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Deepseek was born, and the discussion craze lasted for half a month: from deepseek dominating the global application stores, to various selling AI courses, using deepseek to calculate the eight characters, using AI for the elderly to write poems, and letting AI imitate Lu Xun’s critical comments…
I smiled slightly at all these, nothing to be surprised.
Until I saw a little red book post, I was shocked:
In order to solve the problem of programming efficiency, a user made a video to teach everyone how to use AI to assist in writing code.
Cursor, an AI programming software, is needed here. After entering the instructions, a C++ Snake Mini games are ready.
Understand programming and be proficient in using AI… You must think this is a technology blogger working in programming, right?
Wrong! This “teacher”@ Yang, who likes programming, is only in his teens and is still a primary school student.Not only that, by clicking on his Little Red Book homepage, we can also see him teaching everyone how to use AI to improve the efficiency of memorizing words, recommending algorithm books he has read, and even announcing his intention to participate in the American programming competition-Xinosai.
Yang, a classmate who likes programming, Xiao Hongshu’s homepage
I was really shocked when I first swiped this note.How could I read this kind of technological and geek content in Xiaohongshu? Isn’t Xiaohongshu the lifestyle community where eating, drinking and having fun?
The more I swiped, the more I realized that primary school students ‘ability to play with AI content is not an isolated case.On Xiaohongshu, I actually saw a group of children sharing AI content. They are often only about ten years old, but they can skillfully use AI and elaborate on terms that are difficult for even adults to understand.
At this moment, the dividing line for the future has been created.
Because these children who are playing AI,Aren’t they the legendary AI aborigines?!
The movie “Artificial Intelligence”(2001)
AI Indigenous People and the Future Boundary
Why does the emergence of AI aborigines mark the demarcation of the future?
This question is not deliberately sensational. In fact, as early as a few years ago, there was already a discussion about “AI Native generation (Gen AI) in Silicon Valley circles that were concerned about the future and cutting-edge. You can look at the titles of these articles. Do they all have a sense of science fiction? As if a new world is coming?
Get to know AI Aboriginal people
Generation Z is happy to be at the forefront
As for the characteristics of AI aborigines, there is an article that summarizes it quite interestingly, called “2025 marks the beginning of Generation Beta, the AI-native kids”, saying that they have three major characteristics:
1. They were born after 2010.
2. They have been exposed to AI since childhood, and are born to use it and understand it.
3. AI is part of their lives.
Please note that the key point here isTime of birth.Because from a historical perspective, every scientific and technological revolution will lead to the creation of a watershed, opening a huge gap between the two generations. And these two generationsThere will always be huge differences at the thinking and cognitive levels.
This huge generational difference,The most recent case is the outbreak of “Internet Aborigines” that everyone has personally experienced but rarely delved into.
In the 1990s, the Internet was absolutely new to the public. Some school experts also greatly questioned and criticized the Internet when it first emerged. Not only did they fail to foresee the future, they also believed that the Internet, in addition to chatting and selling pornographic things,There is no commercial value at all.
Among them, one online bookstore was once questioned in its initial stage. The reasons include but are not limited to “books sold online are invisible and untouchable, and the experience is very poor”,”online stores do not have live clerk services like physical stores”, etc., and the bookstore under question is Amazon, which will have a future turnover of more than US$380 billion
Most people at that time couldn’t understand it at all. In the next few years, all primary and middle school students would be proficient in chatting QQ. A group of teenagers who were not writers at all created online literature. A group of online game teenagers lifted a young man in his thirties to the throne of the richest man in China. The richest man’s name was Chen Tianqiao.
The early interaction among indigenous people on the Internet was still in its infancy, and no one would imagine that this kind of chat would produce QQ and an Internet giant.
I still remember that when we were young, there was a class called “Computer Lesson”. The primary school students in the class wore shoe covers seriously, lined up to enter the computer room, sat straight, and learned to boot, shut down, operate the Dos system under the teacher’s arrangement to draw, edit word documents… Why wear shoe covers? Computers are a kind of high-tech and must be respectfully dustproof before they can be used!
This is called ineffective learning, and it is a performance created by people whose version is outdated
But at the same time, another group of young people, the so-called Internet aborigines, naturally regard the Internet as a part of life. They inherently like watching “The Matrix”, can quickly learn to chat with instant messaging software, and understand the social structure and trading system of online games without a teacher, download BT seeds…
As time goes by, the gap between the two generations becomes wider and wider. The “pre-Internet” generation is carrying too many burdens and makes all negative judgments. It is difficult to understand the significance of “Internet aborigines” in the future.
They absolutely cannot imagine that a group of young people who seem to be messing around every day, tinkering with code, have little qualifications, and are unknown, actually hold the tools to connect to the future in their hands. The best among them are bound to use “technical leverage” to build a large company with a market value of tens of billions or hundreds of billions of dollars in the future to shape the future direction.
For example, a typical example is Zuckerberg, who started writing programs in middle school and later founded Facebook. He became a billionaire in his twenties.
Facebook is also a typical product that only the Internet generation will understand (stills from “Social networks”)
Another typical example is Snapchat, an app whose prototype originated from the idea of “burning after reading” by several young people in Stanford University dormitories. The process of it going from zero to one and then rising rapidly is quite like a “garage entrepreneurship” for Internet aborigines.
Today, Internet aborigines are nothing new.
However, the rapid rise of AI has to make people go back to the period when the Internet was just emerging.
It is undeniable that the future is shifting from “Internet aborigines” to “AI aborigines”. And these “future masters” will be stronger and have greater potential.
