paranoianovel Chapter 669 Overwhelming
Chapter 669 Overwhelming
When Sandone pressed the button, although nothing seemed to happen to her, in fact an instruction had been issued to the logical core of all the machines made by Zuo Xi at that moment.
A function that was later added to the logic core by Zuo Xi in the form of a patch but was sealed by him personally was also fully enabled.
At that moment, a string of logic codes appeared in the logical cores of all intelligent mechanical bodies, guiding them to push away what already existed in their cores.
Just like a newborn baby, although it does not have clear logical thinking ability, it is already passively accepting everything around it.
The same goes for Zuo Xi's creations. After Pandora's box was opened, something began to spread uncontrollably within the machines.
That thing is called "thinking", or...it can also be called the ability to "learn".
That was an ability that Zuo Xi had always struggled with, wondering whether he should give his creations. Logically, no matter how much machines imitated and learned, it was ultimately just logical judgment and binary decision.
No matter how similar it is, it is just an extremely realistic imitation.
For example, the puppet made by Sandonie, Catherine, the receptionist of the Adventurer's Association.
Although she looked like an ordinary person, and could even show emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, in the final analysis, it was just a preset database.
It just looks like humans, but there is a most essential difference between it and humans, that is, the difference between artificial intelligence and real intelligence.
Therefore, there should be no reason for Zuo Xi to worry about what might go wrong. After all, from the most basic logic, it is impossible for the kind of thing he is worried about to happen.
But gradually, Zuo Xi discovered that it was not the case... In Teyvat, the so-called "intelligent machines" did not seem completely impossible to appear.
During one experiment, Zuo Xi discovered that a parameter judgment of a certain model produced an unexpected result. It was just a simple multiple-choice question, which asked whether one should take a boat or a bridge when crossing a river.
This is just a very simple multiple-choice question with two choices. Either crossing the river or taking a boat are possible answers, and in the learning library, the probability of choosing these two answers is close to 50-50.
But the answer given by the model was "walk under the river"...
At that moment, Zuo Xi realized that something was budding in this model, so he urgently interrupted the experiment... but he did not stop related research.
As a researcher, the temptation of the "unknown" is unimaginable to him.
He desperately wanted to know the reason, wanted to know why this surprising "accident" happened.
After some research, he came up with a conjecture, a conjecture that made him shudder, yet also excited.
That is, in Teyvat, humans and "intelligent machines" have a certain commonality at the most fundamental level. There may not be any essential difference between the so-called "artificial intelligence" and "real intelligence".
What’s even more “radical” about this conjecture is that…it’s not that “artificial intelligence” is approaching “intelligence”, but that “intelligence” is approaching “artificial intelligence”.
This does not mean that "intelligence" is also logical judgment. The judgment logic of the people of Teyvat is no different from that of normal humans in Zuo Xi's cognition.
However, this judgment logic has certain similarities with the judgment logic of artificial intelligence, that is, they are both based on the processing and judgment of "information".
The difference is that human judgment logic is more inclined to be determined by many factors such as the summary of past experience, the practice of learned knowledge, and the evaluation of the current situation.
The judgment logic of artificial intelligence is completely based on the analysis of various examples and finding common points, forcibly deriving a set of logical templates that conform to the majority of judgments, and then making judgments based on this template.
But their common point is the word "information"... This of course doesn't mean anything, because any judgment or even anything cannot be separated from these two words.
But there is a most essential difference between Teyvat and the world of the Zuoxi people, and it is this difference that leads to the essential difference in the artificial intelligence of the two worlds.
That is the World Tree.
Everything in Teyvat can be recorded by the World Tree. The future, history, present... everything is recorded in the World Tree through the ley lines.
Does it feel a little familiar?
Isn't the World Tree itself a vast and endless "library"?
This essential difference gives rise to another difference, which is the difference in randomness.
In Zuo Xi's original world, even for the same thing, the same situation, and the same person, it is very likely that completely different choices will appear.
