人之彼岸

by Hao Jingfang, 郝景芳

创业者任毅把自己分成多个相同的“自己”，便可以同时兼顾多场活动和约会；有一天钱睿回到家里，发现他刚刚在医院服侍的形容枯槁的母亲，竟然健朗地站在自己的面前；名为陈达的智能管家，“目睹”了主人林达被谋杀……智能产品正在变得更加智能，如果把时间线拉得很长很长，一直长到未来人出生后植入的人工芯片仿佛出生证明一样成为标配，你就再也无法分辨谁是人，谁是AI化的人了。那么这一天来临时，人类会觉得当人更好，还是当AI化的人更好？
The entrepreneur Ren Yi divides himself into several "him", so that he can take part in several activities and appointments at the same time. One day when Qian Rui returns home, he finds his seriously ill mother whom he just took care of in hospital now standing in front of him healthily. The smart steward named Chen Da "witnesses" his master Lin Da being murdered. The smart products are becoming more intelligent. Many many years later, when future humans are born, they have artificial chip implanted into them as if the birth certificate, you cannot tell who are human beings and who are humans from artificial intelligence. When that day comes, will humanity love being humans or humans from artificial intelligence?

342 pages, Paperback

First published November 20, 2017

About the author

Hao Jingfang (Chinese: 郝景芳; pinyin: Hăo Jǐngfāng), is a Chinese science fiction writer.
Hao Jingfang was born in 1984, graduated in physics and gained her PhD in economics at Tsinghua University in 2013. She has been working since with the China Development Research Foundation (CDRF), where she acts as Deputy Director of Research Department I.
She won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Folding Beijing, translated by Ken Liu, at the 2016 Hugo Awards.
Hao Jingfang was awarded the First Prize in the New Concept Writing Competition (2002). Her fiction has appeared in various publications, including Mengya, Science Fiction World and ZUI Found. She has published two full-length novels, Wandering Maearth and Return to Charon; a book of cultural essarys, Europe in Time; and the short story collection, Star Travellers.

Reviews

[Zhuo Zhang · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the last story the best and two non-fiction essays as well. The differences between AI and human being are so well written that it helps the reader to understand the stories more.

[Raven Amos · Rating 5 out of 5]

聽說是得過星雲獎得主華人作家的作品，所以滿懷期待。結果... 有點令人意外。科幻小說，尤其是短篇的科幻小說非常的難寫，幾乎都是屬於帶著點哲學探討的作品，雖然探討AI的作品很容易切入哲學Who I am/What I am的反思，但本書顯然不是這條路線。全書最深得我心、令人驚豔的反倒是最後講人工智慧的幾篇科普文章。

幸好後來又讀了同一作者的《孤獨深處》，終於有把我對作者的評價挽救回來。可是總會讓我想問：這兩本真的是同一個人寫的嘛？

[Zoe Tian · Rating 5 out of 5]

太太太太太太 有意思了！人类智能不会超过我们的，除非我们放弃爱。