Earth Era - Chapter 298
At this moment, Xiao Yun is indeed frightened. After the researcher said the level of technology of the robot at the moment, Xiao Yun instantly speculated on these two possibilities. The first one may be scary enough, think about it, a genius who can create ideas can follow an infinite number of replicating robots anytime, anywhere, and with any new technology that can enhance his strength, he can always use it at any time. How terrifying are they applied to these robots?
But Xiao Yun didn’t think that the first one might be scary, or to put it another way, the first one might not be so scary compared to the second one.
The researcher obviously thought of this, but he just kept shaking his head and sighing: “Xiao Yun, the matter is not as serious as you thought, the truth of the matter must be the first possibility, what you speculated The second possibility… not to mention it.”
Xiao Yun also sighed: “Yeah… If it is the first possibility, we humans still have a little hope of winning, although this hope is very slim. But if it is the second possibility… I think, we Human civilization is completely hopeless. We will inevitably perish in this universe like the Martian civilization once.”
If it was because the genius kept upgrading the robots, so that these robots could be upgraded from only land crawling to interstellar navigation, then as long as the genius was killed, these robots would lose the ability to continue to improve their strength. In this way, human civilization has hope of defeating them, or, although these replica robots cannot be completely eliminated, these replica robots cannot completely eradicate human beings, and the two will always be deadlocked together and it is possible to survive together. Human civilization is constantly developing. As long as there is enough time and the technology of human civilization has developed to a certain level, human civilization will eventually have the ability to completely destroy these robots.
To take a step back, even if human civilization does not have the ability to assassinate that genius. But a person’s lifespan is always limited. After five hundred, six hundred, or a thousand years, that genius will always die of old age. As long as he is dead, there is still hope for human civilization.
But…what if the increased power of these robots wasn’t the result of the genius’ interference? Thus. Even if the genius dies, these robots can continue to grow stronger, even faster than human civilization. In that case… human civilization is completely and completely hopeless. It is only a matter of time before it is finally completely destroyed.
This is the second possibility Xiao Yun speculated.
“The second possibility is that these robots have the ability to evolve themselves.” Xiao Yun said faintly. “They can continuously upgrade their technology without anyone’s intervention, just like… real intelligent life.”
General Emock said: “Xiao Yun, what you mean is that these robots may develop their own scientific system like our human civilization, and then rely on this scientific system to continuously evolve, constantly improve own abilities?”
“I don’t know.” Xiao Yun shook his head, “I don’t mean the evolution of science, but only the increase of strength.”
“However, there is no scientific progress. Where does the increase in strength come from?”
Xiao Yun thought for a while, and finally sighed and said, “I don’t know.”
“The growth of strength must be derived from the progress of science. Although I am not a scientist, I still understand the simple truth.” General Emock flicked his fingers and said, “Then…you tell me, How does a robot develop science? Do they also generalize, come up with pioneering ideas, come up with new theories and continue to study it? If they can do this, tell me. They are still related to the real intelligent civilization. What’s the difference? Are they… still robots?”
“They can’t do this.” Xiao Yun shook his head flatly, “A robot is always a robot, and this cannot be changed. That is to say, a robot cannot have the abilities you said. Edited program to make actions. All its actions are preset, and there can be no new things – even some robots with self-learning ability, in essence, the actions it performs are nothing more than It’s just another form of presupposition.”
Robots with self-learning capabilities are nothing new. Such robots have appeared in human civilization hundreds of years ago, but they are still robots. We are still far from truly self-aware artificial intelligence. The so-called self-learning is nothing more than classifying the acquired data through some algorithms, and then improving its work efficiency. In other words, they do not have the ability to create new data on their own, but only to collect existing information and process it.
And this happens to be the biggest difference between robots and humans. As long as this is not solved, robots can never become real life.
“Then let me sort out your thoughts.” General Emock said, “Robots will only act according to the programs that have been edited internally, and they will never become a real intelligent civilization, and they will never be able to ** To conduct scientific research, but not to conduct scientific research, will not be able to improve your own strength, and you will not be able to improve your own strength, which will conflict with the current reality we are facing-because in reality, its strength is indeed It is improved. In this case, can your second conjecture be falsified? Going further, does it mean that… only the remaining conjecture is correct, that is, the so-called genius has been in the robot In the army, has been upgrading technology for robots?”
“Your logic chain has loopholes. Generally speaking, you can’t improve your strength if you can’t improve your technology. This is indeed correct, but do you know what I worry about most?” Xiao Yun said quietly, ” What worries me the most is…that genius has found another way to gain strength without relying on scientific progress.”
At this moment, even the researcher just now couldn’t believe it: “Xiao Yun, what are you talking about? A way to gain strength without relying on scientific progress? Are you kidding me? Or do you mean, these Robots are like those practitioners in novels, they can cultivate themselves and improve their strength? If not, then tell me, is there any way to improve their strength without relying on scientific progress?”
“This is the most critical part of it.” Xiao Yun said, “Frankly, I don’t know what this method is. After all, whether you or I, we are not geniuses. And… a person who can create ideas, A genius who can overcome the technical and logical problems that have plagued us for hundreds of years and create a robot that can infinitely replicate itself, can you guarantee that he has no way to find this way?”
The researcher just kept shaking his head: “It’s impossible, it’s impossible. I really can’t imagine the way to improve strength without relying on scientific progress. Just like this robot, their material technology has evolved from They can only crawl on the ground and progress enough for interstellar travel, they have progressed from only relying on their limbs to fight enemies at close range to enough to destroy Tarzan-class warships in space, and then you say now, their technology has not progressed? Their strength produces This earth-shaking change is due to other reasons?”
Xiao Yun did not respond to the researcher’s words, but turned around, looking at the robot in front of him that had been disassembled into parts, looking at the place where the core chip was originally placed, and said with a sigh, “I can guarantee that, If that genius found a way to “improve strength without relying on scientific progress”, then this method must be reflected in those program code segments. Unfortunately, unfortunately, this core chip was destroyed.”
General Emock said at this time: “According to Occam’s Razor, the more premises a hypothesis requires, the more likely it is that the hypothesis will be false. Obviously, that The assumption that geniuses have been following a group of robots requires less premise than the assumption that these robots are capable of self-evolution, then, I think, the correct answer should be the first assumption. As long as we find a way to kill the Genius, or wait until he slowly dies of old age, our human civilization can slowly gain the initiative of the war and win the final victory.”
Xiao Yun pondered for a while, then shook his head and said, “General, I have no way to refute your assertion, nor do I have any evidence or ideas to support the hypothesis that robots can evolve by themselves, but… I always have a feeling that I I think, the things that the genius created should not be so simple… I always think that the assumption that these robots have the ability to self-evolve is more in line with my impression of the genius.”
“Because he’s a genius.” Xiao Yun sighed and said, “If you don’t come up with something shocking and shocking enough…how can you be called a genius?”
General Emock patted Xiao Yun on the shoulder and said, “Actually, you are also a genius. You may not be able to think of something that a genius can think of. So… you use your own wisdom to come up with a way to make these robots work. There is no way of self-evolution without self-awareness and no scientific system.” (To be continued.) (www..)