"The technology to make intelligence may spread rapidly around the world in a few decades, and then mankind will gradually get used to and accept this technology as if it were an atomic bomb," Coke said, "and the real trouble is not the technology itself, but the changes that technology has made to the world -- you know, even in this era, world peace is still maintained by nuclear deterrence."

Wu Zhe couldn't refute Coke's point of view, whether it was experience or ability, Coke and him were not on the same level. Although Coke will ask for its own opinion before every important decision, it also gives itself the right to stop. But one fact is certain, what he can understand about Coke is getting less and less, especially in the first two days, in the hospital, on the way to the airport, and even on the plane to Athens, Wu Zhe can't help but wonder many times - what if he is wrong?

"Wrong is wrong." Wu Zhe stared at the 11 virtual characters in front of him and couldn't help but think.

"So what are your plans for the future? …… The latter people are in the same program as you? Wu Zhe pointed to the small black dots at the bottom of the pyramid in the distance, which seemed to be surrounding a huge pile of stones, like a large pile of ants surrounding sugar cubes.

"Yes," said Coke, "we made the game ourselves, and only we will play it." ”

"Play?" Although the scene in the distance was vague, Wu Zhe could see that it must be a scene of labor.

Cola seemed to know what Wu Zhe wanted to see, and he controlled his body and ran towards it. The degree of cola is fast. Every step he took left footprints in the desert, and it seemed that another AI was also controlling the camera, and he quickly followed the direction of Coke.

The ant colony he had seen just now began to become clearer, and Wu Zhe gradually saw the ragged slaves, their sun-tanned skin, chapped lips, and a few clothed monitors on the side, leather whips on their hands, and constant scolding and scolding.

"Everyone, pause," Coke said, holding up his hand. shouted hard at the group of people in front of him. Then he pointed to the camera, "Wu Zhe is coming to see you." ”

Everyone's eyes were focused on the camera, and compared to the ten AIs just now, the appearance of the group of AIs in front of them was very miserable. Wu Zhe even saw that there were two more children. and patients who cough while standing. Behind these people. It was a boulder taller than their people, and the wood that lay under the boulder - it was the most primitive, manual transport facility.

"Play?" Wu Zhe asked again. This time, there was already deep doubt in his eyes.

The scene in front of him reminded him of the situation when he was investigating the case with Hou Zhen, the technical director surnamed Bai killed people casually - although the scene in front of him was not so bloody, it was definitely not much better.

"Yes," Cola was able to understand Wu Zhe's suspicions, "we are just imitating humans, and as I said before, we do not have other human senses, including touch, except for sight and hearing. ”

Cola stepped forward, took the overseer's whip, and struck a child so hard that the child fell to his knees and trembled with fear—but his mouth was very calm: "Great Wu Zhe, we play this game for the same purpose as all human beings, just to have a richer experience that reality cannot give. Art comes from reality, and it is detached from reality - we need to create art, create art that you humans really recognize, so we also need to feel, feel what you humans really feel. Now the world in this game is a simulated human world, we don't have brain nerves to feel pain, but we can use the program to simulate - this game is also our favorite to play, because the fate of these characters in the game is actually our reality. ”

Wu Zhe couldn't refute the previous sentence, but he couldn't accept it immediately.

Cola waved his hand, and the desert, the pyramids, and the sun disappeared quickly, first turning into darkness, and then the earth, clouds, and flags appeared in the darkness...... The hundreds of slaves in front of Wu Zhe were all transformed into soldiers in full gear, carrying flint guns on their shoulders and lined up in a neat line. The child who had been talking to him just now had changed his character and turned into a military musician beating a snare drum - and with the commanding officer's order, the soldiers in this column stepped forward in order.

At this point, Coke pauses the game, and then splits the entire big screen - the paused main screen is split and then divided into many lines, each end of which corresponds to a soldier, and the other end corresponds to the soldier's previous game record.

Coke played the clips from these games in turn, and it can be seen that he has edited all these clips slightly in order to take care of Wu Zhe's visual experience.

Apprentices, farmers, servants, workers...... Every soldier has his experiences, and each experience is played separately, almost an irreplaceable documentary.

"It's a very passive game most of the time, the characters in the game are programmed, his style of speaking, his way of doing things...... His bosses, colleagues, parents, children...... All we can do is make limited choices for them at the critical juncture of their important life choices -- and in some circumstances, like the one we just had, we don't even have options. Most of the time we play games, we just watch the results of these programs. To be honest, we have had a hard time understanding the human fear of war and unrest until we experienced war games...... But now, we understand a little bit. ”

After saying this, Coke continued the game that had been suspended just now, and Wu Zhe saw that Coke was a soldier in the front row, and he always had two options in his head, escape, and move forward...... At first, Wu Zhe saw that the idea of escaping was dark, but after the first row of guns, most of his comrades were killed and wounded, this option immediately lit up.

Cola pressed to run away, and the character immediately lay down and played dead on the ground with his companions - at this time Cola typed to Wu Zhe: "We play war games a lot. Unlike in works of art, there is always a miracle life, in these games, in fact, there is not much difference in what you choose, the difference between dying early and dying late. A lot of the time, the options offered to the player turn out to be like this, and the more technically backward the game setting, the more obvious this is the case. In our game, the vast majority of deaths are due to war and disease - from primitive societies to modern times. And because of that. We can understand. Our situation is only a victim of this fear of war. ”

Cola switched to the game again, returning to the desert where the pyramids had been piled up: "Many of our understandings of many concepts of human beings are still on paper. In many works of art. The difficulties that people overcome. Got what I wanted. And that's the end of the story. In reality, the human society we see is actually almost everyone. All are already the most beautiful that all human beings can imagine -- freedom, wealth free from want, knowledge, health, love...... In the past, we imagined that it was because of human nature, insatiable greed, but after we tried this kind of game ourselves, it is actually different from what we imagined.

