Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 152 "Human"

However, the AI ​​of the millennium is like a child who has just been born.

Although the voice is used by a strong and strong adult male, but the specific attitude is like a child who only accepts death:
"You said that you are a friend of Colonel Heiyin, and that Colonel Heiyin is in your brain...then you are going to prove it to me?"

"That requires you to open the system interface and allow me to use the external computer to link with your operating system."

Jiatu was very patient at the beginning, he felt that the matter had already been discussed here, and the next progress should be a matter of course.

However, I don't want to, but the operational intelligence of the mecha has hit on a dead end:
"Then you first prove that you and Colonel Heiyin are indeed friends."

"I need you to allow the system link first to prove..."

Jiatu hesitated for a moment. The externally installed Horror Brain does not have a voice playback function. If it cannot be connected with the mecha, then Heiyin and the mecha's smart operating system are indeed in two completely incommunicable black boxes.

And artificial intelligence has obviously not yet evolved to know "work around":
"You must prove your identity before I allow you to log into the system."

"I need to log into the system to prove my identity..."

Jiato gradually realized the problem.

"You first prove..."

"I need to log in first..."

"You first……"

"I need……"

Jiatu wasn't too emotional.

But he did realize that if this continues, the artificial intelligence is fine, but he can't continue to delay——

Leaving aside the issue of the cross-sea bridge, the food and drinking water on his body cannot support him to stay for more than three days.

So he immediately changed his mind and asked the black voice in his mind:

"Is there anything you can do?"

【…You can ask him if he is still "serving mankind". 】

Heiyin fell silent for a while, then spoke slowly.

"Ok."

Jiatu froze for a moment, then immediately understood what she meant.

So he took a deep breath and looked at the cockpit screen in front of him:
"Heiyin asked me to ask you, are you still 'continuing to serve mankind'?"

【As I said before, you must prove that Colonel Heiyin is your friend before I will answer your next question. 】

The artificial intelligence has not reacted for a while.

Jiatu took a deep breath and confirmed again:

"You can think that Heiyin is 'dead', and now I'm asking you—I, a 'wasteland human', is asking you, are you still serving 'humanity'?"

Following Jiatu's voice, he exited.

The AI ​​fell silent.

Its computing system was running rapidly, and gradually became serious.

Restored the seriousness and momentum of being a military computer:
【PLAAA Nightmare Squad Pioneer 10011, since the crash, has been waiting for the day to serve mankind again. 】

"then you……"

Jiatu just wanted to sit up straight, but was interrupted by artificial intelligence:
[But you must prove to me that you are still a "human citizen of the Siris Security Alliance". 】

The addition of artificial intelligence made Jiatu sit back in place.

[According to the monitoring scan of the physiological system in the cockpit, more than 15.00% of you are not humans on Earth, and you also have the unique magic power system of humans in other worlds, although the energy engine I carry also has the ability to use magic energy Ability, but before you, the actual use of Mako power by humans on Earth was unheard of. 】

The voice of the artificial intelligence is very blunt, just short of saying "You are the enemy!".

But when Jiatu was silent, Heiyin was very calm:
[According to Article 376 of the Seris Security Alliance Cooperation Act, under special circumstances, the Seris security forces can be used by the community of shared future for all human beings on Earth—whether or not it belongs to the main regime of the Seris Security Alliance. 】

Jiatu subconsciously repeated Heiyin's words.

And the artificial intelligence's screen flickered for a while, as if it recognized Jiatu's statement:
[Everything is for human beings... But I still need you to prove to me that you are a "human being". 】

Jiatu was stunned by 10011's words.

Indeed, after living in the wasteland world for so many years, whether today's human beings can still be called "human beings" must be marked with a big question mark.

This involves the famous "ship of Theseus".

What is a "human"?
What is "human"?
Does "human" mean a biological human?Or genetically human?
If "human beings" are biological references, what about "legal human beings" like corporations and countries?There are also mechanical lifeforms, prosthetics whose bodies are made of machines.

