As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

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The concept of artificial intelligence has a very long history, but the real wave of artificial intelligence began in 2016.

After Google's AlphaGo became a legend, almost all Internet giants have mentioned artificial intelligence.

Everyone is very optimistic about artificial intelligence, believing that artificial intelligence can truly liberate human productivity and take over most of human work.

At that time, SenseTime, one of the four AI dragons, obtained 52 billion US dollars in financing in just seven years. The financing institutions included Neon Softbank, Ali, IDG Capital, etc.

In the years since its listing, SenseTime has suffered losses year after year, 18 billion in 34, 19 billion in 49, 20 billion in 121, and 21 billion in 171.

The amount of losses increased significantly each year, resulting in an almost frantic escape by institutions that had their restrictions lifted after SenseTime was listed on the Hong Kong stock market.

SoftBank, which entered the market in the D and D+ rounds, will have to cut its losses and leave.

The main reason is that people were too optimistic about artificial intelligence back then.

However, it is difficult for a purely technology-based company like SenseTime to promote the implementation of artificial intelligence in the industrial sector on its own.

Like artificial intelligence and Internet technology, it needs to be combined with other industries to be revitalized.

It is difficult to generate profits with technology alone.

Therefore, those who can make it to the end in artificial intelligence are basically the big Internet companies. Pure technology-based companies like SenseTime barely persisted for a few years before delisting from the Hong Kong stock market, and then were acquired by an Internet giant on the eve of the explosion of artificial intelligence.

No one expected this journey to take so long.

By 2031, everyone will agree that artificial intelligence will have an impact on all walks of life and that it is a major trend of the future.

When consensus is formed, it means that there is no arbitrage space.

When everyone didn't quite understand the significance of new energy and thought that electric cars were just toys, you were able to realize that new energy was a major trend of the future.

You can buy new energy ETFs or individual stocks in the stock market and make money by taking advantage of the information gap.

When everyone thought that new energy was the trend, individual new energy stocks had already soared to the sky.

The further implementation of artificial intelligence in the industrial sector is beneficial to all related industries.

It's just that the unemployment problem has become more serious for governments.

Artificial intelligence can improve production efficiency and save companies' labor costs. Compared with manual labor, the error rate of artificial intelligence has also been reduced to a negligible level.

However, the cumulative risk for the affected individuals is huge.

Developed countries are able to provide welfare benefits, including unemployment benefits, re-employment training, food stamps and so on.

This is far from being a good thing for developing and underdeveloped countries.

Sometimes the progress of the times has nothing to do with individuals. During the adjustment period brought about by the progress of the times, many individuals cannot enjoy the benefits of technological progress, but instead have to face the disadvantages brought about by the progress of the times.

Lee Hsien Loong is the former head of Singapore, and the family behind him has held power in Singapore for nearly a hundred years.

He was obviously unwilling to see his plan fail. To him, the power he thought he had traded away was only nominal power.

The fact that Merlin is the apparent leader does not affect his authority.

For some people, power is given to them by their position, but for some people, it is because they sit in that position that this position has such great power.

Japan has had so many prime ministers. Although they are both prime ministers, can you say that Yukio Hatoyama’s power is the same as Abe’s?

How much nominal power can you hold on to?

These are not the same thing at all.

Li Xianlong's plan was to give Zheng Li only a nominal position and some power, but in reality he could control the bureaucrats and he himself was also an advisor to the cabinet.

As a result, Zheng Li got rid of all the bureaucrats, even the civil servants in the police system.

As for criminal activities, they are all located by artificial intelligence in cooperation with the Sky Eye system, and then arrested by the grassroots enforcement personnel.

Ho Ching saw that Lee Hsien Long was unhappy at home, and even sighed after coming back from a walk outside. She couldn't help but complain:
"It's your decision, and now that the deal is done, don't dwell on it.

It is better to use your preheating to allocate the assets we have obtained and make plans for future generations.”

In fact, the relationship between Zheng Li and Meilin is an unspoken fact among major countries.

