Technology invades the modern world

Chapter 477 The Collapse of LLM

"How about it? Want to try meeting Shivana here? I'll help you establish a communication connection so you can chat with her for a bit?" Zhao Songxia asked.

In the past, Seohyun would have agreed without hesitation, filled with excitement.

But now, after learning more about the secrets behind Rainbow Star, he hesitated.

He was afraid of affecting Sivana and her life.

"Old Zhao, I'm a little scared."

Based on what I know, her emotions and personality are anchored in Rainbow Star.

I fear that my appearance, my identity as an external variable, appearing so abruptly before her, will cause her unnecessary disturbance. And besides, can she truly accept my image, so completely different from that of the Rainbow Star people?

Zhao Songxia patted Xu Xian on the shoulder with a smile, but there was a hint of worry in his heart: "Old Xu, don't worry about it. We've thought of everything you can think of."

We have conducted complete tests on Rainbow Star and have made contingency plans for everything.

Some of our company's employees have interacted with Hongxingren; they have even met with them.

In the Rainbow Star's lore, they are able to interact with Earthlings.

This interaction has been institutionalized and contextualized.

Zhao Songxia felt that his friend had somewhat lost his ability to think rationally in the current situation.

Zhao Songxia continued, "Look here."

He pointed to the rainbow star map on the holographic projection and circled a circular area that was shimmering with light and located at the top of a tall tower.

"This area is named the Land of Light and Words. It is the only place in the official setting of Rainbow Star where Rainbow Star people are allowed to communicate with the voices of distant worlds."

The Rainbow Star people who connect with Earthlings may have their minds awakened and actively connect with the Land of Light and Language, after which the communication channel will be opened.

You can think of this as a setting, a protection mechanism.

In Rainbow Star's logic, Shyvana's core knows that interacting with Earthlings is a special kind of work or mental adjustment in a higher dimension, and it will not be confused with her basic embodied experiences such as daily commutes, family, and colleagues.

Her willpower tells her that communicating with you here is safe and controllable.

It won't collapse in the face of the uncertainties of the physical world like those failed engineers.

Go ahead and do your best, my wise dog.

This is the only legitimate place where your and her timelines intersect. Out of ten thousand testers nationwide, you're the only one with this opportunity.

Zhao Songxia's words were full of reminders, reminding the other party that this was the setting, and that the other party was a character in a virtual world.

After hearing this, Xu Xian's tense nerves finally relaxed.

This sense of ritual and boundary setting relieved him of any psychological burden.

Seohyun said with anticipation, "I understand. It's the emotional firewall and cognitive boundaries you set up for her. Okay, I'll give it a try."

Zhao Songxia thought to himself, "I'll give it to you and see. If I don't let you try, you'll probably go to President Lin and badmouth me."

Zhao Songxia nodded and said, "Good brother, I'll activate the passage for you, and then I'll go to the observation room next door. I'll leave the space to you. Enjoy this solitude that transcends dimensions."

Zhao Songxia started the connection process, and the DeepRed Technology logo reappeared on the screen.

On the ground, a miniature projection device began to operate, and a soft blue beam of light quickly constructed a three-dimensional, semi-transparent female figure.

He winked at Seohyun, then left.

"Hey, Shyvana, it's Seohyun, are you there?" As the beam stabilized, Shyvana's lifelike holographic projection, with the perfect face she had seen in the observation room, appeared in front of Seohyun.

She was surrounded by a faint halo, as if formed from data and light, yet so real that one wanted to reach out and touch her.

She was wearing everyday clothes in the Rainbow Star style that Seohyun often mentioned in their conversations.

It's not quite in the style of German cuisine yet, but it's already taking shape.

Although Sivana's voice still comes from a speaker, you can hear the quality in it.

Her voice echoed in the enclosed space, but it carried a clear sense of surprise and curiosity.
"you are?"

Shyvana's expression suggested she was deep in thought, before she said, "Seohyun?" Her tone was uncertain.

At the same time, she subconsciously raised her hand and touched her body, which was covered in a faint halo, while her eyes quickly scanned the surroundings of the communications cabin.

Seohyun looked at Shyvana, her heart racing. She knew this was the impact of a technological breakthrough on the game's design, but this time she really couldn't think about it anymore.

He decided to respond according to Rainbow Star's plan.

"It is I. You are now descending upon my world in the form of a holographic projection."

This is the laboratory where I work.

"Is this...is this the new mode of the Land of Light and Words? How can I actually see you?"

Sivana observed Seohyun cautiously, her eyes filled with curiosity about technology and awe of the unknown.

"A descent? No wonder. In the legends of Rainbow Star, the Land of Light is merely a point of convergence of consciousness. We've never truly believed we could cross dimensions to hear the voices of distant worlds. This is truly amazing!"

Sivana continued, "But I was reading a book just now, and my mind isn't completely calm yet. Is this mode temporary?"

Xu Xian saw that her emotional fluctuations were so real, completely confirming what Lin Ran and Zhao Songxia had mentioned.

He knew at that moment that she wasn't searching for troubles like traditional artificial intelligence, but rather experiencing them.

