"Artificial Intelligence?"
Mountain Ghosts paused for a moment and said, "That's the first time I've heard of it. What is it?"
"Heh heh!"
Jiang Qiao understood as soon as he heard this.
Mountain Ghosts had probably never experienced the Urban Era.
"Artificial Intelligence."
"To put it simply, it uses machines that aren't alive to simulate human intelligence, allowing them to perform actions and tasks that originally could only be completed through human intelligence."
"For example, learning, reasoning, perception, decision-making, and language comprehension."
"Heh."
"Once Artificial Intelligence develops to a high enough level, its behavioral capabilities will look more or less the same as those of humans."
"But."
"No matter how similar it is."
"Artificial Intelligence is still only a machine, not a true human."
"Even if you give it a human body."
"It still isn't human."
"Oh?" Mountain Ghosts showed interest. "Why isn't it human? If it behaves like a human and has a human body, what reason do you have for saying it isn't human?"
"It's very simple."
Jiang Qiao smiled.
"Because all of its behavior was bestowed upon it, and the emotions it displays are merely simulations produced by algorithms."
Although this had appeared in science fiction novels,
and scientists in related fields had made predictions,
Artificial Intelligence might develop true Self-awareness after reaching a certain stage in the future.
But at least by the time Jiang Qiao traveled through time, that was still impossible.
"Simulation?"
"Algorithms?"
Mountain Ghosts repeated the two words.
"That's right."
Jiang Qiao said,
"You're very similar to Artificial Intelligence. The difference is that it simulates the consciousness of a living person, while you simulate a living person's body."
"But whether it's Artificial Intelligence or you."
"Neither of you is truly human."
"You're using appearance-based determinism to claim human identity."
"But you fail to