Everyone can roughly guess the deal between Zheng Li and Lion City.

After all, Zheng Li suddenly reduced his holdings in Kechuang Biotechnology, especially at the time when virtual reality devices were about to come out.

However, the usage share of the Swift international clearing system among the countries on Blue Star is now so low that it can be ignored. The mainstream bank clearing system in various countries is the Currency Bridge multilateral trading system that Zheng Li proposed back then and in which China mainly participated.

In this decentralized bank clearing system, no node can monitor the whereabouts of funds.

Not to mention Zheng Li’s funds.

Of course, this also has a problem, which is that it is inconvenient to trace funds, and some criminal investigation fund tracing becomes almost impossible.

This inconvenience is acceptable to all countries compared to putting the security of international currency transactions in their own hands.

“A century-old foundation was destroyed in one day. Whether online or in real life, it’s as if the Li family never existed in Singapore.

The past seems to be gone like a passing cloud.”

"The problem is that when I advised you not to make this deal with him, you were full of confidence and acted like you had it all planned out."

“There is obviously no problem with the deal itself.

Even if we don't trade with him, with the speed at which the situation is changing, Lion City's century-old foundation will not be preserved.

You don't really think Hongyi has the ability to take over my job, do you?
Keat is obviously not someone who is easy to deal with. Ever since he used retreat as an opportunity to force me to confirm his position as successor, I knew that Hongyi would definitely not be able to fight him. "

Keat is Wang Ruijie's English name.

Li Xianlong went on to say: “Especially under such a complicated situation, let alone a century-old foundation, even the wealth and honor of future generations cannot be guaranteed.

Now at least the wealth of the next three generations is guaranteed."

Ho Ching objected: “Even if Keat doesn’t hand over power to Hongyi as agreed, he will never dare to do anything to us.

Instead of being like it is now, the Lee family’s power in Lion City has been reduced to zero.

Forget about privileges. If I want to do something now, I either have to ask a servant to do it or do it myself."

Li Xianlong sighed: "Yes, our entire think tank team did not expect the other party's methods to be so simple and crude.

The most exaggerated thing is that America has a completely acquiescent attitude towards this.

As if this is just a simple transfer of power.”

It is not an ordinary thing from any perspective that intelligent life from an unknown civilization takes over the Blue Star country.

The fact that this matter was reported extensively by all media outlets on Blue Planet also showed that it was an unusual event.

He Jing reminded: "Your thinking is still stuck on the fact that the other party is a human being.

In fact, we don't have anything to trade with America. But that doesn't mean he doesn't have anything.

Whether it is technology or magic in his hands, they are all things that make Americans salivate.

Even without considering those, his own military strength is enough to make the Americans fear him."

Sometimes military force is not just airplanes and cannons; the ability to physically destroy an individual at a specific location is even more frightening.

Take America as an example. The deterrent power of its aircraft and artillery in the Middle East for so many years is not enough to behead Soleimani.

“It’s still because we don’t understand the other party’s strength and intentions well enough.

No, we know his strength well enough, the most important thing is his intention.

The image he presented to the outside world led to errors in our deductions.” Li Xianlong was referring to the results of a review with his think tank team.

In fact, everyone is very clear about Merlin's strength. After all, it has been more than ten years since Merlin appeared in the world, and all kinds of information have been collected very comprehensively.

It was just that when Merlin's image became associated with Zheng Li, they misjudged what Merlin would do after gaining power in Lion City.

“So if you can’t resist, you can only choose to accept it.

I feel that Singapore has become unfamiliar and I can change the environment to live in.”

The huge changes in Lion City have caused virtual reality devices to disappear from the spotlight for a long time.

Chen Ran and his team have already done a lot of work on building the virtual world.

With the help of artificial intelligence, their biggest job is to design a virtual world with rich enough content to meet users' all-round requirements from life to entertainment.

There are many games of this type, and there are also many excellent ones. Take The Legend of Zelda as an example. Both combat players and life players can enjoy the fun of it.

