I participated in the development of EVA

"You do it."

"Ah."

Naoko Akagi didn't say anything polite. She just responded and started to command everyone.

"Turn it on."

"The system is starting up... The system is starting up, and the connection window is being checked... No abnormalities, and the permission has been obtained successfully!"

"Send the language pack."

It is still the language tutorial that Rei Ayanami used before.

After the three wise men received the language pack, the system crashed for a moment and then recovered. Then, before everyone had time to get nervous, the decompression progress bar disappeared, and only four words were left on the big screen.

【Unzipped successfully.】

And an option to load it or not.

Naoko Akagi reacted the fastest and directly clicked the [Yes] option.

Almost at the same time as I clicked it, four more words popped up.

【Loading successful.】

Ikari Fumihiko also came back to his senses.

"Let's just use text to verify it first."

Naoko Akagi nodded and thought for a moment before sending a line of words.

【I am Naoko Akagi. 】

【I am Naoko Akagi. 】

She frowned, not quite satisfied with the answer from the Three Sages.

[I am Naoko Akagi, you are not. ]

Ikari Fumihiko originally thought that the three sages would continue to learn to speak, but the three sages gave different answers.

[You are Naoko Akagi, I am not. ]

Naoko Akagi's face lit up when she heard these words.

【You are the three wise men.】

【We are the Three Wise Men.】

[Yes, let the three wise men interpret the bee article.]

No one spoke, just watched Naoko Akagi and the three wise men ask and answer questions.

The three wise men demonstrated their ability to think.

After a long time, Fumihiko Ikari spoke up curiously.

"Let me ask, are they satisfied with the name Three Wise Men?"

Naoko Akagi naturally understood that Fumihiko Ikari asked this question because he wanted to judge whether the three sages had their own will or the ability to think.

As long as you have self-awareness, you will care about your own cognition, and having the ability to think is just knowing how to think about problems.

[Aren't you curious? Why did I name you the Three Wise Men? ]

Naoko Akagi modified the question.

[I'm not curious. A name is just a title and doesn't need to have any special meaning.]

At least from the answers, the Three Wise Men are a device with the ability to think. Of course, the premise is that the Three Wise Men have not learned how to deceive from Naoko Akagi.

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335. Terrifying computing power

Naoko Akagi looked at Fumihiko Ikari, and the other party also looked over at her.

You don't need to say anything to know what Fumihiko Ikari wants to say.

"There should be no possibility of deception."

“It has intelligence.”

"It only has language knowledge inside, which is not enough for it to learn these."

"It's possible to learn when I establish a connection with you."

Naoko Akagi could not defend herself on this point, nor did she get angry at Fumihiko Ikari for questioning her in a nitpicking manner.

This is what scientific research is like, it can withstand questioning.

"Then how do you want to verify it? Theoretically, it is impossible for it to have self-awareness."

Ikari Fumihiko hesitated for a moment before speaking.

“Start with the desire to survive.”

"Let it self-destruct? What happens next? We can't have every machine go through the self-destruct sequence, right?"

"Verify it several times to ensure the safety of the solution and minimize the possibility of self-awareness."

Naoko Akagi did not respond immediately, but fell into deep thought.

There is nothing wrong with this plan except that it is a waste of money. She is now thinking about whether there are other options.

"it is good."

Since she couldn't find a better solution, she nodded and agreed.

【Activate self-destruct sequence.】

This time it was not communication, but input of instructions.

The Three Sages System activated the self-destruct program without hesitation and completely decomposed under the effect of special chemicals.

“How many times should I verify?”

"Seven times."

Naoko Akagi frowned and thought for a while. If she wanted to minimize the probability of it having self-awareness, she should verify it dozens of times, or even hundreds of times, but not seven times.

"Does it have any special meaning?"

"No."

He mentioned it seven times, and Fumihiko Ikari just thought of Dragon Ball when he was talking, so he said it casually.

Then he added another sentence.

"It's the same every time. This process is just to seek peace of mind."

"Oh."

The other members of the project team felt a little regretful. Even if they wanted to verify whether it had self-awareness, they should at least collect more data before destroying it. In addition, they felt that the boss was confident and really didn't worry at all. This success was actually just a miracle that could not be replicated. After all, it was related to something as mysterious as the soul.

