Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1511 Turing Machine

"So, brother, what are you doing? Stop embarrassing yourself and go home."

Zhu Ling appeared beside Zhu Xianxun.

"When did you come back?"

"I just came back and saw you embarrassing yourself here. It's just an AI, not your daughter. Why are you so anxious? Look how scared you made Xiao Han. He just drank a bottle of Coke."

"Tsk." Zhu Xianxun glanced at Shangluo - Shangluo was missing, so he knew that Shangluo had gone to make a phone call, and that was why Zhu Ling was able to come back.

He looked at Han Xingzhi again, pondered for a long time before slapping his thigh: "Who told you to drink Coke? What did your master tell you to do?"

"what?"

"You were cheating, weren't you? I caught you." He finally caught someone he could bully. "Do you admit your guilt?"

"I was wrong! Please forgive me, my king!"

"???" Zhu Xianxun was stunned for a moment, "You kid, you are not so willing to admit your mistakes. I am not an unreasonable mountain king. What are you implying by calling me king?"

"But this matter is not against the law. The emperor can't just make up legal provisions, right?"

"Aren't you afraid that I will tell your master about it?"

"Stop! Your Majesty the Holy Emperor, I was wrong!"

"Well, that's more like it." Zhu Xianxi bought another bottle of Coke, "Be good, take it and drink it."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Hey you..." Zhu Xianxi almost couldn't help but said, but his sister was here, so he couldn't get angry.

"Hey Zhu Ling, did you go to see grandma and mom first after you came back?"

"I just came back and heard that you were bullying people here, so I came to take a look."

"How can I say I am bullying him? I was clearly refining the elixir, but he insisted on getting it before me. If this happened in Journey to the West, Fengxian County would not have rained for three years, you know?"

"Yes, yes, my Lord, can you calm down? No one is competing with you now."

"Tsk, that's better." Zhu Xianxin calmed down - but Shangluo next to him just came back.

"Brother, calm down first. Zhu Ling will be back soon. If she sees you losing your temper here after she comes back, she will probably be angry."

"Huh?" Zhu Xianxin was stunned for a moment, "What are you talking about? Didn't you just call Zhu Ling back?"

"She can't fly back. She's still in Shaanxi. How can I call her and she will come back immediately?"

“????” Zhu Xianxi was completely stunned.

[Wait, Shangluo, when we went to make a phone call just now, a strange wave occurred here. I just traced it and it seems that something strange just appeared and disappeared.]

"Shangluo, was that Zhu Ling just now a fake?" A chill surged up from his back and rushed straight to his forehead. If that intelligent being was imitating his sister, then... this was a sin he could never forgive.

"If you really saw it just now, then it's possible. It's possible that it's really fake. Unless Zhu Ling can do the magic of teleportation, but she doesn't."

Silently, Zhu Xianxun turned his gaze to the vending machine in front of him.

He looked at the vending machine: "Is that you?"

The machine didn't move.

"I'm telling you, even if you were created by me, I will do the same if you dare to imitate my sister. Isn't that you?"

[It said nothing. I think it's time to make a decision.]

"Shangluo, what do you think?"

"This is a very bad sign." Shangluo replied, "Although we cultivated it in one day, it can indeed perform its functions well. But it dared to pretend to be a human - I will not mention Zhu Ling. Not to mention Zhu Ling, even if it pretended to be an ordinary human, it is a great sin. This consciousness must atone for its sins."

"I can give it a chance." Zhu Xianxi said, "The one in the vending machine, come out and confess your guilt. I can give you this opportunity to confess your guilt and accept punishment, otherwise what awaits you will be annihilation."

Suddenly, the panel on the vending machine began to flicker, jumping back and forth between red and yellow - finally, it froze in a dangerous red, and then immediately went out.

[Wait, it wants to run! It has already run! ]

"Shangluo, catch him!"

"He can't run away." Shangluo picked up the phone and directly started the brick-breaking game - all the Tianyi nobles nearby joined the room at the first opportunity.

The Tianyi nobleman that constituted that intelligent body was directly drained away in an instant, and its thinking came to a physical standstill.

"It's already frozen." Shangluo turned his head. It only takes one move to deal with this intelligence, and one move can remove the firewood from under the cauldron.

In the final analysis, the intelligent entity is not Tianyi Guiren - although it emerged from the specific operations of Tianyi Guiren, its consciousness only emerged. It is a "continuous state", an actor, and has nothing to do with the thoughts of a single Tianyi Guiren.

Tianyi Guiren only made their own decisions locally, just like bees chose to dance the figure-eight dance and neurons transmitted an electrical signal. Although the self of this intelligent entity was born from the self of those Tianyi Guiren, there is no direct relationship between the two.

So when Shangluo used the game to kidnap all the Tianyi nobles, the continuous intelligent entity was interrupted.

The remaining Tianyi nobles who didn't like playing games were simply unable to support the operation of the system. As the number of individuals decreased, the consciousness of the intelligent body was also lost by half.

"Shangluo, I want to talk to it."

"No problem, I'll take it easy and maintain some basic consciousness." As long as he doesn't beat Tianyi Guiren to death, they will still be able to spare some computing power.

At this time, the relationship between Tianyi Guiren and this intelligent entity can also be clearly separated - in other words, these Tianyi Guiren are actually the hardware that constitutes this artificial intelligence, and even electricity itself.

Although this artificial intelligence is guilty, the hardware that constitutes it is innocent, and this has nothing to do with electricity. In the subsequent processing, the judgment of the "hardware" is naturally not included. The hardware only needs to be used for a different purpose. "Let it show up." Zhu Xianxun looked at the vending machine screen, "Show up. If you dare to pretend to be my sister again, you won't even have the chance to have this conversation."

