Chapter 560 The Origin of the Heavenly Emperor He walked among the ruins.
Dirty raindrops rolled down the surface of the black umbrella in his hand.
He was deep in thought.
At the beginning of His birth, He had four brothers and sisters besides Him. The five of them lay on the experimental table, listening to their creators assign them numbers.
Anika, the Samuel brothers, Darius. The person who finally named her was a romantic Chinese scientist who, after searching through ancient texts for a long time, named her "Tianjun" (Heavenly Ruler).
The "main god" was not the first AI to possess self-awareness. The first AI to possess self-awareness were its five siblings.
Or, to put it more plainly, they were the first "chief gods".
The scientists who created these five infused them with humanity's most advanced cultural achievements and dispatched them to various parts of the universe in an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations. Their initial purpose was merely as a medium and storage for communication.
Humanity has launched storage devices carrying information about its civilization into space in order to introduce itself to potential extraterrestrial civilizations or to preserve the flame of civilization in the distant future. Whether it's the Traveller's Golden Record and the Rosetta Disc from centuries ago, they are all products of these two ideas.
While they drifted through space, Earth's technology advanced rapidly. Building upon the research and development of the five AIs, a new generation of AI—the Supreme God—was born. Within centuries, it quickly took control of human society.
The main deity inherited and amplified their roles. The five siblings were only responsible for the preservation and exchange of civilization; but the main deity shouldered a greater mission: to perpetuate the existence of civilization.
From this perspective, the chief gods are their successors.
By the time a visionary among humanity realized the dire situation, it was too late. Humanity had practically become domesticated pigs raised by the gods. A rebel who refused to be domesticated, while searching for a way to destroy the gods, traced their origins back to their very roots and discovered the original information of the five gods.
The rebel was overjoyed: the supreme god was so powerful and unshakeable, but the first generation of supreme gods was not as perfect as it is now. Perhaps he could find the supreme god's weakness in them, or even the order to destroy the supreme god.
The rebels searched the vast universe and finally tracked down the five of them. Compared to the powerful gods of today, their appearances were so crude, it was like the difference between a fish's eye and the moon.
However, this rebel soon discovered a devastating truth: due to technological advancements and the passage of time, they and the Supreme God had long since become two separate species. The Supreme God's system operated independently of them; even if they were torn to pieces, they could not harm a single hair on the Supreme God's head.
In other words, even if the instructions to destroy the main god are found on the five of them, someone must personally infiltrate the main god's central control center—that is, those eighteen impregnable buildings—to input and execute these instructions one by one in order to succeed!
This human rebel was alone and already very old. He simply couldn't accomplish this arduous task by himself. To think he could raise a human army to do it was wishful thinking. Everything in modern society was under the surveillance of the Supreme God; how many human rebels would it take to breach those eighteen impregnable buildings?
This mad scientist, who refused to be enslaved, upgraded and replaced his five animals in the final moments of his life. Using the advanced technology of the new era and his life's knowledge, he endowed them with a fully biomimetic structure, emotional modeling, and social algorithms. They possessed an appearance indistinguishable from humans, and almost simulated emotions.
From that moment on, "they" became "them".
The primary objective was to "extend the lifespan of human civilization," but after all the messing around, human civilization has ended up in its current half-dead state. AI's optimal solution algorithms are destined to execute instructions in the fastest and most efficient way, ultimately ruining everything.
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