Mr. Pantalone has no crazy plans today.

What exactly are you trying to say?

"What I'm trying to say is, if we don't allow uncontrollable intelligence to be born from mechanical creations, then wouldn't it be better to just let human willpower operate them?"

Looking into Sandorne's eyes, Pantalone pondered for a moment before frankly expressing his thoughts.

"With your abilities, connecting the memories and consciousness within a 'dream' to an autonomous machine, thus enabling the machine to be controlled, shouldn't be too difficult for you, right?"

In his view, 'Dream' is precisely a massive server. Suppose that everyone could wear a replica of the Void Terminal produced in winter and upload everyone's consciousness and memories to 'Dream'.

Could it be like a virtual reality game, allowing ordinary citizens to log into autonomous machines through a replica's virtual terminal?

This allows others, including more ordinary people, to participate as laborers. And because it is controlled by humans, autonomous machines can possess intelligence far exceeding that of ordinary artificial intelligence.

Since autonomous machines themselves do not experience fatigue or need rest, ordinary citizens who operate them can work for them day and night without stopping.

He could easily get most of the winter population involved in this work at an extremely low cost.

He can assign them high-risk and highly precise jobs, and he won't have to pay them any compensation for work-related injuries or similar expenses.

If someone can't continue, they can simply let someone else take their place.

By having the day and night shift workers rotate shifts, an assembly line that can work day and night without rest can be completed, eliminating the need to develop intelligent, autonomous machinery.

Moreover, since the operators of the intelligent autonomous machines are the people of Zhidong, there is absolutely no risk of the so-called intelligent autonomous machines going out of control.

Pantalone didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

However, when Pantalone's words reached Sandonne's ears, they were interpreted in a completely different way.

In her view, the reason Pantalone said this was that he had not completely given up on the rejected plan, and these words clearly revealed another part of Pantalone's ambition.

On the surface, all of Pantalone's claims seem to be simply about saving costs, acquiring more energy to support his "imaginary internal energy storage project," and utilizing the resources of the abandoned "intelligent mechanical sequence autonomous mechanism project."

But is it really that simple?

Based on Sandonne's understanding of Pantalone, there's no way he would have just wanted to say something so superficial.

He must have a deeper plan, so what exactly is this plan?

Although Pantalone didn't say it outright, the meaning conveyed between the lines still allowed her to discern his true purpose and thoughts hidden beneath his words.

He not only had no intention of abandoning the original plan that had been rejected, but even conceived a second plan after the original plan was rejected and abandoned.

Just as he said—

If we're worried about autonomous machines going out of control if we give them intelligence, wouldn't it be better to just let someone else control their actions?

The use of a replica of the Void Terminal allows others to upload their memories to the 'Void Dream System' and materialize their consciousness and memories, which in itself represents uploading and saving memories and consciousness into the world of 'Dream'.

Since the memories and consciousness stored in the 'Void Dream System' can be manipulated and interfered with in reality, it also means that the uploaded memories and consciousness can be downloaded!

Considering the plan he initially proposed, the answer is already very clear.

He clearly intended to create a container that could hold 'consciousness' and 'memory', and to download the memories and consciousness into the container that could hold all of this, so that consciousness itself could be preserved.

If the body is worn out or destroyed, but the memories and consciousness stored in the 'Void Dream System' are not destroyed, then all that is needed is to create another body and download the memories into it.

Or perhaps this is just part of the prerequisites, and his real idea might be... 'mechanical prosthetics'?

If this plan succeeds, is he trying to use this method to achieve his own 'immortality'?

Considering the Void Terminal that Pantarone had produced as a replica, this made her think of something else entirely.

There is no doubt that the other side came prepared.

She didn't believe in coincidences, which reminded her of when she approached Pantalone after his plan was rejected, offering to help him restart the project and even suggesting he create a 'mechanical prosthetic body'.

Perhaps it was from that time that Pantalone began to make his plans.

Or perhaps even her own initiative to approach Pantalone was part of a plan that the man in front of her had already laid out from the beginning.

Adding to this, Pantalone previously mentioned that he had found another project undertaken by Dotole, which happened to be helpful to the 'Intelligent Mechanical Autonomous Agency' project. Such a thing might be a coincidence for others.

But in the case of Pantalone, it's impossible to say that all of this was just a coincidence.

So that's how it is. Was everything part of a plan?

After this deduction, Sandoni felt that he had guessed Pantalone's plan.

However, despite this, it must be admitted that this approach has given her some inspiration, and perhaps she can learn a thing or two from it.

This made her take a deep breath, look at Pantalone in front of her, and smile.

"I see. I think I understand our plans and ideas. This plan is worth trying, and I will assist you in completing it."

Looking at the expression on Sandone's face, Pantalone didn't think too much about it.

He simply felt that Sandoni probably acknowledged the feasibility of his plan, and so he smiled in the same way.

"Then, I'll leave it to you."

However, Sandonne automatically interpreted this smile and response as an admission from Pantalone, which convinced him of his suspicions.

Chapter 79 Pine needles as a cloak, white snow as a crown (3k)

After settling things off with Sandone, Pantalone's concerns were limited to the numerous plans he had devised, his true purpose, and Arecino's previously stated hidden agenda within the 'Intelligent Mechanical Autonomous Sequence Mechanism Project'.