Chapter 949: Closed Loop
In Xu You's daily thinking, he often compares Proxima Centauri and robots, comparing the similarities and differences between them.
"Of course, Proxima Centauri are carbon-based creatures after all, which is . Proxima Centauri have never thought that they are robots. But in the Proxima civilization, there was once a plan, a very bold plan."
Listening to Severi's words, everyone focused their attention and looked forward to what Severi would say next.
"The Proxima civilization once had a plan to completely transform a planet into a planet of artificial intelligence and robots. On this planet, there will be no carbon-based existence, and all civilizations will be based on machinery and electricity..."
Severi's words really shocked everyone, because such an idea was too unbelievable.
"A civilization made up purely of machinery and electricity... is it really a civilization? No, I don't think they can even be considered life."
Lin Shi expressed doubts about this idea. After all, in Lin Shi's cognition, machines and life are not the same concepts.
"Yes, Lin Shi, strictly speaking, machines are not considered life. But if we broaden the concept a little bit, and consider anything that can reproduce and evolve as life, then machines, or robots, can be considered life."
Listening to Severi's explanation, Lin Shi still looked confused, but Xu You had already understood the general idea of the matter.
"Severi, you said that robots can also reproduce and evolve autonomously? This is impossible, isn't it?"
Seeing Lin Shi raised a question, Xu You answered first:
"No, Lin Shi, your introduction is still stuck in the past. With the current capabilities of artificial intelligence, it is indeed possible to complete the process of continuing offspring and autonomous evolution. Severi, let me guess the process first, and then you can evaluate whether what I said is similar to the plan of the Proxima civilization."
"Okay, Mr. Xu , then please go ahead."
"First, let me talk about how robots reproduce. In fact, the reproduction of offspring itself is the process of creating a new robot. In this regard, our Blue Star civilization already has this ability..."
Listening to Xu You's story, Lin Shi gradually understood what was in Xu You's mind.
"I see. As long as the robots we produce can autonomously manufacture robots, then all of this is similar to the continuation of biological offspring. But teacher, this process is more like a processing and manufacturing process. How do we achieve the evolution of species?"
"It's not complicated to say. We just need to simulate the genetic mechanism of organisms and let each robot have its own unique 'gene'. Of course, the so-called 'gene' here is something similar to computer program code, which can determine the various properties of the robot. When two robots are combined, they will immediately extract the program code that controls their own properties and combine them..."
Hearing this, Lin Shi already roughly understood what Xu You wanted to express.
At this time, Luo Wenkun asked Xu You:
"Xu You, I have roughly understood the basic principles of how robots reproduce. Simply put, it is to allow robots to create robots and simulate genetic recombination through program coding combinations. But Xu You, I am not quite sure how to complete the evolution of robots in this way?"
After listening to Luo Wenkun's question, Xu You replied:
"It's very simple. Just make a small part of these program codes change randomly. Of course, we need to conduct complex research to control the specific way these program codes change..."
This way of changing program coding is similar to the genetic mutation of organisms in nature. Through natural selection, breakthroughs that are more adaptable to environmental changes can be preserved.
Of course, it is still very difficult to simulate a real genetic breakthrough by using changes in program coding.
After listening to everything Xu You said, Lin Shi asked Severi:
"Severi, what the teacher just said, how similar is it to the plan of the Proxima civilization?"
"There are many similarities. Professor Xu has hit upon almost all the key points of the Proxima Civilization Project. Of course, there are some minor differences in the details, but this is also very normal."
Severi was also amazed at the accuracy of Xu You's guess. After all, Severi had never revealed any information related to this to Xu You before. However, Xu You still predicted the plan accurately as if he knew the whole plan.
"Teacher, you are so amazing. But Severi, since the Proxima civilization already has this plan, has it been successfully implemented in the future?"
Lin Shi also expressed her admiration for Xu You, and asked Severi about the follow-up of the plan.
"The Proxima Centauri civilization did try to start this plan, but for various reasons, the research eventually came to nothing."
"Severi, the reason for this should be the random changes in the program code."
"Yes, this is one of the main problems. At the beginning, when the Proxima civilization was making random changes to the program code, it created a lot of robots with very poor capabilities, which caused the entire robot race to decline quickly. In subsequent research, the Proxima civilization did not solve this problem very well, because if the changes in the program code are minimized to the greatest extent, it is more like a mechanized manufacturing project."
Hearing what Severi said, Xu You nodded slightly, indicating that he had anticipated these situations.
"It's okay, Severi. We will definitely work hard to solve these problems next time. I already have a rough plan for these solutions."
As early as when he was thinking about these questions, Xu You had predicted the evolutionary pattern of this robot race through his brain simulation skills.
As long as the random changes in the program code can be reasonably controlled, robots can indeed complete their evolution little by little in the process of continuous reproduction.
