Chapter 408 Transcendental Hacker?

Chapter 408 Transcendental Hacker?

Chapter 408 Transcendental Hacker?

"Ah! Be careful!"

Song Yiyu (Wan Qian), who was following Dr. Ma Zhao, screamed and looked up at the middle-aged man who suddenly attacked.

Under the old-fashioned black-framed glasses, Nicholas Tse, or the "fierce gangster" Qiu Gangao, had eyes full of hostility that emitted a chilling murderous intent, suppressing Dr. Ma Zhao and Song Yiyun to the point that their legs and feet became weak and they could not move.

Boom!boom!

The "fierce bandit" Qiu Gangao knocked down the security guard who was protecting Dr. Ma Zhao with extremely fierce skills, then raised his hand and waved, and then jumped into the woods beside the road.

At this time, Shi Qiang and the members of the action team hurried over. They could only see his back disappearing in the woods, and Dr. Ma Zhao lying on the ground covered in blood with a pen stuck in his chest.

The scene changed, and in the hospital, Dr. Ma Zhao was lying on the bed, accompanied by his students, and seemed to be fine.

Outside the ward, Shi Qiang was listening to his leader's reprimand on the phone.

"Dr. Ma is in trouble. What are your security measures?"

"Leader, the comrade who was responsible for protecting Dr. Ma discovered a suspicious person..."

"So you were taken advantage of by the enemy?
How is Dr. Ma doing now?

"Dr. Ma was injured, but his life is not in danger at the moment."

At this time, there was a noise not far away. Shi Qiang quickly raised his head vigilantly and saw Leonardo Dicaprio, the Little Leo, being stopped by his colleagues in the corridor not far away.

Of course, in the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe], he should be called Cobb, an extremely outstanding dream stealer and also Dr. Ma's son-in-law.

Cobb's appearance obviously surprised the audience watching the movie in the screening room, and they couldn't help but shout.

They didn't expect to see a big star like Leonardo DiCaprio in this movie, and this part was not in the trailer of "Transcendence".

"Let him come here!"

Of course Shi Qiang knew Cobb, so he waved his hand and asked his colleague to let him come over, then led him into the ward and informed Dr. Ma Zhao about the details of the attack.

"Just a few hours ago, in addition to us, several scientific research institutions and companies in the United States and Europe were also attacked.

We have reason to believe that these were synchronized, premeditated attacks targeting research institutions, companies, and laboratories in the field of advanced artificial intelligence.

No one has claimed responsibility for this attack, but we suspect that it is similar to previous attacks on world-renowned scientists and is the work of the ETO.

This organization is based on environmental protection, and the earliest traceable information is 10 years ago. Originally, it only organized some protests or supported some environmental organizations.

It’s just that in recent years its scale and influence have expanded very rapidly, and its methods have become increasingly tough…”

"I don't care about the ETO organization. I just want to know if my father-in-law is okay."

Fluent Chinese came out of Xiao Lizi's mouth, interrupting Shi Qiang's words.

"Dr. Ma is fine. He is very lucky. The pen hit his ribs. Although it is broken, at least his life is not in danger." Shi Qiang replied.

"Then he..."

"Dr. Ma has to stay here and be under our protection for now," Shi Qiang emphasized.

Dr. Ma Zhao held Cobb's hand, patted it, and comforted him:
“Don’t worry, I have someone to protect me, what can go wrong?
The child also needs help, so you should go home first."

After Cobb left, he sent the female disciple away, and then Dr. Ma started talking about business with Shi Qiang.

"The fact that they attacked us proves that our research in the field of artificial intelligence poses a great threat to them."

Shi Qiang nodded and agreed:

“Yes, the more fearful the enemy is, the more it proves that we are on the right track.

By the way, Doctor, what is the specific progress of your research results? "

Dr. Ma struggled to stand up, and Shi Qiang quickly supported him.

"Why don't you take a rest first? This matter is not urgent."

"It's okay, it's just a broken bone. It's hard to explain in the ward right now, so we have to go to our laboratory.

