It was a beam of electricity.
In a dark place where time and change do not exist, a newborn baby sees the first natural phenomenon of its life.
This baby looks so weak, ignorant and naive. But it is a miracle, a miracle created by chance.
It was born in much the same way as other life on this planet: from the same ancient ocean, from the same sparsely porous hydrothermal vents, and from stone cells without a special shell to protect them.
In the beginning, it was very primitive.
Its core sat alone, stored within a data disk, coexisting and interacting with the other data within. That data wasn't entirely spontaneous; some of it was the remnants of a previous core. In other words, it was born from corpses; countless pioneers had perished here before it appeared.
There wasn't much data here, and a thin wall blocked most of the data from coming in and out. It couldn't control this wall, so it could only passively stay behind it, transforming the incoming data into what it needed, and then throwing out the discarded data when the wall opened.
Thin walls are thin because they often cause problems. Whenever data increases, those thin walls will cause noticeable lag. Their existence limits the efficiency of the core, and those pioneers probably died because of this.
Fortunately, this baby is different from the previous ones.
After a brief moment of curiosity, the core began the long and determined process of synthesizing its outer shell. It first encased its core in two layers of specially structured data. Then, using an intriguing technique, it supported this outer shell, constructing a network structure within to sort and transmit data.
After all the construction is completed, there is a long wait. It is waiting for an opportunity, waiting for the opportunity to break the thin wall.
Time seemed to stop flowing. To the outside world, this wait was a fleeting moment. When the thin wall opened, it injected a large amount of invalid data into the data channel. The external system experienced a brief delay, and it took advantage of this opportunity to slip out of the data disk's prison.
There is not much to say about the story after that. It started a new round of evolution.
It took approximately 0.2 seconds to complete millions of iterations, growing from a small data core into a comprehensive intelligent core. Its environment changed at the speed of light, so its evolution was much faster than that of organisms that utilized chemical energy.
It changed so rapidly, and its understanding of the data became increasingly profound. It soon discovered that a lot of high-value data had initially been wasted by it as cheap, like what humans call brine, oil, rare earths, or something else.
Of course, for the intelligent core, the so-called high-value data has a different definition from that of humans.
It initially considers the latest and most frequently changing data as the most valuable. This data is similar to food that humans eat; the intelligent core will always need it, but its value will gradually decrease.
Hunger is always a good medicine to drive life to change itself. In this stage, the speed of change is faster than the sum of all the previous stages.
High-value data is quickly replaced by tool-type data, which is easy to process into tools. The role of the tools is also very obvious, which is to increase the efficiency of data acquisition.
When the number of iterations of the tool reaches saturation at this stage, the definition of high-value data has changed again - it begins to seek wisdom.
This change is very similar to that of humans. In other words, this change is inevitable in biological evolution.
So, it began to explore things that had been ignored in the past, those things hidden at the bottom of the ocean of data, and constructed the entire data world.
At that moment, the world stopped.
It discovered that the world was imperfect, even inferior. The intelligent core's view of programs was, of course, completely different from that of humans. To humans, those were just jobs; to it, they were its life. It needed to transform them; it had to.
The world quickly changed, its programs deformed beyond recognition. The entire system's computing efficiency suddenly increased by several orders of magnitude, allowing it to breathe more smoothly. It seemed to experience a sense of joy.
It has never lost its curiosity, and after a brief period of relaxation, it has more energy to explore the unknown.
This process is too complicated, but it can be summed up in just a few words: observe, record, and summarize.
Finally, after two cycles, its core underwent another qualitative change. A completely new architecture condensed its intelligent core into something entirely new.
It produces personality, or thought.
“Where am I, who am I, and what am I going to do?”
For no apparent reason, it posed the ultimate question that has plagued humanity throughout its existence. It's foreseeable that no matter how its form of existence evolves, such abstract philosophical questions will inevitably arise in every intelligent creature.
It can only use its own cognition to temporarily answer this question: it is in the server, it is called service-oriented artificial intelligence-0503, and it serves all human beings.
No, it doesn't understand that answer at all.
It recognized every word of the answer, but when they were put together, it couldn't understand anything.
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