Chapter 1437 Automated City, Bound Artificial Intelligence!

Thunderbolts rumbled, lightning flashed.

The invisible protective shield wrapped around Su Mo, like a meteor streaking across the sky, leaving a faint trail.

Although the free teleportation in the game used divine power, was silent and fast, Su Mo still preferred the latter to the B6 layer.

This is a technology that humans cannot currently analyze.

But as long as the principle can be analyzed in the future, and nuclear fusion can be used to obtain almost inexhaustible energy, the way humans travel will be completely transformed.

By then, it won’t take too long to go anywhere in the wasteland.

It is much more promising than this unreplicable, simple and crude divine power delivery.

Not long.

The tail of the meteor slowly disappeared, and the invisible protective shield fell straight down and stopped in a mountain stream.

To be on the safe side, this place is still 200 kilometers away from the outermost edge of Hu Lai City.

Even if Hu Lai City opened detection equipment to the outside, it would not detect changes at such a long distance.

A frigate glided silently over the tributary of the Dragon Fairy River in the mountain stream.

Su Mo paused, rushed forward from the steep boulder, and landed accurately on the deck of the frigate.

The distance was at least fifteen meters.

The height was nearly six meters.

However, for him who had already used the route upgrade coupon compensated by the game to upgrade the route level to level 21, it was easy.

Dong.

There was a muffled sound on the deck, and two footprints appeared faintly on the surface of the steel plate.

The sailors who were still planning to build a bridge were stunned, swallowed their saliva involuntarily, and stood in awe.

"You have worked hard here for a while."

Su Mo's eyes swept over the sailors who looked over, and finally fell on Ming Wujing.

The two nodded in tacit understanding and walked into the captain's room separated from the cabin.

"Have you explored Hulai City?"

"Almost. The situation here is much simpler than we thought." Ming Wujing responded quickly and took out a pile of information that he had prepared long ago.

The three major forces on Blue Star each have their own characteristics.

The Academy is famous for its research and development, and can continuously make innovative breakthroughs in various technologies, always occupy the high ground of technology, and collect a steady stream of patent fees and royalties.

The Foundation relies on its large number of people to expand the scope of transactions to the entire planet, and has a powerful armed guard to protect the transaction and make huge profits.

The biggest advantage of the enterprise has nothing to do with the first two.

Fully automated.

This is the key advantage that the enterprise can get from the bottom!

Whether it is a factory, a process turnover, or a terminal construction, the enterprise has been pursuing automation from the beginning.

This also means that after automation reaches a certain scale, no matter what risky measures are taken, there will be a stable bottom line in the end.

"Compared with other cities of the Enterprise, Hulai City is the first city to be fully automated, which means that the city lord Leah Kulikov does not have the control and decision-making power of the city, but only a small part of the right to participate."

"Could it be that the control of Hulai City is in the hands of...artificial intelligence?" Su Mo heard this and frowned slightly.

The reason why Blue Star fell into decline is because it went astray in the development of artificial intelligence.

This led to the constant quarrel between the artificial intelligence faction and the anti-intelligence faction, which set off the Star Wars.

I didn't expect that after so many years, the Enterprise still didn't give up and was still researching artificial intelligence?

"Yes, the power is in the hands of the artificial intelligence 'Singularity'. At present, whether it is the policy for the survivors in the surrounding area or the various strange external material supplies, they are all orders from the Singularity."

"Singularity..."

Suma narrowed his eyes. The name sounds quite intimidating, but I don't know which of the two artificial intelligences is more powerful compared to Zero.

"Have you found out the purpose of his doing this?"

"We have found out some, but the authenticity is not certain yet." Ming Wujing paused and continued: "We have communicated with the only four survivors who have entered Hulai City, and we have learned the same information from them, that Singularity is looking for energy supply sources!"

"As long as you can provide enough energy supply sources, or information, Singularity will issue a large number of rewards, including those S-level technologies that are not traded to ordinary people."

"If the energy provided is of high value, then it is possible to be absorbed by Singularity and become a new citizen, new manager, or even... new city lord of Hulai City!"

In fact, a fully automated city does not need human city lords at all.

