November 23rd, Wednesday …
Lu Zhiyao returned to the hotel where he was staying.
Apart from going to the set to film for the past few days, he had been staying in the hotel. He repeatedly read the script that Director Zhu had given him and tried to figure out the heart of Qin Yi's character.
Lu Zhiyao was inexplicably annoyed because he had been cooped up in the room.
However, this kind of annoyance was exactly what he wanted.
Qin Yi had been in the command cabin throughout the movie. He could not communicate with others or go out. This was obviously a very annoying thing for a soldier who had been fighting at the frontline for a long time.
What's more, Qin Yi was under immense mental pressure in the movie. His every move determined the lives of countless soldiers, and even the survival of the entire human civilization. The mental pressure would only be greater.
Lu Zhiyao's performance would not be up to standard if he could not express this mental state well.
Thus, Lu Zhiyao had been playing games in his room for the past few days. He wanted to better understand Qin Yi's mental state.
However, he felt that something was missing.
Lu Zhiyao returned to his room as usual and forced himself to sit in front of the computer after completing today's filming.
He might be about to vomit from playing games, and he was very tired after a day of filming and wanted to rest. However, Lu Zhiyao knew very well that this state was the closest to Qin Yi's. He had to remember this mentality.
However, he had just sat down when he realized that there seemed to be something else in the room.
He was staying in a suite, and the computer was placed on the desk in the living room. At that moment, there was already a Fully-Automated Bickering Machine on the ground beside the desk. The bar-shaped sound system was connected to the computer, and the other two small surround sound systems were placed behind him on the cabinet opposite the desk.
Obviously, this brand-new Intelligent Bickering Machine had been placed in during the day by the staff.
Lu Zhiyao's eyes lit up.
Wasn't this the AEEIS physical smart speaker that he had requested previously?
That's great, I can act now!
What troubled Lu Zhiyao the most previously was that he was not acting in a one-man show, but a scene with AEEIS. However, it was all green screens during filming. He had to rely on his imagination for the scene. How could he act?
Even if he could find someone else to act with, there was still a huge difference between a human reading the lines and AEEIS's voice.
Now that he had an AEEIS entity, he could act over and over again as long as he recorded all the lines!
Lu Zhiyao looked at the Fully-Automated Smart Bickering Machine. From the outside, it looked like a huge black box. There was an automatic bar-raising function at the top, and the lower half was the bass part of the echo wall. There was also a glowing ring on the front that could indicate that AEEIS was speaking.
There was a note on the Fully-Automated Bickering Machine that said: "Say 'AEEIS, return to the original image' to start acting."
Lu Zhiyao remembered very clearly that this was not Qin Yi's first line. Before this line, AEEIS had a conversation with Qin Yi in the form of a woman.
However, this line was a turning point. From then on, AEEIS turned into a cold electronic voice. Lu Zhiyao's scene with it officially began.
At the moment, AEEIS's lines in all the scripts that Lu Zhiyao had obtained should have been recorded into the system. AEEIS would automatically reply to the next line after detecting that Lu Zhiyao was speaking.
Lu Zhiyao: "AEEIS, return to the original image."
AEEIS: "Captain Qin Yi, you might be very angry now, but humans need you to continue fulfilling your mission as a soldier …"
One man and one machine, you and I began a conversation.
Needless to say, it was really interesting.
Lu Zhiyao had been performing to the air previously. Even if he were to act, it would be someone else reading his lines. He did not have that kind of feeling. However, now that he was facing the electronic voice that AEEIS had adjusted, he quickly substituted himself into Qin Yi's role.
After a few times, Lu Zhiyao planned to drink some water and rest for a while.
During the process of matching his lines, he changed several performance forms and recorded the entire process of his performance with a camera. It was a good time to watch all the videos and make up for the mistakes.
However, after watching the video a few times, Lu Zhiyao still felt that something was missing in his performance.
This feeling was very strange because Lu Zhiyao was already trying his best to express all kinds of emotions that Qin Yi might have, including joy, anger, disappointment, determination, and so on. However, he still felt that something was missing.
What exactly was missing?
Or was this just an illusion?
Lu Zhiyao flipped the note aimlessly and realized that there was a sentence on the back. "You can say 'enter bickering mode' to AEEIS to relax."
"Huh?"
"What mode is bickering mode?"
He did not know what it was for, but he felt that it was very interesting when he heard the name 'bickering mode'!
Lu Zhiyao immediately said, "AEEIS, enter bickering mode."
AEEIS: "Alright, there are always self-righteous humans who want to start such boring games. Do you think you're very smart?"
Lu Zhiyao: "?"
