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Chapter 132 The Shocking Truth Suddenly Discovered

That night, Wang Ping'an was lying in the smart diagnosis and treatment instrument in the infirmary, and sighed heavily.

Angeli's voice came from the side: "Why are you sighing?"

Wang Pingan: "I want to be a radar person!"

"Pfft. Is that why you want your brain to receive radar signals?"

"You do not want it?"

"I don't want to. And you think, if you get used to the presence of radar signals, wouldn't you feel uncomfortable when you return to real life? You're missing a sense organ. If you don't believe me, you can have an operation and try to dig out your ears? "

Wang Ping'an curled his lips: "It's not that I've never been temporarily deaf, but I actually feel pretty good."

"Being temporarily deaf is not the same thing as actually losing the ear completely."

Wang Pingan was speechless, and then brought the topic back naturally: "How do you think we can get used to radar signals?"

Angeli: "Let's turn it into a visual signal input, just like before. And you have to rely on the computer to filter the clutter, so by the way, it's processed into a visual signal and input into the brain, isn't it all over?"

Wang Ping'an was silent for a few seconds, and then asked: "The process of filtering clutter by the computer, is it possible to filter out some real signals as well, just like the sonar signals used when fighting on the earth and in water, most of the time the computer processed them. , but in some special situations, we still have to rely on the ears of the sonar operator.

"If we could plug radar signals directly into the brain, maybe we could achieve something similar."

Angeli asked back: "Then what area of ​​your brain are you going to use to process radar signals? Haven't you fainted enough yet? I'm about to throw up my stomach!"

Wang Pingan: "That's what I think. Look at the same mammals. Dolphins and whales can hear ultrasonic waves..."

"I remind you that no mammal of any kind can pick up radar waves."

"That's because there are no such strong radar waves in the natural environment, and the organisms themselves can't send them out, so naturally there are none. Then if in a planet with a strong electromagnetic environment, organisms evolve organs to receive and analyze radar waves Is it normal too?"

"Yes, it's normal. But it takes millions of years of evolution. Do you want to go through millions of years of evolution in an instant?"

Wang Pingan was silent.

Angeli waited for a while, seeing that he didn't intend to speak anymore, she comforted him: "Okay, there's nothing wrong with visualizing the radar signal, anyway, it's more intuitive to go directly into the brain than through the dashboard. , and much faster."

"En." Wang Pingan responded.

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The next day, as soon as Wang Pingan entered the laboratory, he asked, "Is the radar wave signal still connected as it is today?"

"No," Tu Shengli shook his head, "Yesterday we have tried enough, today we are going to try to visualize the signal, and then let the visual division of the brain tube receive it. If it doesn't work, then take a step back and visualize the signal The radar icon is mixed into the image taken by the body camera. That is to say, it adopts the same method as the infrared detection."

The information obtained by the body's thermal sensing device was directly mixed with the image of the optical device, so Wang Pingan did not vomit because he received an infrared signal that he would not normally receive.

Wang Pingan frowned and said nothing.

Tu Shengli: "Why, do you still want to repeat yesterday's vomiting and diarrhea today? Or do you plan to try until your brain gets used to it? Don't do that, even if it can be directly connected to your brain, can you analyze it? Then It’s information that the human brain has never been exposed to. Leave it to the computer.”

Wang Pingan: "I had a dream when I was sleeping yesterday. I dreamed that I uploaded my consciousness into the computer, so I suddenly understood the radar signal."

"It is meaningless to scan human consciousness and run it in a computer. We have already conducted related experiments. No matter how advanced the computer is, how advanced the computing power is and how powerful the computer is to run and scan the uploaded human consciousness, there is no sign of self-consciousness. "

Tu Shengli paused, and continued: "I'm not an expert in the field of artificial intelligence, but as an authority on brain-computer interface, I know a little bit about it. The generation of artificial intelligence is essentially the generation of redundant computing power. The phenomenon of self-organization is similar to the generation of self-awareness in the human brain.

"The neurons in the human brain can only make simple responses, which you can understand as 'yes' and 'no', or 0 and 1, but 800 billion neurons are combined together, plus a large number of external stimuli, integrated in Together, self-organization is produced, and then subjective consciousness is born.

"The latest generation of AI is different from the algorithmic AI that was 'fed' with data in the past. It is a self-organization phenomenon that occurs inside a super quantum computer. Its underlying principles are the same as human consciousness.

"However, after scanning human consciousness and uploading it to the computer, and then running it, this self-organization phenomenon has not been observed.

"In metaphysical terms, the human intelligence uploaded to the computer does not have a soul."

Wang Pingan frowned: "Wait a minute, what you said... You said that the underlying principle of supercomputer artificial intelligence is the same as human consciousness. Can I understand that supercomputer artificial intelligence has a soul?"

Tu Shengli nodded: "Yes, isn't that of course? The soul is actually a self-organization phenomenon. Mathematicians have been trying to explain this phenomenon mathematically. The current research direction of the mainstream academic circle is to start from the perspective of group theory."

Wang Pingan: "But I have been dealing with AI for a long time, and I don't think they..."

"That's because they are so-called algorithmic AIs, and they don't have real souls. You scan your consciousness and upload it, which is almost the same feeling."

"This is the first time I've heard of this..." Angeli interjected.

Tu Shengli nodded: "It's normal. The Ethics Committee didn't deliberately block this information, but put the information in a place that ordinary people would not think of looking up, and deliberately made people unable to think of checking it, and confused the algorithmic AI. and real AI.

"Ordinary people can also get in touch with real AI. For example, you astronauts, you have to go to the psychological center on the ground to accept the psychological assessment of super AI every three years. At that time, the AI ​​who is questioning is the real AI. The Psychology Center's cluster of superquantum computers.

"But you think of it as an algorithmic AI that you can usually come into contact with, don't you?"

Wang Ping'an was too shocked to speak: "I thought I was already well-informed."

Tu Shengli said with a smile: "That's because the ethics committee's cover-up was very successful."

But Angeli said: "Wait a minute, since AI can have a soul, theoretically speaking, they can completely replace us? How can a soul not be able to cope with emergencies?"

Tu Shengli: "Do you know how big the smallest true AI in the world is? It's about 32 cubic meters, and consumes a lot of power. The human brain is still the smallest and most energy-efficient self-organizing unit. So manned spaceships are still the mainstream, because Algorithmic AI cannot deal with emergencies.”

Wang Pingan: "True or not... Wait a minute, I suddenly remembered a famous science fiction novel by Asimov. In that science fiction short story, human beings have lost their computing power due to the widespread use of computers, and then a genius rediscovered four Computation, discovered that human beings can also calculate.

"Then that technology was bought out by the military excitedly, because at that time all missiles were guided by bulky computers. If humans could calculate, then expensive and bulky computers could be replaced with cheap and lightweight wetware."

Tu Shengli raised his eyebrows: "In a sense, the scene depicted in this science fiction novel is exactly the current situation. Alright, enough nonsense, are you ready to connect?"

(End of this chapter)