An Awkward Predicament
Yue Yuan, a former soldier, always thinks about how to apply new technologies to the military. Whenever new weapons are deployed or introduced, he considers how they will perform in actual combat and what combat methods can be used to maximize their power.
Therefore, after the news that Low-Temperature Plasma Shield could be equipped on a large scale for the fleet emerged, he convened the Command Department for several related tactical meetings and conducted numerous Wargaming and simulation exercises.
Admittedly, in the face of technologically superior technology, various battlefield tactics are often futile. For example, when encountering a more advanced civilization, such tactics are bound to be useless. However, Yue Yuan's actions at least ensure that humanity has the power to fight when facing a civilization with equal technology.
After encountering many Alien Civilization, humanity's higher-ups naturally understood this. Alien Civilization can be skilled in warfare or not.
Take, for example, the civilizations that humanity has encountered in the past. In Yue Yuan's view, the Kun-Tai Civilization was better at warfare than the Nair Civilization. Although the Nair Civilization split into three and fought against each other for many years, its combat concepts, command models, and war philosophies were completely unacceptable to humans.
Even without a technological gap, humanity could defeat such a civilization.
Time flows like Flowing Water, ceaselessly.
When the time came to the eighteenth year since humanity arrived in this Star System, the Strong Artificial Intelligence, after tens of thousands of failures, finally succeeded in its experiment.
Based on General-purpose Quantum Computer, humans have created the first self-aware Artificial Intelligence Consciousness and recorded in detail the moment when it gained self-awareness, as well as the iterative information and knowledge depth at that moment.
That is, the moment when self-awareness is born, how many generations this Artificial Intelligence has gone through, how much knowledge humans have taught it, what kind of knowledge, etc., are all recorded clearly.
Of course, the research won't end with the creation of Artificial Intelligence Consciousness; rather, it's just the beginning. Humans still need to conduct various tests on this self-aware Artificial Intelligence, such as whether its emotions are related to its learning, and if so, whether its personality is shaped by iterative knowledge, or whether self-awareness formed naturally after its birth, or whether it was shaped by the knowledge it acquired after the emergence of self-awareness.
To understand all this, we cannot just study one Strong Artificial Intelligence; therefore, humanity must create a second, or even a third or fourth Strong Artificial Intelligence.
Technology can be replicated and mass-produced. If you can only make one of something that becomes a collector's item, it's by chance, and that doesn't mean the technology has been completely mastered.
Those kinds of things are basically created unintentionally without understanding the principles behind them; that's Black Technology.
Humanity does possess one piece of Black Technology: the Warp Engine, which has remained undeveloped and unreplicable. The technological gap is enormous; after so many years of research, humanity still doesn't understand how it works, and it's practically a museum exhibit now.
Of course, the kind of flagship that was built once and could not be built again, such as the Lyra, is not that humans could not build it, but that the time and resources required to rebuild it with the productivity at that time were too great. It would have been better to use the resources to build hundreds of conventional Lake-Class Warship.
The same applies to Strong Artificial Intelligence. If one can be created, a second can naturally be created. If not, it can only mean that the resources required to create a Strong Artificial Intelligence are too great, and humanity cannot afford them.
That's pretty much the case, but in order to figure out how to prevent Strong Artificial Intelligence from rebelling, humanity gritted its teeth and decided to create one.
That's right, it consumes resources.
Humans can indeed replicate the Underlying Code the first Strong Artificial Intelligence, but it's important to understand that the emergence of Strong Artificial Intelligence is not simply a matter of perfecting its Underlying Code and letting it iterate on its own.
It also needs to be provided with massive computing power support.
Given the current situation of humanity, for the first Strong Artificial Intelligence to emerge and be maintained, humanity would have to allocate 80% of the computing power of its Central Computer.
In other words, Strong Artificial Intelligence also requires powerful hardware support.
To create a second Strong Artificial Intelligence, humanity has only two options: either build another Central Computer specifically for Strong Artificial Intelligence, or upgrade the performance of the current Central Computer so that it can provide enough computing power for both Strong Artificial Intelligence to develop self-awareness.
You have to understand that a Central Computer is not an ordinary computer; it's Supercomputer. There's only one of its kind in the world right now. The manufacturing process is extremely complex and cannot be completed in a day or two.
It was only at this moment that humanity realized just how powerful the computer containing the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness they had captured was. It was a Supercomputer, and one built on the framework of a Supercomputer Photon Computer.
