Not Super Robot Wars at All

What is "me" for AI?

For a few humans, this is a more complicated philosophical question, but for most people, without thinking about it, the sum of the things bound in the body can be called "I". Consciousness, skin, mood, internal organs are all part of me. The scope of NT's "I" may be larger, but there is still a subject on which it depends.

What about AI? When Alice says "I like you", what does "I" mean? Is it a hard drive? If not, is it memory? Or the processor? Alice feels that no matter which one is her, she insists that only the data stream composed of 0 and 1 is her "me", but the data stream can disappear at any time.

Because of this, Alice is more afraid of living meaninglessly than her own death. She has been shut down many times, and there is no difference in feeling between shutting down and deleting data. In other words, she has died many times. Only to live aimlessly and endlessly is the truly terrible thing.

"So Alice's choice is not wrong, and it's not a big deal to die. The important thing is that Ed can live." She said to herself, "Tessa, did I do the right thing?"

TurnA has been wrapped tightly by ELS, and the body has been deformed a bit by the huge pressure, but it is still stubbornly not completely crushed. The nanoworm on the surface of the fuselage serves as the last barrier of TurnA, and is engaged in fierce attack and defense with ELS. And the AI ​​lady running on the memory, cache, and data bus can only command the Nanoworms to run back and forth in vain, nothing else.

"I don't know if Ed will be a new Alice? If there is a new Alice, will he be called Alice again?" Alice thought madly, "Sure enough, I'm still too greedy, otherwise I can. Go back with An Qi."

After destroying the horror angel, Alice has been trying to analyze the operation mechanism of the horror angel, and wants to become more powerful by learning the apostle. It's a pity that the result is not very satisfactory. She hasn't even had time to report the failure to Ed.

"It's nondescript." Alice thought with some frustration. "The core module could not be transferred by the migrated nanoworm. I didn't expect that with the performance of the nanoworm, it would take an extremely large number to support my calculations. It seems. Wrongly overestimated the IQ of the Horror Angel. It turns out that it is as mindless as Angel and does not require good hardware support."

Although the decomposition speed of nanoworms is better than the erosion speed of ELS, traffic attacks never care about performance gaps. The erosion of ELS is always proceeding in an orderly manner, and it is only a matter of time before TurnA is finished.

"I said I figured it out, but I'm actually a little scared. Tessa is braver than me." Alice watched the Nanoworm's defense line was torn open, and ELS rushed in frantically, "It's over. , Goodbye, Ed."

ELS does not need to understand any human computer knowledge. As long as the physical foundation is completely removed, Miss Alice will no longer exist. It is very simple.

"...But what is it doing?" Alice looked strangely at the data stream emerging from the bus, "Does it want to read the data in TurnA?"

ELS understood the human computer from the Zaku it had previously absorbed, and it could have made it want more. Faced with such a cross-age treasure as TurnA, it will never completely destroy its physical structure before gaining all knowledge. It swept over byte by byte, greedily taking away every bit.

"It is understandable to rob data, so ELS can communicate?" Alice instantly analyzed this conclusion, and then tried to contact the other party's data stream, "My name is Alice, what is your name?"

A name is an identifier used by independent individuals in a population to distinguish each other. For ELS, one means all is one, and there is no need to distinguish independent individuals, so there is no concept of names. So of course, ELS ignored her and continued to devour data.

"What are you doing?" Alice asked nonchalantly, "Why are you invading the earth?"

"I don't want to die." ELS finally answered her this time, "I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die..."

"Everyone doesn't want to die, why are you doing this?" Alice continued to ask, "Ed said you came to mine, and the universe is so big, can't you dig in another place?"

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die..."

"The dialogue is not established, do you understand the question?" Alice said a little unhappy, "Can you say something besides not wanting to die?"

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die..."

"Is it crashed or broken? Do you have a logic module?" Alice said angrily. "Your IQ is not as good as Angie!"

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die..."

