High Above

  Chapter 878 Man-made Cave Paradise (12)

  The data space in the chip is a pure white field, as pure as heaven.

  The sky is blood red, which is exactly the color of the outer wall of the chip.

  In the wilderness, thousands of dead souls are sleeping—here, they don't need to use themselves as parts to build one capability module after another.

  They just need a good night's sleep. Rest until you feel like waking up.

   While they were sleeping peacefully, dots of white fragments spilled out of their bodies and floated in mid-air, forming a cloud-like structure.

   This is the 'spiritual cloud'. It is a natural phenomenon that occurs when a large number of spiritual bodies gather.

  If this phenomenon settles for another one or two hundred years, or if the quality of the souls lingering here is high enough, then it will form the golden cloud on the keel square of the Institute of Alien Species, the 'Psychic Essence'. A psionic pure material that can only be found in the Warp Labyrinth.

  And these clouds are the raw materials used by Ian and Adalbert to create 'artificial intelligence'.

   "No wonder you want to release these dead souls... because you need the ectoplasm produced by the natural movement of these dead souls to create brand new souls!"

  At this moment, Adbert saw Ian's purpose, but Ian didn't take it seriously: "This is indeed one of my purposes, but I also really want to set them free."

   "Just this freedom will also bring me additional gains. This is not contradictory, is it?"

  The soul is also metabolized.

The soul fragments naturally shed from the living body will be reused by the body soon, and the shed parts will grow back quickly. This process of continuous accumulation is the process of the natural growth of the soul, which is slow but steady .

After losing the body, the soul will only continue to fall off, and the fragments of spiritual matter that fall off cannot be reused. If it is in an area where the natural psionic field is not strong enough, it will usually collapse within a day or two due to the loss of too many structures scattered.

   The more powerful and solid the soul, the slower it will fall off, but after all, it is still beyond the means.

  Unless they are located in the center of the earth next to the sun or in a subspace labyrinth rich in spiritual matter, in that case, the balance of payments and the soul can exist for a long time.

  The inside of the source quality computing chip is a very suitable environment for soul recuperation. The dead souls can continue to repair themselves here. If it takes a long time, they may be able to get rid of the identity of the dead king's parts and return to freedom.

   "Adelbert, you can come over and teach these souls the idea of ​​meditation in the future."

   Noticing Adalbert's gaze, Ian suggested: "This can allow them to return to normal faster, and it can also allow them to strengthen themselves and exist for a longer period of time."

   "Not only that." And Adalbert muttered to himself: "Your plan is not that simple."

  He realized Ian's real purpose almost instantly: "I understand that when these souls become stronger, there will be more 'spiritual matter' that overflows."

   "And these overflowing spiritual matter are all the nourishment of the 'artificial intelligence' you want to create, the 'Heart of Terra'! It will continue to absorb these overflowing spiritual matter, improve and strengthen its own structure!"

"The Heart of Terra governs our 'artificial Hades', the more souls there are in the Heart of Terra, the stronger the Heart of Terra... This is a positive cycle, because if the souls do not die, the dead will only increase , The Heart of Terra will only become stronger and stronger!"

  The more he thought about it, the more frightened Adalbert became: "It's not so much artificial intelligence, it's better to say that this is the 'artificial Pluto' you created!"

"In addition, the ultimate goal of your arcane path is to create a 'true god' beyond the fifth energy level... This is the 'young god' you created! It is the prototype of the god! Another material for your comparative research! "

   "Maybe."

   Regarding this, Ian did not refute and did not need to refute.

  He just calmly said to a friend who is rare in this world and who can understand his meaning in just a moment: "So, are you willing to help me?"

   "Help me create the prototype of 'God'...Create the Heart of Terra?"

-certainly.

   Taking a deep breath, Adalbert did not answer, but proved it with actions.

  He teamed up with Ian very skillfully, and began to use the spiritual matter inside the chip to shape a powerful artificial soul.

  Creating artificial intelligence is not difficult for Ian.

  In the silver chip, there has long been an example of the "combat artificial intelligence" developed by the empire. It was his last harvest in the imperial capital, and it was an accidental product when manufacturing the Cyclops armor (referring to prostitution).

