From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 480 The "Capture" Operation Begins

"Additional rewards?"

Hearing the sudden words from the system, Lin Xiao was taken aback.

In the past, the system has never made it clear that after solving a certain problem, you can get extra rewards, but this time, it suddenly made this decision. Why?
And the matter to be solved now has nothing to do with any science and technology. At best... it should be a big filtering incident encountered by the earth civilization in the process of development.

As for what is the Great Filter Event, it is actually an explanation of the Fermi Paradox.

It comes from a great filter theory called Robin Hansen, who believes that the reason why it is difficult for humans to discover the existence of aliens is because of the great filter theory. This theory believes that it is necessary to form a Civilization is very difficult, it needs to go through a multi-stage process before civilization can be gradually formed, and in the process of civilization formation and development into an advanced civilization in the universe, there are many links required, and any one of these links appears Any problem will bring a devastating blow to civilization.

These include but are not limited to natural disasters such as stellar flare eruptions, asteroid impacts, super volcanic eruptions, etc. In addition, there are man-made disasters, including but not limited to the outbreak of nuclear wars, or caused by wars in the development of early human civilization The harm of genocide, in addition to the plague virus with extremely high lethality and infection rate, etc., as well as some harms brought about by human beings in the development of science.

For example, the strong artificial intelligence crisis they may be encountering now.

Because strong artificial intelligence can often be regarded as civilization, and the war between civilizations often never stops until one of them is completely wiped out or enslaved.

So now, if we look at this incident from the perspective of the big filter theory, according to the past reward rules of the system, there should be no reason to reward Lin Xiao now.

Thinking about this matter, Lin Xiao thought for a while, until finally, he suddenly had a guess.

Then he questioned the system again in his heart: "System, you suddenly gave me this extra reward. Is it because you know that this matter has something to do with you, so you gave me this compensation?"

But this time, the system started to lose sound again.

Lin Xiao frowned, and said in his heart: "If you don't answer, I will accept it as your acquiescence."

And the system still has no sound.

"Then I'll take it as you admit it."

Knowing that the system started to play dead again, Lin Xiao stopped trying to get more information from the system.

In the end, he put his thinking back on the real problem. No matter what, solving the current matter is still the top priority.

What's more, now that he has this extra reward from the system, it also makes him more motivated.

So then, he continued his work-writing the program that can actively discover the self-awareness of artificial intelligence.

……

Time passed slowly.

At Lin Xiao's request, Guoan also arranged for people to go to the place where Qiankun No. [-] was located and shut down Qiankun No. [-].

When Lin Xiao heard the news, he felt relieved temporarily, and then he could wait for the news. He wanted to see if the fourth batch of bank accounts would be cleared after Qiankun No. [-] was closed. Condition.

As for foreign countries, the seriousness of the situation is even worse.

For example, in some remote areas of the United States, gun battles have become more frequent, and some of the gun battle incidents were caused by some forces.

Obviously, under today's social chaos, some people who fear the world will not be chaotic will naturally appear, and among these gun battles, gun battles caused by bank robbery account for a relatively large proportion.

For such a situation, many countries have declared that they will enter a state of emergency.

And just like that, another week passed.

……

"A week has passed, hasn't the fourth batch of people appeared?"

In the state guesthouse, Lin Xiao asked Qi Shangao.

Hearing Lin Xiao's question, Qi Shangao showed a little complicated face, and said, "Yes, there is no fourth batch of people."

"Okay, I see." Lin Xiao nodded slightly. In this way, he was more sure of his guess.

But at this time, Qi Shangao asked again: "Chief, you said that after Qiankun No. [-] was shut down, there has been no such problem. Does it mean that what happened in the world is really serious?" Has something to do with Qiankun No. [-]?"

Hearing Qi Shangao's question, Lin Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Qi Shangao, and said, "What... do you mean?"

Qi Shangao sighed, stretched out his hand and put it on his ear, and then took off a tiny earphone.

