Chapter 774: Earth-shaking Changes [Three More Requests for Subscription]

Just as the people who drifted in Yanjing were called North Drifters.

If a person lives in New York, then he is a New Yorker.

It has been said that New York is the capital of the world!

It's like a melting pot of cultures, where you can see all kinds of people.

People of any color, of any ethnicity, of any creed, can find a place to settle here.

The Big Apple is an eclectic and complex environment that makes The New Yorker unique!

If you ask a New Yorker what best represents the spirit of the city, the answer would probably be this magazine that grew up with New York.

The high-quality content and solid readership make it free and capricious in the current cold winter of print media.

The rest of the media have cut back on their patience and shortened their reporting cycles because of the decline in readers.

The New Yorker, on the other hand, still adheres to the tradition of producing only one manuscript every two or three months by important authors, and each article of about 10,000 words needs a week or two to proofread.

So their style isn't blowing in the wind, it's thanks to a strict control of the weekly content!

Just look at the current lineup of the editorial department of The New Yorker: 39 copy editors, 11 literary and art critics in music, film criticism, and book review, 15 in the art and design department, 16 in the copyright department, 18 in the fact-checking department, 8 editorial assistants, and 21 in production, library, and public relations.

In addition, there are 70 contributing writers, 24 comic illustrators, and 5 photographers.

The lineup is very luxurious!

The number of contracted employees is on par with that of The New York Times.

But it's just a weekly, and the latter is a daily newspaper.

Susie Foster is just one of more than 100 employees!

She thought it was a prank call, but she didn't expect the fax machine to start working, and she kept dialing out a dozen or so sheets of A4 paper, with the address of Random House.

"Did this Zhang Chu really write a sci-fi short story?"

The impact of information asymmetry is like this, and Susie doesn't have the idea that there is anything called "AI".

But to verify the information, she googled the keywords.

The powerful search software instantly brought the results to her, and there were already many readers asking on the Internet!

"God, it's been almost ten days. Why can't we see the English version of artificial intelligence yet?"

"Whoever goes to Chinese social media to remind him, many of us are still waiting. ”

"In fact, I have quietly used Google Translate to take a look at the artificial intelligence, but this translation really needs to be a little smarter, and it is very uncomfortable to watch!"

"I hate you. ”

"Hand over the artificial intelligence!"

"Artificial intelligence, the forests of Norway can't be seen, I want to say words that start with F!"

"Why do this to us?"

"Heartbreaking. ”

It turns out that there is really this article, and it has also been released in Chinese in China!

Susie did search for the Chinese version of "Artificial Intelligence", and she compared the results of Google Translate with the version she received by fax.

"Sure enough, it's better to translate on my side, and this Google Translate needs to be strengthened!"

After determining Zhang Chu's work, Susie set her sights on the work.

"The New Yorker" itself is very popular, and it doesn't need to rub off on Zhang Chu's popularity.

The magazine's short stories have always been in a state of surplus, only one article a week, and 99% of the works will be eliminated!

It is not that this is a short story written by a well-known writer that is particularly careful, but it will be more demanding.

In fact, now a downside is already in front of us.

That's too many words!

The magazine has strict requirements in terms of word count, and 8,000 words is the limit, and a small number of extremely excellent works can be relaxed to 10,000 words.

But more than 30,000 words were directly written on the faxed document statistics, which is too much!

If you are ruthless and will cut it, there will definitely be a lot of content that you want to cut, and then it will seem to be fragmented, or even completely change the original meaning.

Susie was not optimistic about this article from her heart, and she had already placed a death notice in her heart.

No play!

But curiosity drove her to find out what the work that could provoke complaints from Twitter, Reddit, Instagram and other places would look like.

It's one thing to push it or not, and it's another thing to see it or not.

Idle is idle, Susie puts the printed document in front of the desk, she habitually takes the pen in her hand and prepares to start annotating!

As time passed, her reading slowed down, and many of her habitual expressions and written expressions were revised, and even some words were used and grammar.

Even though Shen Yunhua has lived in the United States for several years, there is still a gap between him and authentic Americans.

It may not matter in normal times, but it is especially prominent at this time.

When Susie read it for the first time, she wasn't ready to change the plot, at least she had to make it feel that it was worth revising!

Now society is a fast-paced society, if "Artificial Intelligence" is not placed on the value of "The New Yorker", then she is not willing to waste time helping Zhang Chu revise it.

A weak robot boy is endowed with love, but it is this deep affection that makes him persistently and vainly chase a dream that can never be realized.

This film explores the question of human evolution, perhaps the one that society will face in the future.

With this in mind, the question that then arises is the ethics of AI.

What is the difference between humans and artificial intelligence?

The answer Zhang Chu is looking for is actually very simple, people have autonomous consciousness, artificial intelligence has no autonomous consciousness, obedience is the only one, and it will cost nothing for this purpose!

The end expresses an extreme evolutionary idea: existence is eternal, but human existence is not eternal!

Susie pushed the glasses on the bridge of her nose upward, and it was not difficult for her to see that there was a kind of thinking about the future of humanity, a kind of concern for the life of people and lives.

These thoughts and benevolent thoughts transcend the story itself, and in the name of the story, sublimate it!

These few sentences seem to be Yeats's poems in "The Stolen Child", I didn't expect them to be so appropriate. ”

After reading it for the first time, Susie's psychology changed dramatically!

I really despise Zhang Chu's works, if the number of words is shorter, I am indeed qualified to appear on "The New Yorker"!

She is also a mother, and she can understand the feelings of her mother, Monica.

However, understanding is not the same as agreeing.

Since you adopted the robot boy, you have to be responsible for him!

"It's a bit of a hassle now, do you really want to hand it in as the topic of this issue?"

Susie had a tangled face, not wanting to do something that she was not sure about, but she had a little hope.