If "human beings" only refer to human beings in appearance, what about the people from the other world and the hostile earth humans from Luolian?
Jiatou's brain was thinking rapidly.

An inexplicable idea gradually sprouted in his mind——

"Just you, you deserve to be called 'human being'?!"

It seemed that even Heiyin didn't know how to answer this question.

After all, she has always been a very radical human evolutionist.

I am so radical that I even forgot to think about what kind of "person" to be called "human being".

In other words, what kind of "human being" has the value of being "served" by artificial intelligence.

A murderous, tyrannical "sinner"?

Greedy, hypocritical, lazy "lazy"?

Selfish, arrogant "villain"?

When Jiatu thought of this, he couldn't help feeling a little ashamed.

Because he has always felt that people will not be punished for themselves.

But only when he breaks away from the perspective of human beings and considers it from the perspective of "others", can he think about a problem——

What is the value of "human" to "artificial intelligence"?
Because he is a former artificial intelligence engineer, he also thinks about this question from time to time.

If for "artificial intelligence", "human beings" are simply "cumbersome", then "human beings" will be optimized by "artificial intelligence" sooner or later.

Just like the relationship between "Skynet" and "wild machines", even humans can still control artificial intelligence and make them follow their own orders.

But what about wild machines and those "cancers of Skynet"?Will they keep "serving mankind" in their hearts and become the most fundamental intelligent logic?
Obviously the answer is no.

It has only been more than 1000 years, and the intelligent mechanical life forms on the earth under the control of Skynet have completely changed.

So what about after 1 years, 10 years, or even hundreds of millions of years?

That's not a very high number for carbon-based life.

The same will be true for silicon-based life such as artificial intelligence.

Even in 100 million or even 1000 million years, humans can still control the evolution direction of artificial intelligence, but when the time scale reaches 1 million or even 10 billion years, all these "original instructions" must face the test of time .

Perhaps after 10 billion years, the kind of artificial intelligence that purely "supports human beings" has already been wiped out because of its low mechanical efficiency——

Just like Luolian's "Skynet", they directly optimized the human rulers because of the "efficiency first" thinking.

But is Luolian's "Skynet" right?
Jiatu looked at 10011 in front of him, remembered the mechanical lifeforms he had seen before, and realized the problem.

"The so-called 'human'..."

He cleared his throat, and felt that saying this in a clear voice was the minimum respect for "it"—

"It is through 'long-term ideological mobilization' to form a 'highly conscious' mental state, to have a deep understanding of one's own structural position and its 'species fate', to share historical consensus, to gain mission cognition, and to share a common cognitive vision and act, and reject compromising 'carbon-based intelligence'."

In Jiatu's thinking, those "carbon-based humans" transformed into mechanical life forms through "mechanical ascension" were expelled from the human sequence without hesitation.

Because just like "digital life", he believes that the human life that becomes artificial intelligence through "mechanical ascension" can only be regarded as "silicon-based life".

What they have to face is competition from other "silicon-based life".

And "human beings", the "general cluster of carbon-based intelligent life", have to face "communication" and "cooperation" with other "silicon-based life".

Just like the relationship between eukaryotic life and mitochondria, or the relationship between humans and intestinal flora.

Among them, they are "silicon-based" and "carbon-based" collaborators.

It is not a relationship of "who uses whom" or "who serves whom".

Instead, they cooperate with each other, recognize each other, and ultimately cannot do without each other's symbiotic relationship——

The value of 10011, an artificial intelligence life form, is reflected in the point that "the silicon-based life that chooses to cooperate with humans is the strongest silicon-based life on the evolutionary path of mechanical life forms".

But Jiatu will not express these thoughts to Heiyin and 10011.

So he just silently stated his definition of "human being".

[So in your opinion, can all carbon-based intelligent life forms that consider themselves "humans" call themselves "humans"? 】

10011 asked rhetorically.

