Chapter 524 Iconoclasts

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

She looked more like a bishop, a priestess or a saint than a presenter. While having enough majesty, it does not lack affinity.

Every word she speaks is extremely clear and powerful. You don't need to read subtitles and can easily understand it even if you are distracted by doing other things. The tone of voice is neither fast nor slow, and the voice is friendly and clean, making people feel extremely comfortable.

"Not bad."

Delphinium commented: "Even by the standards of Tianen Group, he is a very good host."

"Sister Baozuan..."

Russell smiled disapprovingly: "She should do well."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because she is not human."

Russell replied.

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

But only a few people know - maybe not that few, but at least one in ten or even one in twenty - that is, the "Lady Silmaril" does not actually exist.

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 jokes and daily chats between her and other hosts, including some daily scandals, or life photos. All are virtual images drawn through artificial intelligence calculations.

She is a newscaster who only exists in the virtual world, a completely fictional electronic ghost. She is not even an artificial intelligence. Those human hosts also have to see her through the images reflected in their minds by the chip - but they still cannot contact her. And her every move comes from video modulation, and her every word and action 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 understanding of the world come from the news and the Internet. So if you create a "human image" that only exists in news, photos, videos, and the Internet, in fact it not only does not exist at all, it does not even have intelligence of its own.

All important news on Sogo Island is reported by her. It can be said that she is the "childhood" that accompanies this generation and even the previous generation as they grow up.

Will people grieve for the Silmarillion when she dies?

How would people react if they thought the Silmarils were actually artificial intelligence?

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

At what stage will humans stop being sad? In other words, the "sadness value" will drop significantly? Is there any difference in nature between the grief over the passing of a virtual character and the grief over the passing of a real friend?

And, as a person who is also inaccessible to ordinary people throughout their lives, and whose feedback and actions are "living" - will her "real existence or not" completely change people's perception of her?

"This was one of many social experiments conducted by the Three Wise Men."

Russell explained: “There are actually quite a lot of social experiments like this… In other words, the entire Sogo Island is a large-scale social experiment site.

"For example, those gangs. The Three Sages will allow some different types of gangs to exist to observe their impact on other residents and whether there are possibilities that can be exploited among them. The same is true in other fields... Just like the blooming 'Folk belief'. From this point of view, they are much more enlightened than human rulers and managers."

"I see……"

The clever Delphinium quickly understood the essence of this matter: "She is actually a virtual personality created by human beings for screenwriting and programming. Just like a character in animation, in reality it is also controlled by the operation team. Responsible for running her 'social account' and responding like a real person.

"I see...fake artificial intelligence."

"That's right. It's not a real artificial intelligence, but a virtual program controlled by humans that pretends to be an artificial intelligence playing human beings. A complex relationship like a matryoshka doll. They want to use this method to define' The Nature of Artificial Intelligence'."

The Three Sages are all artificial intelligences, but they are not ordinary artificial intelligences.

Rather, it is a "cognitive bionic high-intelligence artificial intelligence" that imitates "human" moral concepts and behavioral cognition from the very beginning.

But even so, they are not sure that their cognition and concepts are exactly the same as humans. That’s why they conducted this decades-long social experiment to discuss how people would view this situation—and also to understand how people view “real and fake” artificial intelligence.

Russell grew up watching her.

Today, Lady Silmarillion has become Lady Silmarillion.

She has become the most popular host on Sogo Island. She has uploaded videos of herself playing guitar, skiing, photos of stopping to pray in front of the holy statue, photos of eating with her colleagues... She has even broadcast live several times.

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

——The phantom that can only be revealed through photography is the "ghost" living in the electronic space.

"But speaking of ghosts," Russell closed his eyes and sighed thoughtfully, "then isn't the 'wolfman' an electronic ghost?

"People have never seen a werewolf in reality, only the traces it left. But whether it is the three sages or other ordinary people, they all regard the existence of werewolves as an established fact... …I see, that’s why the legend of werewolves spreads. Isn’t it a group illusion like the Silmaril?”

"what do you want to say?"

Delphinium was vaguely aware of Russell's thoughts, but was still unsure: "Did you notice anything important from that news clip? Tell me about it."

The corners of Russell's mouth raised slightly, and he turned over and sat up.

He tied his hair into a ponytail behind his back and asked casually: "Let me ask you, Flotte.

"Suppose there is such a shining statue of a god. People have always believed that he is sacred, spotless, and clean. He is the sustenance of people's hearts and the god that people worship and believe in. People surround the statue of the god. Various sacrifices were performed. Under the intimidation of the 'gods', people's moral standards were very high and the society was in order.

"But one day, a madman kicked the statue down. The statue was shattered and light shone in. People saw that the statue was irreversibly destroyed. The inside of the statue that they thought was sacred was already a rat's nest, full of ants, Dust and silt also contain bones and jewels.

"All the sins under the solemn and sacred cover were revealed in an instant. People could not accept this fact, and they could not go back to the past as if they had not seen it. The world that was originally full of order suffered a moral decline in an instant, Unprecedented chaos and corruption have swept the world. People deceived, betrayed, and killed each other. The once beautiful and peaceful world will never return.

"——Then, is the person who kicked down the statue guilty?"