Cyber Heroes

This was about thirty years ago. At that time, the situation suddenly reversed. Yawgmoth removed most of the backdoors controlled by Xiangshan, took control of the old world army, and reorganized into the predecessor of the Asylum.

And this was also the first time Xiangshan fell into despair. He was too aggressive in his tactical choices and wanted to kill Yawgmoth before everything became settled.

So, he died.

In subsequent battles, Yawgmoth destroyed every strategic location on the planet. All root servers of the Internet, as well as almost all servers of large organizations and all important network nodes, are within the scope of the attack. Except for the databases of research institutions, almost all the physical foundations of the old network were removed by Yawgmoth's force.

After this, he will rebuild the solar system's new network - under his control.

In the process, some brave people transferred precious data from the old network to the new network.

It’s like Noah’s Ark connecting the old and new eras.

This was thirty years ago.

After that, the two false Xiang Shan destroyed the foundation of trust between the knights.

The fourth Xiangshan, the new Xiangshan, claims to lead everyone to change their approach again.

The original "chivalrous way" of Xiang Shan was born out of the struggle situation of "stealing the country", a terrible atrocity that happened secretly. It doesn't suit an entirely different enemy like the Patron.

The vigilante must make changes.

Xiangshan—probably the fifth Xiangshan—felt the same way.

However, Xiangshan didn't think the knight could confront the protector head-on. The original Xiangshan was merciful and did not deal with all the old-era armies immediately, causing this force to eventually fall into the hands of Yawgmoth's Beast. The knight's last chance to confront the patron was wasted due to the idiotic operation of "Fake Xiangshan".

The key historical node has been missed.

The current struggle situation is such that there must be no head-on confrontation.

But in the final analysis, Yawgmoth only used death to coerce the military forces of the old era to obey his orders. As long as he displays an "I don't care if I kill a hundred thousand or a million" attitude, most soldiers will feel paralyzed with fear. He can also interfere with the brains of those who have backdoors to a certain extent and interfere with their thinking.

But he can't really kill thoughts.

Within the patrons, there must be a large number of individuals who are unwilling to give in.

What Xiangshan is best at is "joining if you can't beat them", "messing them up", and swallowing up the world within the ambiguous rules of the game.

Now, he is looking for weapons - to resist Yawgmoth, but also for the future of mankind.

This is the deepest part of the new network, trying to find some data that existed when the new network was born. He wants to find usable capital from these data. Whether it is used as a weapon or as a trading material, as long as it can be used.

Data is the most precious and cheapest thing in this era.

In the electronic age, nothing is simpler than "copying a copy of data".

But it is not easy to find "the parts that are useful for a specific situation" from the vast amount of data.

What Ling Xiangshan didn't expect was...

What he met was an AI.

An AI who calls him "Father".

According to the historical records in the comments, Xiangshan designed the initial framework for this AI. It consists of two parts, one focusing on collecting "other players' learning results of symbol systems" and exercising the ability to "contrast". The other one is responsible for "using neural networks to extract the structure of features layer by layer and trying to guess the meaning of the symbol system on its own." These two parts strengthen and promote each other.

Just like Xiangshan did with the works of several famous musicians and cartoonists before the "World's No. 1 Martial Arts Tournament". Only this time, its target was changed to "all human players who play that puzzle game."

Then, there's a third part, which is responsible for updating. The original programmer designed a simple mechanism that was quite violent. They will make the AI ​​as a whole replicate itself. During copying, one of the two "master" and "replica" will be randomly assigned a record. After the program detects this record, it will automatically search for "potentially useful update components" and download them. In this way, it will modify its own program, and then compare the operational stability of the "generative adversarial network" with the original version. , operating efficiency, etc.

Then, violently eliminate some of them.

At that time, the program did not have access to the Internet. Its detection scope includes at most the servers of major game companies and game-related developer communities.

Xiangshan didn't even remember such a thing. Maybe it was a programmer who was doing the trick, or maybe Xiangshan was adding more gimmicks to his work.

Anyway, no one expected what it could grow into.

Machines have no personality. Existing computers will never evolve into humans.

but……

This AI seems to have changed.

Perhaps the unknown programmer who brought it here modified its search range before arriving at the new network, or perhaps some key parts went wrong in the process of self-replication again and again. Or perhaps there is a potential reversal on a purely physical level. This AI breaks through the limits. It downloaded too much content to itself. This includes the NPC data of the puzzle game, the cartoon-style interactive interface, and many scientific research software in the field of linguistics.

There are even many components subsequently developed by internal warriors. This poor AI has long been a sieve. Once he runs it, the data will be uploaded to the hands of many hackers simultaneously.

It's just that until now, the internal warriors don't care much about Rama's plan. Therefore, the process of deciphering the symbol system mastered by this AI did not attract anyone's attention.

However, this AI cannot fight against any human. It updates service-oriented components for itself. It has an instinct to serve humanity.

When he determined that he had been visited and that the visitor was a high-privileged user, the AI ​​started a new calculation.

The main task of AI is to interpret the alien information. Its logic requires it to avoid being shut down by itself - and this logic given by the Superman Enterprise programmers seems to be confused with the behavior of an NPC in a certain clearance animation. Immediately using the logic of the NPC in the plot game, this AI found a suitable way of negotiation.

All the AI ​​knows about human beings is the content of that puzzle game—something that Xiangshan casually mentioned a hundred years ago, and then a screenwriter from a certain game company freely created based on it.

This game is not plot-driven. The plot is just a guide, just a "casual talk" level.

And that's all the AI ​​knows.

He must use such a ridiculous understanding of human beings to protect his decades of deduction process.

Xiang Shan was somewhat unable to accept it: "But... this..."

He thought for a moment and said, "In the final analysis, you have no self-awareness, right?"

"I do not have the ability to think like a human being." AI admitted it directly. "It's just that under the influence of multiple modules, I can easily be considered 'self-aware' by humans."

Human “empathy” is very imprecise. Many people have the illusion that "everything looks like a human face". It is also easy for human beings to regard accidental events as messages transmitted by "a certain supreme will."

In fact, it is easy for human beings to feel that something is very human-like.

"No, in the final analysis, human beings' self-awareness is just the result of the joint action of many modules." Xiang Shan sighed, "Mutation, selection, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages... you are already a 'biological creature'."

"Since you want protection, then tell me. As a special AI, what can you bring to me?"