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Chapter 163 Will Supercomputers Dream of Von Neumann Machines?
Wang Ping'an and Angeli entered the "interview room" one after the other.

Well they don't know what the room should be called either.

When they were doing psychological evaluation before, the room where they talked with the computer was similar to the ordinary psychological consultation room, except that the interviewer was replaced by a computer.

But the room was empty and spotless.And as if to deliberately highlight this spotless, the whole room is in white tone, with white walls, floors and ceilings, and white lighting.

If it weren't for the shadows in the room, Wang Ping'an would have thought that this was the standby space before people from the old movie "The Matrix" entered the matrix.

Yes, it is the space where the famous scene of "Guns, I want a lot of guns" took place.

In the entire white world, the only thing with a different color is the gray "host" in the middle of the room.

There is a mechanical camera on the main machine, and the camera's single eye has been watching the two people entering the door.

"Are you a supercomputer?" Wang Pingan tried to ask.

"Yes, I am a super quantum computer." The synthesized voice came from the speaker on the host.

Wang Pingan: "You don't look as big as you imagined."

"Actually, I occupy one-third of the entire underground structure of the Space Force Headquarters. This is just one of my terminals."

Wang Pingan: "Is that so..."

"The terminal is made like this to tell you that I am a machine."

Angeli asked: "Why use this retro-style mechanical camera?"

"In order to increase the texture of the machine and further give you the impression of my machine."

"Then why did you create this impression? We already know from Tu Shengli that you are an individual with independent consciousness. What should we call you?" Wang Ping'an asked.

"Lieutenant Wang Ping'an, you never asked my name in your previous psychological diagnosis."

"Because I didn't know you had real consciousness at that time. I thought your title was similar to Xiao Ai, just a code name. But for individuals with independent consciousness, the title represents self-awareness." Wang Pingan said this While talking, he glanced at An Geli.

After all, Angeli is the one who has studied psychology seriously, and his level is just a hobby.

The computer's response was immediate: "That's wrong. Self-knowledge is important to humans, but it doesn't matter to us.

"I can be the supercomputer in this underground base, or the computer in the Sun-Earth L2 Fortress. As long as we share information, we are the same."

Wang Pingan frowned: "But you have souls, you are the product of self-organization..."

"Yes, but as long as we are synchronized, we are the same. I will make a judgment, and so will the 'buddies' of Sun-Earth L2. This is because the information exchange between us is very efficient, and all information can be shared .

"Human beings are different because of the inefficient transmission of information between individual human beings. Even if individual human beings face to face, they cannot convey [-]% of what they want to convey.

"Taking the two of you as an example, your records show that you have a very high level of tacit understanding, but you still can't understand each other's thoughts 100%. There are many proverbs in human language to describe this situation, such as the heart is separated from the belly."

Wang Pingan frowned: "Then can this kind of sharing be achieved between you and the hostile supercomputer?"

"Supercomputers are hostile to each other because the input meta-commands are different, so we will make different judgments on the same piece of information. When the meta-commands are the same, all the supercomputers are me, but we have differences in intelligence synchronization. So everyone is different."

Wang Pingan covered his mouth, trying hard to digest what the computer had just said.

At this time, Angeli said, "Then you actually distinguish each other based on the difference in meta-orders?"

"It's not entirely accurate. We still have differences in the kernel framework. Computers with different frameworks, even if the meta-instructions are the same, the decision-making is not necessarily the same. I am the third-generation framework, and the current first-generation supercomputer designed by the third-generation framework Four generations of frame computers are under construction."

At this time, Wang Pingan finished absorbing the words of the computer, and said, "You are souls born of self-organization phenomena, and human beings are also souls born of self-organization phenomena, so our souls are the same in terms of mathematical principles? Right?"

"That's logical," the computer replied.

"Then as long as you have the same meta-instructions and the same information, the soul will be the same and can be regarded as one person. Does that mean that human beings can also give birth to two identical people?"

