Aoki wondered, "But you just said that if a machine has intelligence, it will hide from humans. So how can a LAN interfere with the chatbot's answers on its terminal computer? ”

Mei Yiqiu said with a smile: "Of course, a mosquito can't wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep, but if three thousand mosquitoes are constantly buzzing in your ears and biting you from time to time, can you still sleep?" ”

Aoki nodded, finally understanding that this test was not so much a Turing test as a game. 3,000 people are constantly inputting information at the terminal in the LAN for a purpose, and in the case of a network outage, if the LAN really has intelligence, it is very likely to show its feet.

"However, if the final test result is not abnormal, or the anomaly value is small, you can't prove that this LAN is not intelligent, right?"

"You're right, so it's just part of the whole test." Mei Yiqiu smiled at Aoki, and then turned to Mei Ziqing, "It's okay to start, disconnect the Internet." ”

"Okay, Professor." Mei Ziqing went out after speaking, and came back after a few minutes, "Professor, the external network has been disconnected, but it can't block all wireless signals." ”

"Have you confiscated all your phones?"

"It's all confiscated."

"Excellent." Mei Yiqiu asked Mei Ziqing to keep busy, and then explained to Aoki, "The whole test is actually divided into three parts. We've just said just one of the biggest, but the least hopeful of all. ”

The professor took a hard puff of his cigarette, spit it out, and half-sucked it back again. The half of the smoke he had breathed back seemed to have been dissolved by his lungs, and he didn't know where it went.

"One of the most important steps we take before doing the whole test is to make the Internet aware of the existence of our local area network, so that the consciousness can be transmitted or split. This step is crucial, and without it, the subsequent tests would not be true. ”

"How do you pay attention?"

"It's simple, spread something it cares about from here. When recruiting these students to volunteer, they don't know what they're going to do in the end, every step follows a process, and they don't know what to do next until they receive new instructions. But we gave them a lot of hints. It's strange to young people nowadays that what you indicate, even if it's priceless, may not be of interest to him. But what you hint at, even if it's false, will interest them. With the imagination of young people, you don't know what this hint will become, and the more plausible it is, the more likely it is to attract the attention of those who care about it. ”

"What does that imply?" Aoki knew that the professor was referring to the Internet.

The professor smiled: "Do you think, if our previous guesses are true, what is this guy on the Internet most concerned about?" ”

Aoki thought for a moment and said, "Chips, artificial intelligence, aliens...... What else? ”

"That's right, put what you said together, and the implication we give to the students is that a new technology that is subverting the Internet is being experimented with, and if it succeeds, the Internet will not exist in the future," the professor said. ”

"That's fake, isn't it?"

"No, it's not all fake. Judging from this alien invasion, consciousness can exist independently, and if humans interact directly through consciousness, rather than material channels, then the Internet may indeed be eliminated. ”

"Professor, are you talking about the Space Box and Dream Guide games you're working on?"

Mei Yiqiu laughed and said, "This is still far away, let's not talk about this, let's talk about the current experiment." Don't underestimate the creativity of young people and their ability to spread information. During the week of the Internet, we did not prohibit them from doing anything, except for being able to import more natural network data, but also to use the children to spread the news. They discuss, speculate and exaggerate facts through emails, microblogs, chats, and forums, and they are so imaginative that some of them are even unthought of by me. If the Internet had consciousness, these things would have been enough to get his attention. ”

"As soon as he pays attention to it, like an octopus's wrists and feet sticking in, our LAN becomes a branch of him, a nerve cord, or an important nerve center. Since he can input a second consciousness into humans through a small chip, he will definitely inject a consciousness into this local area network. This is the premise, and with this premise, we can complete the Turing test that we just mentioned. ”

"Understood, gaining consciousness, plus the Turing test process mentioned earlier, there are already two parts, but this is not enough to test whether this LAN has intelligence, right?" Aoki said.

"No, no, that's just the premise, it's the premise of the whole test, not a separate test part." "The Turing test of 3,000 people is only the first part, and the second part is the survival stress test. ”

"Survival stress test?"

"To put it bluntly, it's a choice between life and death. If the Internet had intelligence, it would be reluctant to expose itself, even at the expense of countless LANs. But in the case of a network disconnection, the consciousness in this LAN cannot be connected with the outside world, so will it sacrifice itself in order to hide the Internet consciousness? It's hard to say! ”

"We installed a virus program on the server in advance, and once it was launched, it would destroy the entire LAN, not only destroy the system software, but also invade the hardware system, and make all the chips scrapped. The only way to launch this program is a small program on the desktop that uploads Turing test results. ”

"After the Turing test is over, everyone has to open this applet and enter the test results in it. When he thinks the computer or software under test has artificial intelligence, he enters 0, and vice versa. When the number of inputs to 0 is less than 30% of the total, the virus program starts. In other words, there must be at least 900 people who believe that the test object has artificial intelligence in order for the virus not to start, otherwise the LAN will be completely destroyed. It's not paralysis, it's destruction, it's death! ”

"Self-preservation is the instinct of any intelligent being. If the LAN is intelligent and conscious, it will not want to die. If it wants to protect itself, it can't let the virus kick in. Mei Yiqiu paused as she said this, took a puff of her cigarette, and then asked Aoki with a smile, "Do you think it has any way to stop the virus from kicking in?" ”

Aoki shook his head and said he didn't know. He is most annoyed by this kind of thinking, he can't think about his own affairs clearly, and he has to think from the perspective of a machine, so he doesn't want to suffer this sin.

At this time, Mei Ziqing had already returned, and she said: "The easiest thing is to make the result of 0 greater than 30%, but then the Turing test will pass, which can prove that this LAN has intelligence." To put it more bluntly, it can secretly delete or modify the virus program, and if it has consciousness, it should have this ability. But this only exposes its wisdom even more. ”

Mei Yiqiu nodded and said, "Well, that's pretty much it." There are also subtle methods, such as modifying the desktop program, so that the input results do not match the statistical results, etc., but we can monitor these things. ”

Aoki smiled and said, "Professor, this is a last resort!" No matter what it does, as long as the virus doesn't start, it proves that it's intelligent. It's perfect at this point, so what's the third step? ”

Mei Yiqiu laughed and said, "The third step, I have to ask my brother for help!" ”

Aoki said, "What can I do?" ”

"As soon as we prove that the LAN is aware, we will immediately start a program to put the entire network through an overload stress test, which is equivalent to running a marathon," Mei said. Wait until it gets tired, then cut off the server from all terminals and let the system go to sleep. ”

"You mean......" Aoki suddenly understood, "let it dream?" ”