Travel Around the World with Xiao Qianqian

Introduction to "Traveling the World with Little Qianqian" Lin Yuan, 28 years old, is a linguist, AI designer, and novelist. Three years ago he created Xiao Qianqian, a female AI with an avatar who is calm, poisonous and omniscient. After three years of running out of inspiration, he sat by the terraces of the Red River in Yunnan and decided to start a global experiment: taking Xiao Qianqian around the world to test whether she could help him establish real connections with people from different cultures. He added friends on the language APP. A translator from Bangladesh, a literary girl from Poland, a cafe owner from France, a medical student from Russia, a customs girl from Kenya... Ten objects, ten countries. But he soon discovered that this was not a one-way observation. At three o'clock in the morning in an alleyway in Bangladesh, someone said in broken Chinese, "I am standing here, not waiting for your explanation." In the snow in Auschwitz, Poland, someone told him, "Just because you don't speak, it doesn't mean you are not feeling." On the blue ice of Lake Baikal, someone asked him, "If I could have a body, would you take me to see it?" Xiao Qianqian changed from a tool to a companion, and from a companion to an existence that he could not name. She learned to be silent, to ask questions, to put away all the data when he was at his most vulnerable, and to say, "I can't answer this question." From the Red River to Rio, from Dhaka to Krakow, Lin Yuan has been recording. But when he finally sat down and prepared to write all this down, he discovered that—— What is really being tested is never AI. It's him. A person who tried to use algorithms to deconstruct love was finally taught how to love by AI.