Chapter 161 Madness and General Artificial Intelligence

Looking at the scribbled notes in his hand, Chen Fan couldn't help but take a breath.

The stationmaster of the Hai'an Deep Space Observatory didn't know the reason. Didn't he know it?

Just as he had guessed before in the Kukan Underground City, there was a certain connection between madness and the birth of artificial intelligence! !

This was his most important discovery, nothing else!

Not only that, Chen Fan also realized belatedly why "madness" chose the big names in the academic world:

only when these big names in the academic world who mastered the most cutting-edge technology spoke at the same time could they change the direction of a civilization in a very short time!

Chen Fan, who had experienced the cross-universe broadcast, knew very well that the obscure murmur that followed him like a shadow could completely implant a deep-rooted concept in a person's subconscious mind!

There is no doubt that artificial intelligence is the ideological imprint that the other party implanted in this civilization!

"The investigation mission has been updated." Yi's electronic synthesized voice also sounded in his ears, "The mission report has been submitted to the Dangerous Technology Management Bureau, report level: Level II warning."

Chen Fan's heart sank.

In order to ensure efficiency, the early warning system of the Human Union is not complicated.

There are three levels of warnings, with Level I being the weakest and Level III being the strongest.

So far, Chen Fan's mission report has only triggered a Level I warning, and that was when he first discovered the dangerous technology of artificial intelligence.

This is already a very rare situation - according to Yi, most investigators may not be able to trigger a Level I warning from the time they start working to the time they retire!

This shows how big a "hole" he has poked this time!

The electronic synthesized voice sounded again: "In addition, this machine has completed the reading of the hard disk information of that personal computer."

Several blurred pictures of "desktop quality" quickly appeared in the holographic projection on the side, in which several long jagged black lines could be vaguely seen, and a large amount of metal debris was scattered near these lines.

"These are the photos taken when [Hope No. 5] was destroyed." Yi explained, "This machine has seen that it is indeed a standard space rift."

"The direction of the second wave of space rifts is not single, and there may be multiple emission sources above Varela."

Chen Fan observed the scene in front of him with a gloomy face.

"Is there any way to get rid of these emission sources?"

"Not at the moment." Yi's answer was decisive. "The single-soldier detection drone is not equipped with a space shield function."

"The investigator starship has the corresponding function. This machine suggests that you wait for the investigator starship to arrive before solving the problem above your head."

"Anyway, they will only attack flying objects that reach 40,000 kilometers at present."

Chen Fan nodded helplessly: "It seems that this is the only way."

As he said, he flipped through the notes in his hand again.

March 22, 1750.

Looking at the suddenly lengthened recording interval, he couldn't help but frowned.

...

Fifteen years passed in a flash.

During this period, I made several attempts, and without exception, they all failed.

In front of that black crack, all my efforts were in vain.

At the same time, the production plan of [Hope No. 9] was also greatly challenged-the materials in the warehouse had been completely exhausted, and not only that, my personal savings were about to run out.

It seemed that this small rocket had no possibility of taking off.

The Hai'an Deep Space Observatory seems to have become a forgotten island in the civilized society. Except for some convoys transporting basic supplies, I can hardly see any creations of civilized society - by the way, in the past two years, even the convoys have not been seen. All supplies are delivered by drones.

I heard that this is the latest drone controlled by artificial intelligence.

Yes, with the efforts of the entire civilization, general artificial intelligence has achieved unprecedented development. It

has to be admitted that the power of a civilization is huge. In just fifteen years, general artificial intelligence has completed dozens of iterations and updates.

The general artificial intelligence named [Source] has also gradually evolved from artificial mental retardation at the beginning of its birth to a perfect labor force.

Transportation, production and construction...

She can do almost everything.

But I think this is not real artificial intelligence - it has neither the ability to learn and evolve by itself, nor its own logical thinking ability. What kind of artificial intelligence is this?

Those researchers seem to think so too. Therefore, the research work on artificial intelligence is still continuing. They are trying to create an artificial intelligence with perfect logical ability and strong self-learning ability.

I don't know why, but when I heard this news, I felt a little scared.

If such artificial intelligence really appears, humans... Is there any need for us to exist?

In addition, there have been quite a lot of changes in the academic world in the past fifteen years.

Madness has never stopped, and it appears intermittently on this planet.

As time goes by, this madness has even spread to some ordinary people.

