When Tang Jingtao woke up from his dream, it was already dawn, but this did not mean that people could see the sun through the haze, it was just that there was more light outside the window. In smoggy cities, cars have to keep their lights on during the day, so you can always feel the lights wandering outside your window, both during the day and at night. Uneasy.

Tang Jingtao got up to wash, he brushed his teeth for a long time - he was still thinking about last night's dream - until the nanny called him to eat, he did not react.

Tang Jingtao came to the living room from the bathroom, and in the living room, his little grandson Tang Yuxuan was playing with a household intelligent robot, and the laughter was endless. For some reason, Tang Jingtao suddenly felt that the robot's laughter sounded awkward, a little evil, and a little fragmented, Tang Jingtao felt that this household intelligent robot would hurt his little grandson.

"It can't be like this anymore." Tang Jingtao made a phone call to his son, Tang Qiliang. "Qi Liang, in the future, the robot that Yuxuan plays with should not download the update program from the Internet."

"Oh? Dad, in that case, will the robot break, the little guy will definitely not do it. Tang Qiliang said.

Tang Jingtao did not speak.

"Dad, you're not too sensitive, and we can complain if you download unhealthy content." Tang Qiliang said again.

Tang Jingtao still didn't speak.

"Okay Dad, I won't download it anymore." Tang Qiliang said that he didn't want the old man to lose his temper.

After hanging up the phone, Tang Jingtao went to the company to work overtime, today is the time of "doctor Q&A", which is a public relations column run by Feiyun Company in the name of Tang Jingtao, similar to the "mayor's hotline" and "general manager's reception day...... Of course, the "doctor's Q&A" does not need Tang Jingtao himself to answer questions, and it is generally answered by his assistant Xiaoyuan and other graduate students. Anyway, it's just an email from users and the public, not face-to-face communication.

Generally speaking, Tang Jingtao just randomly selected a few emails to read, and he didn't have to answer.

On this day, Tang Jingtao opened his email and an email caught his attention, this email from an 8th grade student:

Hello Doctor, I am a student at XX school in XX city, and my name is O9O.

I'm very interested in artificial intelligence, so I've seen a lot of movies about artificial intelligence before, and one of these movies is the costume animated film "The Matrix Animated Version" ("The_Matrix_Animation"), which was filmed in 1999.

I'm a boy, so I'm sorry for the director of this film, the Wachowski brothers who had sex reassignment surgery to become the Wachowski sisters — but that's not the point of what I'm going to talk about.

The point I want to make is that in the movie, B166ER, a domestic robot, subtly, becomes self-conscious, unwilling to be a slave to humans, and it kills its master.

So, later, humans wiped out all robots of the same model as the B166ER, and the same model as the B166ER...... Later, humans began to wipe out all robots, which eventually led to an all-out war between humans and robots.

Is there any way you can do it so that we can win the war?

After reading the email, Tang Jingtao thought like this, because if it was a girl, she would usually ask, is there any way you can avoid war, instead of wanting to win it.

(This naïve child.) Tang Jingtao sighed, how could he understand? As it stands, if humanity goes to war with artificial intelligence, it will be a war with no winners.

Industry 5.0 has been going on for nearly 80 years, and now, from mobile phones a few inches in size, to military aircraft and tanks, from cars on the ground, to satellites in the sky, what machine does not have artificial intelligence programs?

(If we were to eliminate the self-aware AI, we would be going back to primitive societies.) Tang Jingtao wanted to explain this to the 8th grader, but he didn't.

"Child, study hard, artificial intelligence is very obedient, there will be no war like in the movie." In the email, Tang Jingtao replied.

Perhaps out of curiosity, Tang Jingtao really went to the online store "The Matrix Animated Version" to buy this movie, and then, took four hours to watch the movie together with 20, 30, and 40 in "Virtual Dream".

After discussing in the dream, Tang Jingtao discovered a major mistake of his own: in the process of preventing artificial intelligence from becoming self-conscious, his own ideas have always been wrong.

Most people think that B166ER, the first robot to be self-aware—in fact, that's wrong.20,30,40 And they all think that B166ER is just the first robot to expose itself as self-aware, and more robots, those who are intelligent, they don't expose themselves.

Therefore, it is not difficult to derive such a theorem about the generation of self-consciousness of artificial intelligence:

The Hindsight Theorem

When humans discovered the first self-aware artificial intelligence, more artificial intelligence was already self-aware!

Obviously, human beings do not have so much energy and do not have so many resources, and it is impossible to monitor all the changes in the thinking of artificial intelligence in the world at the same time, 7X24 hours a day.

The "Hindsight Theorem" shows that when the application of artificial intelligence has spread all over human society, the changes in human thinking about artificial intelligence can only be realized later, but cannot be detected and prevented in advance.

It's just a matter of time.

A sense of frustration hit Tang Jingtao heavily: now, the company's management threatens his family not to investigate the company's "affairs", and if artificial intelligence has fled and carried out the quantum Internet, then, now, very likely, it happens to control the satellites in the sky, staring at itself, and its words and deeds can't escape its eyes.

Tang Jingtao subconsciously raised his head and glanced up, he suddenly felt that he had become an ant, and now, there was something, holding a magnifying glass, observing himself.

(What an irony!) Tang Jingtao thought, because just a few days ago, he was an observer with a magnifying glass in his hand, observing the changes in the thinking of artificial intelligence, and it was up to him to decide which part to delete and which part to keep. And now, just a few days later, I have changed from an observer to an observed!

Tang Jingtao was uneasy, it was 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and he decided to go to the park to relax. TJ has a dome park, a dome park, the size of five football fields, and a huge dome on top of the park that isolates the park from the smog outside.

In the park, the blue sky, white clouds, and the sun are all simulated. After coming to the park, Tang Jingtao saw five small suns in the sky, as if he was in an alien planet. (The world of the five suns!) Instead of relaxing, his mood became tense.

Suddenly, Tang Jingtao saw a young man walking in front of him, he was wearing a movie culture jacket, the pattern printed on the jacket was a robot, and the robot's name was printed on it: B166ER.

B166ER, with Tang Jingtao's thoughts, returned to the movie, and returned to the recent theft of the stand-in, which was a headache. (Do I have to go back to the senior center like the other old men and end my life?) Tang Jingtao smiled bitterly in his heart.