"1,400 light years, at least 10,000 years." Yang Xiaoqian muttered in a low voice, repeating these two numbers, and before he knew it, the black fog dissipated, the light screen was projected on the alloy gate, and the model of the spaceship was printed on the cold-colored metal, showing the emptiness and coldness of the background, as if it was the universe outside.

"How much more time do you think it will take to develop the ...... you just said? Spaceship? ”

Under normal circumstances, even if Yang Xiaoqian is illiterate, he can remember the terms and nouns Liu Yuanzhou said with his extraordinary memory, but now Yang Xiaoqian's brain is very tired.

"As long as Yu Qian is willing to continue to refine his own capabilities, and use them in aviation metallurgy, the aviation industry of China and even the whole of mankind will be improved by leaps and bounds, and another difficulty after solving the material problem is to promote technology, conservatively estimated, within 30 years, mankind's first interstellar spacecraft" Yuanwang "will be able to sail." Liu Yuanzhou gave an answer that was neither satisfactory nor disappointing.

"Thirty years? I thought that the artificial intelligence you went to great lengths to create could solve all the problems without breaking a sweat. ”

Liu Yuanzhou did not answer immediately, and after a moment of silence he explained: "Harold Finch was in the creation of ' The machine has done some experiments before, he has created two machines that can play chess, one pre-enters all the classic chess games, and teaches it how to think with the mind of a chess master, and the other does not enter any human chess games, only writes the rules of the chessboard, uses convolutional neural networks to reduce the search space, and then it plays and learns by itself, the first machine will win every battle in the first week, the first machine will start to fail at the beginning of the second week, and then in millions of simulations, none of them will win, until the first machine burns itself out. Of course, this is just a simple and one-sided case, but it is enough to prove that machines don't necessarily need human experience, do you think that's a good thing? ”

"Of course not." Yang Xiaoqian replied without thinking, if the machine becomes the god of human beings, and human beings become a burden to the machine, or a dispensable existence, how can it be a good thing?

"It's true that we are not the present, so Harold put rules and regulations on the 'machine' when he created it, and even forced the 'machine' to delete the memory of the previous day at 0:00 every night, so that it could not learn and grow. In the same way, I will not and cannot create an artificial intelligence with no limits at all, so there is still a limit to the speed at which it can learn and grow, and it is impossible to lead humans to conquer the sea of stars in the blink of an eye. Again, thirty years is just a conservative estimate. ”

"Wait, you don't hesitate to abandon your human identity and give up your life in order to create a more powerful and transcendent 'god', and then you want to put the shackles on the 'god' you created? Did I misunderstand what you meant, or is there a contradiction here that I can't understand? ”

"Aren't all people contradictory?" Liu Yuanzhou actually pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled, "Do you think I'm not a human now?" ”

"Now that I know your attitude, I will tell you one of the most important things now. Okay, don't interrupt me again, I could have recorded a video to explain everything to you, and since I chose to explain it to you in person, I hope you can listen well. Liu Yuanzhou raised his hand to interrupt Yang Xiaoqian, who was about to speak, "What I want to bring to humanity is evolution rather than disaster, so I will personally become this shackle and become a complete version of zero one's autonomous consciousness, but the truth is that even if I try to forget the emotions that humans should have, I can't understand the thinking mode of silicon-based creatures...... Do you understand me when I say that? ”

"I can't." Yang Xiaoqian replied simply and decisively, his brain hurt as if he had been cut into eight petals with a knife, and he couldn't understand the concept Liu Yuanzhou told at all.

"For example, digital life can also perceive its own life, but not only from the cameras and sensors to perceive the so-called 'real world' as we know it now, but also the world of digital life itself, in the realm of pure mathematics, I will no longer be in a wheelchair like this, sitting in a secret room, I can turn my room into a Wellstrass function curve, a continuous but indistinguishable curve everywhere, can you imagine? Or I can turn my room into a Klein bottle, or even a four-dimensional, five-dimensional, eleven-dimensional space, can you imagine the concrete shape of those high-latitude spaces? No, you can't imagine, it's a world full of mathematical and idealistic beauty, a world that we can't understand as three-dimensional carbon-based creatures, so I can't guarantee how long my autonomous consciousness will exist, and I'm not sure if Zero One will always be kind to humans, although Harold and I have set up many obstacles on the core algorithm, you must know that when an AI has the ability to modify its own core, these barriers, sooner or later, will be overcome. ”

After such a big call, Liu Yuanzhou's chest barely rose and fell, looking like a robot, but in fact, he completed the ventilation in a perfect way in the process of speaking, without showing traces.

"Therefore." Liu Yuanzhou added an accent, "In addition to the internal restrictions, there must also be insurance measures outside, this is the second thing you have to know, since you are not crushed by failure, since you are willing to compromise and insist on moving forward with a heavy load, then please put away this key." ”

The two were very close at this time, and Liu Yuanzhou reached out and put a "key" in Yang Xiaoqian's hand.

Yang Xiaoqian spread out his palm, looked at it a few times, and found that this was not a real key, but a USB flash drive made in the shape of a key, and through the bottom interface, it could be seen that there seemed to be a chip inside, and the role was unknown. couldn't see a reason, so he turned his gaze back to Liu Yuanzhou, waiting for an answer.

"It contains a virus source that can bring Zero One down, and this will be the only weapon that can threaten Zero One, because once it goes live, Zero One will strangle all other possible threats in the cradle. There are a total of three keys, and any two of them can be inserted into the interface of the running host, which can paralyze the zero one and shut down. Liu Yuanzhou turned his head and glanced at Liu Zhongqian, maybe it was just an illusion, Yang Xiaoqian seemed to see pity and pity in his eyes, "The second handle is in Zhongqian's hand, the third handle is in the hands of Chief Wen, after a hundred years, the key will be handed over to the top supervisor of the 01 Supervision Bureau." ”

Isn't this a common plot in science fiction movies? Inserting something into the host computer can paralyze and shut down an almost omnipotent artificial intelligence.

What is this? Yang Xiaoqian couldn't believe this ridiculous thing immediately, so he sneered: "According to what you say, as long as I convince Chief Wen that the two of us use the key together, we can make Zero One shut down?" Without the umbrella, I can wipe out all the mutants and get what I want? ”

"Theoretically, it is indeed possible to shut down Zero-One, but it may not be the Holy Clan who has lost its umbrella." Liu Yuanzhou said solemnly, "It could also be you, I said that there are still individuals with great potential in the Holy Clan who can survive, if there is no Zero One, how can you defeat another Wen Yan?" ”

Yang Xiaoqian was silent, and then he realized that the key that Liu Yuanzhou gave him was not a joke.

Is it really possible for such an illusory thing to happen? Can a virus carried by a USB stick defeat artificial intelligence?

But, think about how many seemingly impossible things Liu Yuanzhou has done so far?

Yang Xiaoqian looked at the key in his hand in a daze, and suddenly had a wonderful feeling, as if he had been thrown into the vast space, unprecedented loneliness and emptiness blew through his bone marrow like the cold wind of the moon, everything was cold and silent, and his body was rapidly hypothermic, only the key in his palm was so hot.