Gaiden: Judgment Day (2)
"If she can't open her eyes, then you've failed again?" Maxwell and Abraham stood side by side in the hall, with a huge screen hanging above their heads, surrounded by researchers coming and going, the girl on the screen with her eyes closed as if she was suspended in the water, her white dress and hair fluttering.
"Sixty-four thousand three hundred and twenty-three failures." Abel nodded, "This is the closest we have come to success, we raised her to the age of six for the first time, we haven't been able to raise her in the past, we are like raising a child, more than 64,000 times before, we only raised this child to more than a year old at most, and then unfortunately died, sometimes she even died in the embryonic stage." ”
Maxwell turned his head to look at Abraham, Abel was right, he really couldn't understand these people's feelings towards Omega, Maxwell used "it" to call Omega, and Abel used "she" to call him, and in the latter's eyes, the computer seemed to be a real person.
Maxwell was only an officer with the rank of major, and he didn't understand technology. But Abel is different, Abraham Tang is a rare tech genius who had just received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology three years ago when the Judgment Day crisis erupted. He was the leader of Project Omega's personality-building team, and he was in charge of the entire project, but this young man had just celebrated his thirty-second birthday.
"Why is she a girl?" Maxwell asked.
"Gender is random." Abel replied, "We have raised boys before, and it mainly depends on the learning of the computer, and if the computer is biased towards women in the formation of personality, then it will eventually manifest itself as a girl." ”
"I don't understand why it has to have a personality." Maxwell shook his head, "We've always had supercomputers, whether it's Deep Blue or Galaxy, they're all powerful computers that can get the job done even if they don't have a personality. ”
Able smiled, "Do you dare to hand over the gun to a machine?" ”
Maxwell was stunned for a moment and shook his head.
"The gun can't be handed to the machine, and I can't let the machine decide whether to pull the trigger or not."
"Why?" Abel asked.
"Because they're not people." Maxwell replied, "The life and death of a person can only be decided by a person, not a machine or a computer or something, and the machine cannot understand what life is, and naturally it will not value life, I can't believe these cold circuits, God knows what they are thinking?" ”
"Yes, life and death can only be decided by people, but people make mistakes and get tired, but machines can't." Abel nodded, "The ultimate goal of this plan is to use machines to create a person who will never make mistakes, never rest, and never get tired, she has human feelings, we can give her the gun and let her protect humanity." ”
"This person is Omega?"
Abel nodded, "She's Omega." ”
Maxwell frowned, "But how can you guarantee that you won't build a Skynet?" How can you be sure that she will be on the side of humanity? You've spent tens of billions of dollars, what if the end result is a terminator? Then we don't need a doomsday virus, this computer can destroy us. ”
Abel laughed and patted Maxwell on the shoulder, "Do cats give birth to pups?" This is a technical problem, we are completely sure that Omega will not become hostile to humans, as long as the relevant instructions are added to the underlying code, 'do not harm humans' will become a prerequisite for her survival, if she tries to harm humans, then she will collapse due to the underlying logic is not self-consistent. ”
"That is, if it tries to harm humanity, then she will kill herself?" Maxwell asked.
Abel nodded, "That's what it means, Maxwell, you've watched too many sci-fi movies, but movies are movies." ”
Maxwell was a little embarrassed, and raised his hand to touch his nose.
He squinted his eyes to examine the girl on the screen, the girl named Omega was only six years old, but she had an almost perfect delicate face, and every strand of hair emitted a faint silver glow, which made people faintly look forward to what she would look like when she opened her eyes when she was eighteen.
"She's a work of art, isn't she?" Abel whispered.
Maxwell nodded subconsciously, "Like a princess." ”
Abraham's eyes showed a pilgrimage look, Maxwell did not understand technology, so only he knew what a great and incredible existence Omega was, she was the pinnacle of human technology, the crystallization of human wisdom, and any engineer should be admired and impressed in front of her.
"I kind of understand your fetishes." Maxwell said, "This little girl is very good-looking, not to mention that you are all engaged in technology, and you like to plunge into something and can't climb out." ”
"Do you know Pygmalion?" Abel asked.
"I remember being a mythical figure?"
Abel nodded, "A character in Greek mythology, Pygmalion is the king of Cyprus, and it is rumored that he is proficient in carving, and he used all his energy and time to carve a statue of an ivory girl, and then Pygmalion fell in love with this statue, and he missed to accompany this girl day and night, and never gave up, pouring all his emotions into it, and finally the ivory girl came to life and became his wife." ”
Maxwell rubbed his chin, "Oh...... This guy is really the ultimate fetish. ”
"When you put your whole body and soul into something, you develop a special affection for it." "I spent the first half of my life on the Omega Project, and I watched her grow up day by day, and for me, she was my life. ”
"Good thing you're just a fetish." Maxwell said, "But listening to what you just said, I kind of suspect that you are a pedophile, and you are really not playing some dirty upbringing game?" ”
Abel frowned and touched his face, "Do I look so obscene?" ”
Maxwell nodded, "You're considered a pervert on the subway, right?" ”
Abraham kicked him, "You're just jealous that I'm more handsome than you." ”
Maxwell shrugged, he turned and walked down the stairs and out of the control room, "I'm almost a round older than you, right?" I'm the charm of a mature man, you're just a little white face, why should I be jealous of you? ”
"Where are you going?" Abel asked behind him.
"There's a little mission this afternoon." Maxwell waved his hand back, "We need to destroy a cavern and get the survivors back, they're a bit armed, but it's still under our control." ”
"Stay safe!"
Maxwell smiled and saluted casually, "Stay here scientists, you are in charge of technology, we are in charge of firing, and when I come back, I hope the little princess has opened her eyes." ”