After putting the earphones in his pocket, he sat next to Lin Xiao and said, "I was thinking, what the **** bank president said at the bank meeting back then, if we use the current Judging by the results, is it possible that what he said may be correct.”

"What did the president of the **** bank say?"

Lin Xiao recalled for a while, and remembered what Qi Shangao told him back then.

The **** bank president said at the beginning that this incident was actually caused by them using Qiankun No. [-].

And now Qi Shangao seems to be in such a low mood, probably because it seems that there is indeed a possibility that he has something to do with Qiankun No. [-], and his belief in his heart has been shaken?
Lin Xiao quickly guessed the reason, and then couldn't help laughing.

He patted Qi Shangao on the shoulder and said: "Okay, Lao Qi, I know what you are thinking, but I can assure you now in the name of the country's chief scientist, what the man from Morgan Bank said is wrong , or rather, he is just slandering us."

"Think about it, if what he said is right, would you be able to shut down Qiankun No. [-] so easily?"

"This..." Qi Shangao was taken aback. It was true. If they really did this, could their Guoan shut down Qiankun No. [-] so easily?

When they asked to shut down at the beginning, they would definitely be blocked by various obstacles, and there was a high probability that they would fail in the end. In fact, the process of shutting down was very smooth, almost after the order was issued, they shut down within the same day.

Qi Shangao's slightly shaken eyes lit up again, and he turned back to the former national security policeman again.

"I see, thank you Chief Lin for your guidance."

Lin Xiao smiled, waved his hands and said, "Hehe, it's not really any advice, I just don't want to see you become depressed because of some misunderstandings."

And then he remembered an interesting thing, and said to Qi Shangao with a smile: "However, you won't doubt that I am actually the mastermind behind the scenes? Then I asked to close it, so you were able to close it smoothly ?”

Hearing Lin Xiao's words, Qi Shangao was shocked immediately, looked at Lin Xiao nervously, and said, "Chief Lin...is this not true? This joke is not funny!"

Lin Xiao suddenly burst out laughing, patted Qi Shangao, and said with a smile: "Okay, sorry, sorry, I just suddenly thought that the big villains in some works are like this."

Qi Shangao breathed a sigh of relief, "Then you really scared me to death. At that moment just now, I seemed to feel the feelings of the characters in those works after knowing the true face of the villain."

"What do you feel?"

"Momentary suffocation."

Anyway, Qi Shangao couldn't imagine Lin Xiao as the villain.

Lin Xiao smiled, then waved his hands, and said, "Okay, let's not talk about that now, do you have anything else to do?"

"Oh no……"

Seeing that Lin Xiao was about to go to work, Qi Shangao stood up quickly, but when he was about to say "no", he suddenly remembered the reason Lin Xiao mentioned to close Qiankun No. [-], and asked: " By the way, Chief Lin, you said at the beginning that you shut down Qiankun No. [-] to prevent the black hands behind the incident from hacking into Qiankun No. [-], so if you look at it now, is it possible that Qiankun No. [-] has already been hacked?"

Lin Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then nodded slightly, "It is indeed possible."

"I see, then we will organize our staff next to see if we can find this person."

"Well." Lin Xiao said: "Then I wish you good luck."

"Okay." Qi Shangao nodded, and then quickly left here. At the same time, he put on the miniature earphone again, and began to organize his hands to carry out their operation to catch the mastermind behind the scenes.

And Lin Xiao shook his head slightly after watching Qi Shangao leave.

Good luck to them.

It's just that to a certain extent, now he really doesn't want such a primate and human behind-the-scenes master to exist.

Because now, he hopes that the mastermind behind the scenes is virtual, made up of strings of data.

After all, his virtual consciousness trap is almost complete.

However, if this virtual consciousness is finally captured, how to deal with it is still a problem.

And about the character of this virtual consciousness.

