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In the past few days, we have visited the Inclusion Bund Conference for three days, which is a high-level conference that regularly opens the global financial, technology and industry in Shanghai in September every year. It sounds very tall and sophisticated, doesn't it? But when we first came to report on the first day, to be honest, what we felt was not the breath of elite humans that came to our face, but...Why are robots everywhere!
The robot maintains order at the door;
The robot patrolled on the scene;
The robot is still pulling the spoon in the kitchen!
The warm atmosphere at the scene made me even have the illusion that silicon-based talents are the protagonists of the Bund Conference.
In a robot football match, the robot fought hard in the game and was so full of hormones. During the game, a robot found Zhao Lina, a former goalkeeper of the Chinese women's football team, standing outside the field, and immediately came to compete with his idol. If it weren't for its silicon-based face, I would have almost regarded it as a kind of person at that moment.
Of course, there are also "turnover" scenes. In the robot boxing match, a robot was knocked to the ground by his opponent, and the human assistant had to take action and drag it back to the field to stand up.
But it is normal to think about it. After all, no matter how smart you are, you still need manual support. This little episode in the budding stage of technology is an indispensable overture at the beginning of every technological change.
When we visited the exhibition area on the Bund, we had a new understanding of this new human partner. They are becoming our guardians and companions.
For example, we saw an elderly man wearing a robot exoskeleton, experiencing the robot's simulation of human therapist's techniques, and conducting light and soft upper limb rehabilitation training.
In the simulation drill field of the robot professional skills exhibition competition, we saw the robot crossing the "desert", climbing over the "highland", entering the "factory", operating the electric box switch knives, inserting gunpowder detonators, and even saving a "baby" in the ruins.
A sentence from a technical guy on the scene made me, a liberal arts student, look at me with admiration:Where humans need to be protected is the direction of AI moving forward.
In addition to young people, there are many families, elderly people and children who come to the Bund to watch and experience the robot. We ran into a grandma holding a robot dinosaur in line to experience the AI doctor's medical treatment (Is this trying to get a dinosaurs to sign up?); some parents put on VR glasses to experience the "four-meter-high adult" and experience the visual experience of the child in the adult world; there is also a child holding grandpa in one hand and busy interacting with a robot in the other...
These scenes give us a feeling of being poked, and the smallest sample of "technology is for everyone" is alive here.
This year's Bund Conference received the American Pioneer Science and Technology Festival, which is known as the "Southwest-Southwest" and greets the air. Neil Minocha, vice president of strategic cooperation at "Southwest and South-to-South" said in his speech: Technology not only concerns grand ideas, but also affects daily life and creative expression.
The scenes about human-computer symbiosis that we witnessed on the spot are precisely the "big narrative" of AI into "small scenes". They are not only a microcosm of the accelerated implementation of AI in the past year and entering the daily life of ordinary people, but also a concrete response to the ten questions about science and technology and humanities of the Bund Conference.
Neil Minocha greeted the Bund Conference with video
As the "certain brand dish" of each Bund Conference, this year's ten questions about science and technology and humanities were first asked by AI to humans. These ten questions ultimately point in one direction:Whether you like it or not, the future of human-computer symbiosis is already on the way. As humans, adaptation needs to coexist with the wave of technology, and prepare for all unknown possibilities.
Two of the ten questions: Are you willing to let AI manage your health profile? If AI can help you optimize your quality of life, how much privacy would you be willing to give up? Reflecting the past year, AI has penetrated into the medical track, and medical treatment and health management have become the most familiar and urgent scenarios for ordinary people to experience and experience "human-machine symbiosis".
Look at the lively AQ booth in the technology market. This is the AI health manager launched by Ant Group at the end of June this year. People line up to experience the AQ to make the "emergency room" and "famous doctors" intelligent, and to answer everyone's health questions 7×24 hours a day with 300 famous doctors' AI clones.
AQ also debuted its smart skin detection feature at the Bund Conference. An 82-year-old Shanghai grandma measured on the spot that her skin was 20 years younger than her actual age, so happy that she was flying.
The old man also gave his CT film to the "Dayi Zhiying" of the DAMO Academy to take a look. This medical imaging assistance tool can complete the sun removal of 5 types of cancers, 1 type of emergency warning, and 4 types of chronic disease management based on the imaging results of a CT scan of the chest and abdomen.
Obviously, most doctors and patients choose to actively embrace this question raised by AI. However, this hug requires a "sense of proportion".
">"In the medical industry, AI decision-making is directly related to life and health and social fairness. Data abuse, algorithm bias, and vague responsibilities need to be solved urgently." Huang Chengqing, vice chairman of the China Internet Association and member of the Trust and Beast Association, said at the Bund Conference that building a credible, reliable and traceable AI governance system has become an inherent requirement for technological development and an inevitable choice for social responsibility.
The other two questions raised by AI were also the question that people began to worry and discuss: In addition to using AI to reduce costs and increase efficiency, which positions should be left to humans forever? If AI can no longer rely on labor in the future, will you still work?
At the main forum of the Bund Conference, the guests gave positive answers to these two questions:AI will not replace humans, provided that it is clear and adheres to the ability that belongs to humans alone.
