High Above

The data space within the chip is a pure white wilderness, as pure as heaven.

The sky is blood red, which is exactly the color of the outer wall of the chip.

In the wilderness, thousands of dead souls are sleeping - here, they don't need to use themselves as parts to build ability modules one after another.

They just need sleep. Rest until you feel like waking up.

While they were sleeping, bits and pieces of white fragments spilled out of their bodies and floated in the air, forming a cloud-like structure.

This is the ‘spiritual cloud’. It is a natural phenomenon that occurs when a large number of spirits gather together.

If this phenomenon persists for another hundred or two hundred years, or if the quality of the souls lingering here is high enough, then it will form the golden clouds on the Keel Square of the Alien Research Institute, the ‘spiritual essence’. A psionic pure material found only in the mazes of the Warp.

These clouds are the raw materials used by Ian and Adlbert to create "artificial intelligence".

"No wonder you want to release these dead souls... because you need the ectoplasm produced by the natural movement of these dead souls to create new souls!"

At this moment, Adlbert saw Ian's purpose, but Ian didn't take it seriously: "This is indeed one of my purposes, but I do want to set them free."

"It's just that this freedom will also bring me additional gains. This is not a contradiction, is it?"

The soul also metabolizes.

The soul fragments that naturally fall off from the living body will soon be reused by the body, and the shed parts will soon grow back. This continuous accumulation process is the natural growth process of the soul. The speed is slow but the best is steady. .

After losing the body, the soul will only continue to fall off, and the fallen spiritual fragments cannot be reused. If it is in an area where the natural psychic field is not strong enough, it will usually collapse itself within a day or two due to the loss of too many structures. scattered.

The more powerful and solid the soul is, the slower it will fall off, but in the end it will still be unable to make ends meet.

Unless they are located next to the sun, the center of the earth, or a spiritually rich area such as the subspace labyrinth, in that case, the balance of payments can be balanced and the soul can exist for a long time.

The inside of the source material computing chip is an environment very suitable for soul recuperation. The dead souls can continue to repair themselves here. If time goes by, they may be able to get rid of their identity as parts of the dead king and return to freedom.

"Adlbert, you can come over and teach these souls how to meditate in the future."

Noticing Adebert's gaze, Ian suggested: "This can allow them to return to normal faster, and also allow them to strengthen themselves and exist longer."

"It's not just that." And Albert murmured to himself: "Your plan is not that simple."

He noticed Ian's true purpose almost instantly: "I understand that as these souls become stronger, more 'spirit' will spill out."

"And these spilled spiritual qualities are all the nourishment for the 'artificial intelligence' you want to create, the 'Heart of Terra'! It will continue to absorb these spilled spiritual qualities to improve and enhance its own structure!"

"The Heart of Terra controls our 'artificial underworld'. The more souls there are in the Heart of Terra, the stronger the Heart of Terra... This is a positive cycle, because if the soul is immortal, the dead will only become more and more If there are more, the Heart of Terra will only become stronger and stronger!"

The more he thought about it, the more frightened Adalbert became: "Rather than saying this is artificial intelligence, it would be better to say that this is the 'artificial Pluto' you created!"

"In addition, the ultimate goal of your arcane path is to create a 'true god' that transcends the fifth energy level... This is the 'young god' you created! It is the prototype of a god! Another material for your comparative research !”

"perhaps."

Ian did not refute this, nor did he need to refute it.

He just calmly said to a rare friend in this world who could understand what he meant in just a moment: "So, are you willing to help me?"

"Help me create the prototype of 'God'...to create the Heart of Terra?"

--certainly.

Taking a deep breath, Adlbert did not answer, but proved it with actions.

He teamed up with Ian very skillfully and began to use the ectoplasm inside the chip to create a powerful artificial soul.

Creating artificial intelligence is not difficult for Ian.

In the silver chip, there was already an example of the 'combat artificial intelligence' developed by the empire back then. It was his last harvest in the imperial capital and was an unexpected product when making the Cyclops armor (referring to free prostitution).

In addition, Ian and Adelbert also worked together to build the structure of the 'artificial soul'. As long as a copy of the memory is provided, creating a soul with self-personality is simply a piece of cake.

