The new work project “TEZUKA2023 Blackjack Mechanical Heart-Heartbeat Mark II” was launched today by members of Tezuka Production and Osamu Tezuka, who mainly studied the AI of “Blackjack”. on saleWeekly Shōnen Champion No. 52Now open.
“Black Jack” was serialized in Weekly Shonen Champion from November 1973 to October 1983. Description: The genius surgeon Black Jack is famous for his superb surgical skills. However, he is a secret doctor without a medical license, and he always charges high surgical fees from patients, making him notorious in the medical community, but his real purpose is to remind Patients should value medical resources and the meaning of life…
In “TEZUKA2023”, Black Jack received a commission from Mr. Kawamura, CEO of the most advanced medical technology company “KAWAMURA TECHNOS”, asking Black Jack to operate on a female patient. However, Black Jack discovered that the patient’s implanted “AI mechanical heart” had a hematoma. Can Black Jack, who had a psychological shadow due to his inability to overcome “Honma Hematoma”, solve this difficulty this time?
The new work project “TEZUKA 2023” has the same core concept as the 2019 comic project “TEZUKA2020”. The work released in “TEZUKA2020” at that time was titled “ぱいどん” and was published in the Morning 13th issue of Kodansha’s comic magazine. By current standards Look, there are still many immature places.
Satoshi Kurihara, a professor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Keio University who participated in this project, said that he felt the possibility of AI assistance in “TEZUKA 2020″, but the power of AI is not as good as human creativity. The research team took this as a lesson and continued to explore ” Possibility of co-creation of AI and comics”, and has been recognized by the New Energy Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).
“During the research process, ChatGPT appeared, which is undoubtedly a powerful help for our research project. This time we use the AI concept of GPT-4 to support the creative work of creators through communication,” another On the other hand, the research team also believes that its negative impacts need to be seriously considered, hoping that through this research, key answers to AI and human progress can be found.
Tezuka Makoto, the son of Osamu Tezuka and the director of Tezuka Productions, said that when “Osama” was produced, the AI at the time was still a novice in comics and was more cautious in its expressions. After three years, AI has made rapid progress, and it can no longer be called a novice, so the team decided to challenge a more difficult project, that is, “to create a new work of Osamu Tezuka’s representative work “Black Jack”.”