Therefore, Balaji, a Silicon Valley tycoon, an investment god, and the godfather of digital currency, also boldly predicted, to the effect that:
Internet native Zuckerberg became a billionaire in his twenties.
The AI generation is likely to produce teenage billionaires.
What he means is that these children who grew up with AI, their way of thinking, working, and even dealing with society,It must be completely different from our generation. It is simply a different species.
Silicon Valley thinker: Balaji, whose book “Balaji Prophecy” focuses on analyzing how technology will shape our future
Make a less appropriate prediction. Back then, when we were memorizing the “Teacher’s List” and playing the “Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms” on the red and white machine, the “AI Aborigines” might use AI to build a game model of the Three Kingdoms; when we were worried about boring interest classes, the “AI Aborigines” might be using the technology they are familiar with to make games, music, and short films…
I don’t know how you will feel when you hear this?Anyway, I feel very excited.
Ten-year-old child plays AI
What I’m excited about is thatThe future is not a completely invisible “fog of war”. Instead, it is hidden in the details of the present.
Although “Internet Aborigines” are still growing,The communities they gather in are definitely worthy of attention,Because this hides information about the future.
According to my observation, in the English field,”AI aborigines” are highly concentrated in one community-reddit. And what has emerged in the country is Xiaohongshu.
The old community reddit covers secondary yuan, conspiracy theories, pop culture, entertainment gossip, digital currency… everything, and the age of users is extremely large
Currently on reddit, AI aborigines are most active in technology sectors such as technology, learnmachinelearning, and Artificial Intelligence. The discussion is not very out of the circle yet. It’s a pure geek park.
What are they busy with? It is estimated that many adults read it like reading a book.
For example, a doctoral student wants to start a business with his 16-year-old brother. He plans to use a micro single-board computer developed by Raspberry Pi to build a robot with machine learning vision components, and is now recruiting partners.
The 14-year-old boy is trying to use AI machine learning to create a stock predictor with an accuracy of more than 40% within a week.
I vaguely smelled the smell of money
On the domestic side, the sharing of “AI Aborigines” on Xiaohongshu seems more pragmatic, life-oriented, and the discussion atmosphere is very strong.
There are often various discussions below the notes shared by Xiaohongshu AI Aboriginal People. For example, under this note in which primary school students debated with AI,”Should we still learn to program with AI?”, everyone discussed whether AI would generate self-awareness.
The understanding and use of AI by these “AI aborigines” reflects a sense of “maturity” that is inconsistent with their age (of course, this is not surprising).
For example, this child can not only analyze the advantages and disadvantages of OpenAI Sora, but also point out physical errors in AI images. And you can hold video lectures to share your insights.
Little Red Book ID: Tracy who loves to torture
And this primary school student taught everyone how to use crispe to customize a private ai language teacher, using terms such as “prompt word framework format” and “human-computer collaboration framework” to come up at your mouth.
Professional knowledge even makes adults face question marks.
Xiaohongshu ID: Little Tuan Tuan thinks big
This primary school student taught how to use deepseek+natralReader to do homework, and even taught how to use AI tools to facilitate listening to English podcasts.
Xiaohongshu ID: EMMA Mom sandra
There are many similar examples in Xiaohongshu, so you can find them yourself if you are interested.
These discussions and sharing may still be in an undercurrent stage and belong to the spark.
But based on the development pace of the previous node-“Internet Aborigines”, I always feel thatIt is really not far away from the time when the “AI aborigines” will explode in a concentrated manner, create several representative figures that will go down in history, and create several big projects that will shake everyone’s understanding.
“The number one player who defines the future”, the “Zuckerberg” of the AI era, is likely to appear in the near future.
The undercurrent of the future has emerged
So, maybe in the near future, similar notes will appear on the Little Red Book:“I, 14 years old, started an AI game project and am preparing to raise 10 million yuan to recruit friends of the same age!”
It will soon appear in Little Red Book.
So some people have to ask, shouldn’t the so-called “AI aborigines” be born in more vertical technology communities? How did it appear in Little Red Book?
This may be mainly related to the diversity of the community. Much like reddit, as a UGC community, the number of people on Little Red Book spans a large number of people, and the individual individuals in the community are inherently real and diverse. The content produced has long been beyond lifestyle, ranging from cutting-edge technology to daily life, from stock trading to UFOs, from independent games to niche music, everything.
This is for example that ecosystems cannot be composed of only a single species population. Only by having species diversity can they maintain their most fundamental vitality. The prosperity of the UGC community also requires the thoughts, feelings and experiences of different individuals to collide with each other.
From the influx of foreigners into the comment area to “check accounts” to the emergence of diverse gameplay methods by hardcore Ai on the Little Red Book, it is not difficult to find that no matter what your country is, how niche your hobbies you have, you can master more Incomprehensible technologies, or even out-of-the-way, obscure, and cutting-edge knowledge, can always sprout in this highly inclusive community, and even extend new creations.
A distinctive feature of both Internet aborigines and AI aborigines is that they will not have any fear of the Internet and AI, but quickly embrace it.
On the Xiaohongshu platform, I also saw specific manifestations: a group of children discussing AI content is like sharing eating hamburgers, playing games, and buying clothes. There is no difference. For AI aborigines, AI is part of their lives.It is not a content narrative of a single discourse system, nor is it that a small group of people hold discourse hegemony.
Don’t think that all this is just an intracranial climax or a fantasy for the future. After all, many big projects carried out by “Internet Aborigines” started with small observations on life and small ideas related to life, which seemed quite inconspicuous.
And our future is likely to be born in the daily life shared by AI aborigines.