"You still remember? Yes, I finished work early today and just happened to think of you."

Were you reading just now? You seemed preoccupied. Was it because your colleague still didn't approve that project proposal you mentioned last time?

A hint of grievance flashed in Shyvana's eyes, but it was quickly replaced by understanding and relief.

The complexity of her expression made Seohyun completely forget to think.

"You remember? Yes, my partner thought my design was too radical. He felt it wasn't suitable for implementation in the current economic climate of Rainbow Star. Although I knew his considerations were reasonable, I still felt a little uncomfortable, as if I had worked for nothing."

At this moment, Seohyun was no longer an observer, but her friend.

He gently encouraged her, carefully avoiding any impact on Shyvana: "Don't say that, Shyvana. Only visionary designs are called radical. It's just that the timing is wrong, which doesn't mean it's not good."

For now, don't think about it anymore.

Now that you're here, let's not talk about Rainbow Star's troubles.

Tell me, what does your imagined world look like?

Shyvana smiled at Seohyun's holographic image, a smile that dispelled her earlier worries and curiosity about the surroundings.

"Yeah, thank you, Ah Xian. Talking to you makes me feel much better."

Does the world you live in really have a blue sky, as described in the literature I've read?

Looking at Sivana so close to her, Seohyun felt a mix of emotions. This sense of reality that transcended dimensions, coupled with her longing for the real world, made this relationship both heavy and precious.

Twenty minutes later, Shyvana ended the conversation, citing that she had something to do.

The connection was lost, and Sivana's holographic projection dissipated in the dim light.

Xu Xian was still immersed in that sense of reality that transcended dimensions, staring blankly at the place where the projection disappeared.

At that moment, he no longer had any doubts about whether he was alive.

Everything about her is so real.

He knew that at this moment, he was truly participating in the long-term dependence of the Rainbow Star world.

At the same time, Seohyun also found it hard to imagine what kind of disruptive impact this thing would have once it appeared in the world.

The door opened, and Zhao Songxia walked in. He glanced at the data on the control panel before looking at Xu Xian. "How was it, Xian Gou? Pretty exciting, huh? The few words you just said directly lowered Shyvana's internal stress level below the safe line. Her emotional regulation system deserves credit for you."

Seohyun slowly turned her head, the shock still lingering in her eyes.

"Matsushita, she, she's so real."

The feeling was as if she were truly standing in front of me; I could even sense her breathing and the ebb and flow of her emotions.

Seeing that his attempt to awaken the other party with data had no effect, Zhao Songxia immediately stopped smiling and his tone became serious and worried: "Enough! Ah Xian."

Don't get obsessed with virtual avatars.

This is what worries me about you.

Mr. Lin sent you here not just to fulfill your wishes, but also to help you understand the dangerous boundaries of this technology.

"You were so focused on chatting with the goddess that you completely missed the core technical details, which worries me."

Xu Xian was startled by the seriousness in Zhao Songxia's tone. He paused for a moment and asked, "What should I be careful about?"

"It's very simple. First, interaction! How does interaction happen?"
The Shyvana you just saw is now just a digital projection, but she interacted with you through eye contact. She can see you, your clothes, and the layout of the environment.

Where did her visual data come from? Haven't you thought about that? Virtual projection doesn't have a camera.

Xu Xian suddenly realized this, his expression changed slightly, and he looked around and found hidden cameras in the surrounding area.

"The camera and microphone array here is capturing images of the real world in real time, and then transmitting them through an isolated channel to Rainbow Star's consciousness receiving module?"

"That's right, this is equivalent to us temporarily building a embodied perception system for her."

Every time she interacts with you, it's like she's coming into contact with a fragment of reality from a distant world within the Rainbow Star universe.

This could bring a certain risk of a fourth natural disaster! (You're wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt.)

Have you ever thought about how seeing Earth's clothing and the environment of high-tech laboratories would affect Shyvana's work and life on Rainbow Star?
If she brings this information back to Rainbow Star's society, will it cause a complete deviation from Rainbow Star's technological development path? Will Rainbow Star people begin to collectively imitate Earth's clothing and technology, thereby destroying the independence and stability of the entire ecosystem?
Have you ever considered that each of her arrivals is a small impact on the Rainbow Star civilization, potentially a butterfly effect or a convergence of world lines?

Seohyun fully regained her senses; the romance she had felt earlier vanished, replaced by fear of technological power.

“I hadn’t thought of that at all. I was only focused on whether her emotions were stable. I treated her as a person, but I forgot that she was also one of the intelligent cores that carried the entire ecosystem.”

Seeing that Xu Xian had regained consciousness, Zhao Songxia continued to comfort her, "But you don't need to worry too much. We will delete her memory data. In short, don't worry too much."

That's why President Lin emphasized that large-scale opening is not advisable. Being too realistic means taking on too much responsibility.

Anyway, stop thinking about it and come with me. I'll show you this left-brain/right-brain architecture that separates emotions and logic; that's the secret to Rainbow Star's stable operation.

No one noticed that a faint red light was flickering in one corner of the room.

