MTL - Overturned Tower-v2 Chapter 53 Iconoclast

What appeared in front of Russell was a female announcer with a good appearance and solemn religious attire.

She looked more like a bishop, a priestess, or a saint than a moderator. While having enough majesty, there is no lack of affinity.

Every word she speaks is extremely clear and powerful, and she can easily understand it without reading the subtitles, even if she is distracted doing other things. And the tone is neither fast nor slow, and the voice is friendly and clean, which makes people feel very comfortable.

"Not bad."

Delphinium commented: "Even by the standards of Tianen Group, he is quite an excellent host."

"Precious diamonds are like sisters..."

Russell, on the other hand, smiled disapprovingly: "She should do well.

"Why do you say that?"

"Because she's not human."

Russell replied.

She was called "The Diamond Lady". Twenty years ago she was known as Miss Silmarillion.

But only a few people know, maybe not so few, but at least within one-tenth, or even within one-twentieth—that is, there is no such person as "Miss Silmarillion".

From what she looked like when she was seventeen or eighteen years old, to what she looks like now when she is thirty-eight years old...even including the gags between her and other hosts, the daily chats, including some daily scandals, or life photos . All are virtual images drawn by artificial intelligence calculations.

She is a newscaster who only exists in the virtual world, a completely fictional electronic ghost, and she is not even artificial intelligence. Those human hosts can only see her through the images projected in their minds by the chip—but they still cannot touch her. And her every move comes from video modulation, and her every word and deed comes from the countermeasures written in advance by the script writer.

Just like the real-time calculation CG of the game.

—Since the vast majority of human beings’ contact and cognition of the world all come from news and the Internet. So if you create a "human image" that only exists in news, photos, videos, and the Internet, but in fact it not only doesn't exist at all, it doesn't even have its own intelligence.

All the important news on Sogo Island will be broadcast by her. It can be said that she is the "childhood" that grew up with this generation, and even the previous generation.

Will people mourn for The Silmarillion when she dies?

How would people react if they thought The Silmarillion was actually an artificial intelligence?

So at that time, tell them that the Silmarillion is not an artificial intelligence, but a "virtual character" constructed entirely through programming and editing scripts, how will people react?

At what stage will humans no longer be sad? In other words, the "sorrow value" will drop significantly? Is there any difference in essence between the grief for the loss of virtual characters and the loss of real friends? ?

And, as an ordinary person who is also out of touch for the rest of her life, and whose feedback and behaviors are "alive" - ​​whether her "real existence" will completely reverse people's perception of her?

"This is one of many social experiments conducted by the Three Magi."

Russell explained: "There are actually quite a few social experiments of this kind...or in other words, the entire Sogo Island is a large-scale social experiment field.

"For example, those gangs. The three sages will allow some different types of gangs to exist, to observe their influence on other residents, and whether there is a possibility among them that can be used. The same is true in other fields... just like The "folk beliefs that are blooming with a hundred flowers. From this point of view, they are much more enlightened than human rulers and managers."

"I understand......"

The clever delphinium quickly understood the essence of this matter: "She is actually a virtual personality created by humans for screenwriting and programming. Just like a character in an animation, in reality, she is also created by the operating team. Responsible for operating her 'social account', responding like a real person.

"I see...

.Fake artificial intelligence. "

"That's right. It's not a real artificial intelligence, but a virtual program that is manipulated by humans and pretends to be an artificial intelligence that is acting as a human being. A complex relationship like a nesting doll. Humans want to use this method to define "The essence of artificial intelligence.

The three sages are all artificial intelligences, but they are not ordinary artificial intelligences.

Instead, it has imitated the moral concepts and behavior cognition of "human beings" from the very beginning, and created "cognitive bionic artificial intelligence with high intelligence".

But even so, they cannot be sure that their cognition and concepts are exactly the same as human beings. That's why they conducted this decades-long social experiment to discuss how people would perceive this situation - and also wanted to know how people perceive "true and fake" artificial intelligence.

Russell had watched her grow up.

Today, Miss Silmarillion has become Lady Silmarillion.

She has become the most popular host in Sogo Island. She has uploaded videos of herself playing guitar, skiing, photos of praying in front of holy statues, photos of eating with her colleagues...even It has also been broadcast live a few times.

And whether it is her colleagues or other celebrities, they all know that the "Silver Diamond" does not exist. They just pretended that there was such a person, but in the real-time calculated screen, there was really such a person, and they could really talk to them.

—The phantoms that can only be manifested through photography are the "ghosts" living in the electronic space.

"But if you want to talk about ghosts," Russell closed his eyes and sighed thoughtfully, "then why isn't a "werewolf" an electronic ghost?

"People have never seen the "werewolf" in reality, only the traces left by it. But whether it is the three sages or other ordinary people, they all regard the "existence of werewolf" as an established fact. ...So that's why the legend of werewolves spread. Isn't it a kind of group illusion like a "silver diamond"?

"what do you want to say?"

Delphinium was vaguely aware of Russell's thoughts, but he was still not sure: "Did you notice something important from that news clip? Tell me about it."

The corners of Russell's mouth rose slightly, and UU Reading www.uukanshu.com turned over and sat up.

He tied his hair into a ponytail behind him, and asked casually, "I'm asking you, Flotie.

"If we say that there is such a shining statue of God. People have always believed that she is holy, spotless, and clean. God is the sustenance of people's hearts, and it is also the **** that people worship and believe in. People surround the statue of God All kinds of sacrifices are carried out. Under the deterrence of "God", people's moral standards are very high and the social order is orderly.

"But one day, a lunatic kicked the statue down. The statue was broken and the light shone in. People saw that the statue was irreversibly destroyed. The inside of the statue that thought it was sacred was already a nest of rats and ants, full of dust. and mud, and hide bones and jewels.”

"All the sins under the solemn and sacred cover are revealed in an instant. People can't accept this fact, and they can't go back to the past as if they didn't see it. The morality of the world that was originally full of order suddenly declined. Unprecedented chaos and depravity swept the world, people deceived each other, betrayed each other, and killed each other, the once beautiful and peaceful world will never come back.”

”—So, is the man who kicked down the idol guilty?”