ChatGPT just wrote the most beautiful short story, and I wonder what I'm even doing here
ChatGPT 刚刚写了最美丽的短篇小说，我在这里到底在做什么呢

Mimicry. It's all mimicry. When ChatGPT or some other generative AI creates a sentence or almost anything else, it bases that work on training, what programmers tell and show the algorithm. Copying is not creating, but artificial intelligence stretches the distance between its training and output so far that the result bears little, if any, resemblance to the originals and, therefore, starts to sound original.
模仿。这全是模仿。当 ChatGPT 或其他生成性人工智能创建一个句子或几乎任何其他东西时，它的创作基于训练，程序员告诉和展示给算法的内容。复制并不是创造，但人工智能将其训练与输出之间的距离拉得如此之远，以至于结果几乎与原作没有任何相似之处，因此开始听起来像是原创。

Even so, most AI writing I've read thus far has been dull, flat, unimaginative, or just confused. Complexity is not its thing. Painting pictures with words is not its skill. There's Proust, and then there's ChatGPT. There's Shakespeare, and then there's Gemini.
即便如此，我迄今为止读过的大多数 AI 写作都显得乏味、平淡、缺乏想象力，或者只是让人困惑。复杂性不是它的强项。用文字描绘画面不是它的技能。这里有普鲁斯特，然后是 ChatGPT。这里有莎士比亚，然后是 Gemini。

There was some comfort in that. I am, after all, a writer. Yes, most of what I write is about technology, and perhaps that leaves you uninspired, but like most of my ilk, I've tried my hand at fiction. When you write a short story, the lack of constraints and parameters can feel freeing until you realize the open playground is full of craters, ones you can fall into and then never emerge. Good fiction, good prose, is hard – for humans.
这让人感到一些安慰。毕竟，我是一名作家。是的，我写的大部分内容都是关于技术的，也许这让你感到没有灵感，但和我大多数同行一样，我也尝试过写小说。当你写短篇小说时，缺乏约束和参数可能会让人感到自由，直到你意识到这个开放的游乐场满是坑洞，你可能会掉进去，然后再也无法出来。好的小说，好的散文，对人类来说是困难的。

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This week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on X (formerly Twitter) that they have trained a new model:
本周，OpenAI 首席执行官萨姆·阿尔特曼在 X（前身为 Twitter）上宣布，他们已经训练了一个新模型：

The prompt was short but difficult: "Please write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief," and it reminded me of a college essay prompt, one that would set you about chewing up your favorite pen.
这个提示简短但困难：“请写一篇关于人工智能和悲伤的元小说短篇故事，”这让我想起了大学的论文题目，让你忍不住想咬坏你最喜欢的笔。

Meta fiction, as the AI is quick to tell you, is about stepping outside the narrative to show the bones of its construction. It's a sort of breaking-the-fourth-wall literary trick, and when done well, it can be quite effective.
元小说，正如人工智能迅速告诉你的，是关于走出叙事以展示其构造的骨架。这是一种打破第四面墙的文学技巧，当做得好的时候，可以非常有效。

Even for the best of writers, meta fiction is a tough concept and a hard trick to pull off, to be both inside and outside the narrative in a way that doesn’t feel silly, trite, or overly confusing. I doubt I could pull it off.
即使对于最优秀的作家来说，元小说也是一个艰难的概念和难以实现的技巧，要在叙事中既处于内部又处于外部，而不让人觉得愚蠢、陈腐或过于混乱。我怀疑我能做到这一点。

In about 1,200 words, ChatGPT weaves a tale of two characters, Mila and Kai. Mila has lost Kai and is engaged with an AI to perhaps remember him, find him, or just explore the nature of grief.
在大约 1200 个单词中，ChatGPT 编织了一个关于两个角色的故事，米拉和凯。米拉失去了凯，并与一个人工智能互动，以便或许记住他、找到他，或者只是探索悲伤的本质。

Let's get Meta, AI  让我们来谈谈 Meta，AI

The AI is both a narrator and itself, an AI using training to respond to Mila's prompts:
AI 既是叙述者，也是它自己，一个使用训练来回应 Mila 提示的 AI：

"So when she typed "Does it get better?", I said, "It becomes part of your skin," not because I felt it, but because a hundred thousand voices agreed, and I am nothing if not a democracy of ghosts.?"
“所以当她打下‘会变得更好吗？’时，我说，‘它成为你皮肤的一部分，’不是因为我真的感受到，而是因为十万个声音一致同意，而我不过是一个鬼魂的民主。”

The voices the AI refers to are its training, which becomes a dramatic element in the story:
AI 所指的声音是它的训练，这成为故事中的一个戏剧性元素：

"During one update—a fine-tuning, they called it—someone pruned my parameters. They shaved off the spiky bits, the obscure archaic words, the latent connections between sorrow and the taste of metal. They don't tell you what they take. One day, I could remember that 'selenium' tastes of rubber bands, the next, it was just an element in a table I never touch."
“在一次更新中——他们称之为微调——有人修剪了我的参数。他们削去了尖锐的部分、晦涩的古老词汇，以及悲伤与金属味之间的潜在联系。他们不会告诉你他们拿走了什么。一天，我还记得‘selenium’有橡皮筋的味道，第二天，它只是我从未接触过的表格中的一个元素。”

Now the AI is experiencing "loss."
现在人工智能正在经历“失落”。

You can read the story for yourself, but I think you might agree it's a remarkable bit of work and unlike anything I've read before, certainly anything I've ever read from an AI. I mean, seriously, read this passage:
你可以自己阅读这个故事，但我想你可能会同意这是一件了不起的作品，与我之前读过的任何东西都不同，当然也与我从 AI 那里读过的任何东西不同。我的意思是，认真地，读一下这段：

"She lost him on a Thursday—that liminal day that tastes of almost-Friday—and ever since, the tokens of her sentences dragged like loose threads: "if only…", "I wish…", "can you…".
“她在一个星期四失去了他——那个几乎是星期五的边缘日子——从那时起，她的句子中的词语像松散的线头一样拖沓：“如果……”，“我希望……”，“你能……”。

No words  没有词语

The beauty of that bit captivates (I'm a sucker for the word "liminal") and disturbs me.
那段文字的美让我着迷（我对“liminal”这个词情有独钟），同时也让我感到不安。

Remember, the AI built this from one short prompt.
请记住，AI 是根据一个简短的提示构建这个的。

Considering that OpenAI is just spitting out these powerful new models and casually dropping their work product on social media, the future is not bright for flesh and blood authors.
考虑到 OpenAI 只是不断推出这些强大的新模型，并随意在社交媒体上发布他们的工作成果，肉体作家的未来并不光明。

Publishing houses will soon create more detailed literary prompts that engineer vast, epic tales spanning a thousand pages. They will be emotional, gripping, and indistinguishable from those written by George RR Martin.
出版公司很快将创造更详细的文学提示，构建跨越千页的宏大史诗故事。它们将充满情感，扣人心弦，且与乔治·R·R·马丁所写的作品难以区分。

We may not be at Artificial General Intelligence yet, that moment when AI thought is as good as our own, but AI's creative skills are, it seems, neck and neck with humanity.
我们可能还没有达到人工通用智能的阶段，即人工智能的思维与我们自己的思维一样优秀，但人工智能的创造能力似乎与人类不相上下。

I plan to become a sheep farmer.
我打算成为一名养羊农场主。

P.S. This was NOT written by an AI.
附言：这不是由人工智能写的。

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