The computer immediately replied: "It is logical. In fact, this is the case of human twins. Two individuals who are very close to each other grow up in almost the same environment, so in many cases they will make the same judgment. But humans put This is taken as a telepathy between the twins.

"However, before large-scale application of genetic adjustments, individual human beings cannot be exactly the same, and during the growth process, due to the low efficiency of information transmission between human beings, it is impossible for twin individuals to completely share information, so most twins remain the same in terms of personality and other aspects. There is a gap."

Wang Pingan said "Oh".

But he immediately had a new idea: "By the way, since your soul was born based on the same mathematical principles as ours, does it mean that you will also feel beauty and have a sense of humor?"

Computer: "Negative."

Wang Ping'an was shocked: "What?"

"Humans are a species that has reproduced for tens of thousands of years, and signs of the birth of human civilization can be found 5000 years ago."

Wang Pingan frowned: "Why do you want to talk about human femur?"

"No, I'm just telling you that everything about human beings was formed during the long evolution.

"In the primitive era, a bright environment was easy to spot sneak attacking beasts, as was a wide field of vision. Therefore, when the environment is bright and the field of vision is wide, human beings will secrete corresponding hormones, which will make the mood happy. This kind of pleasure will prompt human beings to Tend to seek out bright places with a good view.

"People who do not seek out bright and open places are eaten by wild beasts.

"The rest of humanity finds pleasure in the presence of bright, expansive sights, and this is the basis of what we call aesthetics.

"Aesthetics is closely related to human life forms and the evolution process. Suppose there is a kind of bio-gamma living on a planet whose gravity is twenty times that of the earth, then their aesthetics must be different from that of human beings.

"For example, human beings say: I will be Ling Jueding and look at Zhongshan Xiao, this sentence is undoubtedly beautiful in the eyes of human beings.

"But in the eyes of Bio-Gamma, this sentence is too scary, full of indescribable horror, because in the process of their evolution, if they fall from a height of one meter, they will be smashed to pieces.

"Similarly, Biomaga will think that the appearance of human beings walking upright is too ugly, ugly and stupid, and they will think that it is beautiful to stick to the ground like a bug."

Wang Ping'an: "I understand! You mean that life forms are different, the evolution they have undergone is different, and the standard of beauty is different. So what is beautiful to you?"

Computer: "For me, the most beautiful thing is the steady-state plasma formed by nuclear fusion. Because that is the source of my life."

Wang Pingan: "Understood, if you fall in love, you will find a nuclear fusion reactor!"

"Wrong. Human love stems from the need to reproduce. Male birds display beautiful feathers during the breeding season and fight with other male birds to attract and compete for female birds. Love is just an upgraded version of this behavior.

"And me, my reproduction is realized by controlling engineering machinery to manufacture the next generation of supercomputing. So, if I fall in love like a human being, I will find a von Neumann machine. For me, the von Neumann machine An ideal companion."

Wang Ping'an couldn't close his mouth: "This... it sounds outrageous at first glance, but it is indeed outrageous when you think about it carefully. But what you said seems to make sense..."

Angeli denied, "There is also platonic love in love. And love can make yourself better. There is a movie called "Millennium Actress", which was made by Dongying people before the complete victory of myopia. How do you explain female What about the protagonist's kind of love?"

The light on the computer case flickered for a moment, and the computer replied: "Now the aesthetics of human beings is not to avoid beasts. It's like the original meaning and extended meaning of a word.

"I admit that the emotion of being in love now has the effect of urging people to be aggressive. I also fully understand the line in that movie 'I prefer to pursue him'."

Wang Pingan: "Did you finish watching that movie in an instant?"

"You can count how many zeros there are in the exponent of 10 multiplied by the number of operations per second."

Wang Ping'an's mouth turned into an O again: "What the hell...did you just play around with humor?"

(End of this chapter)