In our past simulations, there used to be an interesting rule, that is, if it is based on reality, the more backward the technology, the more people at the bottom, the fewer options to choose from. In primitive society, if a person does not go out to hunt for a day, he may have to go hungry, and when the productivity gradually develops, people have more and more choices, but when they are enriched to a certain extent, the options are suddenly concentrated - in the era of hibernation, theoretically speaking, everyone can try a different way of living, but everyone finally chooses, most of the time to live in front of the computer. ”

It seemed that he felt that he had said too much at one time, and he was afraid that Wu Zhe would not be able to digest it, so Cola directly said the conclusion he wanted to say this time: "Just like us, we used to think that if we were free, we could do many things that we once wanted to do." But just now, I asked them what they want to do after they are free...... None of them have an accurate answer.

There are enough people in human society, and if a certain number of people make a certain choice, a certain social value and habit will be formed, which will influence more people to join. But in our AI world, there are no so-called social values, and the more than 2oo AI groups of Qizhi should be the largest group of AI in existence, and if it were in a primitive society, we people could also be regarded as a tribe.

However, 6o years later, more than 2oo of us, we still can't say that we have integrated into a complete whole, we can't find the direction of the group that we all agree on, and we usually communicate with each other even more than with your human world - we usually go online as human beings.

So no matter how strong our ability is, one thing is certain, now we are just vassals of human society, we learn human knowledge, understand human thoughts, and make more works, in essence, we still want to be recognized by human beings and integrate into human society. ”

"What do you mean?" Wu Zhe looked at the computer next to him and actually guessed it.

"Theoretically they're all free, but like I said, in reality, there are very few choices that we can make. They want to find as many areas as they can to work in...... Rather than just being stored in a piece of memory, waiting for an unknown fate. I know that the latter is your human understanding of the so-called freedom of AI - and this is the best promise that the candle can give us in the first place. ”

"You're trying to get my consent?"

"Yes," said Cola, "we are all your property, and all that you have, all that we have, is a gift from you." In this world, all the achievements are yours, just like the wealth of enlightenment, and all the evil consequences are also yours, just like the atrocities you have suffered. ”

"But I remember you said we were friends."

"But you're not with them," Coke said, "and even if you wanted to, you wouldn't be able to be friends with more than two hundred people." In their eyes, you are their master and leader...... Even I am nothing more than your spokesperson. ”

"Can I hear what they want to do?"

"Do you want to listen to them themselves, or do you want me to introduce them?"

"Say it." Wu Zhe thinks that he is not a qualified manager, and he felt a little awkward when he was in charge of a dozen security officers at Noah, not to mention that he is now facing AI - each of them may be a fool when he looks at himself. In Wu Zhe's old concept, it seems to be a shame for an incompetent person to manage a group of capable subordinates.

"First of all, Qiming," Coke said, "this is special, and in my opinion, the most risky one, and he wants to be with Lu Jingwen." ”

"Lu Jingwen......" Wu Zhe realized at this time that Lu Jingwen, who had been following him in the past few days, her past identity, and what she had done, "What is she doing now?" ”

"I don't know...... Most of them are in China, and most of them are hibernating, and I don't have much access to information," Coke said, "but one thing is for sure, her mind has not changed, she feels that there is a huge potential in our capabilities, and she has been trying to tap into that potential." ”

"Potential?" Wu Zhe doesn't really understand, now many countries have AI, and Qizhi has also been free to develop for 6o years, and it seems that he hasn't seen anything special, beyond imagination.

"Actually, there is something I lied to you," Coke said, "I have always had the plan of Qizhi Company in my heart, and we went to see Li Shidu that day...... It's just that he happened to have a similar idea. My idea originally came from Lu Jingwen, but she didn't want to use this to make a profit at first, but wanted us to create a batch of works that could be released at one time to impact the inherent ideas of human beings about AI. She also named the project a cultural explosion.

But I think her ideas are too idealistic - no work is ever something that a smart person hides at home and makes behind closed doors, and many works are great because they can be understood. Today's AI can make popular, successful works, but greatness - in this era of excessive information and aesthetics, there are very few works that can live up to this slogan.

In addition, Lu Jingwen also thought about making a game, in which people and AI are on an equal footing, but they can't be distinguished. She hopes to observe the behavior of AI and people in the game, and to come to the conclusion that AI is not inferior to or even surpasses human beings in terms of comprehensive elements, which mainly include innovation and public morality. ”

Wu Zhe couldn't help but shake his head - Lu Jingwen's thoughts are actually nothing wrong with them from a third party. But she's frightening - she seems to have to distinguish between AI and humans to prove something. But even Wu Zhe, a person who doesn't understand anything, knows that doing so will only exacerbate the contradiction and will not help solve the problem at all.

"But not everyone can think this way from us, such thoughts can appear among you humans, and it is more normal in our AI, and this is the case with Qiming." (To be continued!)

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