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In the following years, the Blue Star civilization gradually completed the development of Mars, transformed Mars into a new home for mankind, and gradually began the development of other planets and satellites in the solar system , and even began to set their sights outside the solar system.
At the same time, the "Robot Civilization" project that Severi was in charge of officially started operation.
In order to ensure the safety of this project to the greatest extent, Xu You chose to carry out this project on a planet outside the solar system.
Of course, Xu You did not want to make this planet a simple experimental base. In order to protect this planet and prevent these constantly evolving robots from threatening other planets, Xu You set up a huge barrier outside this planet.
In this way, no matter how these robots develop, they will never be able to break through this barrier, which also allows Xu You to rest assured about the implementation of this project.
After ensuring the safety of the project, Xu You let Severi take charge of the specific implementation of the project.
At the beginning, the planet had not undergone any transformation. Severi only brought a group of robots to the planet, and then quietly observed the changes of these robots without any other intervention.
The initial attributes of these robots are not that powerful, and their brain power is not even as strong as the average level of humans on Blue Star, but their advantage is that they have very strong survivability.
They do not need oxygen, water and food like living things do. They can survive with just energy.
This allowed them to survive quickly on this new planet, develop into their own population, and begin the process of reproduction.
In order to make the experiment progress more quickly, Severi deliberately increased the reproduction rate of these robots so that they could produce offspring every year.
Of course, these small robots cannot grow simply by relying on energy, but need to replenish the various materials needed in the body.
Fortunately, the elements contained in these materials can still be collected on the planet, and the various elements in the bodies of those dead robots can also be recycled.
In this way, these robot races began the development of their own civilization.
At the beginning, the changes of these robots were not too obvious, but as time passed, these robots gradually formed a very large population and spread to every corner of the planet.
The various capabilities of these robots are becoming stronger little by little as they continue to evolve.
"I never thought that these robots would evolve so quickly in just a few years. Their level of civilization has already reached the steam age of humans."
Xu You has been observing the changes in the robot population on this planet through various equipment placed on this planet.
Although the rapid reproduction of robots has played a very critical role in this, the mutation mechanism of these program changes is an even more important one.
During this period, Xu You also made very important progress in his research on X-level super quantum.
After continuous research, Xu You discovered that Level X is not a specific level, but a special level that is above the ordinary level.
This feeling is like "positive infinity" in mathematics, and it has no exact meaning.
The energy magnitudes of different X-level super-quanta may vary greatly, but this will not affect their existence as X-level.
Xu You also made a significant breakthrough in the research on how to produce X-level super-quantum.
Xu You discovered that there are many connections between X-level super quantum and intelligent creatures.
To be more precise, if you want to create an X-level super quantum, you may need an intelligent creature with very high brain power as raw material.
"Xu You, if your conjecture is correct, would you really sacrifice yourself to create an X-level super quantum?"
Hearing Lu Zhiyao's question, Xu You answered solemnly:
"If this is something that is necessary, I will naturally choose to do it without hesitation. In this space and time, there is no need for me to do anything more. But if I cannot complete the entire space and time loop, then this space and time may be affected by it, which is something I absolutely cannot bear to see."
Xu You's meaning was very clear. Even if the current capabilities of the Blue Star civilization could enable humans like Xu You to achieve immortality, pure immortality had no meaning and would even make Xu You feel desperate.
And if the space-time closed loop cannot be completed, causing cracks to appear in this space-time, the entire space-time may even collapse.
"Of course, all of this needs further verification, and Severi's robot experiment is a very important topic. We must understand the upper limit of artificial intelligence to prevent the rapid development of artificial intelligence from posing a serious threat to human civilization."
The threat posed by artificial intelligence has always been something Xu You is worried about, because since the emergence of quantum computers, artificial intelligence has begun to develop very rapidly.
Even though Xu You has achieved many good research results relying on artificial intelligence, this does not mean that Xu You has no worries about the development of artificial intelligence.
Through Severi's robot civilization experiment, we can explore the threats of artificial intelligence in a more comprehensive way.
Several more years passed, and what Xu You worried about gradually became a reality.
These robots developed very quickly and soon entered the information age. There has even been a lot of research on them themselves.
What they cannot figure out is how they were created in the first place and whether there is a great being like a creator.
While exploring space, they also discovered that there was an invisible barrier outside the planet that prevented them from moving outward.
Using the various data from the evolution process of these robots, Xu You obtained a method to limit artificial intelligence, which could confine it to a safe range.
After completing all this, Xu You can finally manufacture X-level super quantum with confidence.
Xu You knew very well that in this process, he would leave this time and space forever.
And Lu Zhiyao will make the same choice as Xu You. In this way, the two of them will be entangled forever in the form of super quantum.
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【Do you want to explore the truth of the universe? 】
In the haze, such a voice was heard by a young man named Xu You.
(End of the book)
