"The first possibility … the genius who made these replication-restricted robots has been with them all the time. These robots have a certain data interface in their bodies, and the genius can constantly upgrade these robot programs and hardware performance through this data interface, thus making these robots more and more capable … This long-term robot has no interstellar navigation ability, while the rest of the upgraded and transformed robots have interstellar navigation ability."
"The second possibility …" Xiaoyun hesitated for a moment and didn’t go on, but both the researcher and General Emek saw a touch of fear from the depths of Xiaoyun’s eyes.
Chapter two hundred and ninety Self-evolution of scientific progress
At the moment, Xiaoyun is really in fear. After the researcher said the technological level of this robot at the moment, Xiaoyun immediately speculated that these two possibilities. The first one may be scary enough. Think about how horrible it is for a creative genius to follow a group of robots that can reach the limit at any time and place, and then put them into these robots at any time after they have new technology that can increase their strength.
But Xiaoyun doesn’t recognize that the first one may have anything terrible, or to put it another way, the first one may not be so terrible compared with the second one.
The researcher obviously thought of this, but he kept shaking his head and sighing, "Xiaoyun, it’s not as serious as you think. The truth must be the first possibility, and the second possibility you speculate … don’t say it."
Xiaoyun also sighed, "Yes … if it is the first possibility, we humans still have a little hope of winning. Although this hope is very slim, if it is the second possibility … I think our human culture is completely hopeless, and we are bound to die in this universe as if we had been a Martian."
If it is because of the genius’s constant upgrading of robots that these robots can be upgraded from crawling on land to interstellar navigation, then killing this genius will lose the ability to continue to upgrade their strength, so that human culture will have the hope of defeating them, or even though these replica robots are destroyed by law, it is always possible that they will be deadlocked and live together, and it will take enough time for human culture to develop continuously. After the development of human culture technology to a certain extent, human culture will always have the ability to destroy these robots.
To say the least, even if the human language doesn’t have the ability to assassinate the genius, a person’s life span is always limited. When the genius dies, there is still hope for the human language.
But … What if the strength of these robots is not due to the interference of that genius? In this way, even if the genius dies, these robots can continue to grow stronger, even faster than human language. In that case, it is only a matter of time before human language is finished and completely hopeless.
This is the second possibility in Xiaoyun’s speculation.
"The second possibility is that these robots have the ability of self-evolution," Xiao Yunyou said. "They can constantly upgrade their technology without human intervention, just like … real intelligent life."
General Emek said, "Xiao Yun, do you mean that these robots may develop their own scientific body like our human culture, and then rely on this scientific body to continuously evolve and improve their abilities?"
"I don’t know," Xiao Yun shook his head. "When I say evolution, I don’t mean scientific progress but strength growth."
"But there is no scientific progress, and the strength growth comes from this?"
Xiaoyun thought for a while and finally sighed and said, "I don’t know."
"Strength growth is bound to come from scientific progress. Although I am not a scientist, I still understand this simple truth." General Emek flicked his finger and said, "So … you told me that a robot can develop science? Will they also sum up creative thinking and come up with a new theory and study it constantly? If they can do this, can you tell me how they are different from real wisdom? Are they still robots? "
"They can’t do this." Xiaoyun shook his head flatly. "Robots are always robots, which means robots can’t have the abilities you said. Robots will move according to the programs edited by the Ministry. All their movements are preset, and there can’t be anything new-even some robots with self-learning ability say that what they perform is just another form of preset."
Robots with self-learning ability are nothing new. These robots have appeared in human literature hundreds of years ago, but they are still robots, which are far from truly self-aware artificial intelligence. The so-called self-learning is not to classify the acquired data through some algorithms and then improve their work efficiency. In other words, they do not have the ability to create new data by themselves, but have the ability to collect existing information and process it.
And this happens to be the biggest difference between robots and humans. If we can’t solve this point, robots will never become real life.
"Then I’ll sort out your thoughts," General Emek said. "Robots will act according to the programs that have been edited by the Ministry. They will never become real wisdom. They will never be able to independently conduct scientific research. If they can’t independently conduct scientific research, they will improve their strength, which will conflict with the current reality we are facing. Because in reality, their strength has indeed increased. So can your second guess be falsified? Further, does it mean that … only the speculation is correct, that is, the so-called genius has been upgrading the technology of robots in the robot army? "
"There are loopholes in your logical chain. In the usual sense, it is indeed correct to raise the level of science and technology and increase the strength of the law. But do you know what I am most worried about?" Xiaoyun faint said, "What worries me most is that the genius has found another way to gain strength without relying on scientific progress."