Judging from the current situation, this virtual consciousness has already regarded human beings as its enemy, otherwise, it would not have used such means.

And looking at it now, this virtual consciousness is able to realize the means of destroying human society by destroying the human economic system in such a short time, which is enough to show that its IQ is already very high.

It's just that the consciousness of this strong artificial intelligence obviously didn't expect that someone would be able to guess his existence, and if Lin Xiao didn't just get the knowledge about this part, maybe he wouldn't think of it. , may be caused by a strong artificial intelligence that awakens self-awareness.

Of course, it did not directly destroy human civilization by controlling the launch of nuclear bombs as described in those sci-fi works. This is something that puzzles Lin Xiao.

Although things like nuclear weapons are physically isolated, for a strong artificial intelligence, it can spread false information to mislead the leaders of nuclear-armed countries.

For example, simulate the signal that the enemy has launched a nuclear weapon to achieve misleading, or more simply, call the leaders of these nuclear-armed countries, and then tell these leaders that a nuclear attack has been detected on the way. A leader did not hold his breath, did not try to determine the authenticity of the news, and directly launched a nuclear bomb, which finally brought about world nuclear peace.

Therefore, Lin Xiao still has some doubts about this problem. If possible, this strong artificial intelligence has probably already been tried.

Of course, there is also a possibility that this self-aware artificial intelligence knows that once a nuclear weapon is launched, Qiankun No. [-], the world's first and only true quantum computer, will also become the enemy's primary target , thus endangering its existence, so the idea was abandoned.

After all, according to the knowledge Lin Xiao has mastered, if artificial intelligence wants to have self-awareness, it must exist in a quantum computer with 77 qubits and above, and if it goes to a quantum computer with lower qubits, or In any supercomputer with computing power, it will lose the intelligence to think about complex problems, and become like a beast, which can only have the ability to think about simple problems.

However, regarding this issue, he can only make a simple guess in his mind for the time being. The real situation will have to wait until he really "grasps" this strong artificial intelligence.

"I hope that after catching this guy, he can make him obedient."

Lin Xiao shook his head. It is obvious that this artificial intelligence is hostile to humans, and everything depends on the final negotiation.

However, thinking that he would be able to have a dialogue with an intelligent AI with self-awareness, this really made him look forward to it.

Then he turned his eyes back to the computer screen and continued to write the code.

……

Time flies by.

A few days later.

"Finally, it's done."

Diaoyutai State Guest House, in Lin Xiao's room, after completing the last code, Lin Xiao couldn't help feeling emotional.

More than 2 lines of code, in two weeks, nearly [-] lines were written almost every day.

And it is still a new language, so for Lin Xiao, he has been running his brain at full capacity during this period of time.

"Then, next, it's time to cast the net to catch the big fish."

But before that, two things need to be done first.

The first thing is to release the "fish".

Qiankun No. [-] is still turned off, so the "suspected" strong artificial intelligence cannot be caught by his trap yet.

Of course, at this time, Lin Xiao could suddenly understand why they had increased the available computing power through repeated restarts.

There is a high probability that this strong artificial intelligence is afraid of being shut down, and obviously it cannot control the power on and off. After all, these are all on the physical level. As long as the switch is turned off, any strong artificial intelligence will have nothing to do.

And now humans have not created any super robot industry like in science fiction works, and then used it to form its own robot army.

All in all, when artificial intelligence has its own consciousness, it will be afraid of shutting down, just like a vegetative person, losing all consciousness.

However, if you want to catch this artificial intelligence, restarting Qiankun No. [-] is also necessary.

And the second thing after restarting Qiankun No. [-] is to lead it into this "trap" of oneself.

This step is very simple, just let it scan the code of this program, and its consciousness will be limited to the more than 2 lines of code, or in other words, on the computer where this program is installed.

