“像人类一样观看”:从Sora透视人工智能时代的智能视觉及后人类处境

"Seeing Like a Human":Intelligent Vision and the Posthuman Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence through the Lens of Sora

技术的自动化趋向为“机器之眼”的智能化演进铺设了一条可行的路径:从机器在军事、医疗等领域的观看代理与延伸到智能监控与识别的兴起,机器逐渐拥有了类人类属性的观视能力。Sora的横空出世更是展示了生成式人工智能像人类一样观看与创作的巨大潜能。推动这一技术进展的关键则是人工智能在视觉感知与模拟层面对人类视觉的系统性理解:前者机器实现了对人类观看时多感官整合的算法“转译”;后者借助于人工神经网络,机器拥有了拟人化的视觉思维与创作意识。面对这一景象,人类不可避免地置身于后人类处境中,这意味着人工智能时代的视觉图景已然从人类中心主义转向了人机共生的新样态。相应地,图像世界中的主体认知、现实建构以及生存价值等议题也呈现显著变化,亟待全新的理解与阐释:首先,机器智慧作为人类大脑的数字化延伸,挑战并推动着人类主体的分布式演进与建构;其次,人工智能生成的视觉形象与人类共享生命活性,是“元宇宙”建设的重要能动者;最后,人机共创是人类获取生存意义的重要途径,这不仅涉及个体对于机器语法的学习与认知,更包含人类文化对于机器生成的影响和塑造。

The automation trend of technology has paved a feasible path for the intelligent evolution of"machine eyes":from machine viewing agents and extensions in military and medical fields to the rise of intelligent surveillance and recognition,machines gradually possess human-like viewing capabilities.The emergence of Sora demonstrates the enormous potential of generative AI to see and create like humans.The key to this technological progress is the systematic understanding of human vision by AI at the level of visual perception and simulation:in the former case,the machine realizes the algorithmic"translation"of the multi-sensory integration of human viewing;in the latter case,with the help of artificial neural networks,the machine possesses an anthropomorphic visual thinking and creative consciousness.In the face of this scene,human beings are inevitably placed in a posthuman condition,which means that the visual landscape in the age of artificial intelligence has already shifted from anthropocentrism to a new pattern of human-machine symbiosis.Accordingly,issues such as subject cognition,reality construction and survival value in the image world have also shown significant changes,which urgently need a new understanding and interpretation:firstly,machine intelligence,as a digital extension of the human brain,challenges and promotes the distributed evolution and construction of the human subject;secondly,Al-generated visual images share the activity of life with human beings,and are an important driving force in the construction of the"metauniverse";finally,human-machine co-creation is an important way for human beings to obtain the meaning of existence,which not only involves the individual's learning and cognition of the machine's grammar,but also includes the influence and shaping of human culture on the machine's generation.