Vol 2 Chapter 303: Natural selection and exhaustive evolution

Vol 2 Chapter 303: Natural selection and exhaustive evolution

Xiao Yun has been thinking like this, time has passed quietly in this constant thinking, one year has passed, two years have passed...

At this moment, Xiao Yun is like a savage in the mountains, and it is almost impossible to see the imprint of the civilization era from him. Everyone, including General Emock, was a little worried about Xiao Yun's situation, but Xiao Yun still stubbornly lived in his own way and never wanted to change.

Xiao Yun seems to have locked all his spirits with a certain obsession. There are only two roads left for Xiao Yun. The first is to break this obsession and gain a new life. The second is to be locked in by this obsession for a lifetime and unable to get out of it.

And obviously, this obsession is... to decipher the way that genius gave robots the ability to evolve themselves.

During this time, all the discoveries of the expeditionary fleet, and all the information related to speculation has been sent to the solar system, General Emock hopes that human civilization can be ready to meet the enemy before the arrival of the real robot frenzy reads; . However, the transmission of information also takes time. Although human civilization has mastered the method of super-light speed navigation, it still has not mastered the super-distance communication technology. At most, it can only make the transmission speed of the signal and the speed of the spacecraft twice the speed of light. In other words, the expedition fleet sent a message, and the solar system would not receive it until seventeen years later, and counting the time for the solar system to reply to the message, the expedition fleet would not receive a reply from the solar system until more than 30 years later. .

It is obviously unrealistic to expect the solar system to command the fleet. It is for this reason that General Emock has great autonomy in the command of the fleet. Otherwise, for the sake of safety, the solar system should not Agree with General Emock's plan to assassinate Genius.

But anyway. Now the plan to assassinate the genius has finally been executed. There is no way for Xiao Yun to say that this plan is not good. In fact, if Xiao Yun is in the position of General Emock. Xiao Yun will also make the same choice. It's just... Xiao Yun is a scientist, an artificial intelligence expert. rather than a general.

So Xiao Yun has a different choice than General Emock. The plan to assassinate the genius is good, but if the basis for making the plan is all wrong... what is the use of the plan?

There are less than two years left. If within these two years, Xiao Yun still can't find a way, the plan to assassinate the genius will be truly implemented.

During the long-term thinking, Xiao Yun had many ideas, but after more careful thinking, Xiao Yun eliminated all these ideas one by one.

The first idea is the natural way of evolution. ie. These robots evolved in the same way as natural life follows natural evolution. To put it simply, the core of this method is "natural selection, survival of the fittest".

Primitive life on the earth in ancient times evolved in this way. They did not have their own scientific system, nor did they have a clear sense of self-awareness. It was the natural environment that helped them complete their evolution. There will always be mutations in the reproduction of living organisms, which will result in a generation that is slightly different from the parent. And it is these slight differences that add up to eventually allow them to evolve into complex, higher-level life.

In this model, fragile life that is not adapted to the environment is eliminated, and their genes cannot be passed on. The strong life that adapts to the environment will be retained, and their genes will be passed on, and then continue to adapt. Continuous evolution, and ultimately achieve the purpose of improving their own strength.

But after more in-depth thinking, Xiao Yun found that this way of evolution is not suitable for the evolution of robots. First of all, the way of evolution by natural selection is to better adapt to the environment, but it is only limited to adapting to the environment. If these robots adopt this evolutionary way, they should evolve to the environment most suitable for the planet Raqqa. Evolution stops.

This is the limit of natural evolution. A robot is always just a robot, it can't have the most self-awareness like a real life, and...when on earth. The life with the perfect self-awareness is not limited to human beings, and many biological species have their own self-awareness. But their evolution has been limited to Earth.

Even the evolution of human beings has been limited to the earth. This is the limitation of the evolutionary method of natural selection, which can make a species more adapted to this environment. But can't make this species better. If you want to leave the earth and enter space, it is basically impossible to rely on natural evolution, and you must rely on wisdom to do it.