At this moment, even the researcher just now has some disbelief. "Xiaoyun, what did you say? How to gain strength without relying on scientific progress? Are you kidding? Or do you mean that these robots can cultivate themselves and then improve their strength like those practitioners in the novel? If not, then tell me what methods can be used to achieve strength without relying on scientific progress? "
"This is the key point," Xiao Yun said. "Frankly speaking, I don’t know what this method is. After all, we are not geniuses, whether it is you or me, and … a genius who can create ideas can overcome the technical and logical problems that have plagued us for hundreds of years and create a robot with limited replication. Can you guarantee that he can’t find this method either?"
The researcher kept shaking his head. "It’s impossible. It’s impossible. I really can’t imagine what the method is to improve my strength without relying on scientific progress. Just like this robot, their material technology has progressed from being able to crawl in the ground to being able to sail in interstellar space. They have progressed from being able to fight the enemy at close range by relying on their limbs to destroying the Taishan-class warships in the middle of the sky. And now you say that their technology has not progressed? Is there any other reason why their strength has changed so dramatically? "
Xiaoyun didn’t respond to this researcher’s words, but turned to look at the robot that had been disassembled into a piece in front of him and looked at the place where the core chip was originally placed, sighing and saying, "I can guarantee that if that genius finds a way to improve his strength without relying on scientific progress, then this method must be embodied in those program code segments, but unfortunately this core chip has been destroyed."
General Emek said at this time, "According to Occam’s razor law, the more a hypothesis needs, the more likely it is to be false. Obviously, the hypothesis that the genius has been following the robot group is less than the hypothesis that these robots have the ability of self-evolution. Then I think the correct answer should be the first hypothesis that we should try to kill the genius or wait until he slowly dies of old age, so that we humans can slowly gain the initiative of war and win the final victory."
Xiaoyun pondered for a while and then shook his head and said, "General, I have no way to refute your assertion, and I have no evidence or idea to prove that robots can evolve by themselves. The hypothesis is … I always have a feeling that things made by that genius should not be so simple … I always think that these robots have the ability to evolve by themselves, which is more in line with my impression of that genius."
"Because he is a genius," Xiao Yun sighed. "How can he be called a genius if he doesn’t come up with something shocking and shocking?"
General Emek patted Xiaoyun on the shoulder and said, "In fact, you are also a genius. What you can think of that day may not be unexpected … Just think of a way for these robots to evolve themselves without self-awareness and scientific body."
Chapter two hundred and ninety-nine Occupy the Milky Way
Xiaoyun’s two conjectures point to two different directions respectively, and these two different directions mean different coping methods. General Emek, the highest commander of the fleet, must choose the right direction as much as possible. Now it seems that there is no doubt that "that genius has always been in the robot group" is more credible.
So ….. Unless Xiaoyun can find a way to prove the feasibility of this model by "making robots gain strength without relying on scientific progress", General Emek will come to arrange his next step according to the speculation that "that genius has been in the robot group".
Xiaoyun wanted to say something, but in the end he sighed and didn’t say it. General Emek reached the latest order: "Continue to analyze this robot exhibition and continue to search for those robot monsters in Raqqa Planet Exhibition. If necessary, leave them here and find everything for me … At the same time, order all the war staff to come to the conference room. Xiaoyun, you also come."
After the order arrived, all the war staff officers gathered in the conference room in less than ten minutes. General Emek first introduced the current situation and then said, "There are two problems: one is to copy the voyage destination of robots, that is, where they will go after leaving Raqqa; What methods and strategies should we use to deal with these robots? You can express your views on these two issues. "
"It is meaningless to discuss the voyage destinations of these robots." A war staff member first expressed his opinion "because … it is obviously impossible for these robots to have one voyage destination."
"Oh?" General Emek glanced at the staff officer and continued, "If you were a general or one of us here was the genius, then … would we choose a fixed destination?"
The conference room suddenly fell into silence, and the staff continued, "If it were me … I would choose a main voyage destination and then … show most robots to all the surrounding stars, and the rest of the destinations need to launch a very small number of robots."