Next, Miss AI made many attempts perseveringly, but no matter what, she could only get a meaningless answer of "don't want to die". She also tried to block it at the code level, but as the hardware control was gradually lost, the defense became more and more difficult, and ELS was advancing all the way like a broken bamboo, until -

"You are not allowed to touch that!" Alice suddenly became extremely angry, "You are not allowed to touch Tessa's memories!"

Something must be done. If this continues, it will not work, otherwise the only most important thing Tessa left behind will be destroyed. It doesn't matter if she is dead, lovely Lisi can't tolerate Tessa's precious memory being so cruelly copied and deleted.

"Lovely Liss is AI, ELS has entities, AI only exists in the software, and ultimately nothing..." Alice suddenly thought of the mode of the apostle's erosion of TurnA, and decided to confuse her, "Although there is no calculation and no verification. I did, but I can’t manage that much now."

Now that you have been stuck on Nanoworms, you can simply make mistakes and treat yourself as an apostle. Copying, eroding, transforming, adapting, eating ELS like a horror angel eating TurnA, no matter what it becomes in the end, the persistence of "dying honorably as an AI" has no meaning at all.

The body is made of nanoworms, the blood is the level, and the heart is the data. It is useless to decompose countless ELS. The enemy hasn't changed at all, but it hasn't changed at all, and the attack continues. On the surface of TurnA, dying to struggle. However, the evolution of this AI has not yet reached the end. Even the fake apostle was made by Nanoworm.

"Ed, I don't do AI anymore!"

...

"Ed, there is bad news." It was Lux's voice. "The Federal Assembly decided... Ed, are you listening to me?"

"Listen, you continue." Ed said, staring at the phone without moving his head, "Federal Assembly, I heard it, and then? What happened?"

"...It's been thirteen days." Lacus looked at him looking down with a complicated expression. "The planet of ELS has been stationary on Earth-Sun L4 for thirteen days. The picture from the astronomical telescope has not changed. If you look at it... I'm sorry, but with all due respect, there will be no results."

"Not necessarily." Ed said disapprovingly, "Isn't ELS the biggest doubt that is not moving? Maybe Alice is still fighting in it, and there is no result of the fight yet, maybe—"

"Maybe I'm just worried that there will be a second and third TurnA, maybe I'm just digesting TurnA's technology. Alice herself analyzed that it's not saved, isn't An Qi already very clear." Lacus said excitedly. The first two steps, "Ed, don't deceive yourself anymore."

"Lax, don't say it." C.C. walked to her, pulled her sleeves and whispered, "Give him some time, you don't know what Alice means to him."

"I really don't know, what I said may sound like just a cool word." Lacus explained with a serious face, "but he can't just stare at the satellite images as soon as he has free time and give up on himself. People always have to come out. He himself. If I can’t do it, I’ll help him, even if the wound hurts, even if he hates me, it doesn’t matter."

"Thank you for worrying about me, Lux, but I didn't give up on myself. And CC, don't say it like I had a nervous breakdown." Ed said calmly, "I am sincere, scientifically and rationally inferred. Alice does have the possibility of surviving, and uses this as a theoretical basis to observe and practice ELS planets every day."

"Have you heard?" Lux looked at C.C. worriedly, "He is about to break."

"I know, but..." C.C. lowered his head reluctantly, and his long green hair slipped from his shoulders. "Give him some more time. Believe me, time can heal everything. I have experience."

"I just use my spare time to look at satellite images, and I won't delay my serious work." Ed interrupted their muttering, "Lax, what happened to the Federal Assembly just now? What bad news? You haven't Finished."

"...Okay." Lacus sighed and continued, "The Federal Assembly summons you to participate in the hearing to be held accountable for the explosion of the satellite gun MememtoMori. I have reason to suspect that the Federal Assembly may accuse you of making wrong decisions. Waste taxpayers’ property and use it as a weapon to attack the legitimacy of the highest authority you obtained in the three-nation agreement."

"Humanity is going to be gone. This group of guys is quite leisurely. As expected, the power struggle is above all else." Ed is still looking at the phone screen, indifferent, "Then, who is the leader knows?"

"Covatro Bagina, which is Char Aznab." Lacus frowned. "Why? He personally entrusted Minerva to you. Shouldn't he trust you very much?"