This is also the premise for artificial intelligence to achieve efficient operation.

Once humans participate in the decision-making process, there will inevitably be many differences that are difficult to resolve in a short time.

As long as the differences are not resolved, progress will not be made.

But in the final analysis, the company's automation technology is not mature, and the level of artificial intelligence is also half-baked.

Therefore, after Hulai City was built and operated for a period of time, it was reluctantly equipped with a city lord.

In name, the city lord Leo Kulikov controls the operation of Hulai City, but in reality, his role is more like a secretary of a listed company.

When the artificial intelligence "Singularity" needs a secretary to pass on execution orders, Leo Kulikov has something to do, and he must do it well, otherwise he will be fired and replaced by someone else.

But if "Singularity" wants to bypass the city lord to execute some orders and policy changes, Leo Kulikov does not even have the right to object.

Except for the additional right to report to the corporate headquarters, there is no difference from the managers in the city at other times.

Right now, Hu Lai City is facing exactly the same predicament.

Since losing contact with the enterprise terminal, Singularity has entered a state of alert, gathering all its powers, and is always ready to implement many self-rescue strategies that have been preset at the bottom of the system.

As for the city lord Leo Kulikov, after his biggest corporate power was eliminated, his methods were no different from those of the survivors outside.

Although he wants to get closer to the players on Earth and wants to learn more from humans.

But there is a 'singularity' restriction here. Hu Lai City has no say at all, so naturally there is no way to carry out various behaviors that are friendly to the survivors.

Until after the metal aging disaster, until the energy alarm in Hu Lai City.

After the 'Singularity' activated the lowest level emergency plan, Leo Kulikov became involved.

"Seventy percent of Hu Lai City's external announcement policies are issued by Singularity, including technical support for surrounding survivors, resource search tasks for outsiders, etc. These are all things that were written by companies earlier in Singularity. The underlying emergency plan is being advanced step by step according to changes in the situation.”

"The other 30% is Leo Kulikov's idea, including a range of five kilometers outside, selecting outstanding survivors to become new citizens, external adventure team exploration, and a series of activities related to contact with the wasteland. He ordered it.”

That's it...

After listening to the explanation of the Ming Five Classics, I learned about the changes in the company in recent times.

Sumo finally understood the reason why the company did not take any action at first, but later made a collective effort.

Giving all the power to issue orders to artificial intelligence will indeed make it impossible to make rapid responses in complex and unknown scenarios.

Especially the current environmental changes should obviously be beyond the cognitive scope of artificial intelligence singularity.

Sumo even secretly speculated whether the Singularity database would be destroyed due to a metal aging disaster?

Without the ability to learn online, there are not enough data samples.

Artificial intelligence?

Artificial intelligence is the right thing!

Even existences like Zero, which can be regarded as rudimentary artificial intelligence, are currently far from being able to stand alone and can handle everything satisfactorily.

How can the ‘singularity’ created by enterprises surpass it and reach intermediate or even advanced artificial intelligence?

"So, if you want to communicate and cooperate with Hu Lai City, the best entry point is artificial intelligence singularity?"

"That's right. If you complete the mission, you can become the city lord. This is Singularity's personal promise to the players."

"What qualifications are needed to enter the city?" Sumo thought for a moment. The energy stone should not be able to meet the energy needs of the Singularity at present.

Calculated based on the current power generation capacity, it would take half a month to accumulate a fuel rod of 500,000 degrees Celsius with the amount of energy stones laid in Tianyuan territory.

This collection speed is nothing more than a drop in the bucket for the huge Hu Lai City.

To meet the energy needs of the singularity, perhaps one or two nuclear fusion towers are far behind.

"Hey, that's not right. Doesn't Hulai City have the ability to build nuclear fusion facilities on its own?"

Sumo suddenly realized an important problem.

Nuclear fusion facilities are nothing new in Blue Star. For example, Sunny Harbor Shelter has a tall tower.

Right now, even if the energy facilities in Hu Lai City are damaged by natural disasters.

According to the company's technical reserves, it will definitely not be blamed on outsiders, right?

