Universities and corporate guests gather online to explore digital humanities and Yuan universe

Pan Yishan Cover Journalist Zhang Yan Intern Liang Xinyue

How can digital technology empower the humanities? What are the cutting -edge applications of digital technology in the fields of ancient books, exhibitions, AI writing, film and television production, drama performances? What impact will the development of digital technology have on the humanities? What kind of impact does robot writing bring to literature and art? The "Artificial Intelligence Age: Digital Humanities and Yuan Universe" round table forum hosted by the Digital Culture and Media Research Base of Electronic Science and Technology was held on July 31.

As the preheating session of the 2nd National University Student Digital Humanities Elite Training Camp, the Yuan Table Forum invited many universities from Beijing Normal University, Peking University, Central Academy of Drama, Electronic Science and Technology, Sichuan Normal University to online online In -depth exchanges on the current status of digital humanities in the era of artificial intelligence and the future. The forum lasted for 4 hours, and the cover of the cover of the cover of the cover was broadcast live in real time, and the number of viewers exceeded more than 100,000.

Digital+humanistic new humanities science

Building a new type of humanities with disciplines has always been the unremitting pursuit of contemporary scholars. The rapid development of digital technology has promoted the integration of disciplines. The new cross -disciplinary discipline with humanism as the soul and digital technology as the path -Digital humanities are officially born. The round table forums of the "Artificial Intelligence: Digital Humanities and Yuan Universe" through the form of dialogue, college experts and industry representatives to jointly explore and discover the development opportunities and challenges of digital humanities disciplines.

The guests attending the roundtable forum include Yu Guoming, director and professor of the Academic Committee of the School of Journalism and Communication of Beijing Normal University; Tan Guanghui, a professor and doctoral tutor of the School of Literature and Literature of Sichuan Normal University; Xixi Honghong, deputy secretary -general of the Art Theory Research Association; Professor Bian Wentong, a professor and doctoral tutor of the Central Academy of Drama; Liu Chaoqian, a second -level professor and doctoral tutor of the Sichuan Normal University of Arts; Sun Xianbin, a researcher at the Digital Humanities Research Center of Peking University; Xu Zhen, Secretary -General of the Chengdu Electronic Commerce Association and vice chairman of the Chengdu Branch of the Chinese Computer Society; Xiao Xiang, deputy general manager of Sichuan Cover Media Technology Co., Ltd.; Ho Jiayong, a student; associate professor and a master's student in the School of Foreign Languages ​​of the University of Electronic Science and Technology, Li Quan. Dong Ziming, an associate professor of the School of Public Management of the University of Electronic Science and Technology, and Xie Mei, a professor, a professor, doctoral supervisor, and chairman of the organizing committee of the School of Public Management of the University of Electronic Science and Technology.

Yuan Universe is just a digital civilized society 1.0 version

At the end of 2021, the social media giant Facebook was renamed Meta. Zuckerberg said that "the Yuan universe is the next cutting -edge. From now on, we will take the Yuan universe first, not Facebook first." This made the concept of the "Yuan Universe" originally originally derived from the science fiction novels quickly became a focus topic. People are the scale of the media and the core logic of media development and evolution. Professor Yu Guoming, a professor at the North Normal University, said that the historical evolution of the Yuan universe is an inevitable product of the historical evolution of media development. He proposed that the so -called Yuan universe currently discussed is just a digital civilized society 1.0. The development of the Yuan universe will be a long, uncertain tortuous process. In the near future, the "entry" problem of entering the Yuan universe needs to be solved, such as games, VR glasses, naked eye 3D, digital collections (digital assets), intelligent connected cars, virtual digital people, etc.

Machine writing may "rewrite" literary and artistic

In May 2017, the collection of poems written by the artificial intelligence software "Xiaobing" was published by Beijing United Publishing Company. Starting from the "writing poetry" incident, humans are moving towards the era of artificial intelligence poetry. Old literary and narrow poetics will have to be rewritten in the near future. Professor Liu Chaoqian of Sichuan Normal University put forward his own concerns on machine writing. He said that poetic creation is an extremely individual life experience. Does the machine have a deep experience of "creative" poetry through a large number of learning "creation"? "Little Bing" is a robot composed of diodes and chips. The machine is rational, but poetry creation closely related to emotion is reactive. How to explain the proposition of artificial intelligence poetry with existing literary theory? This is a huge challenge.

Digital technology accelerates the process of ancient books

Strengthening the collection, collation, and protection of ancient books and archives is an important part of the construction of library literature resource construction. It is also a key step in continuing the Chinese literary pulse and promoting the construction of a cultural power.

Sun Xianbin, a researcher at Peking University Digital Humanities Research Center, said that digital technology has been used in digitalization and traditional culture protection of ancient books. At present, the OCR identification technology of ancient books, the automated punctuation of ancient books, and indexes of ancient books have entered the application level. With the development of digitalization and technology, the technology of automatic collation of ancient books may occur in the future.

Explore new scenes of digital humanities applications

Xu Zhen, Secretary -General of the Chengdu Electronic Commerce Association, said that the impact of the digital economy on people's production and life has lasted for many years. Digital products have changed people's lifestyle, especially for young people. However, the development of digital economic theory lags behind the development of application. In the face of a new format of the digital economy, the functional department also needs to be more forward -looking. He mentioned a proposition, how to digitize cultural venues, museums and other digitalization through the construction of the election scene under the epidemic scene, but also to build a game scene, but also to provide the audience with a multi -dimensional perception of touch and perception. One of the connotations of digital humanities is the integration of culture and science and technology. In addition to the research of the academic circles, it also requires the addition and support of enterprises. Cover media, as a national -level cultural and technological integration demonstration base, has also carried out continuous innovation exploration and market in recent years. practice. In the forum, Xiao Xiang, deputy general manager of the cover media science and technology, shared it. He said that in the past, the media used digital technology as a tool to improve production efficiency. Now, AI has played an important role in the changes in the media and ecological structure of the media. For example, robotic writing has been applied to the actual business of the cover. Cover News No. 240 AI employee Xiaoqiao has been participating in the actual business business in news creations such as disaster warning, finance, competition, and cultural tourism for 4 years, and published a collection of poetry. This year's small AI painting function is also officially launched. Digital humanities are also widely used at the cloud expo. In 2020, the cover has developed its own cloud exhibition system and used in large cloud exhibition projects such as the Mianyang Science Expo and the Centennial theme Exhibition of the Party. Under the support of the mainstream media algorithm, cover technology also launched two new products related to the digital humanities: intellectual media review cloud and smart media platforms. Using XR and other technologies, cover technology has also created digital art space in the Western Cultural Industry Center.

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