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Chapter 155 Fall
An intelligent disaster?

Li Qingsong immediately recalled many existence modes that people had previously imagined.

"You mean the Omnic Calamity? It's the kind of thing where an intelligent AI goes out of control and only knows how to follow past instructions, exploiting resources without limit and multiplying itself without limit?"

The confidential secretary gave Li Qingsong a strange look and said, "How could an intelligent AI possibly get out of control? They are just intelligent programs created by intelligent life forms. The power of control always lies in the hands of intelligent life forms.

Um, I don't know if you know any other intelligence, but as far as we know, regarding the information about unorthodox existence in this universe, that kind of completely out-of-control, autonomously proliferating intelligent life has not yet been discovered."

"What is the existence mode of the Omnic Scourge you encountered? How did it form?"

"Intelligent AI is just a tool. Essentially, it is no different from the hoes and shovels in the hands of primitive intelligent life.

Tools have no autonomous consciousness and cannot escape control."

The secretary emphasized this point first, and then explained to Li Qingsong in detail: "But tools like intelligent AI still have certain special features after all, and their functions are too powerful.

It can do so many things on behalf of intelligent life, and it is easy for intelligent life to become dependent on it.

If a civilization fails to manage this dependence and leaves too many tasks to intelligent AI, it could very well become an omnic disaster."

Li Qingsong reviewed his relationship with intelligent AI.

He has indeed developed and produced many intelligent AIs, such as Jade Emperor, Shengong, Nuwa, Shennong, etc. A particularly important intelligent AI, Wukong, played an extremely important role in the previous war.

There was no doubt that he was also handing over many things to intelligent AI. But since the decision-making power actually lay in the hands of intelligent life, could simply handing over too many things to intelligent AI lead to an intelligent mecha disaster?

This doesn't seem to make sense.

"Your civilization, and ours, both rely on intelligent AI to take on numerous tasks. Does that mean we, too, could become an omnic disaster?"

"No, it won't. This is different."

The secretary quickly shook his head, fearing that his explanation wasn't clear enough and would cause the interrogator to misunderstand him, leading to punishment. "We simply let the intelligent AI perform some relatively simple, specific, and repetitive tasks on our behalf. All key decisions are made by us intelligent beings ourselves."

But what if a civilization completely loses its ambition, becomes extremely lazy, and leaves key decision-making to intelligent AI?
Even further, what if all intelligent life in this civilization becomes completely obsessed with pleasure, leaving the development of science and technology and major decisions concerning the fate of civilization to intelligent AI?

"This is impossible."

Li Qingsong subconsciously denied it: "Intelligent AI has no autonomous consciousness and cannot possibly make such a decision with wisdom."

The secretary said slowly: "Yes, there is no intelligent AI, but there is intelligent life.

In this case... the only option for intelligent AI is to capture some intelligent life forms from other civilizations and let them assist it in making decisions."

"This... How could a captured intelligent life willingly offer its wisdom to the enemy?"

"Intelligent AI doesn't require the willingness of captured intelligent beings. It only needs a sufficiently sophisticated algorithm, supplemented by strict penalties and rewards. Even if captured intelligent beings intentionally propose malicious suggestions, attempting to destroy the host civilization, they can always be identified. The numerous suggestions put forward by numerous intelligent beings, whether malicious or well-intentioned, brilliant or foolish, can all be filtered through this set of algorithms, and the final results usually have a very high probability of being correct.

Intelligent AI can use the intelligent decisions from external intelligent life to understand what to do next and better serve the host civilization.

After determining which suggestion is correct, intelligent life forms that make incorrect suggestions will be punished or even executed. Through this step-by-step screening and purification process, only those who remain will be those willing to serve the intelligent AI and the host civilization.

At the same time, in order to maintain sufficient vitality, this system requires constant replenishment from external intelligent life. Therefore, under the control of intelligent AI, apart from the host civilization, the captured intelligent life is always in a state of rapid loss, and the intelligent AI is always eager for more external intelligent life to replenish.

They would continuously search for and attack one external civilization after another, capturing the intelligent life forms of these civilizations to replenish their own systems. After consuming them all, they would capture more and replenish their systems again...

so cycle.

This is the Omnic Scourge."

Li Qingsong felt it was a bit ridiculous at first.

How is it possible to use an algorithm to filter out the correct results without knowing which one is correct?

But after thinking about it carefully, he found that this was highly reasonable.

Because this situation has been preliminarily verified in the human era.

Captcha.

Verification codes were originally used to prevent malicious access, but later people discovered that verification codes could be used for other meaningful purposes besides this one.

In the human era, there is a huge demand for recording ancient books into electronic systems. However, most of these ancient books are severely damaged and the writing is not standardized, so they need to be deciphered word by word by human beings before they can be recorded into computers.

There are a large number of ancient books, and this data entry work requires many people to complete, and this work usually does not have much funding.

so what should I do now?
Someone found a way.

Use a verification code.

Take a photo of the ancient book and extract some text fragments as verification codes, and let humans who try to access the website be responsible for deciphering them.

But there is a problem here, that is, the electronic system itself does not know what the correct answer is. How can it tell whether the answer submitted by the visitor is correct?

People eventually found a solution to the problem, which was to set up an algorithm to compare whether the answers submitted by multiple visitors to the same text fragment were consistent.

Combined with various other factors and comprehensive evaluation, the electronic program can eventually filter out the correct answer without knowing the answer itself.

If such primitive computer technology and algorithmic programs in the human era can already do this, then intelligent AI can also capture some external intelligent life and use algorithms to filter out answers that are truly beneficial to its own development.

(End of this chapter)