AI热度指数：人们对AI“快餐”欲罢不能
内容总结：
《麻省理工科技评论》近日推出“AI热度指数”，旨在帮助公众厘清人工智能领域的现实与虚火。该指数指出，当前行业存在明显的期待落差——人们渴望AI承担琐碎家务以解放创造力，娱乐产业却热衷于用机器替代艺术创作。
现状显示：迪士尼+计划开放IP给用户用AI生成内容，而非雇佣人类创作新的《星球大战》或漫威电影；AI乐队Breaking Rust登顶公告牌乡村数字销量榜，反映出AI生成内容正获得惊人市场接受度。
深度观察发现：
- 通用人工智能（AGI）已成为堪比阴谋论的文化现象
- OpenAI最新模型揭示了AI运作机理的奥秘
- 在第二大市场印度，其模型仍存在根深蒂固的种姓偏见
- 量子物理学家成功将深求R1模型体积压缩超一半，并宣称突破了原有内容限制
该报道折射出AI技术发展与社会需求之间的错位，以及行业在伦理规范与技术突破之间面临的复杂挑战。
中文翻译：
《AI狂热指数：人们为何对AI“数字泔水”欲罢不能》
——《麻省理工科技评论》对AI热点的高度主观解读
辨别AI现实与炒作幻想并非易事。为此我们创建了AI狂热指数——用简洁直观的方式呈现行业现状的核心洞察。
去年，奇幻作家乔安娜·马切耶夫斯卡在X平台发表的言论引发病毒式传播（如果这种效应在X上依然存在的话）：“我期待AI替我洗衣洗碗，从而让我专注艺术创作，而非让AI代我创作艺术，逼得我只能去洗衣服。”这番心声显然引发了广泛共鸣。
令人遗憾的是，在马切耶夫斯卡发声18个月后，娱乐产业仍执意让机器创造艺术，而让艺术家去洗衣服。流媒体平台Disney+正计划允许用户基于其知识产权生成内容——换言之，他们不愿出资雇佣人类创作新的《星球大战》或漫威电影。
更令人沮丧的是，AI生成音乐正在俘获数量惊人的受众：虚拟乐队Breaking Rust已登顶公告牌乡村数字歌曲销量榜。当大众热衷于消费AI生产的“数字泔水”，我们又有何资格加以阻拦？
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机器将达到甚至超越人类智能的观点，已绑架整个行业。但细究之下，其持久不衰的迷思与阴谋论的生存逻辑如出一辙。
OpenAI新型大语言模型揭示AI运作奥秘
这款实验模型虽无法与顶尖产品竞争，却能解释AI为何产生诡异行为，并评估其真实可信度。
OpenAI印度市场风光背后的种姓偏见
作为OpenAI第二大市场，印度用户使用的ChatGPT与Sora模型正在复制伤害数百万人的种姓刻板印象。
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The AI Hype Index: The people can’t get enough of AI slop
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Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry.
Last year, the fantasy author Joanna Maciejewska went viral (if such a thing is still possible on X) with a post saying “I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.” Clearly, it struck a chord with the disaffected masses.
Regrettably, 18 months after Maciejewska’s post, the entertainment industry insists that machines should make art and artists should do laundry. The streaming platform Disney+ has plans to let its users generate their own content from its intellectual property instead of, y’know, paying humans to make some new Star Wars or Marvel movies.
Elsewhere, it seems AI-generated music is resonating with a depressingly large audience, given that the AI band Breaking Rust has topped Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart. If the people demand AI slop, who are we to deny them?
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