Earth Era

Facing the codes that had been deciphered and completely presented to him, Xiao Yun felt like he was looking at a devil.

Those well-designed code snippets that would shock people just by looking at them, the ingenious logic contained in the code design, and the arrangements that almost maximized human wisdom... all of this made Xiao Yun feel a little bit... Powerless.

Pandora's box has been opened by another self, and the devil living in the box has been released. Now, no one can capture this devil again. The other self who opened the box with his own hands cannot do this. , similarly, Xiao Yun cannot do this now.

But humans have no retreat. If we don’t kill this devil, it will be humans themselves who will die. Although humans are still prepared to escape, they can choose to abandon the solar system and become a "starship civilization" when forced, but... even if human civilization can escape again Far away, can humans escape this galaxy?

The long empty area between river systems, which is at least 100,000 light-years long, has become the most solid obstacle preventing human civilization from leaving the Milky Way. In the foreseeable future, there is no way for human civilization to cross this distance. According to mathematical calculations, it will only take tens of thousands of years at most for the robot group to occupy the entire galaxy. At that time, how will human civilization escape? Where to escape?

Escape can only delay time, but cannot ultimately solve the problem. Moreover, once the escape plan is implemented, it will definitely mean that the solar system has fallen, and that human civilization has suffered a major failure. This will cause the overall strength of human civilization to drop to only one percent of its heyday. So...human beings in their heyday were unable to solve the robot crisis. How could humans who have become weak after escaping have the ability to solve this crisis?

So... once you start to escape, the demise of human civilization is already doomed. If you don't want to face this tragic fate, Xiao Yun, and the Scientific Affairs Committee led by Xiao Yun, must find a way to end the robot empire before things are irreversible.

"After all... our galaxy has not yet been occupied by the robot empire, right?" Xiao Yun said to many participating experts in the conference room, "If even one solar system can give birth to two truly gregarious intelligent civilizations, We have reason to believe that in this galaxy, many intelligent civilizations must have been born before us. In other words, there must be intelligent civilizations that are more advanced than ours in the galaxy at this moment. And based on the principle that "technology develops to a certain level, unlimited replication Judging from this inference, the emergence of robots is inevitable. Civilizations that are more advanced than us must also have encountered a robot crisis, but what is the result?"

Xiao Yun shrugged his shoulders: "We don't know whether they defeated the robot group, but at least one thing we can easily see is that... our galaxy is still the quiet and deep galaxy. It has not Become the paradise of the robot empire. So if you speculate from this aspect, you can draw the following conclusion: "Infinitely replicating robots must have their own fatal weaknesses. This weakness prevents them from truly reproducing enough to occupy a river system. "."

"Logically speaking, this fatal weakness of the robot group may have two forms. The first form is that this weakness is a natural flaw of the robot group. Because of the existence of this natural flaw, even if our human civilization does not intervene in this, it is not right. If the robot group interferes in any way, they will also self-destruct after developing to a certain extent. The second form is that the weakness of the robot group requires our human civilization to attack, and it can be used by us to destroy the robot group, but If we don't use it or attack it, the robot group will not be destroyed."

"We can't be sure which of these two possible states is correct, but it doesn't matter, because for us, the first state is meaningless - that is, we can't just be here quietly Waiting and not interfering with the robot group, then the only meaningful thing left is the second possibility. Because logically speaking, acquiescing to the second possibility is correct and will allow our civilization to achieve the most possible Maximize revenue.”

"Then our work goal is very simple. Find the weakness of the robot group and use this weakness to attack the robot group in order to destroy all the robots." Xiao Yun said, "Now, the core code has been completely deciphered. Come out and everyone can express your opinion on this.”

"I think..." an artificial intelligence expert said hesitantly, "I think the fatal weakness of the robot group is the lack of confidentiality. To put it simply, they cannot keep their structural information secret, just like us at the moment. As their enemy, we can understand that they are all the same without much effort. I think we can use this to create an infinitely replicating robot that is opposite to the goal of the robot group, and use robots to fight robots. "

"I object." Another expert immediately raised his hand. After getting Xiao Yun's agreement, he stood up and refuted the previous expert's words: "I can understand your thinking. You mean, since The core goal of the existing robot groups is to "replicate themselves as much as possible and as fast as possible." Now that we have mastered the technology to create infinitely replicating robots, we can completely create robots whose core goal is to "destroy all non-ones." "Faction Robot" infinitely replicates robots, and then spreads them out, using this kind of robot to fight against that kind of robot, right?"

"Yes, that's my idea." The previous expert nodded, "What is your objection?"

"My objections are based on two points. The first point is the uncontrollability of robots with the ability to infinitely copy themselves. This is its characteristic. Once it is manufactured, it will develop on its own. The manufacturer has no control over them at all. In this case, how can you ensure that during evolution, this kind of robot will not accidentally evolve to become hostile to our human civilization? This is a big, uncertain risk, because of this risk Existence, I don’t think your idea is feasible.”

The expert continued, "So, even if we assume that this risk does not exist, assuming that we can create robots that are still under our control during the development process... I also think this idea is unfeasible, which is why I object The second reason for this plan is: How many resources do the robots controlled by us consume, and how long does it take to destroy all the enemies? The enemy robots may have spread throughout the galaxy, so do our robots have to spread too? To the entire galaxy? How long is the time? Fifty thousand years? One hundred thousand years? Can our human civilization drag on for such a long time? A war whose time span may be calculated in units of one hundred thousand years... Such a war, Even if we win, does it mean anything to our civilization?”

"Xiao Yun, I've finished explaining my reasons." The expert nodded to Xiao Yun and sat down.

There was silence in the conference room for a moment, and then another expert also expressed his opinion: "I also think this solution is not feasible."

After some discussion, even the experts who originally proposed this plan gave up the idea.

"So... what about other than this plan?" Xiao Yun looked around the venue, "Do you have any other ideas?"

An expert raised his hand, so Xiao Yun signaled: "Dink, tell me what you think."

Dink and Xiao Yun are both young people. Before the robot crisis broke out, they also worked at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute with Xiao Yun. The two were colleagues and had known each other for a long time. Because there is not much age difference and they are both the kind of people who always have many fantastic ideas, the relationship between the two has always been pretty good.

"My idea is also to use robots to deal with robots." Dink said, "But my idea has some improvements compared to the previous ideas. I think... the robot we create can have no entity, it only uses the program's Ways to exist. To put it more simply, it is a computer virus specially developed to deal with robot groups. The virus uses robots as carriers and spreads among different robots with the help of communication modules between robots, thus reaching a large number of people. Aims to infect and kill bots at range."

An expert retorted: "I don't think your solution is feasible. Don't forget that the core code programs that support the operation of robots are not fixed. They can also evolve themselves. Maybe after a period of time, they evolve into It’s a completely different system. In this case, how can your virus pose a threat to them?”

This is indeed a serious problem. For example, some viruses that can infect humans cannot infect birds, and some viruses that can infect birds cannot infect humans. However, due to self-evolution, the core code program of robots changes at different times. The gap between different robots in the segment may be greater than the gap between birds and humans. In this case, how can the virus work?

But Xiao Yun knew that Dink was also a very smart person, and it was impossible for him not to consider this before putting forward his ideas. And since he proposed this idea, it proves that he must have a solution to this problem.

Sure enough, facing the expert's doubts, Dink smiled slyly: "Robots can evolve themselves... so why can't our viruses evolve themselves?" (To be continued ~^~)