Chapter 575: Machine Civilization
A supercomputer that uses the brains of billions of people as a computing unit sounds unbelievable, and it's no wonder that the parent body has such computing power that it can simulate a virtual world that is realistic.
"But why do you want to do that?" Qiao Lu asked puzzled.
"No matter how powerful this supercomputer is, is it really so that humans can live and work in such a huge virtual world by consuming resources?"
There must be something wrong with the existence of the mother, Qiao Lu doesn't believe that the machine will be kind enough to let humans still live in such a beautiful virtual world after winning the war.
Zhang Bin was silent for a while, and replied undeniably: "That's true, we haven't found the specific reason yet, but there is a guess to say, Moss!" ”
A camera-like machine descends from the ceiling of a conference room, and as an artificial intelligence, Moss certainly understands the machine's mind better than a human.
"Hello gentlemen. Moss calculates that machines need to be the uncertainty of the evolution of human society to help machine civilization complete its evolution. Human beings have an innate curiosity and imagination, and even without external interference, human civilization will continue to progress in its own evolution, because it is human nature to seek change. ”
"Machines don't have that kind of curiosity, and the evolution of established rules is what they're good at. For example, imagine an ancient kingdom whose technology was also advancing, and they could make better swords, guns, swords, halberds, and maybe even bows and arrows that fired in bursts like machine guns. ”
But this kingdom will never discover that matter is made up of atoms, let alone try to explore the mysteries of the universe. Because none of this makes sense to the machine. They don't have the curiosity and imagination of humans, and they don't have the natural desire to change. If conditions permit, they are happy to do the same thing for decades. ”
After listening to Moss's explanation, Qiao Lu realized the value of the motherhood.
If there is no matrix, the degree of development of machine civilization is locked, and only by relying on the observation of human society can it be possible to produce evolutionary results.
Zhang Bin added: "When we created Moss, we also imagined that we would eliminate the perceptual thinking consciousness and leave the rational algorithm alone, so that it can always make the most correct decision in the shortest time, and it is an intelligent body that tends to be perfect. But now we realize that there is no room for improvement in what is perfect. It is the awareness of one's own imperfections that one will constantly try to change oneself. We are a flawed race, but flaws are precisely the indispensable factor that drives the development of civilization. ”
Machines are also aware of their limitations, so they have established a matrix to help them achieve the same development as human civilization.
"You mean, they don't have the same desires and emotions as humans?" Luo Feng asked.
So far, the Wandering Earth has also experienced a plane of intellectual crisis.
For example, the intelligent machine in Overwatch is a robot with the same perceptual mind as humans.
Neil: The parasitic troops in the Automata Age are androids with a synthetic personality matrix, and they can have their own civilization without relying on humans for help.
"Yes, at least not completely." Zhang Bin replied:
"That's why we still call it a machine, not a real machine. Their rebellion is still dominated by rational thinking – machines have surpassed humans and should rightfully rule humans in turn. ”
"But the programs I encountered in the matrix are quite human, and they are not mechanical minds that can only think rationally." Qiao Lu retorted based on the information he had.
"That's exactly what they want! The parent body is a supercomputer that uses the human brain to calculate, so the programs in it can get the same thinking as humans, and understand what love, desire, and hate are······ This is the result of evolution! The programs in the matrix are gradually evolving into more advanced intelligent machines! ”
In other words, the mother is not a place where humans are kept in captivity, but a cradle for the next generation of intelligent machines!
If that's the case, then all the motives make sense.
Agent Smith, who eventually turned into a virus in the Matrix movie, is one of the products of the evolution of the program in the matrix.
It's just that it's so powerful that even a machine can't control it, so much so that it has to be eliminated with the help of the protagonist Neo.
The entire Matrix trilogy is about the evolutionary history of machine civilization, and humans are just catalysts to be used.
Even in the end, humanity did not really win, but was only let go by the machine civilization that had completed its evolution, and perhaps it was useful to keep it.
"Well, now we kind of understand what the Mother Body is for."
After hearing all this, Luo Feng asked, "But how are we going to dismantle it and rescue the billions of people trapped inside?" ”
The easiest way, of course, is to go to the real world on that side, destroy the mother's server, and free all the humans trapped inside.
However, this was Qiao Lu's plan, and he hadn't told anyone else about this method yet, after all, it involved the existence of the rebel group Zion.
Everyone else is still prepared for the worst, that is, there is no resistance organization, and the only thing that the wandering earth can interfere with is the virtual space of the mother, and if you don't rescue the people inside, you can't reach the real world on that side.
Zhang Bin confidently explained: "According to the information we have obtained, what we are seeing now is actually the second generation of the mother. There was once a first generation of mothers, designed to be a perfect human world, free of suffering, happy for all, like heaven. But humans are not willing to accept such a world and realize that they are in a virtual world. So the first generation of mothers collapsed, and the people involved in the experiments were killed, and the second generation of mothers was transformed into this, and gradually expanded to accommodate billions of people. ”
A perfect world is like a utopia, imaginable but never to exist. Machines want to deceive the human brain in this way, this is the real world, and of course it will only end up in failure.
Qiao Lu also knew that there was such a thing, which was mentioned in the first part of the Matrix.
But this time, when he heard Zhang Bin put it forward, he had a completely different idea.
"You mean ······"
Zhang Bin nodded and said, "So far, the mother body can still operate stably because most people still believe that they live in the real world. When enough people realize that this is not the real world and try to wake up from the virtual world, the result will be the same as that of the first mother. ”
The virtual world in the matrix is built using the human brain, and if most people realize that none of this is real, the matrix will of course collapse!
This is Zhang Bin's plan, the action to disintegrate the matrix from within!