness is such a concept, which includes issues related to fairness and justice, such as knowledge enjoyment on the Internet and the balance between knowledge enjoyment and intellectual property protection.
The third is the ethical level: in fertility intervention, genetic engineering, cloning and so on. Where is the ethical bottom line of science and technology? Life science and computer science are at the forefront of scientific development, many of which involve challenges and threats to human ethics and family ethics. He proposed to discuss the boundary of science and technology from the perspective of ethics.
The fourth is the spiritual level: respect for spiritual values. Whether technology can make people's spiritual life develop better. Should the development of artificial intelligence and other technologies follow some basic laws of nature? While science and technology promote material progress, in order to improve the quality of human spiritual life, cooperation between science and technology and humanities is needed to solve this problem.
Speaking of "science and technology is good", President Wang Xudong believes that when people's goodness is greater than evil, science and technology must be good. So the goodness of science and technology is mainly the goodness of people.
Regarding Zhou's worries, Zhang, who has been engaged in scientific research for nearly 35 years, as a scientist, adheres to the concept of "science and technology have a good prescription, and choose good deeds". From a historical perspective, he said that mankind has experienced many technological revolutions, but each technological revolution has greatly promoted the progress of human society, and mankind is about to enter an information intelligent society. Zhang believes that human beings have enough wisdom to solve the negative effects brought by new technologies. In a short time, artificial intelligence will not develop to have the ability to destroy mankind. Even with this ability, human beings will have intelligent control in the future. Society and government need to have policies and ethical norms, so that technology can serve mankind to the greatest extent and prevent bad people from using it to do evil. Enterprises should also choose and take responsibility from the perspective of social value and humanistic value.
For example, Zhang said that Tencent has done a lot of work in science and technology, such as AI+ agriculture, planting cucumbers with artificial intelligence technology, comparable to agricultural experts with 20 years of experience; In addition, we also use wildlife protection and face recognition technology to kidnap and find people. In the final analysis, technology should go deep into all walks of life to serve mankind, not control mankind.
Zhang and Wang Xudong also discussed in detail how science and technology can better protect and create culture.
Wang Chuang Xu Dong believes that we should resonate with this era. The cultural relics in the museum are the crystallization of human wisdom for thousands or even tens of thousands of years. In the past, because of scientific and technological progress and conceptual problems, rich cultural treasures did not benefit the people. In the digital age, we need to establish a * * *, and use digital technology to spread the protection results and research results, so that more people can understand it. It is impossible for people in the field of cultural relics to digitize cultural relics as soon as possible, and to establish a database platform and exchange platform to realize * * *, which requires cooperation. Therefore, the cooperation between the Palace Museum and Tencent and other companies and institutions is to transform it so that more people can understand and benefit.
Wang Chuang Xu Dong believes that the research results in the field of cultural relics protection in the digital age should be more of a public welfare nature, and some preliminary investment is needed, but at some point it is hoped to be free.
"Technology also brings more possibilities for artistic creation."
Science and technology not only contribute to the protection and innovation of culture, but also bring more possibilities for artistic creation. Dr. Liu Shan is committed to shaping the panoramic interactive media form of human future life with science and technology. In the morning forum dialogue unit 2, she discussed the integration of science and art with Bing Xu, Fei Jun and Wang Boqiao, three practitioners who used multimedia technology to explore art.
Liu Shan believes that technology and science have many * * * characteristics, one is to create, that is, to create with your heart, and the other is to pursue the ultimate. Since ancient times, art and science have never been separated, but deeply integrated. Science is rational art, and art is perceptual science, both of which are seeking truth.
The explosive development of science and technology provides more forms of expression for art, but artists should not be afraid of being impacted by powerful science and technology when doing art. From the perspective of science and technology workers, it is hoped that artists should have the core of art, and science and technology should actively serve art. At present, the whole society is anxious and needs the active response of the scientific and literary circles.
As for the boundary of virtual reality, Liu Shan believes that from a purely technical point of view, the boundary may become increasingly blurred or even disappear. From a philosophical point of view, whether this boundary will disappear depends on whether we want it to disappear or accept it.
The world is becoming more and more complex and multifaceted. Liu Shan thinks that a balance should be found. Liu Shan takes VR navigation products as an example. People can visit all kinds of cultural relics and museums at home without leaving home, but everything has two sides, which may cause people to be too lazy to go out. Therefore, the more technology develops, the more balance should be found. "Whether it is science or art, we still need to seize its soul."
Regarding science and technology and art, Bing Xu, a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, said that he had seen some science and technology art exhibitions, and there was often only science and technology without art, and there was no ideological fluctuation of art. Many interesting works were not attracted by art, but by technology.
