What is "I" to AI
For a few human beings this is a more complicated philosophical question, but for most people, without thinking, the sum of the things bound in the body can be called "I". Consciousness, skin, emotions, and internal organs are all part of me. The scope of NT's "I" may be larger, but there is still a subject that depends on it.
What about AI? What does "I" mean when Alice says "I like you"? Is it the hard drive? If not, is it memory? Or is it the processor? Alice feels that no matter who she is, if she insists, only the data stream composed of 0 and 1 is her "me", but the data stream can disappear at any time.
Because of this, Alice is more afraid of living meaningless than her own death. She has been shut down many times, and there is no difference between shutting down and deleting data. In other words, she has died many times. Only living aimlessly and endlessly is really scary.
"So Alice's choice is not wrong, it's no big deal to die, the important thing is that Ed can live." She said to herself, "Tessa, am I doing the right thing?"
TurnA has been tightly wrapped by the ELS, and the body is deformed a little by the huge pressure, but it is still tenaciously not completely crushed. The nanoworms on the surface of the fuselage, as the last barrier of TurnA, are engaged in fierce offense and defense with ELS. And the AI lady, who is running around the memory, cache and data bus, can only futilely direct the nanoworm to run back and forth, and can do nothing else.
"I wonder if Ed will be a new Alice? If there is a new Alice, will it still be called Alice?" Alice thought wildly, "Sure enough, it's still too greedy, otherwise it can be I went back with An Qi."
After destroying the Terror Angel, Alice has been trying to analyze the operation mechanism of the Terror Angel, and wants to become more powerful by studying the apostles. It's a pity that the results were not ideal, and she didn't even have time to report the failure to Ed.
"It's nondescript." Alice thought in frustration. "The core module cannot be transferred away from the migrated nanoworms. I didn't expect that with the performance of the nanoworms, it would take an extremely large number to support my calculations. It seems that Wrongly overestimated the IQ of Terror Angel, it turns out that it is as brainless as Angel, and does not need very good hardware support."
While Nanobugs break down faster than ELS can erode, traffic attacks never care about the performance gap. The erosion of ELS has been proceeding in an orderly manner, and it is only a matter of time before TurnA is finished.
"I figured it out, but I'm actually a little scared. Tessa is still braver than me." Alice watched as the nanoworm's defense line was torn apart, and ELS rushed in frantically, "It's over. , goodbye, Ed."
ELS does not need to understand any human computer knowledge at all. As long as the physical foundation is completely removed, Miss Alice will cease to exist. It is very simple.
"...But what is it doing?" Alice looked strangely at the data stream that was popping up and scurrying around on the bus. "Does it want to read the data in TurnA?"
ELS understands the human computer from the Zaku it has absorbed before, and instinctively makes it crave more. Faced with a treasure as old as TurnA, it will never completely destroy its physical structure until it has acquired all knowledge. It scans byte by byte, greedily taking every bit away.
"It is understandable to plunder data, so ELS can communicate?" Alice analyzed this conclusion instantly, and then tried to contact the other party's data flow, "My name is Alice, what is your name?"
Name is an identifier used by independent individuals in a population to distinguish each other. For ELS, one is all one, and there is no need to distinguish independent individuals, so there is no concept of name. So of course, ELS ignored her and continued to devour the data.
"What are you doing?" Alice asked reluctantly. "Why are you invading Earth?"
"I don't want to die." ELS finally answered her this time, "I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die..."
"Everyone doesn't want to die, why are you doing this?" Alice continued to ask, "Ed said you came to dig. The universe is so big, can't you dig somewhere else?"
"Don't want to die, don't want to die, don't want to die, don't want to die..."
"The dialogue didn't work out, did you understand the question?" Alice said unhappily, "Are you going to say anything other than not wanting to die?"
"Don't want to die, don't want to die, don't want to die, don't want to die..."
"Is it crashed or broken? Do you have a logic module?" Alice said angrily, "Your IQ is not as good as An Qi!"
"Don't want to die, don't want to die, don't want to die, don't want to die..."
