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What China’s Vibe-Coding Capital Can Tell Us About the A.I. Boom

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By Afra Wang
| The New Yorker Verified
In mid-May, days after Donald Trump visited Beijing, a Chinese tech founder named Levy invited me to an office party for his A.I. fortune-telling company. It’s called FateTell, and it makes an app that, in the vein of traditional Chinese astrology, reads your bazi, a chart that tracks the elemental forces associated with your birth date and time. (Levy wanted me at the event because of the makeup of my bazi.
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A New Kind Of Creative Poverty

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By Afra Wang
| Noema Magazine Verified
Credits Afra Wang is a California-based writer and journalist who focuses on technological modernity through a humanistic lens, spanning China and Silicon Valley in the global AI age. She writes concurrent.blog and is a frequent contributor to many outlets. Editor’s Note: Noema is transparent about AI use in its pieces. We publish original human-generated ideas but allow authorized, disclosed use of AI in certain cases. Please see details at the end of this piece.
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中国SFの知られざる超長編があぶり出すテクノナショナリズムの動揺

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By Afra Wang
| Wired Japan Verified
馬千瞩（マー・チェンジュー）は、中国の進歩に満足していなかった。大手国有企業で働くエンジニアである彼は、工学こそが国の運命を握り、中国の未来は自分のような人間がボルトを1本ずつ締めていくことで築かれると信じて育った世代だ。 そんな彼が、ある日驚くべきものを発見する──明朝後期へと通じるワームホールだ。500人以上の仲間と共に彼は船を乗っ取り、400年前の過去へと旅立つ。そこは、外国からの侵略と国内の腐敗に苦しむ前工業化時代の中国だ。馬たちの使命はただひとつ。過去で産業革命を引き起こし、それによって現代の中国を（再び）偉大な国にすることだ。 もちろん、厳密に言えば、この出来事は実際には起きていない。これは『臨高啓明（The Morning Star of Lingao）』という、複数の書き手によって共同執筆された壮大なSFウェブ小説の筋書きだ。20年近く前から中国のネット空間の一角を占め続けているこの作品は、総文字数がすでに数百万字に及ぶが、英訳されたことは一度もなく、西側諸国でその存在を知る人はほとんどいない。...
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