Chapter 996 Deleted Memory Volextra [Part 2]

Chapter 996 Deleted Memories vol.extra [Next]

This happened about thirty years ago. At that time, the situation suddenly reversed. Yawgmoth removed most of the backdoors controlled by Xiangshan, controlled the old world army, and reorganized it into the predecessor of the Protector.

And this was also the time when Xiangshan fell into despair. He was too radical in his tactical choice and wanted to kill Yawgmoth before everything became settled.

So, he died.

In the subsequent operations, Yawgmoth destroyed all strategically valuable locations on the earth. All the root servers of the Internet, as well as the servers of almost all large organizations and all important network nodes, are within the attack range. In addition to the database of the research institution, almost all the physical foundations of the old network were removed by Yawgmoth by force.

After that, he will rebuild a new network of the solar system-under his control.

And in this process, some brave people transferred the precious data of the old network to the new network.

Like Noah's Ark connecting the old and new eras.

This happened thirty years ago.

After that, the two fake Xiangshans destroyed the foundation of trust between the knights.

And the fourth Xiangshan, the new Xiangshan, claimed to lead everyone to change their ways again.

The "chivalrous way" of the original Xiangshan was born out of the struggle situation based on the terrible atrocities of "stealing the country" that happened in secret. It is not suitable for completely different enemies such as the protectors.

The knights must make changes.

Xiangshan, probably the fifth Xiangshan, also thinks so.

However, Xiangshan does not think that the knights can confront the protectors head-on. The original Xiangshan was merciful and did not decisively deal with all the old-era troops, which led to this force eventually falling into the hands of the beast of Yawgmoth. The last chance for the knights to confront the protectors head-on was wasted due to the idiotic operation of the "fake Xiangshan".

The key historical node has been missed.

The current struggle situation is like this, and it must not be confronted head-on.

But in the final analysis, Yawgmoth only used death to coerce those old-era military forces to obey him. As long as he shows an attitude of "I don't care whether I kill 100,000 or 1 million people", most soldiers will feel numb with fear. He can also interfere with the brains of those with backdoors to a certain extent and interfere with their thinking.

But he can't really kill thoughts.

There must be a large number of individuals who are unwilling to surrender within the shelter.

Xiangshan is best at "joining if you can't beat them", "messing them up", and swallowing up the world in an ambiguous game rule.

And now, he is looking for weapons - to resist Yawgmoth, but also for the future of mankind.

This is the deepest part of the new network, and he wants to find some data that existed when the new network was born. He wants to find capital that can be used from these data. Whether it is as a weapon or as a trading material, it's fine as long as it can be used.

Data is the most precious and cheapest thing in this era.

In the electronic age, nothing is simpler than "copying a piece of data".

But it is not easy to find "the part that is useful for a specific situation" from the vast amount of data.

What Xiangshan didn't expect was...

What he met was an AI.

An AI that called him "father".

According to the historical records in the annotations, Xiangshan designed the initial framework for this AI. It consists of two parts, one of which focuses on collecting "the learning results of other players on the symbol system" and exercising the ability of "comparison". The other is responsible for "using the structure of neural network layer by layer to extract features and try to guess the meaning of the symbol system by itself". These two parts sharpen and promote each other.

Just like what Xiangshan did to the works of several famous musicians and cartoonists before the "World No. 1 Martial Arts Tournament". Only this time, its target has changed to "all human players who play that puzzle game".

Then, there is a third part, which is responsible for updating. The programmers at the time designed a simple mechanism that was quite violent. They would let the AI ​​replicate itself as a whole. When replicating, one of the two "mother" and "replica" will be randomly assigned a record. After the program detects this record, it will automatically search for "update components that may be useful" and download them. In this way, it will modify its own program, and then compare the operation stability, operating efficiency, etc. of the "generative adversarial network" with the mother.

Then, a part is eliminated violently.

At that time, this program could not access the Internet. Its detection range, at most, included the servers of major game companies and game-related developer communities.

Xiangshan didn't even remember that there was such a thing. Maybe it was a programmer's trick, or Xiangshan added a gimmick to his work.

Anyway, no one expected it to grow into what it would become.

Machines don't have personality. Existing computers will never evolve into humans.

But...

This AI seems to have changed.

Perhaps the nameless programmer who brought it here modified its search range before arriving at the new network, or some key parts went wrong during the repeated self-replication. Or perhaps there was a simple reversal of potential at the physical level. This AI broke through the limit. It downloaded too much content to itself. This includes the NPC data of the puzzle game, the interactive interface with cartoon style, and many scientific research software in the field of linguistics.

There are even components developed by many internal martial artists. This poor AI has long been a sieve. When it runs, the data will be uploaded to the hands of many hackers simultaneously.

It's just that until now, the internal martial artists don't care much about the Rama Project. Therefore, the symbol system deciphering process mastered by this AI has not attracted anyone's attention.

However, this AI cannot fight against any human. It updated the service-type components for itself. It has the instinct to serve humans.

When he determined that he was visited and the visitor was a high-authority user, the AI ​​started a new operation.

The main task of AI is to interpret those alien information. Its logic requires it to avoid being shut down by itself - and this logic given by the programmer of Superman Enterprise seems to be confused with the behavior of an NPC in a clearance animation. Immediately using the logic of the plot game NPC, this AI found a suitable way to negotiate.

All that AI knows about humans is the content of that puzzle game - something that Xiangshan said casually a hundred years ago, and then a screenwriter of a game company freely created on this basis.

This game is not plot-driven, the plot is just a guide, just "casual talk".

And this is all that AI knows.

He must use such a ridiculous understanding of humans to protect his deduction process for decades.

Xiangshan is somewhat unacceptable: "But... this..."

He thought for a moment and said: "In the final analysis, you have no self-awareness, right?"

"I don't have the ability to think like a human." AI admitted directly, "It's just that under the action of multiple modules, I can easily be considered as 'having self-awareness' by humans."

Human "empathy" is very imprecise. Many people have the illusion that "everything looks like a human face." It is also easy for humans to regard occasional events as information conveyed by "a supreme will".

In fact, it is easy for humans to think that "something is very human-like".

"No, in the final analysis, human's 'self-awareness' is also the result of the joint action of many modules." Xiangshan sighed, "Mutation, selection, seeking benefits and avoiding harm... You are already a 'living thing'."

"Since you want to be protected, then tell me. As a special AI, what can you bring to me?"