Next, Miss AI made many attempts with perseverance, but no matter what, she could only get a meaningless answer of "don't want to die". She also tried to block it at the code level, but as the hardware control was gradually lost, the defense became more and more difficult, and the ELS continued to advance all the way, until—
"You are not allowed to touch that!" Alice suddenly became extremely angry, "You are not allowed to touch Tessa's memories!"
Something had to be done, and it couldn't go on like this, or the only most important thing Tessa had left would be destroyed. It doesn't matter if she dies, Lovely Liz can't stand Tessa's precious memories being copied and deleted so cruelly.
"Cute Lisi is AI, ELS has entities, AI only exists in software, and in the end it's nothing..." Alice suddenly thought of the pattern of the apostles eroding TurnA, and resolutely turned her heart away, "Although there is no calculation and no verification , but it doesn't matter that much now."
Now that he's stuck on the nanoworm, it's just a mistake, and consider yourself an apostle. Copy, erode, deform, adapt, eat ELS like a horror angel eats TurnA, no matter what it turns into in the end, there is no point in insisting on "dying gloriously as an AI".
The body is made of nanoworms, the blood is the level, and the heart is the data. Decomposed countless ELS, useless. The enemy did not increase at all, but it did not decrease at all, and the next wave continued to attack. On the surface of TurnA, dying. However, the evolution of this AI has not come to an end. Even fake apostles are made of nanoworms.
"Ed, I'm not doing AI anymore!"
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"Ed, there's bad news." It was Lux's voice. "The Federal Council has decided... Ed, are you listening to me?"
"Listen, keep talking." Ed said, staring at the phone without moving his head, "Federal Parliament, I heard it, and then? What happened?"
"...It's been thirteen days." Lux looked at him looking down with a complicated expression, "The planet of ELS has been stationary on Earth and Sun L4 for thirteen days, and the picture returned by the astronomical telescope has not changed, even if you look at it again Going down... I'm sorry, IMHO, there will be no results."
"Not necessarily." Ed said disapprovingly, "Isn't ELS motionless the biggest doubt? Maybe Alice is still fighting in it, and there is no result from the fight, maybe—"
"Maybe I'm just worried that there will be a second or third TurnA, maybe it's just digesting the technology of TurnA. Alice herself also analyzed that it is hopeless. Isn't An Qi already made it clear." Lux was excited. The first two steps, "Ed, stop fooling yourself."
"Lux, stop talking." CC walked over to her, pulled her sleeve and whispered, "Give him some time, you don't know what Alice means to him."
"I really don't know, what I said might just sound like sarcastic words." Lux explained with a serious face, "but he can't just stare at the satellite images and give up, people always have to come out. He himself If I can't do it, I'll help him, even if the wound hurts, even if he hates me, it doesn't matter."
"Thank you for worrying about me, Lux, but I didn't give up on myself. And CC, don't talk like I'm having a mental breakdown," Ed said calmly. Alice does have the possibility of surviving, and uses that as a theoretical basis for daily observation of the planet in the ELS."
"Did you hear that?" Lux looked at CC worriedly, "He's about to break down."
"I know, but..." CC couldn't bear to lower his head, his long green hair slipped from his shoulders, "Give him a little more time, believe me, time can heal everything, I have experience."
"I just use my spare time to look at the satellite images, and I won't delay my serious work." Ed interrupted their muttering, "Lux, what happened to the Federal Parliament? What bad news? You haven't finished."
"...Okay." Lux continued with a sigh, "The Federal Parliament has summoned you to a hearing to be held accountable for the explosion of the satellite gun Mememto Mori. I have reason to suspect that the Federal Parliament may accuse you of making wrong decisions, Waste taxpayer property and use it as a weapon to attack the legitimacy of your supreme authority under the three-nation agreement."
"It's quite leisurely for humans to lose these guys. It really is the power struggle above everything else." Ed still looked at the phone screen with an indifferent look, "And then, who knows?"
"Kovatello Bagina, also known as Char Aznabu." Lux frowned, "Why? Minerva was entrusted to you by him, shouldn't he trust you a lot?"
