Mu Yumei: I don't believe AI can make flatbreads or write poetry better than I can
55-year-old Mu Yumei has sold flatbreads in Shenzhen for 14 years and has written poetry for two years. In September this year, she took the stage for an AI-themed speech at the Bund Conference, saying bluntly, "I don't believe AI can make flatbreads or write poetry better than I can." She believes AI can't get the heat and flipping right when making flatbreads and can't produce her flavor, and won't be able to replace people even in ten years; AI poetry lacks genuine life experience, and even if it writes well, "it writes its own, I write mine"—she herself is not anxious.
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Mu Yumei, 55, has sold baked sesame flatbread in Shenzhen for 14 years. Two years ago she began writing poetry, and this September she took the stage at the Bund Conference to give an AI-themed speech. At the Bund Conference, she said: "How to make shaobing, how to write poetry—my life, I decide." Mu Yumei, who to this day cannot use the complex functions of a smartphone and cannot make sense of those AI apps that took the world by storm, why does she have such confidence? When asked whether she feels anxious in the AI era, Mu Yumei answered no without hesitation. "I don't believe AI can make shaobing or write poetry better than I can," Mu Yumei said with a hearty laugh. "When AI makes shaobing, it can't get the heat right or handle the flipping—even if it could, it couldn't produce a flavor as good as mine. Never mind for now—ten years from now it still won't be able to replace what people do. I'm confident of that." "As for AI writing poetry, it's even less possible for it to replace people. All my poems come from my real feelings about life, and I don't believe AI can have those feelings. Even if one day AI really can write very good poems, then it writes its and I write mine. I'm not anxious at all."