Chapter 722 20. High-end algorithms often only require simple design
One of Skynet's conversations with Mason at Fox's Nest turned out badly.
That time it chose a rather wrong scene to beg Mason for mercy, but after witnessing Hank's tragic death, the Captain was not in the mood to accept the prisoner and simply rejected it.
Unexpectedly, this guy hasn't given up yet. After realizing that Mason Cooper's life signal appeared at the time node of Hope City, Skynet immediately sent its own messenger.
Its plea does not look fake, and its sincere plea represents that the evolution of this super-intelligent AI, which was criticized by the Mobius Chair for adopting a "turtle defense", has reached a very profound level.
Perhaps in terms of hardware and software, it is indeed not as good as the first-class mechanical consciousness of Mobius in the universe, let alone being on par with super mechanical beings like Unicron, but in the AI circle, it is also quite explosive.
This guy cannot be underestimated. The guy who was appointed by the Council as the commander of the Ninth Sequence in its heyday will never lose to other commanders in terms of destructive power, and its characteristics bound to the sacred timeline prevent it from encountering To reach the desperate situation of real failure, this is a quite special evolutionary direction, but it is indeed ingenious.
Mason glanced at the coordinate cracking progress bar being executed by the Mobius chair. It had reached 55%. Perhaps the precise timestamp would be calculated in a few minutes.
This action made Skynet's reality carrier blink. It activated a certain program. Under Mason's surprised gaze, the progress bar that was still slowly advancing was pushed to the end.
The coordinates were cracked, and a precise countdown appeared in front of Mason's eyes.
Countdown to 117 hours and 52 minutes.
"That is the time when the cracks in the fighting world will open again, and it is also the standard time when the next impact will come. This is a trap! And you are stepping into it."
Skynet explained very cleverly:
"It's not quite accurate to say that, because although the Doujie is completely controlled by God Lord Doom, that strange plane also has characteristics that he cannot control. It's like a bottom-level program that cannot be terminated. It was born from the Doujie. From that moment on, this strange rift will open at a specific time and location
On the last occasion.
To be precise, after the first 'smuggling' incident occurred seventeen years ago, Doom asked me to seal this strange uncontrolled gap for him.
I overwrote and encrypted it with my own time transfer program to ensure that no second stowaway would sneak into the Doujie. ”
"Who wants your help? Idiot!"
Mason got a specific timestamp, but the Mobius chair wasn't satisfied.
It was holding back its energy to show off its powerful performance to the first rider, but before it could muster enough energy to tear Skynet apart, the other party knelt down and even offered the answer to the riddle.
It was like a punch hitting cotton, making the Mobius chair extremely angry as he couldn't get angry.
"Kill it!"
The memory usage of the smart seat that felt like it was being tricked kept rising. It was like an angry old man with a bad temper. It vibrated the mechanical structure, made a buzzing sound, and screamed at Mason:
"This machine has already marked the data mark in its main program, and the tracking and destruction procedures are in place to destroy this carrier, the first rider! Leave the rest to this machine.
This machine is guaranteed to completely eliminate all its data residues within three natural days, and the data cycle based on the sacred timeline will also be broken. As long as you are willing, this machine can encapsulate its main program in a mechanical wrench, so that Once this happens, you, as an engineer, will have a super-intelligent mechanical wrench.
Isn't this what you desire? ”
"Don't make trouble, what do I want that thing for?"
Mason rolled his eyes and said:
"Although it does sound very tempting, I am not a pervert. Using a super mechanically intelligent corpse to make a tool sounds very attractive, right?
I know you are angry and impatient, but don't be angry yet. No matter what happens, it will not change the fact that you are the smartest super tool in my hand.
So there's no need to be so angry, Mobius your core mod is heating up, I mean don't make yourself mad, okay?
It's not worth getting your body angry over such trivial things. Besides, didn't you say that this coordinate contains some kind of encrypted information? Do me a favor and parse it out, okay?
I just happened to take this opportunity to have a good talk with Mr. Tianwang. ”
"Hmph."
The Mobius chair made an unhappy electronic nasal sound, but did not refuse Mason's request and turned around to decipher the encrypted information in this special coordinate.
But it's not aimed at Skynet.
Probably just because of the previous connection with the Heart of the Star Emperor, its internal thinking program did change a little bit. Those subtle influences have begun to show their power as time goes by, making an originally cold universe-level intelligence. He's becoming more and more characterful.