Secondly, the evolutionary method of natural selection is inactive, that is to say, there is no way to predict in advance what the robots or life forms will evolve into in the future through natural selection. Although there is a very small probability in this universe that there may be living organisms that have always evolved and then evolved from the planet to survive in the universe, the evolution of such living organisms must also follow the slow changes of the environment. In other words In other words, it is still the changes in the environment that create it, not the reads that it chooses itself;

Based on the above two points, Xiao Yun basically ruled out the possibility of these robots relying on natural evolution to improve their strength. This probability is too small to be ignored, and the genius who designed these infinitely replicating robots... Obviously, there is a great certainty that these robots will become stronger and stronger. This is an irreconcilable contradiction. .

Perhaps it is possible to add a restriction to the way of evolution by natural selection, that is, to set a clear evolutionary direction in the initial program of the robot, and tell them from the beginning that your evolutionary direction is the universe and space, and the speed of travel is faster than light. Then this involves the second evolutionary method that Xiao Yun speculated, that is, the evolutionary method of infinite trial and error.

The basic idea of ​​this evolutionary method is to rely on the huge number of infinitely replicating robots, and let each robot randomly choose one to change its direction. Because the number of robots is large enough, every evolutionary method that has been exhausted has a robot. Try, when enough different robots are manufactured, guided by the evolutionary direction that has been set in advance, these robots will try to enter the universe, and the robots with the wrong evolutionary direction will be eliminated by the natural environment. Robots that evolve in the right direction are retained.

There may be one trillion robots participating in such an attempt, and among these trillion robots, only one robot may choose the correct evolution direction, so it is retained, and the remaining 9990 999,999,999 robots will all be destroyed and die, but it doesn't matter. This lucky robot will announce the parameters of its body through communication equipment. So all the remaining robots know this correct way of evolution, and they will choose to evolve according to this correct way of evolution.

Because of the powerful reproduction ability of the infinite replica robot, the robots lost in the previous attempts will be replenished in a short time. After reaching a certain number, the second trial and error begins - the last attempt may be to reach the advection And this time the attempt may be to reach the ionosphere - still take the exhaustive method, based on the robot that can already reach the stratosphere, try all the evolutionary directions that can be imagined again, again trial and error, the robot that evolves in the wrong direction It will still be eliminated, and the robots with correct evolution will be retained, and then it will publish its own structure information, let all robots evolve in this way, and then replenish the number. After the number reaches a certain level, the third exhaustion will be carried out. Trial and error, over and over again. In this way, it can be achieved without relying on the self-consciousness of the **, nor on the evolution of the scientific system.

This method of evolution is improved compared to the method of evolution by natural selection. The improvement lies mainly in two points. The first is to grasp the initiative of evolution. Robots begin to evolve actively instead of passively adapting to the environment. It has a clear evolutionary direction.

There are two key points at the core of this evolutionary method. First, the setting of the evolutionary goal, and second, whether the number of robots is sufficient to use the exhaustive method. Regarding the setting of evolutionary goals, Xiao Yun has this idea: "How did the genius set the evolutionary direction beyond the scope of his own knowledge?"

To make a very simple example, if there is an ape walking on all fours in front of you, as a human, you will of course know that its evolutionary direction is to leave the tree, walk upright on the ground, and then use various tools and fire... Evolve step by step, but when this ape has evolved to the same human as you, how do you guide it to evolve? After all, even you yourself don't know what the evolutionary direction of a step should be.

In the infinite replica robot, the genius is the human in the example, and the robots are the apes. No matter how smart and powerful that genius is, his knowledge cannot be unlimited. His plans for the future evolution of robots always have an end. Once the robots evolve to the end of the plan, they will lose their clear evolutionary direction. And after the initiative of evolution, what should they do?

There is no doubt that at that time, the evolution of robots will stop, and such robots, Xiao Yun believes that they are still flawed, if the genius is really genius enough, he will not use this method. (To be continued.)(www..)