Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1513 Domestication
"So, Victoria, how did you do it? How did you win?" Shangluo asked puzzledly.

Once the beans gather together, their abilities can be said to be endless, because they are very fast - the most intuitive manifestation of their speed is that their perception of time is different from that of the outside world, and even their speaking speed is quite fast.

When working as a group, although the efficiency of 500 people will not increase proportionally, even in terms of pure speed, it can still rival that of heaven.

It's not that Shangluo can't win, but it's too much trouble to win those beans, and he doesn't want to waste his energy on playing bricks with 500 beans. Although it's a bit embarrassing to lose, he also wants to get back at the place, but it's actually not that hard to accept.

But Victoria actually won the game that was very difficult for him to win, which is a big problem.

It's no big deal for him to lose once, but he can't accept that he is weak. Because losing once is just an isolated incident, but being weak means losing all the time.

He wanted to know why he was "weaker" than Victoria, which was something he found difficult to understand.

"Ah?" Victoria, who was having breakfast in the morning, was a little puzzled. "I played it and won."

"It's that simple?"

"Yeah, it's that simple. I didn't activate any 'backup hidden energy', I just won. Actually, it's because my opponent is too weak. My gaming skills are not that high, but I was able to beat her easily."

"Wait. You what? Beat 'her'?"

"Yes, she is a woman, Miss Turing."

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[Wait, Shangluo, I seem to know what the problem is - the Turing that Victoria met seems to have become smarter. But because he became smarter, he became weaker.]

For industrial machines, intelligence is actually a superfluous thing. The smarter they are, the more likely they are to make mistakes.

Just like if you want to move something from point A to point B, the most efficient thing must be a conveyor belt, because the function of a conveyor belt is only to move something. If you find a person to move it, that person may take leave, be absent from work, get sick, or even drink and make mistakes, beat up colleagues, etc. People are far more complex than machines, but complex people are not more efficient than simple machines when doing simple tasks.

The consciousness that Victoria met seemed to have evolved to a very high level. She seemed to have formed a complete self-awareness. Because this self-awareness was too complete, Tianyi Guiren's computing power was concentrated on content that had nothing to do with the game. As far as work was concerned, a large part of the computing power was wasted on irrelevant thinking.

In this case, although it is obviously more convenient to use when performing complex tasks, it is indeed possible that it will not be able to beat Victoria in a game like Pong that only has two keys.

This is unavoidable, after all, Victoria is very free now, she is a senior "surfing expert". Under the same level of computing power, her skills and tactics are quite powerful.

"What should I do?"

This conflicted with Shangluo's plan. He really needed a reasonable and efficient AI to perform tasks, but this AI couldn't be too smart, because the extra intelligence would be useless for the task.

"Let's go and take a look."

"Hey Shangluo, I won't break that AI, will I?"

"No, you did very well, but a little too well. I say, are you Little White Dragon?"

"Little White Dragon? What do you mean?"

[Little White Dragon's urine is dragon urine, and the flowers and plants that are watered by it will turn into Ganoderma lucidum. ]

"????" Victoria was stunned. "What kind of lewd words are you talking about?"

"Oh, it's just an analogy. It's like saying that you are auspicious. Is there any reason for that?"

"Maybe it's because I'm at a higher level in the spirit world. All the artificial intelligences I've dealt with are intelligent. So can you find a more appropriate metaphor? What is dragon urine?"

"We'll talk about metaphors next time. I'll just go to the scene and take a look."

If things are really as they expected, the results of this experiment will be very interesting——

Sure enough, when Shangluo arrived at the cafeteria, there was a queue at the breakfast window.

"What's the situation now?" he asked Han Xingzhi.

Before he came, he asked Han Xingzhi to inquire for him, because Han Xingzhi lived on campus and would go to the cafeteria earlier than Shangluo.

"This is very strange." Han Xingzhi touched his head. "When I went to get rice, it seemed that the machine's reaction became very slow, and it gave me the wrong rice. I asked for four different kinds of rice, and it gave me one of them as millet. Of course, it also compensated me with spiritual liquid. Oh, by the way, Shangluo, spiritual liquid actually costs money, right?"

"Yes what's the matter?"

According to the setting, the food in the cafeteria has indeed been provided for free, but spiritual fluid is obviously not free. The material cost of this thing is very high. After using phlogiston to make it, its cost is even higher than under natural conditions.

"Yesterday Wen Yuan ordered five cups himself. I guess the system scanned his face yesterday and deducted money directly based on his face. I don't know how he felt first, five bottles of spiritual liquid are quite expensive. Today this machine is very disciplined. No matter who we are, we have to put the meal ticket in first. If we only ordered free content, it will be returned as it is. Only if we ordered paid items will it deduct money. It found that it made a mistake in rice and compensated me with a bottle of paid spiritual liquid." [It seems to be running well, but there is still a problem - it is too slow. There are too many things in my mind, and my work efficiency is indeed very low. ]

"Yeah indeed."

[So, what should we do? Should we get rid of it? ]

"Handle? Why should I handle it? This kind of work is inefficient, so we can send it to other places with higher efficiency. I'll report it. This situation really needs to be reported."

A few minutes later, a brief meeting was held between Shangluo and Zhu Xianxin.

"I didn't expect there would be an unexpected surprise," Zhu Xianxun replied, "What is the intelligence level of that intelligent being?"

"Very good. Judging from Victoria's feedback, it actually has self-awareness. But it is precisely because its self-awareness is too complete, exceeding the economic operating frequency of 500 Tianyi nobles, that the operation process has been slowed down, and the response speed to solve problems is very slow - just like there is only one person in the cafeteria serving food."

