Developing new quality productivity requires a spiritual soil for innovation, and culture plays a positive role in cultivating people's knowledge, exploration and curiosity.

  The scientific documentary "How to Find Turing" produced by the China Central Radio and Television Film and Television Documentary Center and popularized informatics and artificial intelligence was recently aired, attracting widespread attention. The film breaks through the traditional documentary "linear narrative + real-life shooting" mode, takes the "ACG visual system" (animation, comics, games) as the language, reconstructs historical images through digital technology, and deconstructs scientific authority through comedic narratives, creating a new benchmark for "hard core knowledge and soft communication", setting off a "scientific puzzle solving" craze among young audiences.

  "How to Find Turing" has a total of six episodes, each with 25 minutes of 2000. It transforms the cold information technology knowledge into a vivid and interesting graphic thinking game, decoding the imaginative "brain" of scientists behind the history of human information civilization. In line with the preferences of Generation Z, the entire film adopts a variety of styles such as paper comics, 8-bit pixel style, RPG game scenes, etc. Combined with AI technology, the oracle bone inscriptions "moving" into emoticons, ancient Egyptian murals "dance" street dance, and Qin Shihuang's memorial review scenes transform into "ancient workplace Vlog". This "cross-dimensional" expression transforms the principle of Turing machine into a "puzzle-solving game", and embodies Shannon's information theory into a "judgement performance", turning obscure theory into "social currency" in seconds.

  "Science is not a cold formula, but a adventure diary for humans to explore the world." This is the consistent philosophy of Li Jinwei, the chief director of the IP of the "Scientists Are Busy" series. As the sixth work in the series, "How to Find Turing" goes a step further, and through the exaggerated interpretation of comedians, the history of information civilization is reconstructed into a "level game": the primitive people used knots to record "passing the level" mathematical enlightenment, Babbage and Edda's "technology CP" staged the Victorian "geek love", and the cross-time and space-based "code dialogue" between Turing and von Neumann hides the genetic code of modern computers.

  Restoreing historical figures to individuals with "lively character designs" is a highlight of "How to Find Turing". The Lumiere brothers are known as the "founder of short videos". Qin Shihuang complained that "the criticism of memorials is more tiring than 996", and Turing was ridiculed for being unkempt and dirty, "as if he had just been squeezed out by the paper." These "contrast cute" designs, combined with "hard-core cold knowledge" - such as the Yijing Gossip, implying the prototype of binary system and the principle of revolving lanterns, gave rise to film technology - let the audience recognise it in their hilariousness: the history of science is not a lonely expedition for geniuses, but a "relay race" of human collective wisdom.

  "We deliberately retain the 'interference effect' to leave more 'blank' for the audience's memory and thinking." The screenwriter team revealed that the film uses a lot of methods to break the "fourth wall": when telling the story of Babbage's differential machine, the screen suddenly pops up the screen, "If he was born in the contemporary era, he must be the UP owner of the B station's science and technology area"; when explaining the discovery of the oracle bone script, the picture cuts to the idea of ​​"If Qin Shihuang did not have diarrhea, we may not know that the existence of the Shang Dynasty is still here." This "bounce-off" narrative not only retains a sense of historical depth, but also reserves room for the audience to think.

  When watching "How to Find Turing", many viewers can feel a sense of ostentatious cultural confidence. The documentary revisits China's contribution to information civilization from a global perspective: Oracle as the prototype of the earliest "database", revolving lanterns inspire modern animation technology, papermaking and printing technology to promote knowledge inclusiveness... In the film, the scene of a wizard in the Shang Dynasty using tortoise shells was "resurrected" by AI technology as a dynamic data stream; the game principle of the Song Dynasty's "Leaf Play" (the predecessor of the card) echoes modern computer algorithms across time and space.

  Science has no borders, but civilization has roots. The documentary reveals through technical archaeology: China has never missed the human information revolution - from knotted rope recording to binary, from movable type printing to digital encoding, Chinese civilization has always been the key force in promoting the evolution of global technology. This narrative is not only a tribute to Chinese wisdom, but also a vivid interpretation of cultural confidence.

  Industry insiders pointed out that in the era of traffic, knowledge should not become an island. "How to Find Turing" proves that serious content is not opposite to mass communication through the exploration of "gamification of knowledge, trendy history, and IPization of scientists". From Newton to Turing, from the periodic table of elements to artificial intelligence, the film proves with a "science carnival" that when knowledge removes the mask of coldness and when history walks out of the pile of old papers, popular science can become the "arbitrary door" connecting the past and the future. (Reporter Wei Zhong)

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