Not to mention, only a part of the 'Gift of the Star God' in his body needs to be extracted to create the information life of Last Echo.

By combining them all, an 'artificial intelligence' with basic self-awareness and judgment capabilities is created.

Between the souls of Ian and Adlbert, a silver-white sun-like ball was gradually taking shape.

That is the aggregation of spiritual matter that is constantly being engraved with the structure of inscriptions, a 'soul' that is gradually taking shape.

Originally, this would take about a day or two.

But during the manufacturing process, Adlbert felt that his computing power suddenly increased tenfold or even tenfold.

"Is this the blessing that the 'Origin Computing Chip' brings to me?"

After a little thought, Adbot guessed the result, and Ian nodded slightly: "Yes, the source of energy computing chip itself has extremely powerful computing power, but it does not have any program. If you want to mobilize it, you must Someone needs to control it.”

"The artificial intelligence I want to create now is used to control the chip so that it can automatically handle many problems, saving us time and ensuring absolute fairness and justice."

"Absolute fairness and justice does not exist." Adelbert's tone was a little dull: "As long as you start to judge, it has nothing to do with fairness and justice, because you set the standard."

"Not to mention, if you want to make a subject progress and develop, you must have resources - just like my research efficiency is higher, so Sorin Grand Council will allocate more research resources to me, and even get it for me. Many rare and unique psychic texts."

"Absolute fairness is unfair. People are equal in terms of 'people', but not in terms of 'ability'."

At this point, Adlbert couldn't help but clenched his fists: "This is true even for experimental subjects. Those experimental subjects with psychic talents can still maintain their consciousness after death, while most ordinary people, even if they have artificial souls, He will also be confused and find it difficult to think normally.”

"This objective gap cannot be made up by AI."

"Indeed." Ian also accepted his narrative error calmly: "Then let's be as fair and just as possible. Anyway, this is also the transitional social structure used in recent decades. When human beings' moral standards return to the level of civilization in the previous era, Then artificial intelligence can gradually withdraw from the stage."

"However, in Terra now, artificial intelligence is definitely superior to humans."

Having said this, Ian emphasized: "Adlbert, you have completely misunderstood what I meant - I am not trying to build a system that will remain unchanged for hundreds of years, an eternally correct 'truth'."

"That kind of truth does not exist. Even the rules of the universe, the absolute speed of light, the gravitational constant, the nature of singularities and even the order of time can all be modified...by a powerful civilization."

"If the truth is so, how much less about people? How much less about the order established by people?"

Slowly speaking, the light emanating from Ian's soul became more and more pure: "AI is just a tool to correct the shortcomings of human society, and a prop to assist my rule."

"Before I die, I will ensure the progress and update of AI. It can save me a lot of time and use my way of thinking to assist everyone in progress - in other words, I will share my wisdom with everyone. In this regard, AI is fair.”

"But what happens when you...die?"

Adlbert personally is not willing to think about the possibility of Ian's death.

But as a scholar, he couldn't help but deduce: "After you die, the AI ​​will become more rigid, unable to be updated and cannot progress. If you give permission to others, who knows whether another person will take it in?" In your own hands, turn the power you use to help everyone into your own?"

"If the Heart of Terra is the so-called 'god', then you are the god-maker - and the next generation may very well be the god-usurper!"

"I'm dead, why do I care about so many things?" Ian looked at Adbot with strange eyes, and he was a little puzzled: "One generation is responsible for one generation's affairs, although I also like to think about what will happen a thousand years later. thing, but it’s only the second year now.”

"And, to be honest."

At this point, Ian even nodded slightly and commented sharply: "If future generations of humans cannot solve the conflict between AI and human society, then they will still be governed by AI or be ruled by a usurping tyrant. This is too little progress.”

"Anyway, I will be dead by then, and this matter will not be blamed on me."

"You..." Adlbert stared at Ian in shock: "Aren't you too irresponsible?!"