Richard Sutton, winner of the 2024 Turing Award and the "father of reinforcement learning", believes that "collaboration is our great superpower, and the most outstanding superpower of human beings is that we are better at collaboration than any other animal."
The solution given by Wang Xingxing, founder and CEO of Yushu Technology, is, "Forget past experiences, learn the latest knowledge of the present, and embrace the new era with all your might." He said that the AI era is very fair. As long as you are smart and willing to do things, "there will eventually be towering trees in the desert."
Another roundtable guest, Su Hao, tenured professor at the University of California, San Diego and founder of Hillbot, is that in the future, those who can have the courage to break the old cognitive framework, embrace new forms, and are willing to learn and challenge will be more competitive.
The main forum's roundtable discussion theme is: "AI native era, there is no new continent on the old map"
Other soul-questioning thrown by AI—
If AI can help you optimize your quality of life, how much privacy would you be willing to give up?
How do humans ensure that vulnerable groups also benefit from AI progress?
Will you actively block some AI help in order not to deteriorate your abilities?
Are you worried that AI hallucinations and information cocoons will bring humans into the ditch? …
In essence, these questions are asking humans: In the irreversible wave of the AI era, what are we willing to give to AI and what are we reserved for ourselves? What are our choices for "human beings"? Because, "Your answer determines that you wish I was a super tool that absolutely obeys, or a partner with potential autonomy."
"Single speed is not progress." The sentence by Yuval Harari, author of the "Brief History of Humanity" at the Bund Main Forum is impressive. He believes that what is really worth worrying about is not the technology itself, but the choice of human beings. For the sake of commercial advantages, the impulse to deploy technology regardless of the security boundaries. History has proven many times that speed and safety can coexist, but the premise is that we build a closed loop of self-correction mechanism.
Richard Sutton, the "father of reinforcement learning", shared on the main forum a heart-stirring feeling of "I'm going to go even if I have thousands of people":"Artificial intelligence is the inevitable next step in the evolution of the universe, and we should welcome it with courage, pride and adventure."He divided the history of the universe into four eras: the particle age, the stellar age, the replicator era and the design era. He believes that the uniqueness of human beings is to "push design to the extreme" and create things that can be designed by themselves, which is exactly what we pursue today through artificial intelligence. Human beings are at least a catalyst, a midwife, and a pioneer in the fourth largest era in the universe - the "design era".
These humanistic reflections issued by the Bund have mutual verification and contending opinions, but in any case, a basic consensus has become clear: human-computer symbiosis has become a fact, and we must take steady and wise every step towards it.
As the Fintech and Frontier Technology Conference, which is as famous as the Singapore Fintech Festival and the Hong Kong Fintech Week, the humanistic attitude and cross-border perspective of the Bund Conference make this stage that belongs to the financial and technological elites full of various humanistic details and technological warmth.
The highest frequency words we hear on the main forum and major sub-forums on the first day of the Bund Conference were not "parameters", "computing power" or "subversion", but "experience", "learning", "collaboration" and "co-creation";
In various forums and innovators with the post-90s and post-00s as the main force, we frequently meet faces and voices from the humanities and social sciences fields such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, futurology, art;
AI singer Yuri created by Zhao Hanqing, the founder of History Studio and AI.TALK, with the single Surreal, has exceeded 7 million views across the network. Standing on the Bund Innovator stage, he shared his feelings about AI: "AI will not kill creation, but it will kill mediocrity."
In the Bund technology market, which accounts for half of the exhibition area is the pursuit of "technology for everyone" products and technical solutions;
"Above technology, there is humanity", this is actually not only the attitude of the Bund Conference, but also a consensus that the global academic and technological community has formed. Looking around the world, more and more universities and technology companies have chosen to stand on the side of people in the wave of the AI era, in the process of AI and people running in and symbiosis, and in the process of technological dividends and ethical risks.
In the past few years, domestic universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University, and Xi'an Jiaotong University have successively established laboratories related to science and technology ethics; international famous universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, Georgia Tech, and the University of Pennsylvania have also devoted themselves to research cooperation in AI value alignment, algorithm governance, privacy protection and risk prevention.
Internet and technology giants have also joined hands with universities or industry partners to fund and promote research on AI ethics.
The value of these collaborations and actions lies in—
When scientific and technological ethics research becomes the standard for more and more universities, installing a humanistic steering wheel and brake system for the super engine of AI, we are expected to establish systems and habits that are compatible with the development of AI faster;
When the awe and constraints of technology (rather than blind racing) become the conscious values of more and more technology companies, every detail from algorithms to products may be embedded in the mechanism to clarify the boundaries of human machines, So that maintains and amplifies the wisdom of "human beings" without weakening or substituting it;
When reflections on "human beings" and alertness to defending human decisions are issued over and over again at international influential science and technology conferences, these voices will gradually become our consensus and common sense;
Today is the last day of the 2025 Bund Conference. If you want to summarize its value, then its insistence and leading humanistic attitude must be one of them.
【Today's Topic】
What do you most hope AI can help you?
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