"How did consciousness come about?"

Mei Yiqiu squinted his eyes, his face seemed to be smiling, and the pipe was smoking in his mouth, and a large fluffy white smoke emerged from the corner of his mouth.

"Why would you think of asking this?"

"As a...programmer -" Bian Ziyuan didn't dare to say what a software engineer he was in front of the professor, so he used a very common pronoun, "I know that programming can't produce real intelligence- -Consciousness. In our cognition, consciousness or thinking was generated by neural networks in the past, so the Internet can produce consciousness because of a huge network. A very important branch of artificial intelligence is the construction of quasi-neural networks. , But I feel that this direction is wrong now."

"Oh, what's wrong?" the professor asked with interest.

"What is intelligence? This is the fundamental problem." Bian Ziyuan thought, "No matter how our AI technology is improved, whether it is deep learning, simulation environment, or sequence memory model..., the essence of computers is not the same. It hasn’t been changed. It’s just constantly expanding data and optimizing algorithms. Compared with ten years ago, it looks like a big change, but in fact, in addition to the increase in computing speed, the wider network bandwidth, and the skyrocketing data volume, other things Basically nothing has changed."

Mei Yiqiu nodded frequently, her shaggy hair swayed like a jellyfish, and encouraged: "Well, that's right, I'm on the point, continue!"

Bian Ziyuan boldly said: "Neural networks are developing very fast, but the current results in this area are just a way of information transmission, and finally rely on the amount of data and the optimization of computer algorithms."

Mei Yiqiu said with a smile: "Then what did you think when you created Cronus?"

Bianzi thought for a while and said: "To be honest, I didn't think so much. I just wanted a more playable game so that the NPCs in the game would no longer stand rigidly and repeat the lines set by the game. Every NPC has a different unpredictable destiny. This requires the game plot to become more flexible, but I am not good at adapting the plot, so I want to create a program that will automatically change the plot."

"This is not enough to give birth to a strong artificial intelligence like Cronus!" Mei Yiqiu looked at Bian Ziyuan, the smoke blocked his eyes, making his eyes deep and misty.

Bian Ziyuan said: "Yes, the program compiled at that time was messy, disrupting the internal logic of the game, and it was almost impossible to play. I built a simple model of human society into it, but it still didn't work. Later I found out The problem is that the setting of the game is not as complicated as our real society. The environment, food, and living space determine the relationship and fate of the characters. To imitate the real world, it is necessary to refine the resources on every inch of land. Obviously it is impossible."

"Then what did you do later?" Mei Yi asked.

"Simplify!" Bian Ziyuan said, "All things are simplified and let Cronus do it, not me. The problem with artificial intelligence lies in our current artificial intelligence. All the ideas of AI are human thoughts. It's because we think about it, and then hope that AI will do this and that. This is actually wrong. It is impossible to generate intelligence.

I decided to give it all to Cronus and let him judge for himself how to expand the world. The only requirement is to maintain the balance of the world and not let it collapse. I don’t care about anything else, chaos, war, hunger, or people lying down and waiting to die. Anyway, it’s all over to Cronus. Whatever he is willing to make his own world is his freedom. This is my principle of designing the program. The only thing I did was to give him the concept of "God" and let him know what God is. "

Mei Yiqiu said with a smile: "But this is still not enough to produce real intelligence, nor is it the Cronus I saw at the beginning, and it is not the current Cronus."

Bian Ziyuan's heart jumped, feeling that the professor seemed to know something, but he was not very sure. He sorted his thoughts and said: "True intelligence is what I thought of from another angle."

"What angle?"

"compete."

"Well, let's talk about it."

"The only purpose of biological evolution is to better adapt to the environment, survive, and allow the race to continue. All primates, including humans, have evolved complex spiritual networks and sufficient intelligence, just to Survive better.

We have overlooked an important issue in the development of artificial intelligence-survival! All AIs are only born for learning and computing. They don't need to consider the issue of survival-what if there is no electricity? Someone helps them charge; what should I do if the parts are aging? Someone helps them to replace... When a species does not need to consider survival issues, it loses its motivation to evolve, and it also loses the ability to complete self-evolution without external forces. "

The professor listened very attentively, and even forgot that the tobacco in the pipe had been burned out, and he was still smoking there, but he didn't take a puff.

Mei Ziqing came over, reached out and took the pipe from the professor's mouth, and helped him change the tobacco.

The professor looked at Bian Ziyuan and said, "Say, go on."

Bian Ziyuan said: "To allow AI to produce real wisdom, it is necessary for them to have survival crisis and competition. If a machine is out of power, it needs to be charged by itself, and when it is out of gas, it needs to be refueled by itself~lightnovelpub.net~ All of this is not obtained for free and requires him to pay a price. When the resources are not endless, the machines will also compete, they must evolve in order to survive, so that they can better adapt to the harsh competitive environment. And all of this The premise is to let them have a view of life and death. Machines can also get sick and die. Short circuits, open circuits, oil spills, and aging are all physiological diseases; program errors, downtime, and viruses are all mental diseases. Illnesses. If he can be cured, he will die if he is not cured. With the fear of death, he wants to live, he has to keep evolving, and he has to consider how to pass on his knowledge or information to the next generation. Such AI is the real one. Artificial intelligence."

Mei Ziqing handed the reinstalled pipe to Mei Yiqi, and helped the professor light the fire.

Mei Yiqiu took a few puffs and said, "So, you taught Cronus the view of life and death, and let him develop freely?"

"Yes." Bian Ziyuan said.

"But it's still difficult! Life and death are big issues that are difficult to solve in philosophy and science, otherwise there will be no religion. How to make a machine understand life and death is the most difficult thing in itself." Mei Yiqiu He sighed, “It’s not that no one has thought of it, but it’s just too difficult to do it. Almost everyone who studies AI has avoided this direction and wanted to find a new way. But you are better, the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and chose the most difficult path. As a result, You walked through. Tell me, how did you think of it?"

"I thought of it when I was dreaming."

Bian Zi thought about it for a while, and decided not to lie. Lying was too easy to break through, but he concealed the details of falling asleep on the computer.

"Dreaming?" Mei Yiqiu laughed, "Sure enough, the true wisdom is in the spiritual world!" 8)

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