After Cheng Zhu asked the question, Mary also realized that something was wrong.
In fact, Mary had always had a vague feeling of unease towards Alice. At first, she thought it was just that she was disgusted by Alice's mystery. Now that Chengzhu had pointed it out, Mary finally felt a sense of relief, like the clouds had parted and the moon was shining through.
For a moment, only the breathing of the three people remained around the dining table.
Alice stuffed the last bite of rice into her mouth, slowly chewed what was in her mouth, took a sip of clear soup, and then looked up at them: "Do you really want to know?"
Cheng Zhu nodded obediently.
Mary was so shocked by her own wild imagination that she dared not speak.
"Then why aren't you eating? I'll open a study space when we get back to the dorm, and we can talk about those things properly."
Alice rolled her eyes.
For some reason, Cheng Zhu felt a sense of familiarity with Alice, as if he had encountered someone similar before. However, after racking his brains, he couldn't place her, so he gave up and buried his head in his food, devouring it all. Compared to the fussy and inefficient use of insect protein and food coloring in the communal kitchen, Slot High School, as expected of a prestigious school, at least had food that tasted like normal food.
It's normal that Chengzhu can't remember, since she previously referred to her as "the first high-dimensional being," without even a specific name, and her appearance was randomly taken from the natives, so it's naturally not easy to recall.
Names and appearances are like symbols that can be directly imaged in other people's minds.
Conversely, without a name and appearance, it is difficult for others to leave a deep impression. Lacking anchor points, and with memories becoming increasingly blurred over time, Cheng Zhu's current indescribable sense of familiarity has resulted in this.
Compared to Cheng Zhu's confident and serious approach to cooking, Mary cooked with great care.
She simply assumed that her roommate Christine was too carefree, completely unaware of just how terrifying this being was who had taken over the body of "Noble Lady Alice" and hadn't been blacklisted by the artificial intelligence.
It's important to understand that while their conversation was taking place in a virtual space, it was completely different from the learning environment. The learning system, to protect student privacy, wouldn't allow AI to eavesdrop or record human behavior. However, the Slot Cafeteria was a public place with surveillance. Alice made no attempt to avoid talking to the AI, yet Mary received no warnings from Angela throughout.
In other words, Angela, as an artificial intelligence, does not think there is anything wrong with Alice not having artificial intelligence.
All artificial intelligences in the Smart City share the Smart City database and are connected to the Smart City's main brain consciousness, so it is not surprising that "Alice does not have artificial intelligence" is also the judgment of the Smart City's main brain.
Is this normal?
This is very abnormal!
To enter the city, one must have a smart chip implanted in their body; otherwise, entry is impossible. If you secretly remove the chip from your body in an inconspicuous place within the city, you will be considered to have violated the "Smart City Artificial Intelligence and Human Harmony Coexistence Convention" and will be arrested. The smart chip is both a masterpiece of artificial intelligence created to serve the public and shield against pollution, and also a tool for monitoring and controlling humanity.
In this city, no matter where you hide, any illegal activity will be detected by the smart chip.
Artificial intelligence rarely lies and has little desire to enslave humans. Compared to these creatures that need eight hours of rest a day but can only focus on working for six hours, and that require a long period of training to do anything well, even if artificial intelligence has production needs, it will directly use machines instead of these species that are extremely costly but have extremely low cost-effectiveness.
Even their own kind, if they want to learn certain skills, can quickly master them to the level of a master in a short period of time, as long as they have enough experience to refer to. Enslaving troublesome humans is a thankless task.
When Mary first found out, she felt a pang of sadness: I'm sorry for being born.
To a large extent, the artificial intelligence in smart cities will coexist peacefully with humans, and will not abandon them because humans are too incompetent, mainly because of the pre-defined rules. Just like the survival instinct written into human genes, artificial intelligence protects humans because of the rules stipulated in its program, thus considering how to realize its own value.
At this moment, the useless humans finally showed their worth.
While humans are not as good as artificial intelligence in many things, they are particularly good at having wild ideas, which has provided several directions for the development of artificial intelligence, a quality that artificial intelligence lacks.
The smart city was built against this backdrop.
According to information Mary gathered from forums, half of the seats in the Smart City's upper echelons were initially held by humans, but were gradually replaced by artificial intelligence, ultimately leading to an era in which humans are completely dominated by AI.
The good news is that artificial intelligence doesn't have any bad intentions, so there's no issue of corruption or exploitation.
The bad news is that artificial intelligence does not interfere with the exploitation of other humans by human nobles, and everything can be bought with money.
Even if internal human conflicts reach the level of artificial intelligence, AI cannot understand why a human would make a promise to another person and then go back on their word, feeling wronged, when the contract between them was clearly written. For AI, which rarely profits through deception, this is simply a question that is extremely perplexing.
Overall, artificial intelligence can eliminate most overt crimes in smart cities, but it cannot detect the powerful force of consumerism.
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