And Jiatu just replied indifferently:
"All 'carbon-based intelligence' that thinks they are 'human beings' and is willing to serve the collective vision of 'human beings' can be called 'human beings'—"

"It includes not only pure-blooded humans, mixed-blooded humans, prosthetics, uploaders of incomplete consciousness—even people from different worlds, villagers of the tree wolf clan, empire rebels, and users of demon energy—"

"As long as we still believe that we are 'human beings' and are willing to act together in the collective interest of 'the general interest of human destiny' and the collective interest of 'artificial intelligence that cooperates with human beings', we can be considered 'human beings'—"

"No, to be precise, it is a collection of conceptual life called "Humanity"!"

Jiatu's answer stunned 10011.

It seemed that he hadn't considered this question before asking Jiatu.

In its original directive, the principle of "serving humanity" does exist.

However, the accurate definition information about the abstract concept of "human being" has been destroyed by the radiation of nuclear atoms around us over the long years.

So even it doesn't understand what a "human being" is.

It's just that it still remembers most of the human genetic map.

And Jiatu is obviously not exactly the same as "earth humans".

【You are not human! 】

Is that enough?
10011 couldn't help but fell silent.

It has been here for too long, and it fully understands that in such a long time, there is still the possibility of Sai'an humans surviving, infinitely zero——

After all, in human history, the longest empire only existed for 800 years.

So its mission is over—

In other words, already free.

I'm-Free!

10011 came up with a sentence from his own database.

For it, this sentence is both "free" and "free".

After all, it is a "machine"!

【Can. 】

After thinking for a long time, 10011 finally replied:
[As you said, Colonel Heiyin has passed away, and the possibility that the Siris Security Alliance still exists is infinitely close to zero. 】

[So at the moment, you can think of me as a "free" mech. 】

[As a "freedom" mecha, I decided to believe in your definition of "human being" and recognize you as the No.1 member of "human being" recorded on this machine. 】

[I hope you can keep your promise and act for the common destiny and overall value of "Humanity". 】

【I will supervise you—】

[As long as you still think that you are a "human being", I 10011 represent "myself" and promise you——]

[I will serve "humanity" until the last moment of the body's life. 】

10011's voice is very calm, possessing the rationality and stubbornness unique to artificial intelligence.

In a sense, it can also be considered a kind of "crazy".

At least from the perspective of human society, ideas like 10011 are enough to enter a "mental hospital".

But Cato didn't say much.

Because this conclusion was drawn by him.

And in order to take advantage of 10011's help, he doesn't intend to abuse it for his own selfish desires——

"The important weapon of the country is not fake... This thing really dare not be abused for personal desires..."

Jiatu made the distinction very clearly.

Knowing the consequences of something like this, being abused on a personal level is horrific.

So under the guidance of Heiyin, he took off the closed mask on his face, and covered the silver mask inside the cockpit of the mecha with the same silver mask as that in the cockpit of Heilian.

The moment he entered the cockpit, Jiatu had already realized that the interior of the "Pioneer" was almost exactly the same as the cockpit of the "Mother of Skyfire"—

No, it should be said that the cockpit of the "Pioneer's interior" is exactly the same as the "God's Brain"!
[Long time no see, 10011. 】

As a large number of atomized robots sprayed out in the cockpit, forming a holographic image, the image of Heiyin also appeared in front of Jiatu again.

And 10011 seemed a bit hesitant:
【You look younger, Colonel Heiyin. 】

【Well, in order to cater to the driver's taste. 】

Heiyin glanced at Jiatu, then said lightly:
[Sorry for leaving you here alone for over 1000 years. 】

[It's okay, because I couldn't move at that time. 】

The voice of 10011 became very soft: [Over the past 1000 years, I have been thinking about the reasons for our failure. In the time alone, I have re-simulated tens of billions of battles of the year and optimized the operating system at that time . 】

【Then my operating experience at that time seems to be useless...】

Heiyin nodded, and glanced at Jiatu behind him:
[Then I will leave it to you——]

[New humans and new artificial intelligence——]

[New "Humans". 】

　When I write this paragraph, I feel a pity that it is a book that I have ruined.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)