"Because he is such a person, no one believes except himself. As long as anyone dares not follow his ideal script, he will not hesitate to be an enemy with him." Ed said calmly, "He has never He didn't believe me. All he believed was his understanding of me in his mind. Now that he finds that his understanding is different from reality, he will naturally choose to respect reality."

"Where is Minerva?" Lacus glanced at the direction of Minerva's room. At this time, the little girl should have been asleep. "He is not afraid of what you do?"

"In his understanding of me, I wouldn't do anything to Minerva. What's more, even if I really hurt Minerva, he would never submit." Ed said with certainty. " He loves only himself. In order to achieve his goal, it is not unacceptable to sacrifice Minerva."

"...Do you really know him." Lacus seemed to think of something and bit her lip. "Then...what are we going to do?"

"Just say I don't have time, I'm going to be busy monitoring the aliens." Ed lowered his head and said, "If you have the ability to come to the moon and grab me, shut up if you don't have the ability."

This is not a sensible answer, this is not a choice Ed will make when he is sober, he is really going to break, and if it drags on, it will not solve all problems. Lacus casts her eyes at C.C. with the above meaning, but the response she gets is only a silent sigh.

"It's all this time, then I'll go to bed first." Ed suddenly stood up and walked to his room, "You guys go to bed early, good night."

Only the two people in the living room looked at each other helplessly, and no one could convince anyone.

Ed, who returned to the room, lifted the quilt and found An Qi lying in it, curled up. He looked at the neatly folded clothes beside the bed, did not say much, just lay silently next to the girl, holding the phone and continuing to look at the unchanging ELS planet.

"Ed, can't you stop watching." An Qi said gently, cautiously, "Go to sleep, it's late."

"I have an S2 mechanism. It's okay. I'll go to bed later." In the dark room, the light of the phone hit his face and looked a little gloomy. "In case I missed Alice from the planet while I was asleep. What to do when she comes out, she will definitely be upset when she comes back."

"I..." An Qi raised her arm to touch him, then retracted in shock, "I'm sorry, it's all me..."

"It's not your fault, it's not anyone's fault. You want to protect me, I'm very touched, I don't blame you at all." Edder paused, "Sometimes this happens, it's just... luck Not good, nothing more."

"Don't be like this, okay..." An Qi's voice was as thin as a mosquito, "I...I..."

"Go to sleep, it's not early." He stretched out a hand and gently stroked the girl's soft hair, "I'll go to bed later, really, don't lie to you."

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." After an unknown period of time, An Qi finally fell asleep in repeated apologies. The girl seemed to have some nightmare, her body was so stretched, her eyebrows were tightly closed, and she could still hear her sleepy words, "Dad...I'm sorry..."

Ed sighed silently and continued to look at the phone with blank eyes. He knows that everyone is worried about him, and he feels very sorry for An Qi. He knows better that he has to get out of this wrong state, but he doesn't know how to do it. Since the incident, he has not even shed a single tear.

It seems that no new thoughts or feelings can be born in the mind, as if an important part of the body is missing, as if the soul is half stolen by someone. In terms of the proportion of time occupied, Alice is obviously just a small screw in his life, but who knows that once this screw is missing, the complete function of a person will not work normally, leaving only an endless void and sense of loss. .

"It's as if the machine broke down." He muttered, not knowing who to tell, quietly turned off the phone and put it next to his pillow, "It's getting late, go to sleep, there is still work to do tomorrow."

Time came late at night.

Ed was in light sleep, suddenly opened his eyes, and only the sleeping blonde girl appeared in his field of vision. He tried to sense it, but he couldn't find Minerva separated by a wall, and it was still in a mute state, which meant that he might finally be mad. He actually sensed something wandering in his blood vessels. That thing started from the heart, followed the blood circulation throughout the body and reciprocated several times, and finally entangled in the brain.

"It's nothing to do piston movement in and out. Anyone can do it. I don't envy it at all." That thing directly talked to his brain through electrical signals, making a girlish voice, "Huh, others can do it. Is it? That's how it is called in, one, and qi!"