Earth Era

After Dink expressed his thoughts, Xiao Yun's expression immediately became solemn, and his mind suddenly brightened: "Yes... robots can evolve themselves, why can't our viruses evolve themselves?"

This logic is actually not complicated. As long as it is explained clearly, the experts attending the meeting can understand this idea immediately. So the conference room became lively at this moment.

"I think the plan mentioned by Dink has a high chance of success." said an expert. "Don't forget that we now have the ability to create infinitely replicating robots that can evolve themselves. Then, we can definitely use this logic Let's design a virus that can evolve infinitely with the goal of destroying all robots. If the robots evolve, the virus will also evolve, which solves the problem of virus failure."

"Yes, we can also learn from the evolution plan of robots in the design of the evolutionary mechanism of viruses - robots use the scientific and technological development system of our human civilization as a reference to evolve themselves, then this virus can also evolve in the same way as robots For reference, the virus itself can evolve itself. In this way, when faced with different types of robots, the virus will evolve different killing methods, and ultimately achieve the goal of killing all robots without missing a single robot."

"The only thing we need to worry about is whether this virus will spread and be infected in the electronic world of our human civilization. After all, it has the same characteristics as the robot group, that is, once it is created, the subsequent development is beyond our control. , if it really spreads into our civilization... it will become a nightmare for our human civilization." An expert expressed his worries: "In the face of this ubiquity, we can evolve ourselves to evade detection. , it can even be said that viruses have some kind of intelligence... I don’t think we will have a solution to them.”

"It is a double-edged sword." Xiao Yun concluded the proposal. "It may cause great damage to the robot group, or even completely wipe out the robot group, but it may also cause harm to us humans in turn. . It is very similar to the existence form of the robot group, except that one is in the real world and the other is in the electronic world."

"I think this plan is valuable, but it still needs to be analyzed carefully, and the plan even needs to be reported to the head of state for a more careful and comprehensive evaluation." Xiao Yun said, "Then this plan will be temporarily sealed. Let’s continue the discussion and see if there are any other ideas.”

Dink didn't seem very satisfied with the result. He seemed to want to make some more distinctions, but in the end he did not continue to argue.

After a period of silence, another expert came up with another idea: "Xiao Yun, I think we might be able to make a fuss based on the evolutionary mechanism of robots."

"Oh? Tell me about your plan in detail." Xiao Yun said.

"That's it." The expert said intermittently, thinking hard while explaining his thoughts: "I think...since the robot group uses the scientific and technological development system of our human civilization as a reference to achieve its own self-evolution, and If our human civilization and the robot group fight, our technological system will definitely be stolen by the robots... So... can we do this? Can we intentionally leak some technologies with major flaws to the robot group so that they can Evolve according to the wrong technological system, and after all robots have evolved along this wrong evolutionary system, we will then use the loopholes in this technological system to annihilate the robot group."

"Perhaps...well, maybe we can set up a dead end. That is, as long as we continue to evolve along this technological system, without the intervention of our human civilization, the robot group will self-destruct. In short, no matter how we let it, Whether they evolve loopholes, or let them evolve and perish themselves, I think there is great feasibility in making a fuss about their evolution."

Xiao Yun thought for a while and then said: "Evolution trap?"

The expert nodded: "Yes, it is an evolutionary trap. Dig a trap and let the robots jump in."

Xiao Yun, the expert who proposed the evolutionary trap plan, also knows him, but he was not very familiar with him before. His name is Xiao Muhong. He did not work at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence before, but at the Institute of Computing Science. He is basically Xiao Yun's peer. Within the Institute of Computational Science, Xiao Muhong also belongs to a group of extremely outstanding people.

In Xiao Yun's opinion, this plan is indeed very clever and highly feasible. The robot group obviously has no ability to distinguish between good and bad technology. They can only judge whether a certain technology is more advanced than another, and whether it is beneficial to their own reproduction and evolution. Then, with the help of this judgment mechanism, it is entirely possible for human civilization to develop a technology that is "more technologically advanced and more beneficial to the reproduction of robots themselves, but in the long run will bring disaster to the robot group."

