Earth Era

Facing the codes that had been deciphered and presented in front of him, Xiao Yun felt like he was looking at a devil.

Those code snippets that are so ingeniously designed that even just looking at them will make people feel shocked. The clever logic contained in the code design is almost an arrangement that maximizes human intelligence... All of this makes Xiao Yun feel a little powerless. .

Pandora's Box has been opened by another self, and the devil living in the box has been released. Now, no one can capture this devil again. The other self who opened the box with his own hands cannot do this. , Similarly, the current Xiao Yun can't do this.

But mankind has no way out. If you don't kill this devil, it will be human beings who will die - although human beings are still prepared to escape, they can choose to abandon the solar system and become a "starship civilization" when they have to, but... no matter how far the human civilization escapes, Can humans escape this galaxy?

The long, open area of ​​at least 100,000 light-years between river systems has become the most solid obstacle preventing human civilization from stepping out of the Milky Way. In the foreseeable future, there is no way for human civilization to cross this distance. According to mathematical calculations, it will only take tens of thousands of years at most for the robot group to occupy the entire galaxy. At that time, how can human civilization escape? Where to flee?

Running away can only delay time, not the final solution. Moreover, once the escape plan is implemented, it must mean that the solar system has fallen, which means that human civilization has encountered a major failure, which will cause the comprehensive strength of human civilization to drop to only 1% of its heyday. Not necessarily. So...human beings in their heyday could not solve the robot crisis, how could the weakened human beings have the ability to solve this crisis after fleeing?

So... once the flight begins, the demise of human civilization is already doomed. If you don't want to meet this tragic fate, Xiao Yun and the Scientific Affairs Committee led by Xiao Yun must find a way to end the robot empire before things are irreversible.

"After all... our galaxy hasn't been occupied by a robot empire, has it?" Xiao Yun said to many experts in the conference room, "If even one solar system can give birth to two truly gregarious intelligent civilizations. We There are reasons to believe that in this galaxy, many intelligent civilizations must have been born before us, that is to say, there must be more advanced intelligent civilizations than us in the galaxy at this moment. And then according to "technology has developed to a certain extent. The emergence of infinite replicating robots is inevitable.” From this inference, those civilizations more advanced than us must have encountered a robot crisis, but what is the result?”

Xiao Yun shrugged: "We don't know whether they defeated the robot group, but at least one thing we can easily see, that is... our galaxy is still that quiet and deep galaxy. It has not become The paradise of the robot empire. So if you speculate from this aspect, you can draw the following conclusion: "The infinite replica robot must have its own fatal weakness, which prevents them from really multiplying enough to occupy a river system." ."

"From a logical analysis, this fatal weakness of the robot group may have two forms. The first form is that this weakness is a natural defect of the robot group. Because of the existence of this natural defect, even if our human civilization does not intervene in this, it is wrong. Any interference by the robot group, they will also perish after a certain level of development. The second form is. This weakness of the robot group needs our human civilization to attack, it can be used by us to destroy the robot group, but If we don't use it, if we don't attack it, the robot group will not be destroyed."

"We can't be sure which of the two possible states is correct, but it doesn't matter, because the first state doesn't make sense to us—that is, we can't just sit here and wait If we do not interfere with the robot group, then the second possibility remains meaningful. Because logically speaking, the second possibility is correct by default, which will allow our civilization to achieve the most possible benefits. maximize."

"Then our work goal is very simple. Find the weakness of the robot group and use this weakness to attack the robot group. In order to destroy all the robots." Xiao Yun said, "Now, this core code has been completely deciphered. Come out, everyone can express their opinions on this.”

"I think..." an artificial intelligence expert said hesitantly, "I think that the Achilles heel of the robot group is the lack of confidentiality. Simply put. They can't keep their own construction information secret, just like we are at the moment. For their enemies, they can understand them all the same without much effort. I think we can use this to create an infinite replica robot that is the opposite of the goal of the robot group, and use the robot to deal with the robot."

"I object." Another expert immediately raised his hand, stood up after receiving Xiao Yun's approval, and refuted the previous expert's words: "I can understand your thinking, you mean, since The core goal of the existing robot group is to "replicate itself as much and as quickly as possible", so now that we have mastered the technology to create infinite replica robots, we can completely create a core goal of "destroy all non-self." Faction Bots" infinitely replicating bots and then spreading them out, using this bot against that bot, right?"

"Yes, that's my idea." The previous expert nodded, "What's your objection?"

"I object to two points, the first being the uncontrollability of robots with the ability to infinitely replicate themselves. It's the nature of it, that it develops itself once it's been created, and the maker has no control over them at all. ability, and in this case, how do you ensure that in the process of evolution, this kind of robot will not evolve by accident to become hostile to our human civilization? This is a great and undetermined risk, because this risk Existing, I don't think your idea is feasible."

The expert continued, "Then, even if we assume that this risk does not exist, assume that we can make robots that are still under our control during the development process... I also think this concept is not feasible, which is my objection to the The second reason for the plan is: how much resources do the robots under our control need to consume, and how long does it take to destroy all the enemies? The enemy robots may have spread to the whole galaxy, so should our robots also spread to the whole galaxy? The entire galaxy? How long? 50,000 years? Does it make sense for our civilization?"

"Xiao Yun, my reasons are finished." The expert nodded to Xiao Yun and sat down.

There was a moment of silence in the conference room, and then another expert also expressed his opinion: "I also think this plan is not feasible."

After some discussion, even the experts who originally proposed the proposal abandoned the idea.

"So...other than this plan?" Xiao Yun looked around the venue, "Any other ideas?"

An expert raised his hand, so Xiao Yun motioned: "Dink, tell me what you think."

Dink and Xiao Yun are both young people. Before the outbreak of the robot crisis, he and Xiao Yun also worked at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence. The two are colleagues and have known each other for a long time. Because the age gap is not big, and they both belong to the kind of people who always have many wonderful ideas, the relationship between the two has always been good.

"My idea is to use robots to deal with robots as well," Dink said, "but my idea is a little better than the previous idea. I think... The robot we make can have no entity, it is just a program. Exist. To put it more simply, it is a computer virus specially developed to deal with robot groups. The virus uses robots as a carrier and spreads between different robots with the help of communication modules between robots, thereby reaching a large area. The purpose of infecting and killing robots."

An expert retorted: "I don't think your plan is feasible. Don't forget that the core code programs that support the operation of robots are not fixed, and they can also achieve self-evolution, possibly over a period of time. After that, they evolved into a completely different set of systems, and in this case, how can your virus threaten them?"

This is indeed a serious problem. For example, some viruses that can infect humans cannot infect birds, and some viruses that can infect birds cannot infect humans, and the core code program of the robot is different at different times due to self-evolution. The gap between different robots in Duan may be larger than the gap between birds and humans. In this case, how does the virus work?

But Xiao Yun knew that Dink was also a very smart person, and it was impossible for him to not consider this before he put forward his ideas. And since he came up with this idea, it proves that he must have a solution to this problem.

Sure enough, in the face of the expert's doubts, Dink smiled slyly: "Robots can evolve by themselves... Then why can't our viruses evolve by themselves?" (To be continued.)

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