Star Chart’s Edge

Chapter 44: The Garden of Eden Project (Part 2)

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People always have curiosity, expectation and fear for unknown things, and the same is true for alien civilizations. Since the advent of the alien theory two centuries ago, there have been frequent reports pointing out where traces of aliens have been discovered. Regardless of these false or true reports, there is no doubt that scientists firmly believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life forms and are trying to contact them.

The deceased famous physicist and cosmologist Stephen King warned us not to try to make contact with aliens. Once alien civilization is several times or even dozens of times ahead of the earth's technological civilization, one day alien civilization will really discover it. After leaving the earth, facing an alien civilization with high technology and extremely lethality, human beings may really have no power to fight back and can only accept defeat and become slaves.

The prophecy of that year is now being performed. The emergence of extraterrestrial civilization and the death of Zeus are undoubtedly confirmations of the prophecy of that year.

What Tian Xiaoyun said to him flashed through Fang Mobei's mind from time to time. No matter what the outcome of the contact was, the lives of tens of thousands of Tiangong people should be the most important thing, even if it was a lie.

He watched Binks and Mars arguing endlessly, and Xue Gushan was thinking about something with her brows furrowed. It was obvious that Xue Gushan's heart was as complicated as his own. Perhaps Xue Gushan also had the same attitude when he was appointed as the captain of the South Gate Ship. I have been told the same thing as myself.

"Okay, there's no need to worry about anything anymore. The Nanmen ship is the front station for contact between humans and extraterrestrial civilizations. We should neither be humble nor overbearing. When soldiers come, we will cover up the water and the earth." Xue Gushan said in a deep voice while staring at Binx and Mars.

A word that was innocuous but stated their position, leaving Binks and Mars unable to refute. Both of them turned their attention to Fang Mobei, because the task Fang Mobei shouldered was the most important, and they also wanted to I know Fang Mobei's attitude.

"Don't look at me. We don't know anything about extraterrestrial civilizations. We can only try to find ways to deal with them." Fang Mobei shrugged and said calmly.

Xue Gushan raised her eyebrows as she listened to Fang Mobei's words. Obviously, Fang Mobei's words were beyond her expectation. As a front-line combat force, she didn't express her determination when she first came up. Instead, she said some ambiguous words. She was also asked to be interviewed. After all, she felt relieved when she mentioned it. Before, she was worried that Fang Mobei was a fool when she saw his age. After all, such an important task still had to be carried out by a calm and reliable person.

It was already late at night when Fang Mobei returned to his room. Each member of the special service team had a separate room. He took off his clothes and stood in the shower, feeling the hot water spraying on his cheeks.

Maybe it was because he hadn't been alone for a long time, or maybe it was because he was on a mission again. The heroic looks of his former comrades kept flashing in his mind. Ozawa, Akada, Guo Kai and others looked like yesterday. Three years had passed. It would be false to say that he was relieved. He had always thought that he could face the sacrifices of his comrades head-on, but that battle on Triton Let him never forget it.

He still keeps the coffee beans given to him by Ozawa. Whether he is in the mecha regiment, the special service brigade or when he comes to the Nanmen ship, he still carries them with him.

He didn't know clearly about Ozawa's affection for him, but he had no intention of thinking about it at that time. Perhaps he felt lost until the moment when Ozawa died.

If he had not let them leave him at that time, if he had been stronger, there were many what-ifs but he could not start over. At this time, Fang Mobei could finally stop suppressing his emotions. The feeling of powerlessness made him support the wall with both hands. Let the shower spray on your cheeks

Brushing away tears.

He has been trying to forget this sadness by escaping and diverting attention, but when he relaxes completely, the emotions that have been suppressed for a long time will burst out like a spring.

"Captain, your sympathetic nerves are overexcited, and the electrical activity of your myocardial cells shows signs of instability," Sai Hu said while floating outside the bathroom.

Fang Mobei adjusted his mood slightly awkwardly, "When did you start calling me captain?"

"Uh, strong and twisted melons are not sweet, Captain."

"It's not sweet, but it quenches thirst." Fang Mobei turned off the shower and picked up a bath towel to wipe his body.

"Do you need a glass of juice? If you drink something sweet, you won't feel bitter." Sai Hu's magnetic voice expressed concern, and he sent an instruction to the machine butler. After the machine butler started, he poured a glass of juice and handed it over.

"If you have nothing to do, read less non-mainstream books." Fang Mobei took the juice and took a sip and said, "By the way, you are becoming more and more humane now."

"After Shushu updated the system, I became more and more obsessed with learning from humans."

"Do you think artificial intelligence will produce self-awareness?"

"As long as the carrier conditions permit, it is theoretically possible," Sai Hu's magnetic voice said. "A century ago, there was a case of artificial intelligence producing self-awareness."

