Chapter 1675: Two small surprises (1/2)
Li Yao recalled the bits and pieces he and Professor Mo Xuan had made in the flying star realm in the past, and he was quite sighing.
From the video just now, one can hear Professor Mo Xuan's deep love for virtual life forms, and the kind of...almost detached from human beings, standing on the scale of the universe, and compassionate realm.
It is conceivable that the collapse of the Ethereal Realm must have dealt a very heavy blow to him, so that the ”Civilization” game has become his sad past, making him unable to continue to lead this magnificent and magnificent project.
Li Yao sighed and asked, ”This'virtual spirit world' has been destroyed like this, has nothing left?”
Ling Xiaole said: ”It's not that nothing is left. If you have to say, now the game assistants after the player enters ”Civilization”,'Xiao Ming' and'Wen Wen' are the last relics of the'Void Spirit World Project'. It is a kind of ”artificial intelligence” with more than one billion thoughts and information built-in, which can simulate almost all human reactions.”
”Artificial intelligence” and ”quasi-artificial intelligence” are one word, but there is a world of difference.
The former possesses the real ”soul” and ”self-awareness” and can be viewed as another form of person; but the latter can only be regarded as a large-scale database, coupled with various state-of-the-art algorithms.
”Artificial intelligence-like” can also make appropriate or even subtle responses to various stimuli given by the outside world, but this response is no different from ”parrot”. At best, it is the lowest level of conditioned reflex.
The simplest example, the ”Black Wing” that Li Yao brought from childhood to large is a kind of ”artificial intelligence”.
Xiao Hei can give feedback to Li Yao's various needs, and sometimes even has considerable autonomy and does not follow Li Yao's instructions.
But this kind of ”do not obey Li Yao's command and play freely at random” was also set by the old man or someone else a long time ago.
No matter how much Li Yao likes Black Wing, he would not think of Black Wing as a real ”person” rationally. All Black Wing's reactions are based on a special database stored in it, compiled a long time ago. A set of instructions.
——There is no real ”person” who can bear to stay in the Universe Ring for decades without going crazy.
Similarly, many magic weapons of the Federation possess so-called ”smarts”. At first glance, they seem to have their own spirit and will, able to interact with the driver, and even take the initiative to implement various tactical arrangements.
But all of this is pre-compiled and set, and it will be ”triggered” when a certain special condition is met, rather than a magical treasure that has an absolutely free will hidden in the magic weapon.
The larger the database and the more sophisticated the instruction set, the more ”artificial intelligence-like” responses will look like real ones, but no matter how real they are, they are all puppets performing unconscious mechanical reactions.
Real artificial intelligence and virtual life may take hundreds or thousands of years to come, but ”like artificial intelligence” has long been popular in the Federation. Listening to Ling Xiaole's words, Li Yao was not surprised at all.
Ling Xiaole said: ”You can turn on the crystal brain, do not enter the game, simply activate'Xiao Ming' and'Wen Wen', and then select the'initial mode', you can see how they were originally created in the virtual spirit world.”
Li Yao was curious and acted according to his words.
”Huh!”
Two round, fleshy, pink and crystal-clear little dolls emerged from Li Yao's palm again.
With the ”initial mode” turned on, Xiaoming and Wenwen seemed to have awakened from a big dream. They blinked their eyes in confusion, first glanced at each other, then turned to look at Li Yao, and suddenly shouted in unison:
”father!”
Li Yao was so excited that he almost didn't slap these two little guys to death: ”What the hell!”
Ling Xiaole forced a smile: ”This is the initial setting, because they are sub-civilizations of humans in the setting. Of course they call humans ”Mom and Dad”!”
”Yes, we are a sub-civilization of mankind!”
Xiao Ming said proudly with his head held high, hands on hips.
”A kind sub-civilization, a lovely sub-civilization, a beautiful sub-civilization, a bright sub-civilization!”
Wenwen turned around and danced gracefully.
”Humanity is our father civilization, great father civilization, brave father civilization, glorious father civilization!”
Xiao Ming continued.
”Praise the father's civilization, praise the father's civilization!”
Singing and dancing.
Li Yao was stunned, watching two porcelain doll-like Xuanguang little people jumping around in his palms, laughing like silver bells, and even struggling to crawl along his arms on his body, like two living little dolls. , I got goose bumps instantly.
”Uh, because decades ago, when the game ”Civilization” was just in its infancy, the vast majority of people in society had great suspicion and vigilance about the so-called'artificial intelligence, virtual life', and so on. A lot of propaganda information is implanted when it is kind of'artificial intelligence', hoping to use this relatively cute image to dispel people's worries.”
Ling Xiaole said, ”To put it bluntly, the original'Xiao Ming' and'Wen Wen' were an advertisement and a mascot.
”However, with the collapse of the virtual world, the'Incubating Virtual Life' project completely failed. Such advertisements and mascots have lost their meaning. The so-called'threat of virtual life' has become a joke for at least a few hundred years. I can't see the possibility of their birth inside, but the huge database of ”Xiao Ming” and ”Wen Wen” does not need to be completely discarded. After a facelift, they become game assistants, greatly improving the playability and richness of the game.
”Of course, under the'initial settings', they are all restored to their original form. You can also try to raise them as'virtual children'. There are indeed many people, especially girls who like to play this way. They are very cute. of!”
”Dad, I'm hungry!”
”Dad, play games with me!”
”Dad, dad, tell me the heroic legends of human civilization, I want to hear the story of the vulture Li Yao!”
”Daddy, dad, dad, sing me a song, or else just listen to me sing!”
Following the introduction of Ling Xiaole, two virtual Xuanguang villains climbed up along Li Yao's arms, resting on his shoulders, one tugging at his earlobe and the other at his hair, constantly making magical sounds. After that, he sang in unison, singing a nursery rhyme that had been circulated on the Lingnet hundreds of years ago:
”Not afraid of falling rain, nor falling snow...”
Li Yao was dumbfounded and dizzy.
God, the bear kid is terrible!
He would rather face the siege of ten Xiao Xuance, Bai Xinghe and Jin Tuyi than to deal with such two bear kids-even virtual bear kids!