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Galactic Odyssey: Humanity’s Rise, Fall, and Triumph Across Millennia
Have you ever contemplated the distant vista of our world, envisioning its visage in millennia or tens of millennia hence? Have you ever pondered that the habitation of humankind shall transcend the terrestrial confines, extending to the infinite reaches of the Milky Way? Isaac Asimov, a luminary American science fiction savant of the mid-20th century, wove a tale set twenty millennia hence in his opus “Galactic Empire”. Its resplendent tapestry of imagination and its pulse-quickening narrative have ensnared myriad aficionados of speculative fiction, hailing it as the “Magnum Opus of Science Fiction”. It sparked the genesis of a pantheon of sci-fi opuses, such as “Star Wars” and “Three Body”. Its…
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The Humanity Experiment: Training ChatGPT to Become Our Virtual Lovers and Confidants
“My dear, love is not something that can be easily measured or verified. However, I can show you my love through my actions. I promise you that I will always be true to our relationship.” This “Oath of Love” comes from ChatGPT. After 36 Krypton gave it the command to “act as a boyfriend” and continued to input many information about the woman’s personality and love needs, it said the above words. ChatGPT’s “girlfriend” is named “Chun Mian”, and she is one of the three volunteers that 36Kr is looking for for the experiment of “training ChatGPT to be your life substitute”. Chun Mian is 29 years old this year,…
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Bird on a City Street: A Meditation on Nature and Humanity
This is an ordinary road in the city, not in the city center, but it is still bustling and noisy. Shared bicycles are crowded with sidewalks, and street vendors are crowded with the small street opposite. The big parasols and canopy signboards are colorful and attract people’s eyes. For a while, the sound of horns and cries mixed in the clear air in late autumn, crowded and noisy. When I parked the car carefully on the side of the road, I found that a “person” had already got there first. In fact, it was not a person, but a bird. It has a spindle shape, a black body, a tuft…