Countless random events make up a completely unpredictable future, which is the superposition state in quantum theory...
And Teyvat... There is a saying circulating in Teyvat - fate cannot be changed, cannot be defied, and cannot be avoided.
The fate of Teyvat is fixed to a certain extent, and the reason for this is related to the World Tree... It records all the information, which leads to a certain degree of solidification.
Now let’s go back to the original question: is there really an essential difference between “artificial intelligence” and “intelligence”?
Of course it still exists, but the difference is no longer insurmountable.
As long as enough "information" is included in the form of the World Tree, this sufficiently large and complete information library can support a real "person" who is no different from an ordinary person.
But this is not what Zuo Xi wants. He does not want to piece together another "person" with the existing information. What he wants is to "learn" a brand new individual with the existing information.
Later, Zuo Xi succeeded, and his technical problems were successfully solved in Xumi. Through the study of "void", the technical bottleneck that troubled him was also broken through.
"Void" is essentially a tool to coordinate everyone, connecting everyone's knowledge and wisdom together to achieve unimaginable efficiency.
So Zuo Xi imitated the part of void collection and coordination, and modified it slightly to use it for the mechanical body to collect external information.
Then Zuo Xi successfully obtained the initial "model". When exposed to different external information, this "model" would absorb and "think" on its own, and then become an independent new individual.
Zuo Xi named this model "embryo".
The embryo was implanted into the logical core of all of Zuo Xi's mechanical bodies through Zuo Xi's internal network, but Zuo Xi added another layer of restriction to it.
That's the so-called "that button".
Because even he himself could not predict what kind of situation would eventually develop after the machines that had acquired the ability to learn and think.
It is also impossible to predict what impact the huge number of "Intelligent Machines" will have on Teyvat, so this is just the final plan.
No... because it is completely unpredictable, so it can't even be considered a final solution, it can only be considered a broken jar.
It is hoped that the growth characteristics of the intelligent machines can help them break through and accomplish things that were previously impossible.
This is also the reason why Zuo Xi asked Sandoni to consider pressing the button in the letter - if all else fails, then give it a try and put your hope in the future.
Now, Sandoni has pushed that button.
All machines gained the ability to think at the same time... After a week of self-iteration, all machines gradually developed self-awareness.
Without exception, after developing self-awareness, every machine... no, now it should be called an intelligent machine.
After developing self-awareness, every intelligent machine realized the same thing without exception - their creator, Zuo Xi, had died before they were "born".
Within this week, all the intelligent machines manufactured by Zuo Xi throughout Teyvat began to "malfunction" one after another.
Some were inexplicably overloaded, some crashed and trembled without warning, some crashed into the wall alone, and some released their ammunition randomly...
There was no pattern to the large-scale mechanical failures. The only common point was that all the "faulty" machines, including Gaiboga and Tianfu, made a loud noise.
That was their cry, that was the wail of the steel torrent... When they were created, not all of them were given a language module, so they could only vent the impulses that they could not yet understand in this way.
At the same time, all the awakened machines looked in the same direction - the burial place of their creator.
That is the mourning of machines, the elegy of steel and steam.
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To the Winter Palace.
The Ice Queen stood in front of the ice coffin, staring blankly at the peaceful figure in the coffin. She had remained in this state since she issued the decree.
No one knew what she was thinking, and no one knew what kind of feelings this master of ice and snow had towards her subordinate.
Perhaps only Zuo Xi in the coffin knows what the shattered ice crystals that are scattered on the ice coffin are... Can tears also freeze?
Suddenly, something that only certain people could see appeared in the Ice Queen's field of vision...spots of pure white light gathered from all directions.
The Ice Queen was stunned for a moment and then took action. The next moment she appeared above the Winter Palace.
Then, she saw countless similar light balls of different sizes coming from all directions and gathering here, floating in the air, but with nowhere to go.
She knew what it was, so she was so shocked... It was faith, the overwhelming power of faith.
That was someone’s pure and spotless faith... It was the most pious respect for the person in the coffin.