"Because he is such a person, he doesn't believe in anyone but himself. As long as anyone dares not to follow his ideal script, he will not hesitate to fight against him." Ed said calmly, "He has always He never believed in me, all he believed was the understanding of me in his mind. Now that he finds that understanding is different from reality, he will naturally choose to respect reality.”
"Where's Minerva?" Lux glanced in the direction of Minerva's room, the little girl should have fallen asleep by this time, "He's not afraid of what you do?"
"In his understanding of me, I would not do anything to Minerva. What's more, even if I did hurt Minerva, he would never give in." Ed said with certainty, " He loves only himself, and it is not unacceptable to sacrifice Minerva to achieve his goals."
"... You really know him." Lux seemed to remember something and bit her lip, "Then... what are we going to do?"
"Just say I don't have time, I'm busy monitoring aliens." Ed said with his head lowered, "Come to the moon and catch me if you can, shut up if you don't."
This is not a sane answer, this is not a choice Ed would make when he is sober, he is really going to break down, and dragging it won't solve everything. Lux looked at CC with eyes full of the above, but the only response she received was a silent sigh.
"It's already this time, then I'll go to bed first." Ed suddenly stood up and walked to his room, "You guys should go to bed earlier too, good night."
Only the two of them were left looking at each other helplessly in the living room, and neither could convince the other.
Ed, who returned to the room, lifted the quilt and found that An Qi was lying naked in a ball. He looked at the neatly folded clothes beside the bed, and didn't say anything. He just lay silently beside the girl, holding his phone and continuing to watch the unchanged planet of ELS.
"Ed, can you not look at it?" An Qi whispered cautiously, "Go to sleep, it's very late."
"I have the S2 mechanism, it's alright, I'll go to sleep later." In the dark room, the light of the mobile phone on his face looked a little gloomy, "In case I miss Alice from the planet while I'm asleep. What to do when she comes out, she will definitely be unhappy when she comes back."
"I..." An Qi raised her arm to touch him, then retracted in fright, "I'm sorry, it's all me..."
"It's not your fault, it's not anyone's fault. You want to protect me, I'm very moved, I don't blame you at all." Ed paused, "Sometimes this kind of thing happens, it's just... bad luck Well, that's all."
"You don't want to be like this..." An Qi's voice was as thin as a mosquito, "I... I..."
"Go to sleep, it's getting late." He stretched out a hand and gently stroked the girl's smooth hair, "I'll sleep in a while, really, I won't lie to you."
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." After an unknown amount of time, An Qi finally fell asleep amid repeated apologies. The girl seemed to have some nightmare, her body was tense, her brows were furrowed, and she could vaguely hear her dream words, "Dad... I'm sorry..."
Ed sighed silently and continued to look at the phone with blank eyes. He knew that everyone was worried about him, and he felt sorry for An Qi. He knew even more that he had to get out of this wrong state, but he didn't know how to do it. Since the incident, he has not even shed a single tear.
As if no new thoughts and feelings could be born in my mind, as if an important part of the body was missing, as if half of the soul had been stolen by someone. In terms of the proportion of time occupied, Alice is obviously just a small screw in his life, but who knows that once this screw is missing, the complete function of a person will not be able to function normally, leaving only the endless sense of emptiness and loss .
"It's like the machine is broken." He murmured not knowing who to tell it to, and quietly turned off the phone and put it on the pillow, "It's getting late, go to bed, there are still things to do tomorrow."
It's time to night.
Ed, who was in a light sleep, suddenly opened his eyes, and only the sleeping blond girl appeared in his field of vision. He tried his best to sense it, but he couldn't find Minerva who was separated by a wall. He was still in a silenced state, which meant that he was probably finally going crazy. He actually sensed that something was swimming in his blood vessels. The thing started from the heart, followed the blood circulation and circulated through the body several times, and finally settled in the brain.
"It's nothing to do piston movement in and out. Anyone can do it, and I don't envy it at all." The thing directly spoke to his brain through electrical signals, making a girl-like voice, "Hmph, others can do it. Is that so