No matter what they thought in their hearts, the two of them still acted as required.

The process had been repeated thousands of times and there was no need for the two to intervene. As long as Naoko Akagi appeared during the incubation of the mind, it would be enough. Therefore, the two of them were free.

When a person gets bored, he starts to have random thoughts.

"Which is faster, soul computing or quantum computing?"

Faced with this question, Naoko Akagi was stunned for a moment, and after thinking carefully for a moment, she shook her head blankly.

"I'm not familiar with the quantum realm, and I'm not familiar with the soul realm either. I really can't give an answer as to which one is stronger."

It’s not that Naoko Akagi knows too little about both of them, but that all of humanity knows too little about both of them.

The seven verifications took a week, mainly due to the delay in the reconstruction surgery.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the biological brains of the three sages in the seventh control group successfully executed the self-destruction program as usual.

"Is that all right?"

Akagi Naoko asked, and Ikari Fumihiko nodded in response.

"So be it."

In fact, he still felt that this was not safe enough, but it was meaningless to continue now, because all the necessary insurance had been taken, and if any accidents happened again, it would be purely God's will.

The eighth set of biological brains was quickly set up, and Naoko Akagi successfully completed the mind incubation process just like the previous seven times.

The prototype of the Three Sages system started up smoothly. After loading the language, the previous process was followed this time, and the Three Sages were asked to take a Chinese test to verify their thinking, understanding, cognition... abilities in all aspects. After confirming that everything was correct, everyone began to nervously verify the computing power of the Three Sages prototype.

"Ten thousand times is considered qualified."

Naoko Akagi had high expectations for the performance of the new generation of prototypes, and this time the return was the one where Fumihiko Ikari remained restrained.

"Isn't ten thousand times a bit exaggerated? Even if something as mysterious as the soul is involved, a performance improvement of a thousand or a hundred times... is about right."

Compared to the exaggerated data given by Naoko Akagi, everyone felt that the numbers given by Fumihiko Ikari were more accurate.

Uh……

Ok!

A hundred times, a thousand times, is actually a bit exaggerated.

It wasn't long after the verification that everyone couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"what?"

"How much is this...?"

"It's too exaggerated."

……

Fumihiko Ikari and Naoko Akagi were also staring at the screen in a daze.

The reason is simple: the ten thousand times data is conservative.

The work that would take a supercomputer hundreds of millions of years to calculate was completed in just about three hundred seconds, or about five minutes.

Even the two of them were shocked by this terrifying calculation, and the rest of the people were just stunned where they were.

After a long time, Naoko Akagi came back to her senses and said something dryly.

“Even quantum computers are like this, right?”

"Uh... about that?"

The rest of the people also came back to their senses because of the conversation between the two and began to talk enthusiastically.

"Oh my god, what on earth have we discovered?"

"With such terrifying computing power... even if it doesn't have the ability to think, as long as it learns programming, it will be the god of the cyber world!"

"Except for physical means, any program can't resist its invasion, right?"

"Stocks, bank accounts...you can modify these however you want."

"Idiot, those systems cannot resist the invasion of the Three Sages, but if you modify the data, it will leave traces. As long as there are traces, no matter how careful you are, it will be discovered sooner or later. Don't treat others as fools, okay? You already have such terrifying computing power. As long as you use it to solve some industry problems, how much money do you want? And this will not only make money, but also make your name known to the world."

Fumihiko Ikari and Naoko Akagi were equally excited, but not as intensely as everyone else.

"I feel that the real computing power of the Three Sages is not that terrifying, and their mental computing power accounts for a lot of it."

"It doesn't matter. This amount of computing power is more than enough for the next research."

Naoko Akagi nodded, and then plugged a data cable into the interface reserved by the Three Sages. A data reading progress bar immediately appeared on the screen.

The other end of the data line is connected to an independent database that stores a large amount of various knowledge.

"The reading speed limits the speed at which the Three Sages can learn."

Looking at the slowly growing progress bar on the screen, Fumihiko Ikari sighed, and Naoko Akagi responded.

"Ah."

The three wise men were learning knowledge, so the two of them had free time again.

"The current performance has reached the level of a two-digit quantum computer. Is this good enough for use? Should we continue researching?!"

"After the specialization problem is solved, the performance should be able to be improved further."