An associate professor in life engineering travels to a medieval European fantasy world. Using modern biochemistry, he discovers that viruses, bacteria, and parasites extinct in human history are a...
"You mean, Crystal agreed to the Heavenly Kingdom proposal after learning it was me who put it together?" Todd's expression became subtle. "Why would he do that?"
Scáthach shook her head and said, "I don't know, but our Creator must have his reasons."
Todd frowned, recalling his several meetings with Crystal. His intuition told him that the answer was definitely not simple.
Leviathan suddenly spoke up: "Speculating on the Creator's intentions is meaningless to us. Scáthach, the work from now on should be done by you."
Scáthach looked at the Primordial Angel, sighed, and slowly nodded: "I can give it a try."
Todd asked, "What's next?"
Leviathan said, "Do you remember me telling you that the most difficult part of establishing the Kingdom of Heaven is not the design and construction, but other problems?"
Todd nodded.
"So the first problem is how to infuse a soul into the angel's body?"
Scáthach continued, "The Primordial Angel you see now is nothing more than an empty shell formed from the power of the soul. He can act mechanically, but he cannot think rationally. He can only complete the tasks we assign him according to orders, but he cannot distinguish between right and wrong."
Todd looked at the six-winged angel in the light, whose appearance and body were flawless, and asked, "Then how should we create a soul for him?"
Scáthach's voice hesitated: "This is a very difficult and contradictory problem. First, we cannot give Shields desires and preferences, because these things will affect his judgment and interfere with his decisions; but we must also teach him how to protect the world and how to deeply love God's people. These two constraints, one before the other, are, in a sense, contradictory."
After careful consideration, Todd understood the deeper meaning behind Scáthach's words.
As the ruler of Heaven, the primordial angel Shields should not possess biased thinking; his actions and logic should revolve around maintaining the balance of the species. However, requiring him to learn to protect the individuals of his race and safeguard the world is itself a targeted demand, which can indeed influence his judgment.
Todd was somewhat confused: "Then, how exactly should Shields' soul be defined?"
Scáthach extracted the dark matter she had prepared from her own body, and combed through its patterns as if she were untangling a ball of yarn. She said, "Leviathan and I discussed for a long time how to create Shields' soul, and we finally decided to give him a programmed learning personality."
Todd was completely confused: "A programmed learning personality?"
"From the beginning of creation to the present, we will store all the history, culture, and thought of all races in Shields' soul as data. Next, we will give Shields the instruction to study, to view, learn, and think about the data of civilizations over the past millions of years, so that he can evaluate what kind of soul is good and what kind of soul is evil. How can we use the method of soul judgment to curb people's destructive and selfish nature, thereby avoiding the occurrence of genocide."
Todd carefully considered Scáthach's words, pondering them for a long time before speaking, "Could I understand it this way? Shields is somewhat similar to the artificial intelligence in my previous life; he possesses the ability to learn and think. His task is to control the destructive desires of individuals within his race and prevent genocide. You've infused all the historical and civilizational events into his soul as data, allowing him to understand the reasons for genocide and the failures of others. After that, Shields can learn and eliminate, using what he's learned from these events to define what is evil and what is good, and use soul judgment to restrain the behavior of race members, thereby ultimately preventing the recurrence of the Great Extinction?"
“Artificial intelligence?” Scáthach paused for a moment, then nodded and said, “It is indeed somewhat similar.”
Todd muttered to himself, "So it seems Shields is actually the Wise King..."
Leviathan then said, “I must remind you that all of this sounds simple, but it is extremely difficult to do. To ask a soul to learn from history what is good and what is evil is itself a task prone to error. Because in the real world, many things cannot be judged by simple good and evil. For example, some things that seem evil are actually maintaining the survival of all races; while some things that seem noble are actually seeking personal gain.”
Scáthach, while manipulating the dark matter threads in her hands, expressed the same view: "Leviathan is right. Therefore, data on history and civilization alone are far from sufficient. We must also provide Shields with appropriate logical thinking abilities..."
Scáthach's five fingers flew, shaping the complex and dense mass of dark matter into the form of a brain, which she then slowly pushed into Shields's head.
Having done all this, Scáthach let out a long sigh and looked at Todd, continuing, "In your words from your previous life, we must use assembly language to give Shields, this artificial intelligence, the appropriate algorithm. Only then can he correctly discern the true meaning of the data and make reasonable judgments."
AI.
Programming language.
Wise King.
The maintainers of world order...
These words swirled in Todd's mind, a vortex of fragmented sounds and images assaulting his thoughts.
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