  In addition, Ian and Adalbert also jointly built the structure of the "artificial soul". As long as a memory copy is provided, creating a soul with self-personality is simply a piece of cake.

   Not to mention, only a part of the "Star God's Gift" in his body needs to be extracted to create information life like the last echo.

  All combined, the 'artificial intelligence' with basic self-awareness and judgment ability is created.

   Between the souls of Ian and Adalbert, a silver-white sun-like ball is gradually taking shape.

  That is the psychic aggregate that is constantly engraved with the structure of the inscription, a 'soul' that is gradually taking shape.

  Originally, this would take about a day or two.

  But during the manufacturing process, Adalbert felt that his computing power suddenly increased by ten times or even ten times.

   "This is the blessing brought to me by the 'source quality computing chip'?"

After a little thought, Adbert guessed the result, and Ian nodded slightly: "Yes, the source quality computing chip itself has extremely powerful computing power, but it does not have any programs. If you want to mobilize it, you must Someone has to control it."

   "The artificial intelligence I want to make now is to govern the chip, so that it can automatically deal with many problems, saving us time and ensuring absolute fairness and justice."

   "Absolute fairness and justice do not exist." Adalbert's tone was a little dull: "As long as you start judging, it has nothing to do with fairness and justice, because the standard is set by you."

"Not to mention, if you want to make progress and development of a subject, you must have resource preference—just like my research efficiency is higher, so Grand Duke Sorin will allocate more research resources to me, and even get me a lot of research resources. Precious solitary spiritual tome."

   "Absolute fairness is unfair. People are equal in terms of 'people', but 'ability' is not the case."

Speaking of this, Yadbert couldn't help clenching his fists: "Even for experimental subjects, those experimental subjects with psychic talents can still maintain their minds after death, while most ordinary people, even if they have artificial souls, It will also be muddled and difficult to think normally.”

  “This objective gap cannot be made up by AI.”

"Indeed." Ian also frankly accepted his narrative error: "Then try to be as fair and just as possible. Anyway, this is also the transitional social structure used in recent decades. When the moral level of human beings returns to the level of civilization in the previous era, Then artificial intelligence can gradually withdraw from the stage.”

   "However, in Terra now, artificial intelligence is definitely superior to humans."

  Speaking of this, Ian emphasized: "Adelbert, you have completely misunderstood what I mean—I am not trying to build a system that will remain unchanged for hundreds of years, an eternally correct 'truth'."

   "That kind of truth does not exist, even the rules of the universe, the absolute speed of light, the gravitational constant, the nature of singularities, and even the order of time can all be modified... by a powerful civilization."

  "The truth is so, let alone people? What's more about the order established by people?"

  Speaking slowly, the light emitted by Ian's soul became more and more pure: "AI is just a tool to correct the defects of human society, and it is a prop to assist my rule."

"Before I die, I will ensure the progress and update of AI, it can save me a lot of time, and use my way of thinking to help everyone progress—in other words, I share my wisdom with everyone, here On the one hand, AI is fair."

   "But what about...after you die?"

  Adelbert personally doesn't want to think about the possibility of Ian'death'.

But as a scholar, he still couldn't help deducing: "After you die, the AI ​​will become more and more rigid, unable to update and improve. If you give the authority to other people, who knows if another person will store it in In your own hands, turn the power you use to help everyone into your own?"

   "If the heart of Terra is the so-called 'god', then you are the god-maker—and the next generation is likely to be the god-usurper!"

"I'm dead, why do I care about so many things?" Ian looked at Adalbert with strange eyes, he was a little puzzled: "One generation does the things of one generation, although I also like to think about what will happen after a thousand years. thing, but it's only just started its second year."

   "And, to be honest."

At this point, Ian even nodded slightly, and commented sharply: "If the human beings of future generations cannot solve the contradiction between AI and human society, then they should be controlled by AI obediently, or be ruled by usurping gods and tyrants. It’s not progressing too much.”

   "Anyway, I will die by then, and this matter is not my fault."

   "You..." Adbert stared at Ian in astonishment: "Isn't it too irresponsible?!"

"I'm also a human being. I don't believe in human morality, but I believe in the wisdom of human beings to overthrow all oppression—if there are AI and tyrants oppressing them, they will surely succeed." Ian said seriously: "Really, you are too sentimental .”

