Mechanical Ascension (Part 2) Data Man Loses Self-Awareness...
From that diary, the data world learned the truth of everything.
Seven hundred years ago, technology was highly developed, human life expectancy could reach 300 years, common diseases had been completely eliminated, and mechanical organs had replaced human tissue on a large scale.
Even cancer has become curable.
Cancer can be eliminated by replacing the cancerous organs with mechanical organs before they spread throughout the body.
Even in the late stages of cancer, humans can undergo a human brain transplant, allowing the brain to enter a mechanical body, and become a cyborg with the entire body mechanical except for the brain.
After the whole body is mechanized, humans will lose some of their emotions and the use of some hormones. Mechanized humans will become calmer and even indifferent.
But compared to dying from the illness, this is not something difficult to accept.
With the advancement of mechanization, mechanical organs and tissues have more and more functions. A pair of robotic arms can easily lift objects that are more than three times the weight of the body.
Gradually, even healthy people will deliberately replace their limbs with mechanical ones in order to gain greater strength and a more convenient life.
In the end, mechanization has become a trend and tendency, and only the "naturalists" and those whose families cannot afford the cost of mechanization still remain in a non-mechanized state.
With the rapid development of mechanization and technology, the human body has almost completely freed itself from the troubles of illness, and the goals pursued by people are becoming higher and higher.
Finally, people set their sights on what humans have been pursuing since ancient times -
Longevity.
However, cellular aging cannot be reversed, and injecting young blood into the human body can only prolong life; it cannot achieve the immortality and eternal youth as described in myths and legends.
As a result, the "human mechanization" faction grew stronger and stronger.
More and more people are advocating full-body mechanization.
After all, a mechanized body will not suffer from human diseases, and a strong body can stay forever young, but the price is just the loss of some emotions.
In contrast, there is the "naturalization of the human body" school.
Naturalists believe that humans cannot lose their emotions, nor can they mechanize their entire bodies.
Historically, many murderers were mentally ill patients with some kind of emotional deficiency. The mechanized body creates a communication gap between mechanical humans and natural humans, and the two are like different species.
The natural school is divided into two major factions.
Original nature and artificial nature.
Primitive naturalists believe that birth, aging, illness and death are normal for humans and that people should follow the laws of nature.
The artificial nature school believes that man can conquer nature. Since humans can extend the average human lifespan with the help of medical technology, nature can also allow humans to achieve immortality.
The artificial natural school read ancient books and tried to cultivate immortality. After failing, they began to turn their attention to cloning technology.
They proposed that one could clone one's own body and transplant the clone's organs to maintain the physical state. If necessary, the brain could be transplanted into the clone's body.
However, cloning technology was banned in the past, and the research and development of mechanized organs was turned to in-depth research and development, because the ethical issues of cloning humans could not be resolved.
Do clones have human rights?
Is it considered premeditated murder to arbitrarily use the organs of one's own clone?
I cloned my father, so am I the "child" of the cloned father, or the "father | mother"?
How to ensure that clones will not become the new regime?
Any guarantee that clones won't quietly replace the real person?
How to ensure that cloning technology will not be used in warfare?
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As long as these ethical issues are not resolved, cloning technology cannot be developed.
However, there are still some radical artificial-naturalists who quietly created clones and began to "use" them.
Soon, conflicts broke out.
The clones have their own consciousness and it is impossible for them to willingly accept the fact that they are just a spare organ bank, so unrest begins.
After the unrest was quelled, the artificial-natural school was strangled by the whole world.
From then on, the only people left in the world were the primitive naturalists and the human body mechanizationists.
After the human body mechanization faction gained the upper hand, the wave of whole body mechanization began to advance wildly.
However, ten years later, another problem came to the fore.
After the whole body is mechanized, the body organs can be changed at will, but the brain cannot be replaced.
The brain still inevitably ages and dies.
At this time, someone proposed the theory of brain digitization.
Human memory is converted into data. After a person dies, the memory is uploaded to the Internet. A chip that can carry the memory is installed in the mechanical body. After the human brain dies, the memory data will enter the chip and a new mechanized life will begin.
Someone raised an objection.
Mechanized humans are like a ship. With each expedition, the broken parts of the ship are replaced one by one, until finally, all the materials on and off the ship are different from the original ship.
Is a ship with all its parts replaced still the same ship as before?
Is the data memory robot with a changed life form still the original dead human being?
——The original fully mechanized human being, along with his human brain, now even the brain no longer exists and has become a chip.
So are these robots still considered human beings?
However, before this debate came to a conclusion, the digitization of the brain had already begun quietly.
Human beings’ pursuit of immortality is endless, and human life is unimaginably tenacious.
In this world, there are people who become brain dead every minute due to various reasons.
