Hotspot Engine ProgramText: Jin Xin yoyo
Recently, the AI circle has been overwhelmingly scolding Li Yizhou, and even the bosses of my company feel disgusted for him.
brushed the short**, to the effect that many people think that he is "cutting leeks", and this product is not Tsinghua (Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts cannot be regarded as authentic Tsinghua), and then I didn't understand AI before, but now I can actually become the "first person in China" who is comparable to OpenAI Ultraman in the United States. 
Harm, I don't know which good thing netizens are making trouble about. Do you have to push a diligent live broadcast teacher to the end of the road? Obviously, what people really want to complain about is the gap in technological strength between China and the United StatesLi Yizhou may just be the one who bears the blame for emotional consumptionγ(Of course, it is not ruled out that there may also be reverse PR self-hype) Moreover, although I have not taken his class, judging from the content of the class schedule, the drainage class of 199 yuan is really not expensive, and it is much more valuable than the eyebrow pencil of 79 yuan. If you really want to say expensive, more than 20 years ago, my primary school Olympiad and English tutors dared to charge 50 yuan an hour, who can pat my chest to ensure that I will learn after 4 classes? So, this can only say one thing:If Li Yizhou hadn't been forced by a group of "high-cognitive poor".pitted, that is, it was pitted by a group of peers who also wanted to sell classes but did not sell them. According to the logic of this assumption, those institutions that do postgraduate entrance counseling classes should also be directly banned, and they should not be used to cut the "leeks" of students, and most people will not be able to pass the exam anyway. 
There is also the struggle whether people are from Tsinghua University. Even Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts is also well-known among art schools, and it is easy to fail the exam without any strength. People teach AI painting, not AI development and training. There is a specialization in the art industry, and there is really nothing wrong with it. On the contrary, we should ask our education department whether it can innovate new disciplines at the intersection of AI + traditional majors, instead of charging some tuition fees and trapping people for four years to learn those knowledge that has long been outdated. The real AI commercial application market is separated from the world. If someone wants to learn how to train a vertical AI model, or even develop a general underlying model and related services, the tuition will only be more expensive, and others may not be willing to teach you. 
** of some of the top experts in the AI industrySo, don't deify any teacher who only teaches AI applications. Interestingly, Li Yizhou's incident reminds me of my art teacher in the extracurricular studio when I was a sophomore in high school. That's right, my teacher also graduated from Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, and after graduation, he has been tutoring in art exams in Nanjing, selling dot paintings part-time. I can't remember the charging standard, it seems to be 100 yuan per hour, two hours each time, I have to go several times a week, and I can only choose the school lunch break to go, because after school, I have to stay for evening self-study and homework. Anyway, when I was at the time, my parents thought that the tuition was still quite expensive, because our family was not very wealthy. At that time, there was a popular saying that "it is not possible to learn art without spending money". For now, this sentence still applies, and it may be more expensive. When learning to draw, tuition is one thing, but painting tools such as paints and brushes are another. Today, learning AI painting is the same, the teacher is only responsible for teaching knowledge, as for how to magic over the wall, how to open a membership, how to buy plug-ins and materials, it also belongs to the cost of painting tools, and has nothing to do with tuition.
Art training has always existed, and it doesn't change just because AI comes. Therefore, as long as you look at Li Yizhou like this, you won't feel that he is a **. It's just that in the past, a teacher could only accommodate 20 apprentices in a studio, but now the traffic of live broadcast e-commerce can surpass the time and space restrictions and charge more tuition. Li Jiaqi, the head anchor, could not have imagined that he could change from a teller back then to a super individual who killed many companies in seconds. Telling this example is not about whitewashing anyone. As a student, I would like to express that I used to give up the art path because of the high cost of art training. Another reason was more subtle: at the time, the teacher thought that I would only copy, and although the shape of the sketch was accurate, the color palette was always too grinding. Moreover, the painting style is too rational and realistic, and there is no creativity, which may be a great loss for the acrylic painting exam, because if you want to paint well with acrylic, you need to have a more bold and rich color imagination. To this day, his words still ringing in my ears:If you have to pursue authenticity, you can just take pictures, and you don't need to learn to draw. γ
At that time, I felt that several students in the studio were painting in strange shapes, but the teacher still praised them. This kind of self-esteem suppression made me completely choose to give up. And I secretly scolded him countless times in my heart. At that time, I felt that I really didn't have the ability to take the "art and general" exam route. As we all know, the pressure of the cultural class of the Jiangsu college entrance examination is very high, how can we ensure that one heart can be used for two purposes? During the lunch break, when others were catching up on sleep, I ran outside the school to paint, and came back in the afternoon to take a cultural class in a hurry, which not only made it difficult for me to "transform" my thinking, but also made it easy to get sleepy. In the end, I also had a hunch that if I continued to review like this, I might not please both ends, so I simply gave up and went directly to the general college entrance examination route. However, the interesting thing about life is that enlightenment is a momentary effort. A few years ago, I went to a hobby studio to paint, and I finally realized what he meant by "color feeling". 
