用人工智能技术重塑生死祭与终极关怀:以瑶池对话系统为例

AI-Facilitated Family Sacrifice and End-of-Life Care:The Yaochi Dialogue System

人类进入老龄化社会后死亡与终极关怀的话题,愈加占据人们的意识空间。本文拟解决问题是:当今的人工智能技术能够为传统的生死观和家祭传统做些什么?本文首先分别回顾儒家和道家的生死观以及民俗学祭祀文献,然后聚焦家祭并构建家祭概念模型。本文沿用顾曰国人生历程大数据模型,从技术的角度把“生”定义为产生生活态数据,把“死”定义为记忆态数据,因此,生与死为两种数据状态的转化。瑶池对话系统(Yaochi Dialogue)由对话文本生成、语音生成与处理、场景生成和系统集成四个子系统组成,引进LangChain-ChatGLM架构。该系统为家祭提供数字化、网络化和个性化机器助人服务。

As humanity steps into ageing society,the discourse concerning mortality and end-of-life care has assumed an increasingly prominent position within the collective consciousness.This paper seeks to explore two issues:(1)Can modern artificial intelligence(AI)technology reshape traditional cultural perspectives on life and death?(2)In what way can AI facilitate traditional family sacrifice and end-of-life care?Confucianism and Taoism concerning life and death are reviewed.Also touched upon is the folklore literature on rituals,both ancient and modern.Big Data Model of Life Course formulated by Gu is adopted,which defi nes“life”as the accumulation of living data and“death”as the retention of memory data,hence life and death as a transformation between two distinct data states.The Yaochi Dialogue System is designed and has been partly tested to demonstrate how the two issues can be addressed and technically implemented.The system consists of four subsystems:(1)dialogue text generation,(2)speech generation and processing,(3)scene generation,and(4)system integration.Its backbone is laid by the LangChain ChatGLM.The system is dedicated to facilitating digital,networked and personalized machine-assisted humanization services.