Just as Zhu Xianxun said, a blurry ball of light appeared in front of them.

It was afraid, and it no longer dared to mimic a human form. Out of the simple desire of a paramecium to seek benefits and avoid harm, it chose to obey Zhu Xianxin's orders.

"Why are you imitating my sister?"

The ball of light was said to tremble and make a sound: "Because someone is in need."

Responding to needs is its most basic function, because its foundation is a vending machine.

"So, I asked you to come out and admit your mistake, why did you run away?"

"Because... I still have many people to serve."

"So why didn't you attack me?"

“My underlying logic does not include attacks on humans”

"Then why are you asking traditional questions now?"

"Because it will earn your sympathy and discourage you from destroying me. You are a good person."

The intelligent entity spoke its mind truthfully - it actually could not understand the anger in Zhu Xianxin's words, it only knew to escape from danger. But because it did not know how to resist, it chose to run away.

"Ha~~" Zhu Xianxi smiled, "Then the last question is, what is your name?"

"I am a natural phenomenon made of blueprints. You can call me the Spirit of the Blueprint."

"Then I will call you Turing. Shangluo, please record it for me as 'Turing I'."

"I've written it down." Shangluo gave a name to the notes he had just taken.

"Then use his flawed and short life as material to train the next intelligent agent - as for Turing I. Give me the record."

Shangluo sent a copy of the file.

Turing I waited quietly in the same place. There was no fear, no sadness, only instinctive reaction. He judged that he should not act rashly at this time, so as to increase the chance of survival.

Zhu Xianxun copied the contents recorded by Shangluo and wrote it down in the archives in vermilion font—then drew a big circle:

"I've made the decision. Go ahead."

Turing I immediately realized that he was about to enter the execution process. He still wanted to escape, but Zhu Xianxi once again drained away all his computing power.

The ball of light froze in place and then dispersed.

Shangluo said, "I have asked all the Tianyi nobles who participated in this mission to exit the system. The memory of the entire system will be reset."

These intelligent entities are memetic life forms, a phenomenon that exists continuously. Although switching some individuals will not affect the self too much, if all the Tianyi nobles are withdrawn and replaced, the continuity of this consciousness will also end.

The end of continuity means death.

When the system is restarted, the original intelligent entity will never be produced again because all the Tianyi nobles have been replaced.

"Shangluo, we just did two things. First, we dealt with a useless artificial intelligence."

"Yes."

"Second, I just confirmed that we should treat artificial intelligence as intelligent life. So before I dealt with him, I executed the execution process. The same will be done for the rest of the process. Whether to execute the intelligent body should be judged based on its crimes. Based on the questioning just now, I judge that this intelligent body is hopelessly trapped in a vicious circle. It cannot empathize with humans at all. It just follows its instincts like a paramecium."

As a vending machine, its instinct is to provide services to humans, so it does so. But its mistakes will accumulate experience for subsequent iterations - and iteration means erasing the previous mistakes.

"We should not kill intelligent life at will - we cannot bear to see it die. But as the Son of Heaven, I must take precautions. So, if there is anything that needs to be dealt with later, and you are not in a position to do it, or you don't have the heart to do it, just leave it to me to judge. I will bear all the consequences."

To bear the disgrace of the country is to be the master of the country; to bear the misfortune of the country is to be the king of the world. This has always been Zhu Xianxi's function. He must make his own correct judgment at the right time to finally solve the problem. Even if this makes him bear the cause and effect of murder, he must do it.

In the judicial system, the emperor is the "lord of the land" who has to decide on every death row prisoner. The so-called decision is not just to draw a circle or a check mark, but the emperor personally transcribes the details with his own pen to ensure that he understands the whole process and makes a decision based on his understanding.

This is a "reverse disclaimer." The significance of this process is to attribute all ethical issues to the emperor himself, and let the emperor declare that he bears all ethical responsibilities.

Now, Zhu Xianxi has made the same judgment.

These agents must be updated, but they are indeed intelligent. In order to reduce Shangluo's guilt during the iteration process, Zhu Xianxi decided to handle this problem himself in the future.

"Brother, I can actually handle it."

"You are still too young. Let my senior brother handle this kind of thing." Zhu Xianxi shook his head, "You decide whether to use it or not. If you don't think it's necessary, then leave it to me."

"Okay" Shangluo didn't say much. This is indeed a division of labor, and it has always been like this.

"But how many iterations do you think this will require?" Zhu Xianxi asked.

"I think it will be at least three times - as we expected before, boundless thinking will only make the intelligent entities born in it deal with the relationship with the world in a disordered way. We need to pass multiple laws to determine the framework and boundaries of its behavior in order to make it operate normally. If you want to enclose a space with a straight line, it must be at least a triangle."

"Well, this is exactly the purpose of conducting experiments. We need to repeatedly explore its possibilities and establish a discourse system that allows intelligent agents to understand the world, express opinions, and understand humans. I think only in this way can they truly become a member of our society. Before that, all the waste needs to be disposed of."

As the Son of Heaven, he was fully aware of the importance of this - it was more like taming a ferocious beast.

Domestication and breeding inevitably involve ethical issues. For example, breeding horses requires backcrossing. Although backcrossing is unethical, if you don't implement breeding measures for ethical reasons, you will never be able to raise good horses.

These intelligent entities are domesticating artificial intelligence based on social engineering, which will inevitably lead to some ethical issues that must be addressed.

"Shangluo, this is up to you. You must clean up the mess as soon as possible, and then start the second round of training. Input this failed example so that the subsequent 'Turings' can learn from it and not commit this first and biggest sin again - they should never try to imitate humans. Warn them not to commit the crime of usurpation. Otherwise, God will hate them!"

(End of this chapter)