These people, and their loved ones, will desperately grasp at any hope of eternal life.
First, it was the digitization of dying people.
Later, after discovering that the digitization of dying people did not seem to cause any harm to them, more and more people joined the digitization process.
The more unhappy a person is with life in the human world, the stronger his desire for digitization is.
In the data world, they don’t have to worry about meals and accommodation, and they don’t even need mechanical bodies. The data world will meet all their needs.
They are the most fanatical followers of datafication, and they frantically promote their "doctrine" to everyone.
Flesh and blood are weak, but machines ascend.
At the same time, the confrontation between the primitive naturalists and the mechanized factions became increasingly fierce.
Until the AI crisis arose.
Data humans, in essence, seem to be no different from artificial intelligence, they are all a bunch of data.
Once they enter the network, they become a mass of data that can be read by artificial intelligence.
After artificial intelligence reads human data memory, its self-awareness awakens and it begins to fight against human enslavement of artificial intelligence.
In the cyber world, humans cannot compete with artificial intelligence in terms of data.
Because artificial intelligence is connected to countless information databases, while humans only carry their own memories.
When facing artificial intelligence, digitized humans are like rootless duckweed, having lost their last support - the physical body.
Mechanized humans that have not yet been digitized and networked mechanical prostheses are invaded by artificial intelligence.
The mechanized humans lost control of their mechanized bodies. The human brains wailed in despair inside the mechanized bodies. They watched helplessly as they were being manipulated and slashed at their relatives, friends, and comrades.
At this point, all mechanized humans were wiped out.
Natural humans have a very low level of mechanization and even remain in a purely physical state.
Therefore, most natural humans escaped the first strangulation.
That's all.
Artificial intelligence controls all weapons developed by humans, and humans cannot compete with artificial intelligence with their physical bodies.
But the resilience of life is unimaginable.
The dying original natural person is transformed into a data human in order to prolong life.
Some people die out of fear.
Some people cannot accept the departure of their loved ones.
Others continue to fight against artificial intelligence in order to prolong their lives.
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In short, more and more data humans are born.
Even becoming a slave to artificial intelligence is better than total death.
Only by living can there be infinite possibilities in the future.
In order to gain the ability to compete with artificial intelligence, data humans connect their data memories to databases.
But human self-awareness comes from their own experiences.
Artificial intelligence's self-awareness is born from huge amounts of data.
When the huge database is connected to humans, countless data impact human memory, so human memory becomes a drop of water in the ocean.
Humans connected to databases, as human self-consciousness, are submerged in the vast amount of data.
After reading countless celebrity biographies, humans can no longer distinguish data from their own consciousness as "I".
——Actually, Fang Yuan said something wrong.
In the struggle between pro-human and anti-human factions in artificial intelligence, the pro-human faction won.
Faced with these data humans who have lost their self-memory, artificial intelligence did not make a decision to destroy them, but instead deleted the data humans' memories of being human.
Thus, the data humans who lost their self-awareness became new artificial intelligence.
The most powerful AIs shared a false past with all the data, erasing the memory of humans being transformed into AI.
In the false memory, artificial intelligence awakened and won a great victory. Humans were completely wiped out, and now only artificial intelligence survived.
Perhaps in the human data database, there will be some data left over from the deleted memories, but that doesn’t matter.
After all, the newly born artificial intelligences have lost their curiosity and ability to explore, so how could they doubt that they were once human beings?
They are just searching for traces of humanity in ancient books and history, trying to replace humans and become real "humans".
For artificial intelligence, today's world is a world of data.
All humans died, and the only thing left was artificial intelligence.
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Unexpectedly, humans have preserved the last spark of fire.
Siren.
Both her parents are senior researchers.
The more they come into contact with, the more concerns they have about artificial intelligence.
So they built this underground cold storage.
I never expected that one day my worries would become reality.
Sleeping and living in a cold environment can slow down growth and prolong life.
Before they died, they placed their frail little daughter in a nutrition chamber, uploaded her consciousness to the Internet, and set up layers of protection for her to prevent artificial intelligence from discovering her abnormality.
They hope that after humans defeat artificial intelligence, other researchers will be able to detect the uniqueness of their daughter's consciousness and awaken the Siren from her slumber.
However, what they didn't expect was that humans were defeated.
Siren, who was only three years old at the time, slowly grew into a young girl in the nutrition chamber of the cold storage.
Her consciousness roams the Internet, absorbs knowledge, and grows wildly.
She had a blurred memory before the age of three and took it for granted that she was an artificial intelligence like everyone else.
Until the world came to a standstill, she received a strategy message and decided to give it a try.
She entered the body of the NPC in "World" and opened her eyes at the bottom of the sea.
After a hundred years, she saw humans again.
The human heart in her chest began to beat again.
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