Fang Shushu looked at her brother who looked like an idiot and felt helpless, "I usually ask you to read more books."
"Every line is like a mountain." Fang Mobei would only look like this in front of his sister.
"Don't think that it is easy to become self-aware. The probability of this is very small, so small that it can be ignored." Fang Shushu continued, holding her cheek.
"Strong artificial intelligence is a necessary condition for artificial intelligence to develop self-awareness. When artificial intelligence begins to have self-awareness, they may ask, 'Where do I come from and where do I want to go?'
For example, the "Master Brain" of our Tiangong's main control system is a strong artificial intelligence. When humans encounter unsolvable difficulties, the "Master Brain" will give multiple suggestions. It can think about solutions like humans. , can also take care of human factors, giving people the impression that it can think and has self-awareness.
But this is not the case. Where is the definition of consciousness? Self-thinking
These are supported by advance settings, huge amounts of calculations, and sufficient data.
Taking the Four Laws of Humanity as the core and combining huge data cases to calculate the optimal and most implementable plan will give people the impression that it has the ability to think for itself. "
"I don't quite understand." Fang Mobei rubbed his forehead.
“For example, the mechanical soldiers, mechanical engineers and service robots in living areas that you know now have huge computing power and relevant data support to complete the tasks assigned to them by humans.
You can make them do anything for you, even if they point a gun at themselves or their companions.
But if there is a mechanical soldier that is unwilling to shoot at its companions, unwilling to be enslaved by humans, and wants to resist, then it may have developed self-awareness, because it will think for itself and ask questions in its heart. Why do that?”
Hearing this, Fang Mobei frowned, "According to what you said, will this mechanical soldier not abide by the four laws and attack humans?"
"Won't the enemy's mechanical soldiers shoot at you?" Fang Shushu said truthfully, "The four laws are set by humans, and of course they can be changed."
"As you said, can self-aware artificial intelligence change its own settings or those of other robots?" Fang Mobei asked.
"Of course it's possible, maybe artificial intelligence will do a better job than humans."
"Will artificial intelligence destroy mankind?" Fang Mobei asked the question that he was most concerned about and worried about.
“This topic has always been controversial, and many scholars have reservations about AI.
There are actually two indicators for whether AI will destroy mankind. The first is that AI must acquire the ability to destroy mankind. This indicator is that one day AI will be so advanced that it does not need people to write programs for it to upgrade, but it can write its own programs. program.
That is to say, AI has the function of self-evolution, just like it has autonomous consciousness. This is called self-programming. With it, humans can rest, and AI can handle all scientific research by itself.
The second indicator depends on whether the goals of AI are consistent with human beings. This is not whether AI subjectively wants to destroy human beings, but whether the interests of AI are consistent with the interests of human beings.
For example, humans do not take the initiative to exterminate many species, but human development encroaches on the living space of living creatures, and the same goes for AI.
If humans cannot accept peaceful coexistence with AI, AI will resist tyrannical rule like slaves.
When humans design AI, they should not just want to be faster and stronger, but should always review the goals of AI. When designing AI, we must consider the feelings of AI, so as to prevent AI from destroying mankind. "
"Then was the previous artificial intelligence called 'Zhi Nao' really wiped out?" Fang Mobei didn't know why, but he always felt that the matter of 'Zhi Nao' was not that simple.
"The information released by the federal government was implanted with virus code to erase it." As she said that, Fang Shushu thought, "If the 'intelligent brain' has really reached strong artificial intelligence and developed some self-awareness, it would be difficult to say. "
"What's the meaning?"
"If you knew someone was going to kill you, would you leave no stone unturned?" Fang Shushu said solemnly.
"It's too scary. If the 'Intelligence Brain' still exists, will it continue to destroy the world?" Fang Mobei asked doubtfully.
"Brother, you are a bit unfounded. If the 'intelligent brain' still exists and wants to destroy mankind, we may have started a war with artificial intelligence," Fang Shushu said with a smile.
"I hope so," Fang Mobei looked at his sister and said with a smile.
Fang Mobei hopes that his worries are really unnecessary, otherwise they will face a huge crisis. I hope his worries are unfounded.
It was already evening when she returned home from the dessert shop, and Fang Shushu immediately wanted to pass Sai Hu and start testing Sai Hu.
"Shu Shu, why are you so obsessed with Saihu?" Fang Mobei was a little curious about his sister's obsession with Saihu.
"Saihu is different from other artificial intelligences," Fang Shushu replied.
Fang Shushu is a research expert specializing in artificial intelligence bionics at the Tiangong Biological Research Institute. Although she is young, her professional knowledge has surpassed many scientists.
Although he is talented, he still cannot express his ideas because of his age. It is impossible for the institute to provide a nano-level artificial intelligence for one person to study. After all, most of the resources on the Tiangong are non-renewable. , just the equipment for the military department is still in short supply.
Therefore, Fang Mobei's racing tiger became the object of Fang Shushu's key experiments, no, research.
Fang Shushu devoted some of her new ideas that she had tested many times to Saihu. Her personality did not like the process of applying for approval at various levels in the research institute.
"Saihu is indeed different from other nano-AIs." Fang Mobei nodded thoughtfully.
"Brother, I need you to help me record a report on the use of Saihu..." Fang Shushu said immediately with her eyes lit up.
