In this wave of artificial intelligence, it’s easy to be swept up in grand narratives: computing power, models, the scale of parameters, disruption, and replacement. But the changes truly worth documenting often happen out of sight: how AI is used, how it enters daily life, and how it changes the way people work.

Last week, The Intellectual and Doubao jointly launched: “A Story Collection | How Were You ‘Amazed’ by AI This Year?”, not asking “how powerful is AI,” but a more specific question: When AI enters your work and life, what exactly does it change?

…Perhaps what is truly worth documenting is not what AI can do, but how researchers, after its intervention, re-understand their work, judgments, and responsibilities—what tasks can be automated, and what problems must still be decided by humans.

These scattered and specific experiences constitute the first batch of “field notes” of AI entering the scientific field. They may not be complete, but they are sufficiently honest. — Read More