A lowly office worker lost in the urban jungle spends his days wearing himself down in a mechanical routine, living like a corporate drudge. After being mercilessly humiliated and publicly dumped at his engagement banquet, the gears of fate suddenly shift: the cold, precise artificial intelligence (AI) Zhulong takes control of his body without warning. From then on, his life seems to hit fast-forward. Fame, fortune, wealth, and prestige come pouring in, all within easy reach. The world is completely reduced to data in his eyes: opportunities are pinpointed by probability models, decisions efficiently generated by optimization algorithms, and even social interactions become calculable, predictable variables. **Quantification becomes the only measure of all things; data paves a smooth road to worldly success.**
Yet when every inch of his life’s course is parsed and driven by cold code, a deeper question emerges: how far do the bounds of this highly optimized “happiness,” enabled by artificial intelligence, really extend? Can it truly reach and fill the core of the human soul? **When the complex emotions that form the foundations of human nature, joy, sorrow, love, and pain, are also forced onto the scales of algorithms to be weighed, dismantled, and replicated, are we, in our pursuit of efficiency and certainty, quietly losing the subtle radiance that defines what it means to be human, the things no binary code can ever fully capture?** Does the application of artificial intelligence lead humanity to an unprecedented pinnacle of well-being, or is it carefully building for us an empty castle in the sky, piled high with data-driven illusions and growing ever more barren of feeling?
Ordinary employees trapped in the urban jungle consume themselves day after day in a life of "cow and horse" mechanical operation. After being ruthlessly humiliated and breaking off the engagement in public at the engagement party, the gears of fate suddenly turned - the cold and precise artificial intelligence (AI) Zhulong took over his body without warning. From then on, life seemed to have been pressed on the fast forward button, and fame, fortune, wealth and splendor came one after another and were easily obtained. In his eyes, the world is completely digitalized: opportunities are accurately captured by probability models, decisions are efficiently generated by optimization algorithms, and even social interactions become calculable and predictable variables. **Quantification has become the only yardstick to measure all things; data paves the way to worldly success. ** However, when every inch of life is analyzed and driven by cold codes, a deeper question also emerges: Where does the boundary of this highly optimized "happiness" empowered by artificial intelligence extend? Can it truly touch and fill the core of the human soul? **When joy, sadness, love and pain, these complex emotions that form the cornerstone of human nature, are also forced to be placed on the balance of algorithms in an attempt to weigh, dismantle, and copy, are we, in the lost pursuit of efficiency and certainty, quietly losing those faint lights that define "being human" and cannot be exhausted by binary systems? ** Will the application of artificial intelligence lead human beings to unprecedented peaks of well-being, or will they carefully build for us a castle in the air made of data illusions and increasingly emotionally barren?
Human emotions include embodied interactions such as eye contact and physical contact, as well as a sense of belonging based on evolutionary attachment instincts and socio-cultural shaping. These complex dimensions transcend algorithmic logic. Although AI can recognize emotions through algorithms and generate standardized feedback (such as comforting words), it lacks subjective experience and emotional resonance, and cannot perceive the specific situation or value conflict behind anger.