Ok, I'm going to try to be as succinct as possible.
For any SAO (Sword Art Online) fans here, please feel free to chime in.
I began watching SAO - Alicization recently and all I have to say is holy shit. There are so many things that connect with Q drops here it can't all be coincidence.
First off let's get the easy one out of the way…
From drop #74:
Q = Alice
Keep that in mind.
So what's SAO about?
Synopsis: A full-dive Virtual Reality game is created by the name of Sword Art Online. The developer of the game locks the first 10,000 players inside after they have logged in. They can't log out and if they die in the game they die in real life. Sound familiar? (Matrix)
Throughout the first seasons and movies the show's plot explores the dangers of virtual and augmented reality. In The SAO movie Ordinal Scale, an augmented reality machine known as the Augma is a consumer electronics device most comparable to what the Google Glass was supposed to be. It also had games that would project onto the real world which drives the gaming plot. The villain of the movie is the developer of the Augma who lost his daughter in the original SAO game. He uses the Augma to harvest the memories of people that came in contact with his daughter in SAO to build an AI version of her. He does this by targeting neuron pathways activated when players 'die' while gaming with the Augma. It triggers synapses that correlate to the players' fears of dying while in SAO. When those pathways are located the memories are extracted of the developer's daughter along with any memories the player had while in SAO. [mind control, false memories, brain manipulation]
Fast forward.
SAO - Alicization. The protagonist receives a severe injury and is in a coma. He is treated by way of being placed into an advanced full-dive machine that directly taps into the user's soul. The soul is projected into a virtual world and is essentially the user's avatar. The full-dive is exactly like that of a dream. You don't notice any difference and 5 hrs in dive can be 5 mins in the real world. Now, how does this connect to Q…
The developers of the soul-diving virtual world known as 'The Underworld' had a unique goal when creating it. It was the development of AI weaponry. The problem thus far with AI weaponry and AI in general, as explained in the show, has been that all approaches to creating an AI have been by way of teaching a program how to react to certain situations from the top-down method. You begin with a program and teach it how to react to certain stimuli. Give it enough programmed responses and hopefully, given time, the program will begin to learn how it is supposed to react to other stimuli of the same type. This is all well and good but as we know situations are always unique and you can't possibly hope to be able to program every single given situation.
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