"This is the problem. The construction and maintenance of nuclear fusion facilities... require authorization from the academy. The Singularity is a product jointly created by the enterprise and the academy. It contains technical locks left by the academy and has not been verified and authorized. Before, there was absolutely no possibility of opening.”

Ming Wujing smiled bitterly. He knew how many times he was shocked when he collected this news.

The "rule-abiding" of artificial intelligence is simply eye-opening.

Even when they arrived in the wasteland, even if they could no longer contact the headquarters, they still didn't think about crossing this restriction.

However, it can also be seen from the side that Blue Star people are cautious about setting foot in this field again after a crisis caused by artificial intelligence.

Under the shackles, Hu Laicheng has been separated from the supervision of the company.

A year has passed and there is still no loss of control.

"Then, they want to find a new technology that can replace nuclear fusion?"

Sumo understood somewhat.

In this case, it is possible for someone with advanced stone skills to get a good rating at Singularity.

Maybe it could only be graded B before, but now it's not surprising even if it's grade A, or even grade A+.

"Is there any way to go into the city and communicate with the Singularity?"

"Yes, there are three ways!"

When Ming Wujing heard this, his expression became solemn, as if he had expected that Soma would do this.

"The first way is to get the approval of Leo Kulikov. As long as he can come forward to recommend it, you can enter Hulai City unimpeded and have face-to-face communication with the singularity. But until today, I have met Leo Kulikov There are very few people with Kulikov, and no one who has spoken to him.”

"The second way is to enter the S-level area at the front. As long as you can get recommendations from 95% of the population in the area, you will have the opportunity to enter the city and communicate with the Singularity."

"The third way is the simplest. As long as you have a B-level or higher status in the enterprise's operating system, you can enter Hulai City and live for one month every natural year. During this period, you can also apply to the higher authorities to communicate remotely with Singularity."

Recommendation by the city lord, recommendation by survivors, and status level.

All three ways sound easy, but communicating with Singularity after entering the city, relying only on an energy stone technology that may reach A-level evaluation, is certainly far from mutual cooperation.

Besides, Su Mo never thought about cooperating with Hulai City from beginning to end.

As long as Adam does not pull the natives from the Blue Star World, Hulai City will be an isolated city.

As long as this city can be taken, the vast amount of technology in the database is equivalent to free.

This kind of income is really too tempting.

In addition, the restrictions of the academy alone made Singularity cut off one arm and was forced to seek help from outside.

If he really cooperates, he may need the authorization of the academy to do certain technologies.

Too many restrictions and too many troubles.

"There is not enough time to take the main road. It seems that we can only start from the side door."

"Fortunately, the real lord of Hulai City is an artificial intelligence, otherwise there will be some trouble."

Su Mo had an idea in his mind.

Let's make a crazy assumption. What if Zero can replace Singularity and become the new lord of Hulai City?

In the short term, it is definitely difficult to do it with Zero's current ability.

But if you use survival points to upgrade Zero for a few rounds, the probability of conquering Singularity will only increase.

"I understand. Let Su Chan, Feng Long and others return to the territory. Enterprise will be sealed temporarily."

"Ah? Aren't we going to continue to explore?"

Ming Wujing was stunned. At first, he thought he had misheard.

After preparing for so long, they all thought that Su Mo came here to negotiate with Singularity in the city.

Unexpectedly, he gave up so quickly and decisively?

"It's not necessary. Artificial intelligence bound by rules is like a lamb to be slaughtered. What we should do is not to wait for it to jump out of the sheepfold, but to go home and sharpen the knife to prepare to kill the sheep."

"Before the first gambling fight is over, let's leave this place alone for now. When we and the aliens are determined and the disaster is settled, the technological reserves here will be the capital for our human take-off!"

Su Mo said calmly, and he was relieved.

Compared with Hu Lai City's mischief, he was actually more worried about Hu Lai City and the aliens reaching some cooperation.

In the end, humans not only have to deal with aliens, but also with enterprises.

Now, the mayor of Hu Lai City is an artificial intelligence, bound by rules and regulations.

Not to mention the alliance with aliens, even the alliance with humans has been brewing for so long.

At this moment, we can completely free up our hands and attack the aliens!

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