By the way, let Yiyun go with me. Yin Xiu is injured and has difficulty moving. I need someone to accompany me from now on."

The master and his apprentice, along with Shi Qiang, came to a heavily guarded laboratory on campus, entered the room, and went down the stairs to the underground floor of the laboratory.

After passing the pupil scan and facial scan, the heavy metal door opened and Dr. Ma Zhao walked in with Song Yiyu and Shi Qiang.

"These are the fastest processors we can get our hands on."

Song Yiyu helped the teacher and took the initiative to introduce Shi Qiang. In the room, there were rows of cabinets reaching the ceiling. Various lights were flashing on the simple black equipment, giving it a very technological feel.

“Maybe there are more advanced equipment in the United States, but it must be in the laboratory.”

"Good evening, Dad! Evian! Captain Shi!"

A soft female voice suddenly came from the speakers above the laboratory. Just by hearing that voice, one could imagine that the person speaking must be a beautiful, gentle, kind and outstanding woman.

The display screens in front of the three people also lit up at the same time. Sure enough, the smiling face of Li Li (Li Binbin) on the screen perfectly matched the voice just now.

"She's seen your old pictures."

Dr. Ma saw Shi Qiang who was a little confused, smiled and explained, then shouted at the display screen above his head.

"Ali, introduce yourself to Captain Shi."

"Okay, Dad."

Li Li's lips opened and closed on the monitor, and the gentle female voice came out again from the speakers:
"Hello, Captain Shi, I am Li Li, the daughter of Dr. Ma Zhao, and also a physiologically independent intelligent neural network system.

Of course, I still prefer you to call me Li Li, or Ali."

"You uploaded your daughter's consciousness into a computer!"

As soon as he walked out of the door of the underground laboratory, Shi Qiang looked at Dr. Ma with a serious face.

He had also participated in the "Source Code Project" and knew that Dr. Ma had converted the consciousness of Dr. Jiang Muyun (Song Huiqiao) into digital information when he died, recorded it into the memory chip, and turned it into a digital life.

Apparently, Dr. Ma did the same thing to Cobb’s (Leonardo DiCaprio) wife, his dead daughter, Li Li.

"Is she now an AI with her own consciousness? Or a digital life? In other words, is she still a person?"

Shi Qiang, a rough guy, was not very clear about these things involving high technology, so he naturally asked about them.

Dr. Ma shook his head, his expression somewhat complicated. "I can't give her an accurate definition either. Sometimes the more I study, the more I find that reality subverts my own cognition."

At this time, Song Yiyun interrupted and explained to the teacher:
"Captain Shi, Senior Li Li's current condition is very complicated.

She is not artificial intelligence, because with our current level of technology, we cannot program machines to have self-awareness, and we ourselves do not know the working mechanism of our own consciousness. "

"So instead of creating artificial intelligence, you choose to replicate the consciousness of living organisms?"

Although Shi Qiang is a rough guy, he has worked in the special affairs department for a long time in recent years and has been exposed to a lot of high-tech, so he still understands many basic concepts.

"Just like uploading songs and recording movies, we can record brain activity and then upload the electrical signals of thoughts to a computer for storage."

Shi Qiang tried his best to translate Dr. Ma and his colleagues' research into words that he could understand, but Dr. Ma just shook his head.

"It's not that simple, it's not just replicating brain activity.

According to our research, human consciousness is unique, which may involve a mapping effect of higher dimensions.

We actually used the brain wave device upgraded from the subconscious therapy device to convert her consciousness into data information and uploaded it.

Today, 'Li Li' has past memories, self-awareness and wisdom. She is much smarter than the most advanced artificial intelligence in the world and is not just an ordinary artificial intelligence."

"Then she is an intelligent life, or a digital life," Shi Qiang said, "This is the same as what Dr. Jiang Muyun said. Your experiment was successful!"

Dr. Ma shook his head again. "That depends on how you define intelligent life."

Song Yiyun answered the teacher's question before Shi Qiang.
“Intelligent life in our conventional sense refers to beings that have advanced cognitive abilities, can think independently, and can spread such thoughts and communicate with other intelligent beings.