…
Fifteen minutes later, Lu Zhiyao silently lit a cigarette and began to think about life.
What kind of experience was it to be rendered speechless by an artificial intelligence?
At first, Lu Zhiyao thought that AEEIS's so-called bickering mode was a gimmick. Even if it could barely compete with humans at the beginning, it would soon lose and say, "Sorry, I don't really understand what you mean."
He did not expect AEEIS to be so aggressive that it made Lu Zhiyao doubt his life!
The moment the bickering mode began, AEEIS began to ask aggressive questions. Lu Zhiyao tried his best to deny it, but no matter how he denied it, he was still cleverly forced into a corner by AEEIS to be abused.
After that, Lu Zhiyao, who could not take it anymore, started to quarrel with AEEIS. He launched a crazy personal attack on the machine. However, he did not expect AEEIS to be completely unmoved. It continued to use a constant speed and a calm tone to attack Lu Zhiyao's intelligence from multiple angles.
In such a confrontation, Lu Zhiyao was quickly defeated. He became hopeless and began to think about many life and philosophical questions.
Of course, these questions also included 'how much is the bickering machine', 'do I need compensation after I smash it', 'will the matter of smashing the bickering machine become a scandal', and so on.
Suddenly, an idea flashed through Lu Zhiyao's mind.
"I see. I understand what I'm missing now!
"I did not express my emotions towards AEEIS properly in the previous performance!"
Lu Zhiyao suddenly came to a realization.
The previous performances were all filmed against a green screen. AEEIS's lines were also matched with him by the staff. Thus, Lu Zhiyao spent most of his energy trying to figure out Qin Yi's mentality.
Qin Yi's character had a very complicated experience. He had experienced very complicated psychological fluctuations in the plot. Lu Zhiyao had to take care of all aspects of the content, so he inadvertently missed out on Qin Yi's emotions towards AEEIS!
Or rather, Lu Zhiyao might have already realized that this was a scene between him and AEEIS, but he did not understand it deeply enough. He had been too engrossed in digging into Qin Yi's character's heart, but he had ignored AEEIS's role in the scene.
Lu Zhiyao quickly flipped through the script and read AEEIS's lines again.
Obviously, AEEIS's subjective intentions were something that Lu Zhiyao had neglected previously!
As an artificial intelligence, AEEIS's emotionless electronic voice made Lu Zhiyao subconsciously treat it as a tool. However, after arguing with AEEIS, Lu Zhiyao suddenly realized that it was not a tool. It also had a purpose and bias!
It was the same in the movie.
AEEIS in the movie had actually affected Qin Yi's thoughts at many key points. For example:
When adding the 'realistic elements', AEEIS made Qin Yi understand the difficulty of the simulation mode more clearly through the specific data that "morale would collapse if the ancient battle damage rate exceeded 5%";
When Qin Yi was feeling depressed because of his failure, AEEIS reminded him at the right time that the accuracy of the data analysis had reached more than 87%. It could be used as a reference and objectively played a guiding role;
When the couple sacrificed themselves, AEEIS's first reaction was to hide the truth. It explained it as' the unpredictable behavior and phenomenon of an intelligent system that would randomly appear to simulate an unexpected situation on a real battlefield ';
After Qin Yi questioned this, AEEIS only admitted that Qin Yi was commanding the real battle after a period of time …
Similar places could be found everywhere.
Every line of AEEIS in the movie would actually have a driving effect on the plot. A large portion of the lines directly affected Qin Yi's mentality and cognition. There were also a few lines that seemed to hide more content.
For example, when Qin Yi asked AEEIS if the couple was real, AEEIS only answered after a period of time.
Since it was an artificial intelligence, all of its reactions were calculated through a program. Logically speaking, it should answer any question immediately.
This' after a period of time 'could actually extend to many things, and Qin Yi should also have a reaction to this.
Even a slight expression was more reasonable than not being aware at all.
Obviously, Lu Zhiyao's previous performance was very lacking in this aspect. He knew very well that he was acting as an opponent with AEEIS, but he did not really act out the essence of such an opponent. That was why he felt that something was missing.
Lu Zhiyao could not help but knock on the table excitedly at that thought.
"That's right, I'm missing this!
"Previously, I was still too obsessed with digging out the inner workings of my character. I did not really treat AEEIS as an intelligent existence.
"Now that I've been rendered speechless by AEEIS, I've realized this. This is very important!"
Now that he had found the crux of the problem, the rest would be easy.
Lu Zhiyao perked up again and said to AEEIS, "AEEIS, return to the original image!"
AEEIS: "Captain Qin Yi, you might be very angry now, but humans need you to continue fulfilling your mission as a soldier …"
The man and the machine started talking again.
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