YOU AND AI

even love is increasingly digitized, with virtual “girlfriends” able to empathize with their real life partners. Yet so much online living produces vast amounts of data, much of it unsecured, available for purchase online on the black market and easily accessible by corporations and governments whose intentions are often opaque. As AI and big data increasingly become a part of everyday life, we examine how Chinese lives are changing as they become more artificial, and wonder what today’s Ai-powered China will look like tomorrow.

科幻般的人工智能时代似乎已然到来：摄像头可以分析识别人群中每一张脸，智能音箱可以语音控制智能家居，而“虚拟女友”程序甚至可以满足人们的情感需求。然而，应用技术收集的大量个人信息是否得到了妥善保护？人工智能和大数据如何影响人们的生活，又将带来怎样的未来？