Earth Era

The researcher's words made Xiao Yun's heart suddenly sink: "Self-destruction device? All key internal parts have been destroyed? Is it possible to restore it? If it cannot be restored, what else can you draw from it? intelligence?"

"Most of those damaged parts can be restored. After all, those are technologies within the scope of our understanding." The researcher said a relatively good news, "But... Xiao Yun, as a Artificial intelligence expert, so you should know that although most of its body can be restored, the brain chip responsible for directing all its body movements cannot be restored. Oh, this is not accurate. The accurate statement is that the chip can It can be restored and even remanufactured, but the information carried on the chip is completely lost."

Mechanical damage is always the most complete form of damage. The core component that controls the actions of a robot is a small chip, but the value of this small chip is greater than the entire body of the robot. Because all the design ideas of the person who originally designed these infinitely replicating robots, the implementation methods of various functions, the coordination between robots, etc., all this information is stored on the chip. It can even be said bluntly that if that crucial chip can be obtained, the probability of human civilization finding a way to deal with infinitely replicating robots will increase by at least 30%.

But...the chip is gone.

"Okay." Xiao Yun said with some disappointment, "What about the rest of the information?"

"General, you and Xiao Yun can come in and take a look." The researcher said, leading General Emerk and Xiao Yun into the research room.

There are still many staff busy in the research room. In front of them was a pile of parts that looked scattered, but were clearly arranged in a clear order. It was obvious that the robot had been completely disassembled by these researchers.

The researcher pointed at the parts with a long stick and introduced Xiao Yun: "Look here. After our preliminary analysis, we confirmed that this is its power device. Like our human civilization, it It is also driven by decay energy. This is its mineral collection and refining device, this is the parts processing device, and this is the assembly workshop..."

The researcher took a long time to introduce these scattered parts. After explaining the function of the last component, the researcher turned around and said to Xiao Yun: "Yes, everything is as stated in the report you submitted... This robot The internal structure and functional modules are basically similar to what you originally imagined. It is a robot that can replicate itself infinitely."

After the researcher made this conclusion, both General Emerk and Xiao Yun felt a little heavy. Before that, no matter how many ideas and guesses they made, and no matter how solid logical speculation those guesses were supported, neither of them were sure that what they would face in the future would be something as terrifying as an "infinite replicating robot." Because a guess is always just a guess, and as long as there is no actual evidence, it can only be a guess. And now, the speculation has become reality.

The researcher continued: "We have detected a large number of structures and components in this robot that have the manufacturing style of human civilization. Most of the technologies used are already existing within our human civilization, and a small number of them are used in this robot." The technologies on robots that our human civilization has not mastered also have a very obvious inheritance relationship with our human civilization, that is, those technologies are all developed on the basis of our technology. So... I can be very It is certain that this thing was made by humans, or an alien who is very familiar with human technology."

Xiao Yun turned around and began to look at the scattered parts carefully again. The researcher followed Xiao Yun and continued: "The working mechanism of this robot is very precise. Due to the lack of core chip information, even if we have disassembled it and conducted the most detailed analysis, we can only We can grasp the general principle of its working principle, but we cannot fully grasp everything about it. I can responsibly say that its design is extremely exquisite, even so exquisite that there are many parts that we cannot understand at all. The one who designed and manufactured this robot Guy...no doubt a genius."

Every component that makes up this robot has a certain function. In order to realize this function, human civilization may need an entire production line or an entire factory. The genius who designed and built this robot condensed an entire factory into a small box with a volume of no more than five cubic decimeters, and used this small box to realize all the functions of a factory. Although there are differences in output between the two, they are essentially the same.

To achieve this, scientific and technological foundation or knowledge accumulation is no longer the first priority. The most important thing is scientific thinking. An ordinary scientific researcher can also master the basics of science and technology or accumulate sufficient knowledge through hard work, but scientific thinking is different, and the gap between geniuses and ordinary scholars lies precisely in scientific thinking.

Just like the great genius who first proposed the idea of ​​computer design in the history of human civilization. There was no shortage of people of his contemporaries who had as much knowledge as him, but it was he, not others, who ultimately proposed computer design ideas. Geniuses create ideas, others... can only learn ideas.

The same is true now on this robot. Although he was born in the same era as that genius, neither Xiao Yun nor anyone else in the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute could do this like that genius. The genius created this idea and created a robot that could be copied infinitely, but Xiao Yun... could only analyze and learn the genius's idea through this robot with a shocked heart like everyone else.

This creates a very complicated state of mind for everyone. No one wants to admit that they are worse than others, but in the face of this reality, no one can help but admit it.

"That man is a genius." Xiao Yun sighed.

"Yes, he is a genius." The researcher also said, "To realize all these functions completely... This is indeed a very difficult thing, but the genius did it."

"No, that's not what I'm talking about." Xiao Yun shook his head, "I think...because you are not scholars in artificial intelligence, you...should not have truly realized the power of that genius. This is where the genius is truly powerful."

Xiao Yun said, taking the long wooden stick from the researcher's hand, and then pointed at a part inside the robot's body. That part was used to store the core chip. At this moment, the completely damaged chip was lying there quietly.

"It is necessary to use a program to realize the coordination and operation of all parts of the robot, to realize the understanding and judgment of information from all external sources, to realize the coordination and linkage of the robot group, and to realize communication between robots... This is better than manufacturing the inside of its body. The parts are more difficult. Obviously... that genius did this. But because the chip has been damaged, we can't get any information from here, and we can't appreciate his genius more accurately."

General Emerk said coldly: "I don't care how genius that guy is. I only know that he is a sinner of our entire human civilization, and he has committed heinous crimes against the entire human civilization. As a soldier, My job is to catch him and send him to the execution ground."

Xiao Yun and the researcher looked at each other and laughed bitterly together.

After a moment of silence, the researcher said: "Oh, by the way, there is one more thing. Through our analysis and research, we have confirmed one thing, that is... the technological level of this robot is actually the same as what we have obtained before. It’s almost the same piece of power transmission gear.”

"Huh?" General Emerk's eyes immediately narrowed: "In other words, this robot does not actually have the ability to travel between stars, right?"

"Yes." The researcher nodded: "Not only does it not have the ability to travel between stars, it doesn't even have the ability to enter space. It can't even fly within the atmosphere. It can only act like a bug. Crawling on the ground.”

Xiao Yun's heart sank again. General Emerk obviously hasn't figured out the key point yet: "Then tell me why those robots can destroy the Tarzan-class spacecraft and large scientific research ships in the orbit of the planet in a short period of time. Why can they?" Can we leave the Raqqa system before we arrive?”

The researcher remained silent, while Xiao Yun said slowly: "This means two possibilities."

"The first possibility...the genius who created these infinitely replicating robots has always been with them. These robots have a certain data interface in their bodies, and the genius can continuously upgrade the programs of these robots through this data interface. and hardware performance, making these robots more and more capable. So... this robot that has been around for a long time does not have interstellar navigation capabilities, while the remaining robots that have been upgraded and modified have interstellar navigation capabilities."

"The second possibility..." Xiao Yun hesitated for a moment and did not continue. But both the researcher and General Emerk saw a hint of fear deep in Xiao Yun's eyes. (To be continued ~^~)