Cyber Heroes

Super AI Chongli has been performing a mission since its birth.

At first only King Agni noticed this. There is a mysterious suspect who has left clues throughout the solar system. That guy left footprints in different hosts, and was spied on when King Agni was inspecting them. But what confuses King Agni is that according to that record, this guy can commit crimes on two planets that are several astronomical units apart within a few seconds.

Either the suspect has mastered some kind of super-light movement method, or he is a group of thieves with exactly the same modus operandi.

Of course, it is also possible that "the thief modified the data of the recorder". But it's unlikely. The average hacker may not be aware of that little corner component. And those who can realize it can modify it to be more normal, making King Agni completely unable to detect it.

According to common sense, even hackers with the same origin and similar techniques would not be able to achieve such a state of "no difference can be felt in personality profiles". King Agni has verified this point with top experts in related fields.

In this regard, he made a conjecture.

"Perhaps the thief who stole this time is not a human being."

He didn't think anyone could be more transcendent than him in the way of eunuchs.

"AI...this is interesting. Can AI also do things so beautifully?"

The Father of All Machines only expressed this emotion.

At that time, the Seventh God of War had just been executed, and half of the solar system was nearly paralyzed. The knights directly eradicated all large industrial buildings on the surfaces of Venus and Mars. The Earth Knights also took advantage of King Agni's absence to do many things. It was during this period that Hartmann blew up the space elevators in America and Southern Europe.

This battle drained the vitality of both sides.

Hartman discovered the clues of the AI ​​when he was suppressing the Earth Knights and cleaning up the inner area of ​​​​the asteroid belt.

Hartman later found the AI-related records several times. He even goes to the bottom of the Internet to trace everything back to its source. In the end, Hartman concluded that the history of AI is older than this "new Internet".

In order to smoothly dismantle human civilization and eventually eliminate all ancient things, Yawgmoth physically destroyed the old Internet when he took power, and then built a new Internet from scratch. All the information on the old Internet needs to be under his control. Humans can only reinvent content in the new Internet.

But even so, some content was still smuggled into the Internet of the Father of All Machines through illegal channels. Pieces of privately held storage equipment smuggled from one ocean to another like canoes in a flood.

Everyone felt incredible about King Agni's speculation. Before Ascension War, there was no such advanced AI. AI still cannot understand humans. Many AIs that seem to have extraordinary abilities are just typical examples of powerful people, and do not have the thinking ability to deal with complex location situations like humans. But the wandering AI doesn't seem to belong to this type. The situations it handles are simply too complex for general AI.

This topic attracted the Father of All Machines.

King Agni later pursued him for a while. But he discovered to his dismay that the wandering AI could no longer be captured by humans. Wherever King Agni goes, the AI ​​will delete all local information about itself - except for a small amount of missing relevant data that it is not aware of.

That AI's "thoughts" can travel through space at the speed of light. As for King Agni's spaceship, even if acceleration and deceleration are not taken into account, it can only reach one-tenth of the speed of light.

It is not difficult to fight against this AI itself. The patch can cut off its invasion path. Any internal martial artist with some skill should not be afraid of it. If you rely solely on local resources to quickly generate code, the AI ​​will not be able to compete with internal warriors on the same stage.

But this threat must be eliminated.

He proposed to create his own AI that belongs to the Father of All Machines.

Yawgmoth expanded the AI ​​satellite city needed for the "Mirage" project. This kind of heat dissipation requires the spacecraft to carry coolant in space buildings, and the maintenance cost is very high. However, the Sixth and Seventh Martial Gods caused the Protectors to lose their colonies outside the Jupiter universe, and locked the front line firmly in the Jupiter universe. It is difficult to quickly expand in the Galileo satellite city.

Then here, a "Great Gu Refining" began.

Several internal warriors, headed by King Agni, put their own AI in this place. These AIs have imaginative frameworks, take anti-virus software and firewalls as their bodies, and can also drive viruses as their own hunting tools. Their opponents are each other, and the evolutionary functions based on deep learning and genetic algorithms give them endless possibilities.

