"Hesitation and confusion?" Song He froze.
"Yes. It would move in fits and starts instead of fleeing in a straight line like it did when seen by the naked human eye." General Wang said, "Because current AI still can't be considered something with a stable consciousness. We specifically examined this. When the AI's thinking intensity was relatively high, it would briefly trigger the Observation Ball's escape response. But after its thinking intensity dropped, the Observation Ball would hesitate again."
"It's like a thief breaking into a house and discovering that the owner is asleep. When the owner is snoring loudly, the thief rummages through everything and steals like crazy. When the snoring stops, the thief prepares to run, but after taking two steps, the snoring starts again, so the thief hesitates over whether to steal a little more." Xiang Xiaotong cut in. "It sounds like that, except that the snoring here is whether the AI analyzing the radar data has developed intelligent consciousness."
"Is it really that strange?" Song He said blankly. "Is there any other evidence?"
"Low-intelligence animals also notice the Observation Ball, but the Observation Ball doesn't evade their gazes." General Wang continued, "This situation appears frequently in some of our footage and eyewitness reports. For example, someone might be walking a dog, and the dog sees the Observation Ball and barks nonstop, but the Observation Ball doesn't react. Only after the dog's owner looks away from his phone and raises his head to look at the Observation Ball does it suddenly flee at high speed."
"A single dog might not prove anything, but there have also been cases involving herds of cattle. A herder and dozens of cattle noticed the Observation Ball in the sky, but it remained completely still. The moment the herder looked up, the