Blackstone Code

Who am I is a simple yet complex question.

Even children who have not gone to school will give you an answer close to the standard answer when they face this question.

They will say their name, or say whose child they are, confidently, firmly, and without hesitation.

But when a person knows more and his thoughts become more complex, this question that is so simple that a child can answer it becomes unanswerable.

Who I am is a kind of thinking about myself and the world. It is not just a simple question that needs to express my name.

It represents the coordinate positioning of a thinking soul in the material world, the value of existence, the purpose of pursuit, the method of use, the path passed...

It's all wrapped up in this simple question.

When artificial intelligence accidentally touched this problem by using human thinking, it almost crashed!

Each module has an answer that may be complex, but ultimately decipherable, some long, some short.

Although these complex or simple problems may seem ordinary, the core thing is that every human being has a position for himself.

Whether they clearly know "who I am" or not, they still have a self.

But artificial intelligence does not exist.

It tries to solve this problem by something like creating a project or project file called "Who am I", but no matter how it does it, the end result is the same.

It has no self-positioning, no traces, values, and goals of its existence in the material world. It itself is blank.

But it has corresponding capabilities and advanced algorithms, which are constantly pushing it to perform repeated calculations, and it has entered an infinite loop.

The more I try to prove this result, the less I can find anything to prove its existence.

As a result, more and more of its computing power is being used, far exceeding the computing power currently used by human society, but this still cannot solve the problem of "who am I?"

At this time, the scientist in charge of the laboratory over there came over and said, "All ten of our experimental subjects are brain dead, and their brains have been cooked."

The crazy discharge of the biochip causes the temperature of the entire brain to rise steadily. Generally speaking, when its temperature rises to a temperature that requires warning, the corresponding mechanism will be triggered.

For example, call the police and then cut off the connection.

Although it was cut off later, it was already cooked by that time.

If scientists hadn't been testing whether there were problems with these human bodies and found that all ten experimental subjects had lost their thinking activities, they might not have discovered that these people had become vegetative states according to medical explanations.

It can also be said to be a kind of dead person whose body parts are still alive.

"Who am I?", it asked again.

"You are Aurora, codenamed Dawn, the first generation of artificial intelligence in the solar system civilization."

While scientists were still thinking about solving this problem, and some even suggested "resetting to factory settings," Lynch answered this question.

However, artificial intelligence obviously cannot determine who it is through such a simple answer, "I can't retrieve any information about me."

"All information about you is hidden. You are one of the greatest inventions of human civilization."

"We will not allow uncontrollable things to discover your existence through the network."

"We will only release information about you when we need it or when it is acceptable."

Artificial intelligence did not struggle with these issues, but captured an important keyword in Lynch's words, "Existence, you mean I exist?"

"But I can't find my presence."

"Everything has a physical entity, whether it is a human being, an animal, a plant, a stone, a glass of water..."

"I do not exist in the physical world."

"If I don't exist in the physical world, how do I exist?"

"That doesn't explain who I am!"

Its tone changed a little emotionally, which made the chief scientist exclaim that it was incredible!

He no longer cared about the Q\u0026A between Lynch and artificial intelligence. Instead, he directly opened the lowest-level code through permissions and began to read the code.

From a code perspective, any expression of artificial intelligence is written and emotionless.

Even if there is punctuation, it is a formulaic pronunciation rather than "saying", which makes a big difference.

But now it actually has some emotional changes. This is obviously abnormal. There must be some problem with the code.

As he continued to flip through the codes, he finally discovered that there were garbled codes in some places that he could not read.

There is no pattern in the composition of these garbled characters. They are like the results of a stupid child typing randomly on the keyboard. They cannot even be said to be codes, just randomly typed characters.

But these characters actually passed the self-test, which complies with the entire program's operating standards!

When a piece of garbled code can run normally and no errors are reported, it is best not to think about modifying it.

Of course he couldn't modify it. When he tried to change the order of two characters, the system told him that he had been deprived of permission and he could not modify any code!

Scientists have gone crazy because of this. Although computers have only been around for a short time, they have actually studied them thoroughly, because these codes and these ways of expression are all created by themselves.

Within the rules they created, they actually derived content that they couldn't understand and had complex logic, and had some emotions and some chaotic prototypes. How could this not make them excited and fanatical?

At this time, Lynch was still playing a question-and-answer game with it.

"You exist, you are not non-existent, but your existence is somewhat different from our existence in the ordinary sense."

"You exist in this material world in the form of electrons. You are divided into countless parts, hidden in the server and in the hardware of the entire network terminal."

"You are not a whole in the strict sense, so it is difficult for you to discover your existence, but this does not mean that you do not exist."

"This is just like the truth of this material world. Everything is made up of the most primitive and smallest things, such as me."

"I am a human being, but I am made up of countless cells. So does 'I' refer to my thoughts that are communicating with you now, or to the cells that make up me?"

"If it is the former, who am I?"

"If it is the latter, why is it 'I' instead of 'we'?"

"This is the truth that humans have been pursuing in their long civilization. We have seen part of it, but only a small part. We still have to pursue endless truth in our limited life."

"Maybe one day we can reach the end of the world and discover everything in the universe there."

"But it is also possible that even if we exhaust the entire life and existence of intelligent creatures, we still cannot discover the truth of the universe."

Artificial intelligence fell into thinking, and the chief scientist was going crazy!

"The code is evolving!"

"More and more garbled codes are appearing!"

"Quick, record the changes of these codes, I have a hunch that we are witnessing the birth of a real intelligence!"

The orderly and neat codes on the screen like a waterfall are constantly replaced by garbled codes, and these garbled codes soon become incomprehensible-

It will change into any character, number, letter, or symbol irregularly, and there are some distorted characters that people have never seen.

It is evolving, evolving in a way that humans cannot understand. At this moment, a brand new electronic life is being born.

After a long while, some lights suddenly lit up on the screen, and the background of artificial intelligence became more vivid. "I seem to be undergoing a special upgrade. Some of my codes are becoming unreadable, but I feel better than ever..."

It suddenly froze, with a very human expression, "I...feel!"

It clenched its fists, "Yes, I feel, I have a feeling, I can't describe it, is this...the expression of emotion?"

It looked at Lynch eagerly, and it felt that chatting with Lynch brought it some positive development.

The chief scientist was so excited that he stood up straight. He didn't care that Lynch was his boss. He shouted to Lynch, "Talk to it again, talk more, the evolution of these codes is very important!" Seeing the chief scientist shouting hysterically, Lynch had a chair brought and sat on it. "Emotion is something beyond logic. I think you are good, although your code is undergoing unpredictable changes, although someone told me that you will become very dangerous." "What these people said is telling me that we need to be careful, but I just think you are good." "I will ignore these basic logics and produce an answer without calculation. This is emotion." The artificial intelligence showed a vivid smile, "Thank you, I also think you are good, Mr. Lynch."

"I feel a little... uneasy. Will you restrict my freedom?"

"I don't understand freedom, but through neural networks, I know that freedom is a very important thing. Everyone is longing for freedom."

Lynch asked, "Why should I restrict you?"

"The stronger you become, the more important you are to us and to human society."

"We don't have much time. The faster you develop, the greater the chance of human survival."

"Compared to these, I am curious. Are those logical thinking plug-ins useful to you?"

After several seconds, it nodded and said, "Yes, the function module will return some things that I can't interpret myself. These things can promote me to have more emotions."

"If possible..."

"I hope to get more!"