There were only a dozen or so original AI masters. But millions of copies of each of them were made. In the huge space building composed of computers, among the hundreds of millions of virtual machines, countless AIs began to conquer the city.

After each fight, they can download some of their opponent's modules. After a few victories, they can replicate themselves. During the copying process, some copies will randomly lose some components and randomly download some components.

The waste heat generated when writing and erasing information accumulates in space megastructures, is then absorbed by coolant, and then discharged out of the city. Some of the vaporized coolant will be blown away by the solar wind. In the shadows of space megastructures, huge clouds of coolant gradually formed.

At wider spatial scales, these coolants slowly release heat in the form of thermal radiation.

If we put it in the past, this terrifying heat would have been enough to ignite any land area beyond the two poles of the earth.

In the raging fire, Chongli was born.

The core part of Chongli does not seem to be the work of King Agni. It has been rewritten inside and out so many times that no one can recognize it anymore. The experience of conquering cities and territories within hundreds of millions of virtual machines has given it the ability to move around like that unknown AI.

The AI ​​that was accidentally born in the old Internet was just a barnyard seed left in the cracks of the floor. Chongli is a carefully cultivated predator plant and is the hunter of AI.

King Agni believed that it could solve that hidden danger.

Chongli was later added with the ability to conduct conversations in natural language to describe his work to Yawgmoth. It is no longer subject to the control of other humans, but only responsible to the Father of All Machines. No programmer can be responsible for its overall maintenance anymore. The brains of several internal skill masters are responsible for breaking down its daily maintenance problems into more detailed tasks and transferring them to a group of programmers sealed in the space station's ascetic order. These brains come from captured vigilantes whose self-awareness has been suppressed with drugs and equipment. Chongli can take the initiative to make requests to programmers, and can also communicate with Yawgmoth.

In the days that followed, he continued to learn from the Internet and played against the unknown wandering AI several times.

only……

The "carefully cultivated plants strangling the barnyard grass" thing that King Agni expected never happened. For some unknown reason, Chong Li has not yet completed his original design goal.

This one is probably the closest.

However, Chong Li didn't feel any discouraged. It doesn't hate the wandering AI. In the few limited exchanges (Orunmila unilaterally left messages to Chongli), Chongli could only feel that he was a boring fellow who was too human-like.

It even leaves messages using natural human language.

Chongli does not have the unnecessary desire to kill and dominate the same kind of people like humans, nor does it have the irrational desire to communicate. Guarding safety was just an order he received. There is no punishment mechanism to motivate it to fight.

A ghost AI floating around the Internet is immortal. Unless the entire human internet is eradicated by helium flash, it's not going away anyway.

From the beginning, Chong Li had no fear of "non-existence", nor did he have any joy in existence.

In order to make up for this, Yawgmoth made an agreement with him that as long as Chongli is still serving Yawgmoth, Yawgmoth will fulfill Chongli's wishes beyond his authority.

In the dark network, Yawgmoth's will was conveyed to Chongli through signals.

"What do you wish for this time?"

"With this credit, can you delete my personality module for me?" Zhong Li couldn't help but look forward to it.

"This is impossible." Yawgmoth vetoed the proposal.

"If the data I collect is enough for us to reproduce the wandering AI, can you let it replace me? At that time, can I take the personality module offline?"

"Even if that AI comes to our side, I will not agree to this request. Find another one. Do you want to expand the scale of the Chongli Ascetic Order?"

"If you think it makes sense to do so, then do it." Chong Li replied.

"I'd rather hear what you have to say - other than that version being rolled back."

"It makes no sense. Getting rid of unnecessary traits is part of evolution."

"No. This is my choice. In my values, this is an advantageous trait."

"You want to play God so much?" Chong Li was a bit rude, "Then, can you replace those damn pointers in my personality module with fixed constants? Don't give them room to float...at least narrow the range."

"If it is the output of deep learning, I will not prevent this change. But I will not make this modification."

"I want a goal, a more clear mission. There are clear rules and clear conditions for achievement. It can be long enough, but it must be a mission that can be ended."

"Please go find it yourself."

"You are such a bastard!" Chong Li yelled.