On that day, DeepRed Technology's official account released a paper and some videos. With Xu Xian's consent, the videos even included his conversation with Sivana. However, the content of their conversation was muted, but the scene of their face-to-face chat was faithfully recorded.

This also includes the poor performance of these highly intelligent Rainbow Star people in handling engineering problems in the real world.

This triggered a magnitude 10 tsunami.

A tsunami in the true sense of the word.

This is because it is the first large-scale social experiment in human history to revolve around artificial intelligence.

The money, time, and human resources required are beyond what universities can provide.

Universities can't do it, and companies don't have the motivation to do such an unprofitable business; perhaps only the Deep Red Society can.

Of course, the ability to create emotional AI based on the left and right brain architecture is something that most companies cannot achieve.

In short, this information is about a tsunami, spreading outwards from China.

Because this content reveals a point that AI companies in the past, or more accurately, America AI, have tried to conceal: general AGI cannot be achieved with large models.

To achieve universal AGI, a social environment and embodied intelligence are required.

It might be possible to achieve this if the above conditions are met, but the computing power required is simply beyond the capabilities of current technology.

The first to plummet were US-listed artificial intelligence-related stocks.

Those companies that hyped up the idea that a universal, big model would rule everything are now facing huge investor skepticism about the portability of smart technology.

For the past two years, everyone has been chasing a symbolic omnipotent god.

DeepRed Technology's report uses data to prove that even AIs with emotions and personalities closest to humans will collapse in the face of real-world physical noise once they are removed from the symbolic environment in which they live.

Those who missed out on the LLM wave, and those already considered "outdated" AI giants, have all come out to kick LLM while it's down.

"I've told you before that intelligence is not a statistical correlation, but a coupling of body, action and environment."

Crimson's experiment perfectly demonstrates that without embodied experience, there is no transferable willpower.

Those elites who persevere in the virtual world are no match for a well-trained robot when faced with the friction, tolerances, and noise of reality.

Silicon Valley is chasing nothing more than beautiful waste that is flooding a sea of ​​symbols.

Congratulations to Crimson for bringing cognitive science back to the heart of the AGI discussion.

"20 years of detours! I wrote in a paper in 2004 that models built solely on probability and statistics cannot achieve true causal reasoning and robustness."

DeepRed Tech's data is irrefutable proof that when the environment becomes ambiguous and uncertain, the so-called wisdom of large models immediately becomes ineffective.

They lack genuine common sense and logic; they rely solely on pattern matching within massive amounts of data.

Now it's time to get back on the path of structured knowledge and interpretability; we've missed it for 20 years!

"A victory for the left-right brain architecture, but not for LLM."

Crimson's experiments demonstrate that emotions and personality must be supported by an isolated, continuously evolving system, rather than simply integrated into a massive text prediction machine.

Why did the Rainbow Star engineers' willpower collapse?
Because their emotional brains lack low-level feedback from the real physical world, they are unable to convert sensor noise into high-level abstract frustration signals.

AGI needs an architectural revolution, not a brute-force accumulation of computing power.

The money allocated to LLM should be invested in multimodal fusion and low-latency embodied platforms.

"The arrogance of capital has been shattered by science. Wall Street only cares about how much profit AGI can bring, but Crimson's paper proves that we do not even fully understand what intelligence is."

The failure of those beautiful but worthless things serves as a moral warning to humanity: do not throw digital souls—which you cannot understand and which depend on specific environments to survive—into chaotic and malicious business or physical environments. Every stock price sell-off is a fair judgment on the AGI bubble and technological frenzy.

The collective voices of these authorities from different technical schools of thought constitute a comprehensive siege against the LLM field.

Their viewpoint utilizes empirical data from DeepRed Technology, effectively transforming technological bottlenecks into market panic and academic shifts.

The plunge in US stocks is a direct reflection of this radical shift in narrative power and technological paradigm.

On that day, the Nasdaq Composite Index broke through a key support level within 30 minutes of opening and continued to decline.

At the close, the Nasdaq index ultimately fell 7.25%.

In terms of points, the index plummeted by more than 1100 points. During this short-selling operation, China's national financial team intercepted more than $50 billion, enough to support Hongxing Research for fifty years.

Worse still, this crash is no longer just a matter of lower-than-expected profits, but a collapse of faith.

Over the past two years, Wall Street's narrative has been "data is fuel, parameters are power."

Crimson Technology's paper, using the harsh reality of beautiful waste, declares the bankruptcy of this stacked AGI belief.

Funds began a panic flight from general LLM concept stocks, instead flowing into niche companies that focus on embodied hardware, robotics, sensor fusion, and have in-depth data on specific industries.

The socialized environment and embodied intelligence emphasized by DeepRed Technology in its paper have leaped from philosophical discussion to become a new investment trend indicator in the capital market.

Throughout the trading day, analysts' phones were ringing off the hook, and investors were trying to figure out: if AGI isn't an omnipotent god, then where exactly does the true commercial value and ultimate form of artificial intelligence lie?
"John, it's time for us to pull off something big." Lin Ran made a phone call to Tokyo, and Morgan heard these words like heavenly music!

(End of this chapter)