Earth Era

Xiao Yun's thinking finally encountered an insurmountable obstacle after reaching this point. At this time, Xiao Yun changed his thinking and began to think about the technological development model of human civilization.

For a gregarious intelligent civilization like human civilization, the development of science and technology does not require a rule that runs through the entire scientific development. This is the most fundamental difference from robots. Because people have the ability to associate and speculate, and human beings have wisdom, wisdom allows human beings to choose different solutions dexterously when facing different problems. Robots can't be intelligent, so they can only rely on a rule that runs through the entire scientific development to improve technology.

But if we compare the development of robot technology according to the technological development track of intelligent civilization, we will fall into the previous vicious circle: "The reason why robots need a fundamental rule is precisely because they have no intelligence. If robots have intelligence If so, what do you need that fundamental rule for?"

The attempt to find fundamental rules from the scientific and technological development track of intelligent civilization has once again failed, because the scientific and technological development model of human civilization is not comparable to that of robots. So far, Xiao Yun has still not made a breakthrough on the question of "what are the fundamental rules?"

More than four years have passed slowly. During this time, General Emerk and his staff have conducted a lot of analysis of the possible situation and formulated an extremely perfect combat plan. When Xiao Yun felt a little worried, all the strategies formulated by General Emock were all facing the genius. Obviously, General Emock and his team believe that the robot group is under the control of the genius. As long as the genius' psychology and command style are thoroughly studied, it is impossible for them to fail.

In other words, General Emock believes that the enemy he will face is a real intelligent creature, and even if it is not a human being, it belongs to the same category of intelligent life as humans. What I am facing... is not some robots that rely on program logic.

But... what if these robots do not belong to the genius commander, but have their own unique combat system? Just as Xiao Yun thought at the moment, those robots did not rely on that genius to upgrade their technology, but rely on some method that they have not yet mastered to upgrade their technology... So what should I do? Doesn't this mean that all of General Emock's arrangements and decisions were wrong from the start?

Xiao Yun once expressed his concerns to General Emock. But General Emock said: "Xiao Yun, do you know? War is the most taboo thing to do. If you always hesitate between different choices, it will only lead to insufficient preparation on both sides, and we will face failure. It will become inevitable. Since the original choice "Robots rely on genius to upgrade technology for them to evolve. And under the grasp of genius" speculation, then I will follow this path unswervingly, and all my strategies will be based on this speculation. Unless you can find strong enough evidence to prove it Fake it."

So Xiao Yun knew that any words of persuasion would be useless to General Emock until he thought about that fundamental rule.

Time is still passing little by little, and the huge fleet led by General Emock finally crossed a long journey of nearly nine light-years, from the Raqqa galaxy to the Lager 728 galaxy.

The main star of the Lager 728 galaxy is a red dwarf star, its mass is only about 40% of the sun, but its planetary system is extremely rich, it has a full three rocky planets. In addition to this, there is a huge asteroid belt around it, and a huge gaseous planet four times the mass of Jupiter. The expedition fleet stopped at a place 100 billion kilometers away from the Lager 728 star, and was on guard here.

From this distance, Lage 728 is just a dim point of light in the sky. With the naked eye, you cannot see any details of it here, nor can you see the planets in this star system. Although the distance between the expedition fleet and it has narrowed from nearly nine light years to less than 100 billion kilometers at this moment, it is still unknown to the expedition fleet.

Before the expedition fleet came here, no creation of human civilization had come here. It is unexplored and virgin land, like most of the shining stars in this night sky. People just saw it, but they didn't touch it.

The expedition fleet will obviously not enter this star system rashly. So under the order of General Emock, a large number of probes left the fleet and began to set off for the Lager 728 galaxy, and a large number of astronomical telescopes also began to work. General Emock tried to gather enough data before proceeding.

"We think. The distance of 100 billion kilometers is the safest, because we have basically determined that there is no functional classification of these robots, and the gap between any two robots is extremely small, that is to say, it is not There is some kind of dedicated logistics type robot that is used to store supplies. This is different from the battleships of our human civilization, because our battleships can store a lot of supplies, and our combat radius can be greatly expanded. And robots The combat radius of the robot will be severely limited by the reserve materials, resulting in an extremely limited combat radius. Therefore, if those robots are to actively attack us, we can wait here for their arrival.”

The speculation that "all robots are basically the same" was jointly speculated by Xiao Yun and General Emock's staff team. Xiao Yun believes that if robots also evolve into different categories and cooperate with each other in strict accordance with their respective divisions of labor, it will exceed the range that the program code can carry. That is to say, the "wisdom" of robots is not enough to carry such complex things. , that must be truly self-conscious artificial intelligence can do it. In terms of reliability and convenience, a comprehensive robot that can act freely and fight at all costs is also more survivable - at least better than a robot that cooperates with labor.

This speculation of Xiao Yun was supported by the staff team and the scientific advisory team, so this point became a public opinion.

The above words are the words of a combat staff officer. These words seem to be reasonable, but Xiao Yun feels that these words are a bit ridiculous. The reason is very simple... Those robots really cannot carry too many materials due to their own size and mass, but just because of this, will their combat radius be limited? Xiao Yun didn't think so.

Don't forget that robots themselves are also materials... When faced with long-range operations and resulting in insufficient reserve materials, they can completely disassemble similar bodies as resources to drive their own operation - robots do not sacrifice or die. They have no feelings and no self-awareness. When the program judges that "it should self-destruct and use its own materials to supply the rest of the robots to run", they will immediately destroy themselves without hesitation - even if so And what does it matter if their numbers are reduced to 10 percent of their original size?

Suppose the number of robots that the expedition fleet can deal with at the same time is ten trillion, and then choose to stay at a distance and wait for work, but what if the number of robots sent by the robot army is as high as two trillion? In this way, even if their number has dropped to 10% of the original, their number will still be as high as 20 trillion, which still exceeds the limit that the expedition fleet can handle. Therefore, the so-called leisurely work is not really useful.

In the face of Xiao Yun's rebuttal, General Emock just smiled slightly: "Xiao Yun, you are not a soldier, you cannot understand this. War is not a simple number game, but a probability problem, it is not like mathematics. Precise and absolute. So, as long as there is a way to weaken the enemy, try to weaken the enemy as much as possible. The weaker the enemy, the greater the probability of our victory - even if our winning probability is only increased from 1% to 1% Two~www.NovelMTL.com~ This is also a huge improvement, you understand?"

Xiao Yun chose silence and stopped talking.

"The same." General Emock said with a sigh, "there are high and low probabilities, and at the same time, there are many possible situations, and there can only be one choice for us. Then... this only one What is a choice to choose? I believe... any rational commander will choose the possibility with the highest probability."

Xiao Yun understands General Emock's choice, and it is precisely because of his understanding that many words in Xiao Yun's heart cannot be spoken. After hesitating for a while, Xiao Yuncai finally sighed and said, "Then, General Emerk, at least you have to promise me one thing. Before the situation of the Lage 728 galaxy is clearly detected... don't act rashly. Although I haven't speculated on the mechanism of the robot's self-evolution, but I have a faint feeling... If we act rashly, we may cause irreversible consequences."

"Xiao Yun, don't worry." General Emock patted Xiao Yun's shoulder and said, "I know this even if you don't say it. Any decision I make may decide the life and death of the entire fleet. Under the circumstances... how dare I act rashly?" (To be continued.) (www..)