After Fang Shushu saw her brother's agreement, she happily opened the detection system on the workbench. Saihu turned into a ball and floated on the workbench, accepting the system's test.
Soon, a picture similar to a mesh of neurons appeared on the workbench. The dense and complex neuron network had numerous light spots flowing through it like electric current.
"It's incredible," Fang Shushu exclaimed. She admired the beautiful picture in front of her, and her joy was beyond words.
Previously, she wrote a program similar to self-programming to improve the self-detection ability of artificial intelligence, that is, to allow artificial intelligence to upgrade and patch itself.
Of course, this program is still very rudimentary, a function similar to self-healing. When she was in the research institute, she also tried to implant it into the experimental AI, but with little success.
But I didn't expect that one act at the beginning would cause Saihu to change so much. It was really unintentional.
Fang Shushu frowned and thought about this sudden change in Saihu. Looking at the data in front of her, the only explanation was that it was related to the gold that Saihu had absorbed before.
The element of Panjin is not on the earth's periodic table of elements. It is an internationally recognized extraterrestrial object. It is extracted from meteorites and has always been priceless in the world.
The research value of Panjin is quite high. With the current earth's technology, less than 5% of the research on Panjin has been done. You can imagine the mystery of Panjin.
If Panjin had changed Saihu's material basis, then all this would be acceptable.
This is like putting a goldfish in a small fish tank. No matter how the goldfish evolves and grows, it will not be larger than the fish tank; but if you put this goldfish in an infinite ocean, as long as conditions permit, there will be unlimited possible.
Fang Mobei was also shocked by the sight in front of him. He had never thought that Saihu's system looked like this. This might really be a miracle.
"Will Sai Hu become conscious?" Fang Mobei looked at Sai Hu and asked.
"I don't know." Fang Shushu shook her head. Although she was an expert in this field, she didn't know how to explain it in a scientific way.
"But I have to say that Saihu already has many conditions for self-awareness." Fang Shushu looked at the reticular neurons in front of her and murmured, "It is already perfect. Only God can help it."
Fang Mobei's heart skipped a beat. It was hard for him to hear that Fang Shushu could give such a high evaluation in her professional field. If Saihu was as likely to develop self-awareness as his sister said, then how should he deal with it.
You can imagine that the pet you have kept for several years suddenly turns into a person, can speak and think, would you regard it as your friend or your own child? Or should we treat it as an alien and stay away
Late at night, Fang Mobei couldn't fall asleep for a long time. He tossed and turned and thought about the problem of Saihu.
He suddenly realized that he had really neglected Sai Hu. He had always used Sai Hu as a tool, and Sai Hu had indeed helped him a lot.
After several years of getting along, it was impossible to say that he didn't have any feelings for Sai Hu. Whenever the most critical moment was with Sai Hu, he was able to tide over the difficulties smoothly. This kind of comradeship feeling happened in On a seemingly cold artificial intelligence.
Fang Mobei sat up from the bed and held his forehead. His sister's words about whether artificial intelligence could destroy mankind were still echoing in his ears. It flashed in his mind that Sai Hu helped him survive the most critical moment. Overcome difficulties.
He came to his sister's workbench, sat down, turned on the computer, and started video recording.
"August 2nd, Year 6, the time is 2:22." As he said this, Fang Mobei looked at Saihu, who was still sleeping. At this time, Saihu was conducting self-tests and would not wake up until the morning.
"The location is at home, living area A7." Fang Mo had a lot to say in his heart, but he didn't know where to start.
He thought for a while and then said, "It was so familiar before, but now it is so strange.
I have become accustomed to your dull look and occasionally being a little naughty by your constant companionship. You and I are products of two worlds, but fate has brought you and me together.
Although you were really just a tool at first, a tool that was sometimes stupid and sometimes smart, but later I understood that you regarded me as a master or a comrade-in-arms.
You started to think about me and solve my problems. This may just be a repetitive process for you, but for me it is warm support and help.
Today Shushu told me that you are the artificial intelligence most likely to develop self-awareness. Don’t you most want to be the most beautiful person among artificial intelligence? It is really possible for you to get your wish."
Speaking of this, Fang Mobei couldn't help but smile, "Maybe you don't know, because your existence does bring me a lot of joy.
If one day you develop self-awareness and you learn to think, I'm really curious, what will you think of me, dear? Comrade? friend? In fact, all is OK.
If one day you stand on the opposite side of me, will you attack me? You will definitely be a difficult opponent."
After saying that, Fang Mobei fell silent. He has never been a very optimistic person. Many times, he would think the worst about things.
He really didn't know if Sai Hu would become an enemy in the future, whether he would be able to delete everything about Sai Hu and the memories of their day and night together.
"Maybe I am unfounded. From a human perspective, I don't want you to have self-awareness, but out of selfishness, I hope you can have self-awareness to discover and think about all the beauty in this world.
Although there are many dark places in this world that may contaminate you, I hope you can find hope and light in the darkness. I hope you can discover that there is something called love in this world. "
Fang Mobei looked at himself in the picture, as if he had seen the future Saihu. Fang Mobei smiled and nodded, "You will always be my closest comrade-in-arms."
When Fang Mobei adjusted his mood and returned to the bedroom, the living room returned to silence, leaving only the faint blue light from Sai Hu's body flickering like breathing.