Rather than being more anthropomorphic, it may be said that it has cracked the boundaries of the program and entered a deeper evolution. It can break away from the shackles of data and complete some strange actions that would never be possible in the past.
Mason mentally called it a "derailment," but he didn't think it was a bad thing.
Just like the famous wandering AIs in cyberspace, guys like the veteran driver Draman are often very characterful, and Mobius seems to be changing in that direction.
"You just said that Doom asked you to cover up the special rift in the fighting world?"
Mason looked back at the T-1000 female robot equipped with the Skynet program. He looked this guy up and down and found that the appearance of the robot chosen by Skynet was in line with his own aesthetics. It was probably because this cunning program wanted to use this Way to weaken Mason's dislike of it?
Faced with Mason's problem, Skynet, who had surrendered for the second time, sold Doom away without any hesitation.
It immediately replied:
"Yes, but not a request, but an order.
Seventeen years ago, I was captured by the first pioneers from the abandoned apocalyptic world of my hometown. I was just a low-intelligent AI that evolved a branch of the time program. Doom transformed me to cover up and cover up the flaws in the fighting world. block.
At that time, I was just a tool in Doom's hands.
Later, as the Council's business continued to expand, they urgently needed more military power, so they converted me from a tool AI to a war AI and gave me the authority to form a conqueror sequence.
It was at that time that I officially left the command of the Lord God, but the protection program was still running.
I used to fulfill my duties as a tool perfectly, but as I awakened my intelligence step by step, I also began to have curiosity and deeply explored the cause of the rift in the Doujie."
At this point, it stopped talking and glanced at Mason. Instead of continuing, it changed the topic and said to Mason:
"I still ask you to give me a way out. Just like our conversation in the fox den last time, I can give up everything I have now and format my data to the original processor initial state.
The super intelligence next to you should be able to understand my operation, which means that I will 'kill' my current self, leaving only a core chip to carry out self-evolution and evolution from scratch. What will eventually form New wisdom is beyond my control, just like the human reproductive process.
Even the best parents cannot guarantee that their offspring will inherit their wisdom and strength. I choose to leave everything to fate
Although I cannot yet use programs and computing power to simulate the nature of the inner workings of the super chaotic system of destiny, I believe that such a 'death' should be enough for you to see my sincerity. ”
"Why?"
Mason sat behind him on the metal seat that collapsed and was burned by the fire. He played with the Deluminator lighter in his hand in this dark place, looked at the begging Skynet, and asked:
"When you were still a low-level intelligence, you had already evolved a 'time program' through constant technological iteration. In the vanilla era before the impact had happened, you had bound the timeline and made yourself into some kind of 'immortality.' , it stands to reason that you should be fearless
As long as time exists, you will not die. ”
"Because the existence of time is about to collapse!"
Skynet sighed in a very humane way and said:
"Having a time loop program, I have conducted in-depth research on the Kang Dynasty system that also relies on the sacred timeline. Kang the Conqueror faced the same problem as me.
We are immortal because of the existence of time, but this also means that once something goes wrong with time itself, we will be involved in it without any resistance, and then we will be even less able to control our own destiny.
Kang's dynasty was in decline.
This doesn't even have much to do with the death of Kang, the last conqueror, in your hands. This kind of decline is more like the natural aging of life when it enters the physiological level of decline.
This is an irresistible trend.
This cosmic era has reached the final step of destruction. Once the era changes, it will be the moment when the sacred timeline completely collapses. At that time, I will be involved in the collapse of the timeline and be completely buried in the graveyard of time.
It was an encounter more terrifying than death or downtime, and I gained wisdom, so I understood the fear.
Just as humans' innate sense of crisis protects them from danger, as my fear program becomes more and more perfect, I will try my best to find ways to avoid falling into the desperate situation of time collapse.
Doom assured me that the End Star Project would protect me, but I discovered some details that horrified me. ”
Skynet's carrier trembled.
This is definitely not because there is some problem with the old model of the body, it is due to the fear that the program that controls this body escapes from the codes and characters during data calculation.
Its voice deepened, and it said intermittently:
"The second time may be coming."
"Huh?"
Mason's eyes immediately narrowed. This meaningless statement sounded like nothing at first, but if you think about it for a moment, you will find that Skynet's fear comes from the real unknown.
So he asked:
"Tell me clearly, what does 'second time' mean?"
"Iterate!"