General Emek whispered, "This is the worst case."
The staff officer shrugged his shoulders. "General, I’m sorry to tell you that the probability of this worst case is as high as 99%. If that genius didn’t have a seizure in his head, he would have done it."
General Emek sighed deeply.
This is indeed the worst case. Now, although the number of robot regiments has reached trillions, they are still in the initial stage of development. If we can seal them in a star and annihilate them in advance, the crisis can be solved smoothly. But … What if they have been dispersed?
The characteristic of replication-limited robots is that they can replicate themselves quickly. A star doesn’t need too many robots. Even if there is only one robot in a few decades, the number of robots will skyrocket exponentially rather than increase to hundreds of trillions, which … doesn’t cost much for the initial robot group.
Think about it. Pulling out one or a hundred robots from a group of trillions of robots to go on a voyage will not have any impact on the whole robot group, because compared with this, the whole robot group is only a very small number, and once they can sail to the scheduled destination, their number will skyrocket immediately, which means that this is a way with minimal input and high output. That genius has no reason not to do so.
And once he does this, he will plunge humanity into a state of perdition, because … The genius’s preset voyage goal is likely to have many extreme situations, and he may set every star in the galaxy as a goal-after all, all the stars in the whole galaxy add up to just over 100 billion.
Of course, the reality can’t be so extreme, so the most likely situation is that the genius selected 10,000 to 100,000 star targets and then selected a main target among these tens of thousands of stars. Then he will arrange most robots to go to this main target-assuming that the proportion of these robots is 10%, then this number is more than 1.5 trillion robots, and the remaining 20% is more than 400 billion robots.
More than 400 billion robots are scattered to suppose that there are 100,000 targets, then each target can be divided into more than 4 million, that is to say, at this moment, the most likely situation is that more than 1.5 billion robots have gone to the main target and the remaining 100,000 stars … each star has more than 4 million robots.
One hundred thousand stars is a short-term impossible goal for human culture. You know, there are only a few hundred stars explored by human culture now, and how many combat ships are there in total? It is impossible for human language to send combat ships to every star, that is to say, the spread of robots has become an irreversible foregone conclusion.
This is the most desperate situation. Humanism will be able to watch these robots develop in those stars and watch them continue to multiply until all the stars around them are occupied by robots. Humanism will fall into the sea of robot Wang Yang.
A copy-limited robot can eventually occupy a star, and a robot developed from a star can occupy 100,000 stars. So … how big will the robot developed from 100,000 stars eventually occupy?
This is a very simple mathematical problem. Whether it is General Emek or other staff officers, they all came up with the answer to this question in a very short time.
The final answer is … it won’t be long before these robots will occupy the whole galaxy, and this trend is unstoppable, at least not by human culture.
The bleak prospect in the forecast made the whole meeting room fall into silence. Everyone frowned tightly and tried to think about something, but no one could think of a way to deal with this situation. Xiaoyun couldn’t think of a way to solve this problem. Not only that, Xiaoyun didn’t recognize … The dilemma faced by human culture just stopped there.
Don’t forget that all problems are thought before "that genius is constantly upgrading robot technology", and Xiaoyun doesn’t think this is correct. Although he hasn’t thought of a way to improve his strength without relying on science and technology or self-awareness, Xiaoyun still firmly believes that the genius must have done this.
And if the final fact is Xiao Yun’s idea, the situation of human culture will be even worse. At that time, human culture will not only spread to the whole galaxy robots, but also evolve themselves and constantly improve their strength without human intervention.
This is a more extreme situation, and now just "self-evolving" robots have made people feel desperate. If these robots can self-evolve … how bad will the situation be?
Xiaoyun was thinking silently and didn’t express his opinion, because Xiaoyun knew that he didn’t have any evidence or conjecture to prove that "robots can evolve themselves" at the moment, but Xiaoyun had already recognized this from the bottom of his heart.
"Although I don’t know what the genius and I have to challenge me, I know that … geniuses must be arrogant." Xiaoyun silently thought, "Just like me … because I was a genius at the beginning."
"Since he is a genius … it is impossible for him to release these robots until they are perfect, but it is perfect to have robots that can evolve themselves. These robots must have the ability to evolve themselves."