![]() ![]() One fixes a dress strap another cleans a pair of glasses. To Westworld viewers, many of them are recognizable as the park’s Hosts, but to Logan, they appear to be a bunch of normal humans doing normal human things. Logan takes a turn around the room, examining the guests. The difference here, however, is that Logan must assess the Hosts’ intelligent behavior as well as physical attributes. Angela nods: “See if you can pick them out.” This is essentially the challenge posed by the Turing test, which is meant to assess a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from that of a human. “One of these people is … ?” Logan trails off. Instead, he goes with them to receive a private demonstration of the park’s technology: the Hosts. Viewers will recognize the blonde mega-babe as Angela, but Logan is unaware that the people asking him to “invest in this sector” aren’t human. Here, Logan is addressed by his full name, Logan Delos, and is approached by two individuals representing the Argos Initiative. The new episode takes place before that doomed vacation. The last time we saw him, he was riding naked into the sunset after William went nuts, strapped him to a horse, and then set off for the outer regions of the park. In “Reunion,” we’re reintroduced to Logan, William’s bad boy brother-in-law. If you haven’t seen it, loop back to your previous narrative. Titled “Reunion,” the season’s second episode dives into the history of the park while offering a twist on a long-standing scientific question about the validity of artificial intelligence.Īlert! Spoilers for Episode 2 of Westworld are below. The entire Maedition of The Weekly Advertiser is available online.If you can’t tell if something’s real, does it matter? That was the overarching question posed in the first season of Westworld, as “Nice Guy” William asked Host Angela about her “realness.” Back then, William had yet to enter the park and begin the moral spiral that turned him into the Man in Black, but we learn in Season 2 that Angela has had to entertain questions about her realness before. “We need to put the consumer at the front of every decision we make,” he said. He said a ‘coalition of the willing’ – including the tourism board’s funding organisations and people and businesses in neighbouring areas – were leading a changing mindset in relation to tourism, service provision and population growth. Mr Sleeman said visitation growth had the potential to attract more private investment and it could also attract new residents to the region. “There’s such a low awareness that most of our activity is just a positioning piece for our region.” “The data tells us that only 10 percent of metro Melbourne residents know where we are – so we’ve still got a lot of work to do,” he said. He said ‘brand awareness’ remained a significant challenge for the region – and one his regional tourism board was seeking to address, along with encouraging people to stay longer and spend money in the region. Mr Sleeman said the Grampians recorded the third-highest annual growth of a Victorian region of overnight spend increase, above levels recorded in the 12 months from September 2018 to September 2019 prior to the pandemic. “We don’t have enough accommodation in Horsham to cater for a big-scale event, so people who are going to the field days might stay in Stawell, for example.” “The flow-on effect is significant because they’re staying across the whole region. “People from interstate and intrastate will come to our destination to experience everything it has to offer. ![]() “You have events such as the field days and Grampians Grape Escape you have events like the Dunkeld Races that attracts 10,000 visitors – and those events will bring incremental visitation to the region,” he said. Grampians Tourism chief executive Marc Sleeman said large-scale events, including the field days, served as an ‘appetiser’ to promote the region to visitors. “Events can change people’s perception of a destination.” “With visitors coming to our events, we want them to really get a glimpse of what the area has to offer. “We find that accommodation closest to Horsham sells out first and then the demand starts to shift to neighbouring towns, which provides a welcome economic boost in those places as well. “It’s easily the biggest event in the Wimmera and the beauty of it is that people come from all corners of south-eastern Australia, so there’s a good mix of people here throughout several days. “This has a huge impact on our local accommodation businesses as well as our cafes, bakeries and retail shops,” she said. ![]() Horsham Rural City Council tourism and business development officer Gloria McRae said more than 20,000 people would visit the region during the Wimmera Machinery Field Days. ![]()
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