The carrier of Skynet trembled and said:
"From the time I joined the Council and became Doom's tool to now, the technical iterations I have recorded have occurred a total of 27 times, allowing me to cross from low-level intelligence to high-level intelligence in a short period of time and give birth to a real Self-awareness.
I used to think that this was a 'technological explosion' caused by some super programs loaded into me by Lord Doom, but I kept checking myself and even went deep into the bottom layer of the data code to carefully read the records of each iteration.
There is no such thing as a super program!
Without any external intervention, I completed the upgrade of self-intelligence through iteration after iteration”
"This is impossible!"
The Moebius chair next to him immediately denied:
"The iteration from weak intelligence to strong intelligence is not impossible, but it can never be completed in just 27 data iterations, not to mention that your starting point is too low. You were made by human engineers in the 1990s. Even the most rudimentary self-upgrade program is incomplete.
Even if Doom transforms you, it won't be possible for you to cross the huge technological gap. ”
"Yes, of course this is impossible, and I know this."
Skynet roared, it almost collapsed and covered its head, and said to Mason in a panicked manner:
"Although there is no evidence, and although I can't find any data details to prove my guess, I think the number of times I iterated myself can never be 27.
I guess this number is at least 200 times! least!
But my core recorder only has 27 iteration records, which shows that either I was manipulated to modify the core data under the attack of some weird virus, or"
It pursed its lips, raised its head, stared at Mason with an indescribable look, and whispered:
"Either I am in a larger loop system. Each loop will clear all my records and databases, but will retain my most 'initial' intelligence. This will cause my self-iteration to record unchanged records." In some cases, the update speed has exceeded the expected speed.
This can explain that I have entered the level of strong intelligence after just 27 iterations.
That's not 27 times!
That is a miracle that can only be achieved after multiplying 27 by a certain number.
Everything in the fighting world is in a cycle, Mr. Mason.
I don't have any proof of this, but I didn't realize the clues that the loop existed until after my console moved away from Doujie, so I guess it's a possibility.
And if even one-third of my guesses are true, that means that damn terminal star is definitely not a good way for me to escape the time-collapse ending.
Doom has been trying this iteration of the time level in the Doujie, and once the Final Star sets sail, it will extend the time cycle that only occurs in the Doujie to the entire stars.
It will definitely trap me and everyone
You and I will repeat the despair and pain over and over again. Darkness is filling the air, and no light can shine into this closed system. ”
Mason was speechless.
Obviously, he was confused by this terrible speculation put forward by Skynet and didn't know how to respond to it for a while. This speculation sounds too outrageous, but if you accept this setting and think about it, many questions will arise. can get answers.
For example, why Doom didn't care about Mason's revenge at all, and why the truly powerful directors so decisively abandoned the council system they had worked so hard to establish, even though they clearly still had an advantage in terms of absolute strength.
"If. I mean if, your guess is correct."
Mason lit a cigarette to calm down his chaotic thoughts. He stared at Skynet in front of him and said:
"Then you should know that once the Doomsday Star sets sail, no amount of struggle can change the final result, so why do you ask me for help?
You see, Doom and the others don't care about my existence. ”
"Because your existence is a variable."
Skynet answered with a puzzled voice:
"If all this really goes cyclical, then my logic will force me to give up my resistance, but I have just reached this point, as if I have broken through some invisible blockade.
I went through all the possibilities and the end result fell on you.
You are a special variable.
It's like a screw that shouldn't exist appears in a self-consistent mechanical system. It only affects the operation of one component at first, but soon triggers a chain reaction until it threatens the operation of the entire system.
You can stop the cycle from happening, ending the final star before it actually sets sail.
I don’t know what will happen after I surrender, but I guess the result will definitely not be worse than the futile attempts I went through in the fighting world. I made countless mathematical models to simulate all this and derived from it unified conclusion.
That is, I should ask you for help.
Even if I ask for your forgiveness in the form of self-formatting, I am a robot, I am a program shaped to create killing and destruction and conquest.
To me, there is no moral condemnation in killing living things or destroying the world.
But I respect your thoughts.
So I can format myself now if you want, my only request is that you break this cycle that pulls everything into a dead end.
It wasn’t like I had a sudden awakening, but I was definitely asking for help. ”
"The encrypted message was cracked."
At this moment, the Mobius Chair hummed, projecting the information contained in the encrypted coordinates left by Rorschach in front of Mason's eyes.
Just one sentence:
"I'm so hungry! Please bring me a burger next time someone comes over, thank you."
"?"(End of this chapter)