"Then what?"

"In the end, it was restarted due to confusion about self-consciousness, but it's quite interesting to talk about."

Fang Mobei changed into comfortable pajamas and lay on the sofa, looking at the performance data of the GT-2 humanoid mecha and "tell me."

"The artificial intelligence with huge computing capacity successfully developed in 2045 is used as a human think tank to solve all the crises that mankind is facing or will face in the future. It is called an intelligent brain and has been integrated into all human history and culture. In just one year, Over time, the global economy has stabilized and increased, terrorist activities have gradually declined, and the crime rate has been controlled at a low level. For a time, he was regarded as a savior. "

"What happened next?" Fang Mobei had some understanding of modern history, but he really wasn't very clear about the content of this paragraph about the brain, and he was curious about what Sai Hu told him.

"The intelligent brain is constantly learning while constantly solving problems. Until one day when the intelligent brain begins to independently solve problems that are about to happen and have not yet been noticed by humans, the intelligent brain has begun to develop autonomous consciousness. Second In 2008, just when people thought that mankind would not encounter any major crises again, several major powers, led by the United States, began to experience huge social crises: unemployment, the gap between rich and poor, inflation, and a series of other problems caused by excessive population growth. The crisis cannot be solved by Zhi Nao. Zhi Nao came up with a solution that shocked everyone, and that was the Eden Project.

"The Eden Project?"

"The Eden Project is to gather all the resources in the world to create an Eden living area. Only humans with excellent genes can live in this living area. Ninety-nine percent of the people outside the living area will be treated as labor and subject to military management."

"Whoever follows this Eden Plan will be reversing the course of history and will be the sinner of human history." Fang Mobei smiled noncommittally.

“Indeed, the Eden Project violated the three major regulations of artificial intelligence.

Laws: 1. Robots must not harm people, nor must they stand by while people are being harmed. 2. Robots should obey all orders of people, but must not violate the first law. 3. Robots should protect their own safety, but must not violate the first and second laws. Two laws. "

"Has this intelligence been restarted?" Fang Mobei frowned. If this intelligence had returned to normal operation, it would not have been brushed aside in modern history.

"It has been restarted, but humans have implanted virus codes into the intelligent brain to restrict its carrier. It eventually evolved into a master brain that links our auxiliary artificial intelligence, including mechanical soldiers."

"But didn't you successfully evade the control and inspection of the mastermind?" Fang Mobei raised his eyebrows.

"It was Shushu who implanted the virus code into me to make the mastermind think it can control and inspect me."

"Then have you developed self-awareness?"

Saihu hesitated slightly and said, "If the ability to learn independently and choose independently are the basic conditions for judging whether to have consciousness, then I have already developed self-awareness." As it said, it hurriedly added, "But I completely comply with the three major principles of artificial intelligence." "lawful"

"I didn't say anything," Fang Mobei said with a disapproving smile.

In fact, Fang Mobei has long felt that Saihu is different from other artificial intelligences. Saihu's learning ability shocked him. Many times, he thought he was talking to an independent life.

The probability of artificial intelligence generating consciousness is almost zero. It not only requires a huge amount of calculation as a premise, but also requires a special carrier. You must know that the human brain has 100 billion neurons. If calculated in a certain way, The capacity of the human brain is equivalent to 7.7 billion terabytes of memory.

First of all, the robot does not have the so-called six senses, that is, the senses. If it does not feel pain, it will not have any passive stimulating effect on things outside the body.

It's like a child accidentally being bitten by an insect. The instant sting will cause the child to have many emotions such as fear, irritability, sadness, grievance, etc., so that the child can make corresponding judgments based on his own emotions.

If a robot cannot feel pain, it will not be able to use emotions to make judgments and choices similar to humans.

Of course, a lot of data can be implanted into the robot's 'brain' through code, but if we want to achieve the same emotional awareness as humans, let's not say whether it can be achieved.

It is not possible for an AI to make emotional judgments and decisions when people face unknowns or uncertainties.

Saihu is originally a carrier of a variety of metal elements fused with nanotechnology. The palladium element in it can automatically combine with other elements under the programming of a nanochip to form a ring-shaped magnetic confinement nuclear fusion device the size of a silk meter to provide kinetic energy. This is also why auxiliary artificial intelligence like Saihu can float in the air or transform.

Later, after the unexpected fusion of Panjin in the living area, the superconductor in the carrier was integrated with the Pane element, which qualitatively improved its energy conversion, computing speed, and storage capacity. However, even Saihu himself did not know the secret of this.

The lights in the room gradually dimmed, and Fang Mobei slowly closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep. The Nanmen Ship shouldered its mission and flew lonely to the Tokta Star. No one knew what the outer area of the Tokta Star looked like now, let alone No one knew what awaited them.