With the sound of "popping", the plastic plates change shape and become delicate colored reliefs.

Claven stood by, constantly taking out the finished semi-finished products, and then combining them in pairs to make the finished products required by the order.

He had collected a considerable number of orders long before the official start of construction, and now he can be said to be full of energy, and the noise of the machine running sounds to him as beautiful as the sound of gold coins colliding.

At that moment, he suddenly heard a sigh.

There was no one in the storeroom, and the voice could only come from Robin's guy. So he asked in a loud voice without looking back, "What's wrong with you?"

"It's fine," Robin replied quickly, "just a little lost." ”

"Why?" Craven asked, "is it because of the change in the Union? or because our current president is not great enough?"

"Yes," Robin replied, then asked, "Did you hear it all?"

"Of course, even though my attention was on the machine in front of me, I still heard a lot of conversations between you and the projection card. ”

"It's not right to eavesdrop, man!" said the latter.

"Please, I don't want to hear it either. It's your voice that is so loud that it just gets into my ears, what can I do?"

Robin was speechless for a moment, and then he changed the question: "You just said this thing is called 'ProjectImageCard'?"

"It's a lot like a card with ProjectImage solidified, isn't it?" Craven asked rhetorically.

"It's quite similar, but it's a pity that you can't cast spells, and it's a little thick, and you still need to recharge. ”

In the Dungeons & Dragons world, there is a spell called ProjectImage, which can be used by mages to replicate a projection illusion that can speak and cast spells, so that it can appear in dangerous places instead of the mage, thus effectively reducing the casualty rate of the mage.

Robin occasionally runs a group, and there are many fantasy games he has watched and played since he was a child, and he is clear about these DnD concepts, so he easily accepted the concept of projection cards. It's just that acceptance is acceptance, and it's still indispensable to complain and pick thorns.

Seeing that the other party didn't seem too busy, he asked again, "Crane, how did you do that?"

"Hmm, which are you talking about?" asked Kraven, smugly.

Robin grinned, "I'm talking about Jefferson's artificial intelligence, how did you do that?"

"I talked to him a lot, and he knew a lot about the famous red wines, the social ecology, the international relations, and the natural environment 200 years ago, as if he really lived in that era. He also has his own views on many things, although some seem backward and strange. And he knew that he was dead, and was curious about what happened after his death, and asked me about many of the current state of the United States. Crane, how did you do that? It's amazing!"

Hearing his friend's praise and admiration, the corners of Kraven's mouth couldn't help but hook up a smug arc, and secretly said that my choice was really not wrong!

As the second-ranked man on the Presidential Rock and the second-largest dollar avatar, Thomas Jefferson's popularity is unquestionable. But for modern people, this ancient man two hundred years ago is obviously a little far away, even if he has been exposed to each other's deeds and ideas through books, movies and television or other means, the impression will quickly fade and become blurry and chaotic, after all, we have too much newer and more important information to receive and process.

This is also the reason why Claven chose celebrities such as Jefferson, Napoleon, and Mona Lisa as the first templates, and the public knows a lot about these names and can give an overview of their main deeds, but they are not very familiar with their secondary deeds and ideas. People who are less famous have no impression of the public, people who are more recent are too familiar to the public, and people who are too old are not easy to collect information, but now this is just right.

In response to his friend's doubts, he quoted Newton's famous quote "I am only standing on the shoulders of giants".

Robin thumped him a little, "So Sir Isaac (Newton's title), can you tell me how you did that?"

"Of course," Kraven smiled and grabbed his mouse to open a website, "the secret is here." ”

Robin leaned over and whispered the title of the website on the screen: "'Hall of Stars', what is this for? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"There are more than 100 million websites around the world, and you don't know much. For example, you don't know that the news sites you frequented were actually run by Macedonians. ”

"Well, where is Macedonia?"

"It seems like in Europe, Macedonia seems to be an old European country," realizing that his knowledge of world geography is also poor, Kraven hurriedly pushed the topic forward, "That's not the point. The point is that the website that you regularly visit and retweet is built by an unknown person in an unknown country who doesn't have a journalist in North America at all. Those news are either reprinted by others, or they are made up by original nonsense, but you still believe it to be true. How's it going, do you feel the anger of being fooled?"

Unlike Mr. Kraven, who remained neutral and probably did not vote, Robin Jefferson was a staunch T-party and was as keen as everyone else to retweet and share such news, and Mr. Kraven had long wanted to tease him.

Hearing the news suddenly, Robin was obviously stunned. Then he reacted and asked rhetorically: "So what, who cares? We need a lot of news and topics as ammunition, and those websites happen to provide them, and that's enough, it doesn't matter if it's true or not." ”

"Uh," this time it was Kraven's turn to feel speechless, the other party said so well that he couldn't refute it at all.

So he hurriedly pulled the topic back, pointed to the monitor and said: "This Hall of Stars is a derivative project of Bee Encyclopedia, and it is the creation and trading platform of character AI. ”

"I know the Bee Encyclopedia, which is a bit closed, but occasionally it works," Robin said with some pride.

With the overseas expansion of the honey search business, the two businesses of Bee Encyclopedia and Bee Q&A have also gone overseas, challenging iki and Ask respectively. Although the market share is still a disadvantage, with more reliable and stable content, they have also gained a group of more loyal and relatively loyal users, which can be regarded as a firm foothold.

Kraven understood Robin's attitude, and he hadn't been that way in the first place. At the beginning, he was the same as him, full of suspicion and contempt for bees, and then slowly loosened his attitude in the face of the facts, and finally became a fanatical fan. He was equally unsuspicious of Robin's transformation, because time was on his side.