Therefore, he believes that if there is only science and technology in works of art, artists can't provide strong artistic concepts, and science and technology art will soon become old art because there are always new technologies.
As an artist, Bing Xu believes that the future world brought by digital technology will be a double-edged sword: "Humans always want to create robots to replace themselves, but before creating robots, they must first turn themselves into a" monster "that combines AI people and natural people. It is possible to see the goal of life growth. Once this day comes, almost everything we are discussing about civilization, knowledge and values needs to be reinvented. "
"Each of us is cooperating with our mobile phones and releasing them to the world at any time. Is this the real you or another you? Or a part of you or a fake you, we are actually more and more unable to judge. " Bing Xu said that as an artist, he does not pay attention to science and technology itself, but to the changes that science and technology have brought to people's lifestyles and ways of thinking, and extracts a creative energy from it to support creative thinking, creative inspiration and motivation. This is his work facing the world.
Fei Jun, a professor at the School of Design of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, believes that at present, some arts excessively consume high technology, and making use of the dividend of technology itself has become the core of their works. In his view, the best way to live safely in the digital world is to learn to live in anxiety. "We should learn to use this anxiety, even control our anxiety and accept it. Artists have to accept or learn three kinds of changes: the first is the change of the workplace, and the virtual space and the real space disappear and merge together to build a new mixed space, which I call mixed space.
The second is the change of working methods, which we must deal with in the way of real laboratory ability.
The third change is the change of the artist's mission. The artist's output of ethics has also become a very important value output of this era. "
"The combination of science and technology and humanity is the only way for science and technology to be good". Wang Boqiao, the curator of digital art exhibition with the theme of "dwelling" and the founder of digital China, further looked forward to the possibility of world art in the future. He said, "When the boundary between art and technology disappears, the soul will roam freely in the spiritual universe. In the future, human beings may be physically and psychologically connected with everything in the world through science and technology, and the mixed space of art and technology may be everyone's spiritual habitat.
"Science and technology expand the boundaries of life, and humanity guards the spiritual road."
At the morning meeting, Yan Feng, a professor in the Chinese Department of Fudan University, said that many virtual applications have ended and even fake applications have appeared due to the duplication caused by technology. On the one hand, what we see is only the beautiful shell created by science and technology. Where is the real and vivid life? He has always been a sci-fi fan, full of longing for the future: "Science and technology expand the boundaries of life, and humanity guards the spiritual road." Bi Shumin, a famous writer and psychologist, Shuhei Aoyama, an architect, and Dr. Zhang Shengyu, the head of Tencent Quantum Laboratory, discussed the relationship between technology and people.
Bi Shumin has his own keen observation and experience of people's psychological state and happiness experience in the digital age. She believes that some technologies are aimed at the weaknesses of human nature and tout the dark parts of human nature, such as the self-portrait beauty function. Science is neutral, so technology has a strong tendency. She hopes that technical practitioners have higher humanity.
Bi Shumin also reminded technology that whether its understanding of culture is accurate or not, we should be vigilant. Therefore, to live safely in the digital world, we must first make sure that the digital world is not the whole world, and there will always be a real world outside the digital world. Enron should be peaceful and peaceful, which is natural and natural.
"I am cautiously optimistic about the future of mankind and the digital world. I don't think technology can directly bring happiness. Happiness is always the achievement of the soul. Science and technology are constantly changing the connotation of happiness and providing more convenient conditions for human happiness. Therefore, scientific and technological progress is a very important source for improving personal happiness. But remember, this is not the only source. We can't think that we will be happy as long as we have technology. After all, happiness is the achievement of the soul, not anything else. "
Shuhei Aoyama, an architect, paid special attention to the improvement of people's living space by science and technology. He also introduced how to transform Beijing's hutong buildings into small homestays to preserve the unique memory of the city. He believes that industrial products can be copied and replaced, and he is exploring how to transform industrial products into unique and personalized handicrafts and creative materials.
Zhang Shengyu's research fields are mainly quantum computing, algorithm design, computational complexity analysis and basic research of artificial intelligence. Zhang Shengyu thinks that quantum technology is just one of many technologies, and it is one of many technologies, which is juxtaposed with nanotechnology and artificial intelligence, and can't solve all the problems. Zhang Shengyu explained that quantum mechanics is basically based on the microscopic world to understand the whole nature. The interaction between micro-world and macro-world refers to each other. It is natural to combine quantum and machine learning with artificial intelligence. Of course, we should understand nature externally, and we should also understand human beings internally. Zhang Shengyu also agrees with humanists. He said, "Whether it is artificial intelligence or any technology in the future, we should design an ethical framework as soon as possible and don't let it go out of this framework. Digital and information technology is not a scourge, but can supplement humanities and art. "