"You know, in today's Terra, there are still many people who don't have enough to eat and don't have a safe place to live. The basic food and safety issues have not been solved. If you think about it, will human beings be ruled by tyrants and AI will make unfair progress in a hundred years? Not making progress...which one is more important is self-evident, right?"

   "You are not at all like a holy king as the people in the territory said."

  The former dead king researcher sighed: "You are simply a devil who only cares about his own pleasure."

   "Then be the devil king."

  Ian smiled: "Because I can see the future, I never fantasize about eternity."

   "Come on, accompany me to create the 'Heart of Terra', at least it is cuter than most of the nobles who sublimated Terra, isn't it?"

  Adbert sighed, this is also true, he has no way to refute it, and he doesn't even want to refute it.

  Compared to trusting humans and other rulers, he is more willing to believe in the machines he made...more willing to trust Ian.

   Soon, only a few hours.

  Ian and Adalbert completed the construction of an extremely complex artificial soul and related intelligent computing structures.

   Next, is the most important part.

   Endow the 'artificial soul' with 'wisdom'.

  In Terra, it is not difficult to create artificial intelligence with personality, self and judgment ability.

  As long as you have the artificial soul technology, create a soul, and then input a person's growth experience, memory, and thinking algorithm into it.

   But therein lies the question—whose input? How much do you enter?

  If you input too little memory, the personality may not be able to form, and the artificial intelligence becomes artificially retarded... But if you input too much, you are creating an echo of your own replica, which has nothing to do with the purely rational artificial intelligence Ian needs.

   Not only the degree of mastery is required, but also which memories can be input and which algorithms need to be deleted are quite elegant.

   "Just use my thinking algorithm."

   Regarding this, Ian did not hesitate at all: "Don't worry, I have experience, it will not have a personality, it will only have the simplest'thinking logic model'."

   "A logical model of my mind."

  Adbert opened his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but finally gave up.

   buzz.

  The silver-white ball of light changed from its original calm to a lively one.

  With the injection of Ian's algorithm, the artificial intelligence "Heart of Terra" was initially launched.

  The silver light sphere slowly lifted into the sky, and in the process, Ian gave it the 'administrator' authority of the source computing chip.

  In the chip space, above the blood-red sky, a sun with a faint silver radiance is suspended at the top of the sky.

  Its radiance is its tentacles, and where the light shines is the realm of this artificial soul.

  As the sun rises and falls like a heart, the bursting light illuminates the entire chip space.

  Because of the authority given by Ian, the authority of the chip began to gather in this soul sun, and the computing power was deployed.

   Every soul illuminated by brilliance has a greatly enhanced computing power.

   "I see, I see."

At this moment, Adalbert understood Ian's thoughts and became a little excited: "The computing power of the source quality computing chip is too huge, it is difficult for people to use it directly, so you use the heart of Terra as an intermediary to let it regulate Computing power, split resources, and give them to different people."

   "In this way, if someone needs to practice meditation in the future, he can come to the heart of Terra, where he can enjoy the blessing of chips and artificial intelligence, and assist in engraving the soul structure!"

   "In this way, his practice speed can be increased by ten times!"

   "This is the real advantage of the Arcane Path—it can be accelerated using technical means!"

  Ian nodded slightly, quite satisfied with this.

   This is of course, since the arcane way is to cultivate immortals in the magic world, then of course there must be a cave where the speed of cultivation is more than ten times that of the outside world—computing power is the rich aura, and cyberspace is the cave hidden inside the world.

   Moreover, Adalbert was wrong.

  Since knowledge and strength are resources, the 'speed and efficiency' of learning knowledge and increasing strength are naturally also resources.

  These resources must be controlled in the hands of Ian, or the heart of Terra, and then distributed.

  It must not be exploited by others, and it is absolutely not allowed to be changed by anyone.

   Otherwise, the descendants of future officials will receive 20 times the blessing of meditation, the wealthy will receive more than ten times the blessing, and the children of ordinary people will only receive one or two times the blessing... Such a future will be a real cyber caste system.

   That's definitely not what Ian wants to see.

  That's why the 'Soul Seal' is needed.

   “That’s the most important thing.”

  (end of this chapter)