Monet's oil paintings are rich in colorIn the artist's eyes, color is actually a relative concept. For example, the deepest shade of an apple may appear black, but next to the red, a small amount of green can be used to reflect the light. Or maybe the waves are blue, but the dark part can be purple under the sunset. And the effect of this painting is really better than the original. The so-called "good" is not more "like", but that the layers of color are richer, so that the painting as a whole has a soul. When we look at ** and look at paintings, they are always two feelings. Painting always comes with a layer of filter, which is the artist's own understanding or "style", and even many colorblind painters can bring new works. On the other hand, 15 years ago, I was indeed like a real camera, and I didn't have this consciousness at all. So, can you blame the teacher for teaching badly? Is it possible that you yourself are not good enough in some way? Teacher Zhang Xuefeng once strongly recommended that everyone do not apply for journalism, and I very much agree, especially since the rise of **, **'s right to speak has long been divided into nothing. 
But now, I'm glad I studied journalism again. It turned out that I had always felt a little regretful that I didn't study art. But after the advent of the AIGC era, you can never draw an apple in 20 minutes better than four pictures produced in a few seconds with Midjourney, let alone switch styles. At this time, it seems that I can find a little psychological comfort: fortunately, I just regard art as a hobby, otherwise this input-output ratio is very low. On the contrary, it is very important to learn the prompt words and the language well. Because the mainstream way of creating symbols on all AI platforms is still dialogue and text. That's probably the beauty of words, being able to reach places we can't go. 
The Turing test dialogue of the sci-fi film "Ex Machina" keeps curiosity and learns to ask questions. This is the first step in opening up the human-machine dialogue. The advantage of studying journalism is that you know that the world is a Rashomon, so you can maintain a relative objectivity at all times. After long-term training, it is very helpful for character observation and perspective substitution. This is very helpful to substitute a persona's perspective, because it is a prerequisite for writing a good prompt. This will also directly determine who and how you communicate with you, which will affect the final output. I used to think that journalists write articles objectively and detached, and this state of "selflessness" should be the professionalism of journalists. It wasn't until I was exposed to cinema and Zen BuddhismγIn the past few years of the epidemic, I have watched a lot of movies, both long and short, and it is only then that I began to really understand symbols. From being easy to substitute for a certain role at the beginning, to slowly learning God's perspective, and then to substituting each character to experience its perspective and emotions. This is a long process of breaking oneself and starting over, and the original "self" has long been shattered. And only by experiencing this state of "fragmentation", even close to spirituality, can you truly understand art. This kind of reality experienced in the virtual world will make you realize that there may be no truth in life at all. Human cognition is only a collection of all past knowledge and experience, and it is a subjective interpretation. In this regard, both Nietzsche and the Buddha agreed. In addition to the unknowability of the truth, my perception of time and space seems to have slowly disappeared. Every present is not only the past, but also the present, and the future. My life is like the monk in the "Walker" and "Journey to the West" series directed by Cai Mingliang, seeking a moment of birth and tranquility in the endless flow of people. No matter how fast the outside world changes, it has nothing to do with the speed of aging. 
Cai Mingliang's "Journey to the West" Of course, in the eyes of others, that monk can also be an interpretation. So you also need to jump out from time to time and put yourself in the middle of passers-by to have a conversation, so that you really have a temporary position and attitude. These passers-by are like folk artists on Douyin, **, and Kuaishou, and you can also get a lot of fun and harvest after communicating with them. Looking back, I don't think Li Yizhou's class was a lie, and the course design is very focused from the category list. There are so many lucrative business teachers on the market, but they may not really teach you anything. Luo Zhenyu, Liu Run, Zhang Qi, Brother Sam, Business School, etc., without exception, there is no essential difference, and they are all more expensive than Li Yizhou. If there is demand in the market, everything is reasonable, and it has nothing to do with the level of cognition. And I now think that "paying tuition" is not just about learning knowledge, but may turn into hard currency for interpersonal communication. Recently, some of my friends have promoted "content equality", "technology equality", and even "art equality", but I am still skeptical. One is that the AI does not have your memory, history, and experience, and it is impossible for it to completely replicate you. Unless we're "digital twins" at birth, that's another topic; Second, capital exacerbates the distribution of wealth, but also promotes educational inequality, and there will always be a cognitive and information gap between people. If you are interested, you can play the game "Lost Stray" from the perspective of cats, the setting of the story is more dystopian, and there may be more feelings. 
Of course, the dystopian cyber game "Lost Stray" should not be too full, after all, people live because they have faith, and it will only be more meaningless to go to extreme nothingness. In a sense, AI is really a great help for those of us with ordinary talents, and now we only need a single line drawing to produce countless renderings, which has almost reshaped the workflow of many traditional designers. With the development of AIGC technology, it is difficult to say whether it will have an impact on the way of education, teaching ideas and examination rules of all subjects in the future. I believe that even if Li Yizhou falls today, there will be more Li Yizhou standing up tomorrow.
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