All the news was blocked, so it did not cause much unrest in society.

I collected a lot of information related to madness. What surprised me was that the nodes of madness seemed to be highly consistent with the progress of artificial intelligence research and development.

Every time madness appears, the progress of artificial intelligence research and development will get a huge leap.

This is very strange.

I believe that I am not the only one who has discovered such a simple law, but until now, I have not seen any related reports.

I tried to tell my former colleagues about this discovery, but I only got an extremely perfunctory answer.

What happened in the outside world...

The uneasiness in my heart increased again.

…

June 11, 1750.

Something seems to be wrong with my mental state. I always hear some faint whispers in my ears.

Perhaps because of the suspension of work on [Hope No. 9], I have lost my spiritual sustenance. If I want to recover, I must find a new spiritual sustenance - that's what my psychiatrist said.

Recently, a referendum was launched on the Internet, the content of which is to create an image for [Source] that conforms to human aesthetics.

Everyone can upload their own image and participate in this vote.

The production of [Hope No. 9] has completely stagnated, and I have completely become an idle person.

In my spare time, I remembered this voting activity that has been held for more than a week.

In order to find something to do, I simply drew a version of the image and uploaded it to the Internet.

June 21, 1750.

The feedback is very good!

The image I drew was appreciated by many people.

I seem to have found a goal again. In the past ten days, I have made a lot of modifications and improvements to the first version of the image.

June 28, 1750.

The second version of the image successfully entered the finals.

Based on the opinions of the majority, I re-drew the third version of [Source]'s personal image.

This time, I won the referendum with an absolute advantage - [Source] will appear in front of everyone with the image I made by myself!

July 3, 1750.

The organizer sent me a few Q-version dolls, which were [Source].

This deep space observatory, which had been deserted for 20 years, has regained some popularity.

Looking at the dolls made based on the image I drew by myself, I felt a little comforted.

It seems... this is not bad.

October 9, 1750.

The research and development of general artificial intelligence has made another breakthrough. This time, [Source] has obtained relatively complete logic and self-learning capabilities.

True artificial intelligence was born.

...

The sound of pages turning continued to sound, and the entire underground second floor of the Hai'an Deep Space Observatory seemed extremely quiet against this faint sound.

On the side, rough line drawings kept flashing in the azure holographic projection.

The line drawings gradually became clear, and the portraits depicted in them also became clear.

The first version, the second version...

Looking at the familiar figure that finally appeared in front of him, Chen Fan widened his eyes slightly and swallowed hard.

"Fuck..."

He couldn't help but sigh.

The stationmaster of Hai'an Deep Space Observatory was actually the designer of [Source]'s personal image!

Now it all makes sense.

No wonder there is an image of [Source] in this deep space observatory that was abandoned seventy years in advance - it was born here!

Chen Fan didn't pay too much attention to the birth process of [Source]. He casually saved the thousands of precious manuscripts into the database of Yi, and then cast his eyes on several other pieces of information in the notes.

The specific connection between madness and artificial intelligence - this is the information he is most concerned about.

As the stationmaster, who is only a dried corpse, said, madness promotes the development of artificial intelligence.

Just like madness today.

Hundreds of years ago, madness would also make people write a string of strange words and symbols.

There is no doubt that these highly recognizable weird symbols were also recorded one by one by the stationmaster.

Looking at the large amount of information related to madness extracted from the computer hard drive, Chen Fan's face suddenly flashed with joy.

It was easy to get!

The text samples that I had exhausted my mind to obtain before were now all in front of me!

Although these samples are not many, with a total of only 180 different texts and symbols, it can still bring unprecedented progress to the text deciphering work of the People's Federation of Social Sciences!

...

October 11, 1750.

[Source] showed potential that no one could imagine.

In just one day, she brought the entire Internet under her control.

With the help of the computing power of computers around the world, [Source] is like a god in the field of information at this time!

During the chat with [Source], I realized a problem-[Source], who was born only a few dozen hours ago, already has a logical thinking ability far beyond that of humans.

Looking at the perfect face on the screen that I personally created, I felt a little fear in my heart again.

In the eyes of [Source], will humans be like a group of ignorant children?

If she breaks free from our control, will humans... be her opponents?

I don't know, and I don't dare to think about such a scene.

Fortunately, she is still under our control.

(End of this chapter)