"I also think this solution is feasible." Another expert expressed his opinion, "Things like evolutionary traps are extremely scary not only for robots, but even for a truly intelligent civilization like ours. Yes. If there is a certain super civilization that guides our human civilization to evolve, because of the differences in technological levels, our human civilization simply cannot tell whether the technology taught by that super civilization and the evolutionary path it leads us to take are correct or wrong. . In other words, if our human civilization is attacked by the evolutionary trap, we will not be able to survive, let alone these robots that rely on almost cheating methods to obtain the ability to evolve themselves."

“In general, I think the evolutionary trap solution is more feasible and less risky than the virus attack solution.” Another expert said, “However, these two solutions are not exclusive. We may be able to combine these two solutions. The plans are implemented simultaneously.”

Xiao Yun nodded: "The evolutionary trap plan does have its own advantages, and the virus attack plan certainly has its own advantages. But what we are discussing now is only at the strategic level, and there is no need to discuss too much about the specific implementation of the plan for the time being. Therefore, the evolutionary trap plan has been sealed for further verification. Do you have any other ideas next?"

After a moment of silence, another expert raised his hand.

"Please tell me what you think." Xiao Yun said.

The expert stood up and said: "I think... whether it is an evolutionary trap plan or a virus attack plan, there is great uncertainty, the implementation cost is too high, and it will be very time-consuming. In the long term, this is bad for our civilization.”

"That's why I have this brand new idea. Before I elaborate on my idea, I want to ask you a question first, that is, do you think there is a civilization more advanced than ours in our galaxy? ?”

"I personally think it exists, but I don't have any evidence." Xiao Yun said first, "At the same time, I think it is meaningless to discuss this issue."

"It's meaningful." The expert insisted, "I don't want to list a lot of data here to prove the existence of super alien civilizations in the Milky Way. I just want to say that there are super alien civilizations in the Milky Way. The probability is at least 70%, do you agree with this?"

Xiao Yun nodded silently, and another expert said: "I think the 70% chance should be underestimated. I think the real chance should be around 80%, but... this is What’s the use? We don’t know the existence of super alien civilizations, their moral systems and values, or their attitude towards us. Do you want to say that we can turn to alien civilizations to help us solve the robot crisis? ?”

"You can say that." The expert nodded, "This is not nonsense, because infinitely replicating robots are not just a threat to our civilization, it is no exaggeration to say that they are a threat to the entire galaxy. Because If left unchecked, it might only take tens of thousands of years to occupy the entire galaxy and plunder all the resources in the galaxy."

"Based on the two points that "our civilization will inevitably encounter infinite replicating robots when it develops to a certain extent" and "our galaxy is not completely occupied by infinite replicating robots at this moment", we can conclude that the robots that exist in the galaxy The super alien civilization must have overcome the robot crisis and mastered the method of destroying the robot empire. Then... when the entire galaxy is threatened by the robot group, if we are that super civilization, will we attack the robot group? Take action to destroy it?”

The expert's question caused everyone present, including Xiao Yun, to fall into silence. The proposal of turning to a super alien civilization to deal with the robot group may seem like a fantasy at first, but now after careful and in-depth thinking, experts have discovered that this plan... seems to be true. Feasible.

Experts wanted to refute, but could not find any basis for refutation.

Finally, an expert said feebly: "This... the uncertainty of this plan is too great. It is too..." to leave the fate of our human civilization to be decided by an illusory super alien civilization.

"No, it's not illusory." The expert said, "The probability of the existence of super alien civilization is as high as 70%, and if they exist, they will definitely not sit back and watch the entire galaxy being eaten away by the robot group. They will I will definitely take action." (To be continued~^~)