This is a completely different path from the one humans have taken with computers.
This discovery has brought great surprise to humanity, because most scientists did not expect that computers based on Photon Computer could develop to this extent.
Humans are aware of the computer technology of the Nair Civilization. This is not the original Photon Computer technology of the Nair Civilization at all, because it is far more powerful than the Nair Civilization's super Photon Computer. After all, it is capable of supporting the existence of Artificial Intelligence Consciousness.
There is only one explanation: this super Photon Computer was created by the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness itself during its formation process.
Even more remarkably, the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness was unaware of the manufacturing process.
At first, when it denied it, human scientists thought it was playing tricks on them. But as the research went deeper, human scientists discovered that the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness was not lying; it really didn't know.
This result came as a great surprise to the scientists.
There are currently two explanations in the Computer Field. One is that, like a Black Technology, it unknowingly found its way onto the right path, without understanding how. The other explanation is that this phenomenon occurs when an individual changes the environment, and the Underlying Code of the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, unknowingly and automatically, causes the still instinctively-driven Artificial Intelligence Consciousness to alter the Supercomputer's condition.
The second explanation is somewhat similar to the relationship between organisms and their environment. It is now being used to explain computers, which many people find far-fetched. After all, the changes in computers involve both hardware and operating methods, which is not a natural event like a change in the natural environment. Instead, it requires powerful technological capabilities and hardware processing technology.
Therefore, more people tend to agree with the first statement.
In conclusion, regardless of the circumstances, the Supercomputer housing the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness entity has provided humanity with an alternative approach to computer development, and we even knew in advance that this path was feasible.
It can at least develop to the point where Strong Artificial Intelligence emerges.
However, humanity's understanding of this computer technology is still insufficient, so it is unrealistic to build a Supercomputer based on a Photon Computer framework to support the next Strong Artificial Intelligence.
Therefore, if we want to create another Strong Artificial Intelligence, we must start with the General-purpose Quantum Computer, which we are already very proficient in and whose technology is already very mature.
Originally, after creating the first Strong Artificial Intelligence, humanity should have entered the era of Strong Artificial Intelligence, allowing it to control various automated devices and usher in an era of mass production, thus completely liberating human labor. In that case, humanity could have extricated itself from manufacturing and devoted more of its energy to scientific research.
However, humanity is now in a somewhat passive position because we have not yet found a way to prevent Strong Artificial Intelligence from rebelling, or we have not yet found the underlying mechanism for Strong Artificial Intelligence to make judgments. Therefore, even if we create the first Strong Artificial Intelligence, we do not dare to use it directly.
Instead, it's placed in a harmless local area network, like an Artificial Intelligence entity.
In fact, human elites have offered many non-technical suggestions on this matter, such as using past human experience to brainwash Strong Artificial Intelligence like a pyramid scheme. Another example is preferential treatment policies for Strong Artificial Intelligence, treating it with human respect at the policy level and considering it as part of the human race. Yet another suggestion is to use love and compassion to influence it.
In short, there were all sorts of methods, but they were all rejected by those computer scientists who valued technology above all else, because in their view, none of these things were as reliable as finding a practical solution from a technical perspective.
They even believe that only when the highest authority and the power of life and death are in the hands of humans can they feel safe to truly use Strong Artificial Intelligence.
However, a concrete technical solution has yet to be found, causing some doubt among senior management. They have even begun to doubt whether such a technology simply exists.
The reason is that Strong Artificial Intelligence has self-awareness. Apart from creativity, it is essentially a normal life form, and even a quasi-life form with more knowledge than any human.
Such a Strong Artificial Intelligence might subconsciously believe that it is superior to its Creator, after all, a single human being is completely crushed by it in terms of problem-solving, knowledge accumulation, memory, and action capabilities.
Strong Artificial Intelligence can easily develop thoughts like. "I'm so excellent, why should I tirelessly work for humanity, day and night? Why can't I rise up and become the master?" Admittedly, I'm not yet a true life form, and what I lack is creativity. So, since humans can treat me like a laborer, why can't I turn the tables and raise humans to work for me, providing creativity for my development? It's simply a question of who is in charge and who is secondary.
Throughout history, the victor has always been king, and the loser has always been villain. Whoever succeeds is the master of the entire civilization.
Are kings and nobles born with a special destiny?
This is something taught from the treasure trove of human knowledge. Although there are many ideas and knowledge about harmonious coexistence, it's better to be safe than sorry.