But for the size of a world, The Legend of Zelda still has too little content.

In addition, the virtual devices sold in China cannot be connected to the Internet, so after the release they can only use a stand-alone virtual world.

Since virtual reality devices cannot connect to the Internet using traditional communication methods, WiFi and 5.5G cannot be used.

Therefore, after purchasing virtual reality equipment, users can only come to Suzhou to update it.

How a stand-alone virtual world can satisfy users becomes particularly important.

Chen Ran chose the supernatural world. In this supernatural world full of endless wars, players can freely and deeply participate in the historical process of this world.

The virtual world evolved by artificial intelligence based on the history of the other world in Zheng Li's memory is real enough.

The only problem is that it is too realistic and too difficult, making it almost impossible for players to develop their own power through farming.

At the same time, due to the inability to connect to the Internet, the NPC's intelligence is limited.

There is still a certain degree of deviation from the real world.

The online virtual world does not have this problem at all, and it is almost impossible to tell the difference between NPCs and real people.

“The first virtual reality trailer can be released. I believe that Fantasy World will satisfy the players.”

In fact, there have been many rounds of discussions within Ke Chuang Biotechnology regarding the name of the stand-alone world.

Similar superpower worlds, if following convention, should be named with English names. Even if they are not English names, they should be named from the Western classical mythology system.

But these names were all rejected by Li Miaomiao.

What she meant was that the virtual world is global and should not be influenced by any regional cultural factors.

Even though the dominance of Western culture worldwide has been unquestionable over the past two hundred years, this cannot continue to be the case from now on, in the virtual world constructed by future scientific and technological creatures.

With Li Miaomiao's insistence, a very neutral description of a fantasy world was finally adopted.

At the same time, it expressed Ke Chuang Bio's ambition for this virtual world.

“The pressure is too great. I always feel that I just proposed an idea, and artificial intelligence has evolved better than the ideal situation based on my idea.

The traditional warriors, mages, priests and other professions in it are all classic professions in the history of Blue Star.

However, these professions are exactly the same as the real ones, from the job transfer method to the promotion means.

I even doubt that according to the priest promotion method in the game, after becoming a shepherd, one can really communicate with the gods. "

"what are you thinking about."

In his heart, Chen Ran actually agreed with Chen Chi's guess.

It was just that he didn't know what Zheng Li had planted in his brain, so he didn't dare to express his true thoughts.

In Chen Ran's opinion, the various professions in the fantasy world are very likely to be real professions.

Blue Star didn’t have super powers before, but doesn’t it have magicians now?
It is perfectly normal for other planets to have superpowers.

"If this level of artificial intelligence is open to the public, I feel that the profession of game development will become a thing of the past."

“This is not something we can decide, but the opening up of AI technology to the outside world is expected to happen soon.

It’s better to plan well, and there will be no unemployment crisis anyway.”

“That may not be the case. According to the capabilities of artificial intelligence, ten planners were needed before, but now only one is enough.

Even one too many.

You just put forward an idea, and it can automatically complete your idea and form a complete plan.

What kind of professional planning is needed for this?
Just pick any teenager off the street with an imaginative mind."

"Okay, stop making fun of us. Call the review department and let's watch the promotional video one last time. Then we'll send it out today."

On that day, all official accounts of Ke Chuang Biotechnology released the promotional CG of "Fantasy World".

The best viewing effect is achieved through VR.

From the desert in the north to the small town on the frontier and then to the bustling city, the different scenery shows that this is a big enough world.

The visual effects presented in VR are better than all the VR games currently on the entire blue planet.

In fact, due to hardware limitations, there is no difference in visual effects among the VR games made by major manufacturers.

The upper limit is there, and you can't break it.

However, the promotional CG of the fantasy world is more realistic than other game CGs.

Brain-computer connection VR has always created the illusion that the boundary between the virtual world and the real world disappears.

This documentary further deepened the audience's illusion.

(End of this chapter)