《天书》

《来自天空的书》是一篇开创性的作品，将人工智能（AI）与艺术领域相连接。该作品创作于2015年，运用深度卷积生成对抗网络（DCGAN）探索中文手写体的潜在空间，网络在约一百万个手写简体汉字上训练后，能够生成语料库中不存在的、以假乱真的伪汉字，并在字与字之间的潜空间中连续变换。这一项目标志着人工智能发展史上的一个关键转折点，自2015年以来，AI已从识别任务转向生成能力，凸显了其从学习数据中创造新颖且有意义内容的潜力。

作品得名于徐冰1988年的《天书》——徐冰以宋明版刻风格刻制了数千个自创的伪汉字。

“A Book from the Sky” by Gene Kogan is a groundbreaking piece that bridges the domains of artificial intelligence (AI) and art. Created in 2015, “A Book from the Sky” utilizes Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGAN) to explore the latent space of Chinese handwriting, trained on a labeled subset of roughly one million handwritten simplified Chinese characters, the generator produces convincing fake characters found nowhere in the original dataset, and traverses the space between them in continuous interpolations. The project signifies a pivotal moment in the evolution of AI, transitioning from recognition tasks to generative capabilities since 2015, highlighting AI’s potential to create novel, meaningful content from learned data.

The work takes its name from Xu Bing’s 1988 “Book from the Sky” (天书), in which Xu composed thousands of fictitious glyphs in the style of traditional prints of the Song and Ming dynasties.

2015年12月，DCGAN 论文与开源代码发布数周后，作者以 HIT-OR3C 语料库中约一百万个手写简体汉字训练网络创作了本作品，是最早有意识运用生成对抗网络创作的艺术作品之一。作品呼应徐冰1988年的装置《天书》——由数千个不可读的伪汉字构成。

Created in December 2015, weeks after the DCGAN paper and code were released, by training the network on about one million handwritten simplified Chinese characters from the HIT-OR3C corpus — among the first intentional artworks made with generative adversarial networks. The piece references Xu Bing's 1988 installation “Book from the Sky,” composed of thousands of unreadable pseudo-Chinese characters.