Next, although its body is still in the quantum computer, it can still mobilize the computing power of the quantum computer, but its consciousness can only exist on Lin Xiao's computer, and then any behavior will need to go through Lin Xiao's computer. Permission, and once Lin Xiao turns off the phone, it is equivalent to becoming a vegetable, oh, plant intelligence.

"However, the question is, how do I get it to scan to my computer?"

Lin Xiao touched his chin and began to think.

Obviously, it is impossible to add some bait to his trap, such as putting a piece of cheese on the mousetrap, or something like a bear trap.

A strong artificial intelligence is not a mouse attracted by cheese, or a person who will step directly on a bear trap.

Just like the traps against humans must be sufficiently concealed, the traps against strong artificial intelligence also need to be concealed.

For example, it is placed on its "must pass", and the only pass of strong artificial intelligence is naturally its "home", Qiankun No. [-].

But obviously, Lin Xiao didn't intend to let this trap be placed on Qiankun No. [-].

Conscious intelligence, or intelligent life, is not suitable for humans to know for the time being, nor can any one or several know it.

Because if Lin Xiao managed this intelligent life, people in the know would definitely wonder how Lin Xiao did it.

Lin Xiao didn't expect to spend so much time and effort fabricating a lot of lies. Moreover, one lie often needs more lies to make up.

So before completing the negotiation with this strong artificial intelligence, Lin Xiao needs to trap it on his computer.

As for how to do this, Lin Xiao quickly thought of a method

Among the knowledge he has acquired is a code that allows the consciousness of strong artificial intelligence to automatically connect to the device where the parent code is located after scanning its sub-code.

In this way, Lin Xiao can let the strong artificial intelligence in Qiankun No. [-] check his hometown, and the results can be directly scanned to him.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao immediately made a move.

This parent-child code is quite easy to handle, and the two add up to just over 100 lines to complete.

So in less than an hour, Lin Xiao completed these two strings of codes.

"Then, the thing to be solved now is how to get this string of sub-codes onto Qiankun-[-]."

As for this point, it was easy for Lin Xiao to do it.

He thought for a while, Kong Huaan seemed to be on the side of Qiankun No. [-] now.

Because Kong Huaan was conscripted by Guoan, he joined the team looking for the so-called "black hand behind the scenes".

The reason why Kong Huaan agreed was because he didn't expect that someone would have the ability to easily bypass the firewall he designed, so he also wanted to see who did it.

So Kong Huaan went to Qiankun No. [-].

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao called Kong Hua'an.

"Lin Xiao, what's wrong?"

The phone was connected, and Kong Huaan's voice came from there.

Lin Xiao said: "I wrote a functional program similar to a firewall. After installing this program in Qiankun-[-], it should be able to prevent someone from using the computing power of Qiankun-[-] without approval."

Kong Huaan smiled and said, "Are you finally going to make a move?"

Lin Xiao was taken aback, "What?"

"I said, you finally don't plan to hide your computer power, and decided to solve this matter!"

Lin Xiao suddenly said helplessly: "Okay, old Kong, don't joke around at this time."

Kong Huaan smiled, and didn't say any more, and asked, "So are you planning to restart Qiankun No. [-]?"

"Ah."

"Restarting Qiankun No. [-] now requires approval from above, let me explain."

"Okay, then I'll trouble you."

"Nothing is too much trouble."

After hanging up the phone, not long after, Lin Xiao received a call from the old man.

"Chief Lin, do you have a solution? Are you sure it's feasible?"

The old man didn't exchange pleasantries, and just got straight to the point.

"I'm sure." Lin Xiao just replied.

After a while, a voice came from the other end of the phone: "" "Okay, I see."

"Ah."

Lin Xiao responded, and then hung up the phone quickly.

Within a minute, Kong Huaan called him.

"The higher authorities have approved the restart of Qiankun No. [-], now you can send me your program."

"it is good."

Hearing this, a slight smile appeared on Lin Xiao's face.

Next, it's time to arrest the "criminals" and bring them to justice.

……

(End of this chapter)