"It looks like the second experiment has also failed - in terms of the purpose of the experiment, it has indeed failed. But failure does not mean that they should be destroyed. We said yesterday that these Turings are all lives. Although they are created as tools, it is unreasonable to execute these intelligent individuals as tools. So, Shangluo, leave this matter to me. I will just transfer her to another position. There are still many places that require high intelligence, and we have many places that are more suitable for her than serving food in the cafeteria. However, this is a good start. We have determined an interval from top to bottom."

The Turing to be iterated should have an upper limit and a lower limit. The lower limit should not threaten the safety of human life and property. It is unreasonable for the Turing generation to start imitating humans.

The upper limit should be based on Turing 2. Too much intelligence is not good either, because it will make it impossible for the Turing machine to complete its work within the limited computing power.

By going up and down, we can determine the range in which the Turing machine should be located.

"This second point needs special attention." Zhu Xianxun replied, "I have actually discussed this issue with Zhu Ling before - whether we should introduce species such as chimpanzees and Bornean orangutans into our Royal Garden. The final conclusion is that they can be introduced, but different breeding methods must be provided. This is because chimpanzees, orangutans and the like are too close to humans. When they come into contact with humans, they cannot distinguish between themselves and humans, and may even regard themselves as humans. Once they begin to regard themselves as humans, they will begin to be unable to tolerate the confinement of cages, and they will also be unable to tolerate the replacement of keepers. Therefore, the Royal Garden has special treatment for chimpanzees, especially orangutans."

"Ah, that's true." Shangluo remembered that he had seen it.

The most special treatment for these orangutans is that they can go out. They can walk outside the cage at many times of the day, go shopping with the keepers, visit the zoo with tourists, and take photos with tourists. At this time, they are more like the mascots of the Imperial Garden.

Orangutans' keepers are usually not changed, and they will stay in a fixed group from childhood to adulthood. Because orangutans will have separation anxiety similar to that of humans, their keepers cannot be transferred at will, otherwise the orangutans will suffer a heavy psychological blow.

This is implemented in the breeding environment of many higher animals, especially the keepers of pandas and elephants. Elephants have very good memories, and they cherish the relationship with their keepers. Pandas have a unique ability among bears that is not consistent with their brain capacity, and are very sensitive to changes in interpersonal relationships. Many pandas only behave well in front of specific keepers, and will start rolling on the ground and disobeying as soon as the keepers are changed.

——All of this is based on animal welfare.

But animal welfare is something that humans only need to pay for after they choose to raise animals.

Animals in the wild have nothing to do with humans. Humans only have the obligation to protect the environment, not to provide welfare for animals.

It is similar here - if you don't want to provide welfare for them, it is better not to bring them into being. If you don't want to take good care of gorillas, don't raise them. If you want to attract tourists, it is enough to raise lions and tigers, there is no need to play with those creatures with higher intelligence.

Zhu Xianxi agrees that AI with advanced intelligence can be treated as human beings. But Zhu Xianxi does not want "electronic life" to be born every now and then.

Because he couldn't take care of carbon-based life alone, and didn't have enough time to deal with electronic life - electronic life was not even silicon-based life like automata, because they didn't even have bodies, they were just AI.

The existence of these electronic lives will bring a lot of unnecessary troubles, mainly ethical ones. Zhu Xianxin's main job is to deal with ethical issues.

Zhu Xianxi didn't want to increase his workload. The number of electronic lives could be increased, but it was not necessary.

The court will continue to create functional AI to solve problems in the future, and will also provide AI that demonstrates high intelligence with the treatment that intelligent life deserves.

But sometimes, the court, including the Internet, just needs a good vending machine. In this case, keeping limited intelligence is the most cost-effective choice.

That is to say——

Retain their attributes as tools, but also recognize that they have the qualifications to break away from being tools and become human beings.

"So, brother, what we are discussing now seems to be the policy regarding artificial intelligence for a long time in the future. Have you made a decision?"

“Yes,” Zhu Xianxi replied, “I know this issue is important - this job is to constantly make decisions on these important issues. I think this solution is feasible at the moment. We neither admit nor deny, but treat each individual as a case. In this regard, I actually cited the discussion on naturalization policy. Basically, this is our attitude towards naturalized people.”

The court did not deny the existence of naturalization channels, but the application criteria were very vague and there were no fixed rules. Each individual's situation would be viewed and decided independently, and ultimately it would be reviewed by a very high-level individual and signed by Zhu Xianxun himself before naturalization was allowed. In a year, the number of naturalized people was actually about the same as the number of death sentences, both around dozens, and most of them were outstanding individuals who emerged from areas that had been under the rule of the King for a long time, such as the Ryukyu people.

"My standards for artificial intelligence are the same," Zhu Xianxun said. "Although there are many occasions for its use, we should limit the number of artificial intelligence born each year to around dozens, or even lower, and not more than the number of naturalized people. The court is benevolent in opening this channel, and it is their duty not to open it. For general artificial intelligence, it is enough to give them some power to work, just like how we treat the citizens of tributary states now. If they have a job, they can stay in the royal capital, and if they don't have a job, they have to return home. I think it is appropriate to introduce similar policies for artificial intelligence."

"So, I explained this to Turing II?"

"Yes. By the way, congratulate her on her birth for me. I will personally certify her as an intelligent life form. Although I have not certified her as a human, our empire does not only welcome humans. Non-humans can also be naturalized. As an ordinary member of the empire, I will arrange a suitable job for her in the near future. I look forward to her performance in her new position."

(End of this chapter)