A special copyright (版权) case has recently drawn attention because it is about artificial intelligence (AI). A court (法庭) in Shenzhen ruled that a news report written by Tencent’s AI enjoys copyright protection. A website broke the law because it used the article without permission (允许). This is the first case in China that has provided copyright protection to work done by AI. But what does it show us? Will AI take the place of creative workers in the future?

Probably not. AI is not yet able to write creative stories. The news report mentioned above is mainly about data. Since AI is good at dealing with data, it is often used to write financial ( 金融的) reports.

Some newspapers also use AI to report on stories about natural disasters (灾害), which mainly require basic facts such as “where” and “when”. As Forbes wrote, instead of losing their jobs, reporters can make their work more efficient (高效的) by using AI so that they can put more energy on storytelling and less on numbers.

AI is actually being helpful in many creative fields. For example, Wayne McGregor, a British choreographer (编舞), is famous for using AI to create new dances. For him, AI is a powerful tool that can help choreographers break out of common movement.

“It’s time to stop worrying about if AI can be creative,” according to Forbes. Instead, we should pay close attention to how humans and AI can work together in ways that we have never dreamed of before.

A yearbook is a tradition of high school life in the United States. The book includes the name, photo, and signature(签名) of each student in your final year, so that you can remember who you went to school with. A 15-year-old girl Catherine Cook and her brother David wanted more than this. They thought, “Why not have a yearbook online? You could learn about people’s music tastes, the movies they like, and so on.”

Catherine thought of the name−−myYearbook.com, and the logo(标志). To advertise the website, Catherine and David wore T-shirts with the website logo to school and soon hundreds of their schoolmates became fans of the website. She spent many evenings talking on the phone to programmers in India, and collecting ideas from her schoolmates. Then her older brother Geoff came up with the money to start up the website.

My Yearbook users can join in the fun by sending messages and “collecting” friends. They can watch the same videos from films and TV programs, and share music, photos, homework and study guides. Some teens feel they can make friends easily online. Chatting online helps some shy people not to feel left out.

Users can also make “Lunch Money” by doing activities on the website. They can then spend their Lunch Money on gifts, or donate it to charities. They have saved 0.3 km² of rainforest, cleaned up million kg of CO₂, sent 22,000 books to Africa, and bought 20,000 kg of rice for people without enough food.

Running the website did not stop Catherine and David from finishing their schoolwork successfully, and going on to university where they still spent 50 hours a week on the website.

On May 5，2017, China’s home-made passenger aircraft(飞机）C919 completed its 90-minute first flight and landed safely back at Pudong Airport in Shanghai.

C919 is developed by COMAC, a Chinese aircraft company. It is designed to compete with Boeing 737 and Airbus A320. The first C919 aircraft can carry 168 passengers and is able to fly a distance between 4,075 and 5, 555 kilometers. It’s reported that a C919 costs around 50 million dollars, less than half of a Boeing 737 or an Airbus A320. Up to now, more than 570 aircrafts have been ordered from 23 customers, mostly Chinese, but also American and Thai companies or airlines. COMAC aims to take one fifth of the world’s narrow-body aircraft market and one third of the Chinese market by 2035.

The name C919 has its special meanings. The letter C stands for both “COMAC” and “China”. The number 9 is pronounced as jiu in Chinese, which means “forever”. And the number 19 refers to its capacity(容量) of 190 passengers.

The large passenger aircraft is praised as “the flower of modern industry”. It is a symbol of the nation’s industrial and technological standards as well as the comprehensive(综合的) power. In order to realize the century dream of flying in the sky and the strategy(战略) of the nation, COMAC bears the nation’s dream and people’s trust. China considers it as a national pride.

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