"I am also a human being. I don't believe in human morality, but I believe in the wisdom of human beings to overthrow all oppression - if there are AI and tyrants oppressing them, they will definitely succeed." Ian said seriously: "To be honest, you are too sentimental. ”

"You know, in Terra today, there are still many people who don't have enough to eat and don't have safe shelter. The basic food, clothing and security issues have not been solved. Do you think about whether humans will be ruled by tyrants and AI will be unfair in a hundred years? Fair progress or progress...it’s self-evident which is more important, right?”

"You are nothing like the Holy King that the people in the territory say you are."

The former researcher of the Dead Lord sighed: "You are simply a devil who only cares about your own pleasure."

"Then become the devil."

Ian smiled: "Because I can see the future, I never fantasize about eternity."

"Come on, accompany me to create the 'Heart of Terra'. At least it is cuter than most of the ascendant nobles of Terra, isn't it?"

Adlbert sighed. This was also true. He had no way to refute it, and he didn't even want to refute it.

Rather than trusting humans and other rulers, he would rather trust the machines he created... and would rather trust Ian.

Soon, only a few hours.

Ian and Adlbert completed the construction of an extremely complex artificial soul and related intelligent computing structures.

Next, comes the most important part.

Endow the 'artificial soul' with 'wisdom'.

On Terra, it is not difficult to create an artificial intelligence with personality, self, and judgment capabilities.

As long as you have artificial soul technology, create a soul, and then input a person's growth experience, memory, and thinking algorithm into it.

But here’s the problem – whose input is it? How much do you enter?

If too little memory is input, the personality may not be formed, and the artificial intelligence becomes artificially retarded... But if too much memory is input, it is creating echoes of its own replicas, which has nothing to do with the purely rational artificial intelligence that Ian needs. .

Not only does it need to be grasped, but also which memories can be input and which algorithms need to be deleted are very particular.

"Just use my thinking algorithm."

In this regard, Ian did not hesitate at all: "Don't worry, I have experience. It will not have a personality, it will only have the simplest 'thinking logic model'."

“My logical model of thinking.”

Adalbert opened his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but finally gave up.

Buzz.

The silver-white ball of light began to vibrate from its original calmness.

With the injection of Ian's algorithm, the artificial intelligence 'Heart of Terra' was initially launched.

The silver ball of light slowly rose into the sky, and in the process, Ian gave it the 'administrator' authority of the source material computing chip.

In the chip space, above the blood-red sky, a sun with a faint silver brilliance is suspended at the top of the sky.

Its brilliance is its tentacles, and wherever the light shines, it is the realm of this artificial soul.

As the sun rises and falls like a heart, its bursting light illuminates the entire chip space.

Because of the authority granted by Ian, the authority of the chip began to converge in this soul sun, and the computing power was deployed.

Every soul illuminated by the light has its computing power greatly enhanced.

"That's it, I understand."

At this moment, Adlbert understood Ian's thoughts and became a little excited: "The computing power of the source of matter computing chip is too huge, and it is difficult for people to use it directly, so you use the Heart of Terra as an intermediary to let it control Computing power, divert resources, and give them to different people.”

"In this way, if someone needs to practice meditation in the future, he can come to the Heart of Terra and enjoy the blessing of chips and artificial intelligence here to assist in engraving the soul structure!"

"In this way, his cultivation speed can be increased ten times!"

"This is the real advantage of the arcane path - you can use technical means to accelerate it!"

Ian nodded slightly, quite satisfied with this.

This is of course, since the arcane path is to cultivate immortality in the magical world, then of course there must be a paradise where the cultivation speed is more than ten times that of the outside world - the computing power is the rich aura, and the cyberspace is the cave hidden inside the world. .

Moreover, Adlbert was wrong.

Since knowledge and power are resources, the ‘speed and efficiency’ of learning knowledge and increasing power are naturally also resources.

These resources must be controlled by Ian, or the Heart of Terra, and then distributed.

It must not be used by anyone else, and it must not be changed by anyone.

Otherwise, the descendants of future officials will receive twenty times the blessings of the meditation method, the rich will receive more than ten times the blessings, and the children of ordinary people will only receive one or two times the blessings... Such a future will be a true cyber caste system.

That's definitely what Ian doesn't want to see.

That’s why the ‘Soul Seal’ is needed.

"That's the most important thing."