What changes will AIGC bring to ordinary people's lives as it continues to grow in popularity?

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AIGC, or artificial Intelligent-generated content, is once again in the spotlight: a chatbot program called ChatGPT has been making waves on social media.

Write papers, generate copy, paint, manufacture hardware, compose music... According to a survey conducted by Xinhua Viewpoint journalists, artificial intelligence technology is accelerating and creative work with significantly higher intelligence content is being carried out. What jobs, people ask, will be replaced by artificial intelligence in the future? How will AI change human life?

AIGC application scenarios continue to expand

ChatGPT, which has attracted much attention recently, was released by OpenAI, an American artificial intelligence company. Some people describe ChatGPT as "chatbot + knowledge retrieval + text generation tool". Not only can it interact with humans, but it can also perform a variety of specific tasks such as writing copy, writing papers, coding and translating. It attracts a lot of attention due to its smooth and natural multi-round dialogue ability, closer to human expression, and stronger problem solving ability.

In fact, in recent years, the application scenarios of artificial intelligence technology continue to expand.

According to Zhou Ming, chief scientist of Sinovation Works and founder of Lanzhou Technology, Mencius model developed by Lanzhou Technology has landed in marketing copy generation, literature assisted creation, research newspaper generation, paper assisted writing, digital face generation, news report writing, intelligent customer service and other fields.

According to the statistics of the cooperative enterprises, it only takes a few seconds to generate a marketing copy with the Mencius model, which costs about 2 yuan, while it costs about 60 yuan to write it completely by hand. Zhou Ming said that the Mencius model of learning knowledge is far more than the individual, "write" copywriting in the diversity and novelty of the advantages. "Overall, using AI-assisted creation to improve the efficiency of content production and reduce costs is the trend of The Times."

Wang Jinqiao, executive deputy director of the Zidong Taichu Large Model Research Center of the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, also introduced that the multi-mode virtual human "Xiaochu" built based on the "Zidong Taichu" large model, has video generation, intelligent question and answer, speech synthesis and other capabilities. "Zidong Taichu" also shows broad landing potential in industrial quality inspection, film and television creation, sign language teaching and other fields.

Baidu is planning to launch a ChatGPt-like artificial intelligence chatbot service called Wenxinyi, which will allow users to get conversational search results, the company learned.

According to the relevant person in charge, Baidu has a full stack layout in the four-tier AI architecture, including the bottom chip, deep learning framework, large model and the top search and other applications. Located on the mock-level, Wenxin Yi is scheduled to be completed in private beta and open to the public in March.

How will it change people's lives and work?

The reason why AIGC can accelerate the development is inseparable from the technological transition.

According to Wang, in recent years, the performance of tasks such as natural language processing, speech recognition and computer vision has been significantly improved through the "big data + big model" approach under unsupervised learning conditions. These technological changes have made AI increasingly "smart" and "empathetic" and, with extensive training, capable of exceeding human creativity in many areas of expertise, while also being able to communicate with humans smoothly.

"AI is so capable, what about me?" Many people are worried about AI's ability to answer all kinds of questions and data at will.

What jobs and jobs will be replaced in the future? How will more AIGC applications be implemented to change people's lives and work?

The surveyed experts generally believe that standardized and formalized creations and careers will be replaced more, while content and work with independent thinking and rich creativity will become more important.

Shenyang, a professor at Tsinghua University's School of Journalism and director of the Laboratory of Metacosmic Culture, believes that in the face of the changes brought about by ChatGPT, at least two capabilities should be strengthened: asking questions and optimizing answers. Jobs that require high levels of ability in both areas are less likely to be replaced.

Wang Jinqiao believes that AIGC can replace human beings more for occupations with clear boundaries and fixed domain knowledge, such as data analyst, customer service, tour guide, etc., or legal review, medical-assisted diagnosis, all kinds of data review and other scenarios. "Human-machine collaboration will be the long-term direction, but it is unlikely to replace humans completely for decades to come."

While reducing rework and improving productivity, AIGC will further stimulate creativity and bring more changes to different industries.

In Wang's opinion, AI can help humans reduce repetitive labor as it contains more and more knowledge and data. For example, in the home decoration industry, AIGC can generate more than 1000 kinds of placement, greatly reducing the work of drawing, etc., and human can carry out personalized optimization and improvement in these combinations.

Du Yu, founding partner of technology startup accelerator QAQ, analyzed that AIGC application will improve production efficiency, accelerate content production and product research and development process; Changing the source of information to optimize the user search experience; It would also lower the barriers to producing content on the Internet.

Professor Sun Maosong, executive deputy director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at Tsinghua University, led a team to develop the "Nine Songs" that can write poems in 2017. In his view, the AIGC helps expand the imagination of artistic creation. Influenced by their own habits, styles and preferences, creators tend to stick to a certain subspace in their imagination. Artificial intelligence can better stimulate artistic creativity without shackles and constraints.

Healthy development requires deep cooperation across disciplines and fields

What about AIGC and its future prospects?

It is believed that this is the infrastructure of the future Internet world and will "open up the new era". Others complained that ChatGPT was "full of words", lacked common sense and could not understand things in essence.

Shenyang used the term "generational upgrade" to describe the changes brought by ChatGPT. In his opinion, the AIGC and ChatGPt-like industry will develop rapidly in the next two or three years, bringing further upgrading and changes in mobile Internet functions.

Industry insiders believe that overall, AIGC has a broad space for development in the future, but there are still many problems in content quality, investment costs, privacy regulations, copyright ownership and other aspects.

Shenyang said it has found limitations in ChatGPT, such as insufficient professional coverage based on intellectual property and copyright restrictions. Lack of ability to deal with repetitive problems.

Better modeling methods are needed for long text generation, video generation and integration into world knowledge, Zhou said. Enhancing AI capabilities by increasing model parameters is costly for training and reasoning, and more economical and effective ways of improving performance need to be explored.

In addition, privacy protection is a concern. Wang Jinqiao believes that the privacy protection of relevant apps has not set clear boundaries, and relevant laws need to be further clarified.

Li Jianping, a researcher at the Tiger Character Think Tank, believes that ChatGPT, like other AI models, is a double-edged sword, which can either improve efficiency or be abused for harmful activities such as plagiarism, fraud and spreading misinformation. For the cybersecurity industry, for example, it can be used both to generate malware and as a powerful tool for cyber defenders.

In terms of regulations, AIGC differs greatly from human content production mode and efficiency, and new problems such as copyright ownership and standard determination will also appear. The provider and user of the technology shall accelerate the collaboration to build a complete and executable technical application specification.

According to Zhou, AI technologists need to work with interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary experts and government departments to build a solid regulatory framework, so as to promote the healthy development of AIGC and meet the needs of society