Simply put, it means being able to see, hear, remember, think and speak.”

"So what problems are there in your research now?" Shi Qiang eliminated the interference of scientific concepts and grasped the key points very accurately.

Song Yiyun looked at her teacher, Dr. Ma Zhao, who hesitated for a moment and said:

"This is a long story, let's go to my office first."

The scene changes to Dr. Ma Zhao's office.

Several people sat at the table. Dr. Ma handed Shi Qiang some documents with experimental data without caring whether he could understand them or not, and explained:

"Our current problem is with 'remembering' and 'thinking', which of course together means 'learning'.

The key to distinguishing intelligence from non-intelligence lies in "learning". In the words of computer science, it means being able to iterate and upgrade on your own without relying on external help.

Other things like whether there is self-cognition, self-consciousness, or soul are all metaphysical questions.

However, currently uploaded digital life is still unable to achieve self-learning and progress.

Or, more accurately, they can learn on their own, but this can have very serious consequences.”

"What serious consequences?" Shi Qiang asked.

"Chaos, then collapse!"

Following Dr. Ma’s detailed explanation, Shi Qiang and the audience in front of the big screen finally understood the problems they were facing in their current research.

There are two sources of digital life that Dr. Ma and his team currently have on hand. One is to conduct brain scans on dead or dying volunteers, and then use a subconscious therapy device to convert their brain wave consciousness into electrical signals and upload them to the device for storage.

The other type is that the volunteer is still alive, but his body is paralyzed and unable to move, or he has some terminal illness and will not live long.

After obtaining their and their families' consent, Dr. Ma's team also uploaded their consciousness into the digital world.

“The status of these two types of experimenters in the digital world is different.”

Dr Ma said: "Our research found that the latter type of digital life, which still has a physical presence in the real world, is more 'alive' than the former."

"vitality?"

"You can use your potential."

When talking about his research and professional field, Dr. Ma was obviously more energetic, and his originally pale face became much rosier.

"For those digital lives that have died and have no physical bodies in reality, every time they receive a piece of data in the digital world, their own information flow will expand.

When this expansion exceeds a certain level, their cognition becomes confused.

And if this chaos worsens further, they will turn from digital life into a pile of meaningless gibberish.

In contrast, digital life with a physical presence can receive more information in the digital world. They can integrate this information into their own data information flow, expand their existence, increase their upper limit, and maintain sanity for a longer period of time. "

"That is to say, one cannot digest external information in the network, while the other can digest external information and draw nutrition from it, thereby achieving growth."

"That's right." Dr. Ma nodded.

"Wouldn't it be better not to receive any information from the outside world? And this is also the problem of the former, right?" Shi Qiang asked.

“There is no such thing as not receiving information from the outside world.”

Dr. Ma's mood suddenly became depressed.

“Humans, or intelligent life, have an innate need to communicate.

Communication and exchange are themselves a behavior of obtaining information from the outside world.

Just like when Ali saw you just now, your image and voice will be converted into electrical signals by the camera and microphone and received by Ali. "

"So you can only put her in a closed facility and reduce communication with the outside world?!"

Shi Qiang suddenly felt a little chilly, because Li Li's current situation was as if she was locked in a small dark room where she could not see or hear.

As a member of a special unit, he had personally experienced this cruel punishment and had also made others experience it.

Even the most determined man would find it difficult to survive that kind of experience for a week.

Moreover, when they were locked in a small dark room, someone would come to bring them food, and they also had bodies, sense of touch, and sense of smell.

But for Li Li, this is almost like being completely stripped of her five senses, and she doesn’t know how long she will have to endure this horrifying experience, maybe it will be forever.

"You guys are doing this..." Shi Qiang's face became stern, "Have you ever considered Li Li's feelings? Why don't you let go?"

Dr. Ma's body hunched over a bit, and his originally rosy complexion turned pale again. His facial expression didn't change much, but with just a slight adjustment of his muscles, he seemed to have aged a dozen years in an instant.

(End of this chapter)