"The original 'Hall of Stars' was just something like a celebrity encyclopedia, and it seems that the purpose was to prevent you fanatical fans from scribbling ...... wantonly"

Robin interrupted, "Don't generalize! I haven't read Hillary's entry once, and I certainly haven't edited it." ”

Claven was connecting the finished product to the docking station to test the performance, and when he heard this, he said directly: "Okay, okay, don't talk about this." In short, on the basis of the Hall of Stars, Bee has launched a special training platform to encourage users to use encyclopedia entries and reference materials as materials to train corresponding artificial intelligence. It can then be used to carry a personal virtual assistant, or it can be used elsewhere, such as my projection card. ”

"So what you're talking to is actually a copy with specific knowledge and experience. Fortunately, this gentleman was not good at words but was good at writing, and often used speeches instead of speeches, and thus left a large number of written works. He is also rich in research monographs and biographies, which allows soul mages to find enough high-quality materials to train their AI to behave more like real people and themselves. ”

“Soulcaster？”

"It's those AI trainers who feel like they're splicing virtual souls with soul fragments, so they all call themselves soul mages. ”

"Including you?" asked Robin.

"No, I don't think these things are souls yet, just projection illusions. I downloaded them onto a chip and combined them with a 3D-printed shell to make these projection cards. ”

"The chips also come from bees?"

"Yes, the board itself was made by bees for smart toys, and I asked someone to help me modify the system so that it could install AI, and it became what it is now. ”

"Crane," Robin said suddenly, looking at the other party, "In that case, I'm afraid your business won't last long." ”

"Do you mean the copycats?" asked Kraven, scrambling.

"Yes, there are a lot of victims on Kickstarter, their crowdfunded products have not been officially shipped, and knockoffs have been put on the shelves of taobao and eBay. ”

"Of course I know these things, and have done a lot of countermeasures," Craven pointed to his feet, "the grounds, my family's idle warehouse, the equipment, rented from Bee Columbia, and the order, first paid for the goods." Even if the business is robbed, I just need to return this big guy, and there won't be much loss. ”

"You're too negative, aren't you?"

"Rest assured, this is only the worst-case scenario. Fortunately, I haven't seen any copycats yet, and maybe they don't like my little business yet. ”

"If I were to, I wouldn't be able to look at these," Robin smiled and tipped his fingers around the finished items on the table, each with a different appearance, and few of them repeated. There are many small quantities and categories, which is a taboo for factory production, and the production cost of 3D printers is also a bit high.

Kraven obviously understood what the other party meant, and said disapprovingly: "Isn't this right? ”

"I'm afraid it won't last long, and the intelligence of these AIs is still not enough," Robin changed the striking point: "At first, it sounds like a real person, but as long as you talk deeper, you will find that its intelligence keeps falling, answering mechanical repetitions, and even answering non-questions." I'm afraid that people will lose interest soon, and then your business will just be closed!"

"Don't worry, it won't. At least not for the time being," Kraven said with a look of certainty.

Then he smiled a little embarrassedly, "By the way, if you are not satisfied with your Mr. President, you can log in here and re-select another version to download to your device." ”

"Are there any other versions?"

"Of course, there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, and the more famous the character, the more projections there are. ”

"And then the price varies," Robin felt like he had caught the other man's hidden line.

"Yes, the price varies greatly. The soul mage buys training time from the bees, and then spends energy sorting out the data, designing the characters, and purchasing the functional modules, since the cost has been paid, of course there is a way to earn it back. Some people like to set a high price, as long as a few people buy it, they will make it, and some people like to set a low price and rely on quantity to win, while the latter is relatively more. So in general, the price of the popular ones is low, the price of the unpopular ones is high, the good ones are more expensive, and the average ones are cheaper. ”

"And then, this one of mine is the cheapest and the worst effective?"

"How can it be the worst?" Kraven asked rhetorically, and then he explained with little confidence, "For you, the best-selling copy of Thomas, the other copies may be better, but I don't have time to try them one by one." And the best and most powerful AI is always made or modified by itself. When a game company buys AI, it pays an additional fee to obtain a modification license, and then modifies the parameters according to its own script in order to create a more personalized character that meets the requirements. ”

"Game company?" Robin keenly grasped a key word.

"Yes, the biggest buyers of the Hall of Stars are game companies, especially those who make historical and fantasy games. ”

"Why are they buying AI?"

"Of course, it's to save money!" Craven said of course, "Letting the screenwriter design the language and behavior of the characters is of course the best, but once things go beyond the script, the NPCs turn into ridiculous stakes." With full AI, they have their own knowledge base and personality, and they are able to react more to different things, and the chance of turning into a stake will be much reduced. ”

"And it's a lot more efficient, and there's no need to polish the script repeatedly. ”

"But the plot can also become rough and chaotic, losing its coherence and thought, like a messy chowder," Robin stabbed.

"Of course, this is not the time when AI is putting screenwriters out of work," Kraven admits frankly, and then his voice suddenly raises, "But the future is coming, isn't it?"

As if he felt that the language was too pale, Craven simply opened the video player and found two videos and pointed them to his friends, "Look at this, this is "Nuwa's Dream", an action-adventure game that is completely generated by the computer. And this is a control technology based on brain waves, which belongs to the technology of the future. ”

The previous video is the official promotional video of "Nuwa's Dream" released by Bee You after CJ, and this work is said to be released within the year. The latter video was recorded by Kraven himself, which is the picture of Wang Xiaofei wearing a headset and exoskeleton pants, walking like a fly.