I Am the Swarm

What is life and what is wisdom?

Can a machine, an artificial intelligence, really evolve into life? How should this be defined?

If artificial intelligence learns to think, it becomes a life. But in the final analysis, thinking is just a process of processing known information, which can be simulated by machines through extremely high computing power.

So how to define the difference between them?

Luo Wen couldn't figure it out for a while, but fortunately, he still had a long, long time, and he had enough time to think about it. Maybe when his knowledge is more extensive in the future, he will come to a conclusion.

For now, focus on the present.

Through the analysis of information, there is good news and bad news.

The bad news is that the Star Sea Alliance is indeed extremely powerful. They currently have more than 200 civilized races. Except for the Ji family, the most powerful old civilization has a history of more than half a million years, and its territory has reached nearly a hundred star systems.

The good news is that they are far away from the territory of the swarm, separated by an unknown number of forces, and the Ji clan still controls everything, no matter how strong they are, they must abide by the rules.

The Zerg Swarm's territory is in the outermost layer of the Star Sea Alliance's territory, and most of the surroundings are new civilizations with a history of about 10,000 years. With the current strength of the Zerg Swarm, they are not discouraged.

But another bad news is that the Zerg Swarm has somehow attracted the attention of the Ji Clan. Maybe the Zerg Swarm's survival mode is too special, or it may be implicated by the ratman civilization.

That's right, it is indeed the Ratman civilization. They were also discovered by the Ji clan, but before the Ji clan had time to bury the spaceship, the ratmen evolved from beasts to civilized races and stepped out of their home planet in a short period of time.

This speed is too shocking. In the face of the Ratman civilization, the record set by the Ji clan is nothing. Therefore, nothing else is needed, this alone is enough to attract the attention of the Ji clan.

In the early days, the insect swarm, which was not covered by development, naturally entered the Ji clan's sight.

Although I don't know what the Ji Clan thinks, but according to the guesses of those Duoqi generals, they suspect that the Zerg Swarm belongs to an extraterritorial force, and then for some unknown purpose, they cultivated the ratman civilization. Although there are some discrepancies, it is indeed a reasonable guess. After all, in terms of age, a civilization with a history of millions of years is really nothing in front of Luo Wen who has been sleeping for hundreds of millions of years. When Luo Wen was playing with mud in this star field, their ancestors didn't know how far they had evolved.

Fortunately, the Ji clan has been aloof all year round. Although they are aware of the existence of the swarm, they have no intention of going out in person for the time being. And for those foreigners, it is naturally funny that they are united, friendly, and helping each other. The older the civilization, the more intricate the relationship. Even if they are interested in the swarm, they can't find trouble with the swarm.

But in the short term, the Duoqi civilization is still in trouble. They are members of the Star Sea Alliance closest to the Rickens, and their invitation target is naturally the Rickens, but the third prince Diallo is too greedy and intends to covet the secrets of the swarm, which has led to this embarrassing situation now. situation.

Although the Star Sea Alliance will continue the task after the invitation fails, but because there has never been a case of invitation failure in the alliance before, they never thought that such a thing would happen, so there is no clear regulation on this aspect. Plus, strictly speaking, the Dokis didn't fail, they were just thwarted by the swarm.

Benefits have become a trivial matter at this time. Once it really fails and the history of the alliance is opened, when everyone discusses with each other in the future, when it comes to this disgraceful first case, where will the face of the Duoqi tribe be put?

So no matter what, the Duoqi tribe will not swallow this breath, and they will definitely make a comeback. Even bigger than before.

"Master Master, what shall we do next? Should we avoid it temporarily and let the Riken tribe out?"

Because the intellectual body is copying the memory of their prototype, they have various tendencies towards things, hawks and doves, hardliners and moderates. Before Rowan makes his will, they will follow their own thinking, Make a plan for the swarm. What Rowan has to do is to consider these suggestions comprehensively and make his own decision.

And the person who spoke was obviously a moderate-minded intellectual body. His meaning is also very clear, avoiding war, hiding clumsiness, has won the essence of Luo Wengou's calligraphy.

For the Zerg Swarm, the Rickens are just a material production base, and the transformation is almost complete. As long as they are not exterminated all at once, they will have little impact on the Zerg Swarm.

In this way, it is better to let them be invited by the Duoqi tribe, and by the way, they can infiltrate the Star Sea Science and Technology Alliance with their eyeliner to obtain more information.

Luo Wen thought for a while and shook his head. Although the eyeliner must be released, it cannot be passive. If it's just a dispute between the Zerg Swarm and the Doki, then it's okay to take a step back.

But now that the Zerg Swarm has attracted the attention of the Ji Clan, there is a high probability that the Zerg Swarm will be ranked among the intelligence systems of the more than 200 foreign races. The difference in the swarm is so obvious that it cannot be hidden. The Doki family is not the only foreign tribe bordering on the territory of the swarm. It is said that the foreign tribe on the side of the Ratman is also ready to move. If the swarm takes a step back at this time, there may be no bones left to be eaten.

Therefore, now it is necessary to show the strength of the insect swarm, break off the claws stretched out, deter the malicious neighbors around, and then use the rules of the alliance to contain the old forces in the distance and buy more time to develop.

"Damn it, all the storage devices of the Doki tribe have been destroyed, and the data has been lost. Otherwise, if we can obtain the complete star map of the Doki tribe and know the specific distribution of the alliance forces, it will play a vital auxiliary role in the next decision-making. .” When Rowan thought of those Dodge battleships that had been blown to pieces, his teeth itch.

It seems that we must find a way to get a star map when the Doki tribe invades next time. Fortunately, although Ying has not shown the ability of network intrusion, but out of fear and prevention of "Ying", foreigners are more or less restricting the development and authority of artificial intelligence, even the Duoqi tribe This kind of guy who has just joined for more than a thousand years is no exception.

This, to a certain extent, reduces the difficulty of obtaining information.

Even so, Rowan didn't have much clue, but it was good news.

I don't know how long it will take for the Duoqi army to make a comeback, but it will take at least twenty years to gather and prepare the army, plus the distance.

Rowan must use this time to think carefully about how to proceed next. And according to the information provided by Duoqi Intelligence, some of the previous layouts need to be improved in some places.