Xiao Yun has been thinking like this, and time has passed quietly in this constant thinking, a year has passed, two years have passed......

At this moment, Xiao Yun is like a wild man in the mountains, and the mark of the civilized era is almost no longer visible from him. Everyone, including General Emek, was a little worried about Xiao Yun's situation, but Xiao Yun still stubbornly lived his own way and never changed it.

Xiao Yun seemed to be locked up by some obsession. There are only two paths left for Xiao Yun to face, the first is to break this obsession and get a new life, and the second is to be locked by this obsession for a lifetime and unable to get out of it for the rest of his life.

And obviously, this obsession is ...... Crack down on the genius's way of giving robots the ability to evolve themselves.

In the interim, all discoveries and speculations about the expeditionary fleet have been sent to the solar system, and General Emmerk hopes that human civilization will be ready to meet the enemy before the real robot frenzy arrives. However, it also takes time to send information, and although human civilization has mastered the method of faster-than-light travel, it still has not mastered the technology of super-distance communication, and at most it can only achieve twice the speed of light at the same speed as the speed of spacecraft. In other words, the expeditionary fleet sent a message, and the solar system would not receive it until seventeen years later, and counting the time for the solar system to reply to the message, the expeditionary fleet would not receive the reply from the solar system until more than thirty years later.

It is obviously unrealistic to expect the solar system to command the actions of the fleet, and it is for this reason that Admiral Emmerk has a great deal of autonomy in the command of the fleet. Otherwise. Out of the sense of safety. The Solar System side should not agree to General Emmerk's plan to assassinate geniuses.

But in any case, now the assassination plan of the genius has finally been carried out. Xiao Yun has no way to say that this plan is not good, in fact, if Xiao Yun were in the position of General Emek, Xiao Yun would have made the same choice. It's just that...... Xiao Yun is a scientist and an artificial intelligence expert, not a general.

So Xiao Yun has a different choice from General Emek. The plan to assassinate the genius is good, but. If the basis for making a plan is wrong...... What's the use of a good plan?

There are less than two years left. If Xiao Yun still can't find a way within these two years, the assassination genius plan will be truly executed.

After thinking for a long time, Xiao Yun had a lot of ideas, but after more careful thinking, Xiao Yun eliminated all these thoughts one by one.

The first idea is the natural way of evolution. In other words, these robots evolve in the same way as natural beings. To put it simply, the core of this method is the eight words "natural selection, survival of the fittest".

Primitive life on Earth in ancient times evolved in this way, and they did not have their own scientific system. There is also no clear sense of independence, and it is the natural environment that has helped them to complete their evolution. There will always be mutations in the reproduction of living organisms. This results in a slight difference between the next generation and the mother. And it is the accumulation of these slight differences that eventually led them to evolve into complex, higher-order lifeforms.

In this model, fragile life that does not adapt to the environment will be eliminated, and their genes cannot be passed down, and strong life that adapts to the environment will be retained, and their genes will be passed down, and then continue to adapt, continue to evolve, and finally achieve the purpose of improving their own strength.

But after more in-depth thinking, Xiao Yun found that this evolutionary method is not suitable for the evolution of robots. First of all, natural selection evolved in order to better adapt to the environment, but only to adapt to the environment, and if these robots had evolved in this way, they would have evolved to the best fit for the environment of Raqqa and then their evolution would stop.

This is where the limitations of natural evolution lie. A robot will always be a robot, and it cannot have an independent sense of self like a real life, but ...... When on Earth, life with independent self-consciousness was not limited to humans, many biological species had their own independent consciousness, but their evolution has been limited to Earth.

Even the evolution of human beings has always been confined to the earth. This is the limitation of the evolutionary method of natural selection, which can make a species more adaptable to the environment, but not better. If you want to leave the earth and go into space, it is basically impossible to rely on natural evolution, and you must rely on intelligence to do it.

Secondly, the evolutionary mode of natural selection is inactive, that is, there is no way to predict in advance what robots or living organisms will evolve into through natural selection evolutionary methods. Although there is a very small probability that there may be a life form in this universe that has been evolving and then evolving from the planet to the existence of the universe, but the evolution of this life form must also follow the slow changes in the environment, in other words, it is still the change of the environment that creates it, not its own active choice.

Based on these two points, Xiao Yun basically ruled out the possibility that these robots would rely on natural evolution to improve their strength. The odds are so small that it's negligible, and the genius who designed these infinite replication robots...... Obviously, there is a great deal of certainty that these robots will become stronger and stronger, and this is an irreconcilable contradiction.

Perhaps we can add a restriction to the way of evolution by natural selection, that is, set a clear evolutionary direction in the initial program of the robots, and tell them at the beginning that your evolutionary direction is the universe and space, and it is faster-than-light travel, then this involves the second evolutionary method that Xiao Yun speculated, that is, the evolutionary method of infinite trial and error.

The basic idea of this evolution method is to rely on the huge number of infinite replication robots, so that each robot randomly chooses a change direction, because the number of robots is large enough, so every evolution method that is exhaustively enumerated has robots to try, when enough different robots are manufactured, under the guidance of the evolutionary direction that has been set in advance, these robots will try to enter the universe, and the robots with the wrong evolution direction will be eliminated by the natural environment. Robots that evolve in the right direction will be retained.

There may be a trillion robots involved in such an attempt, and among these trillion robots, only one robot may have chosen the right evolutionary direction, so it has been retained, and the remaining 9999999999999999 robots will be destroyed and die, but it doesn't matter, this lucky preserved robot will announce the parameters of its body through communication equipment, so all the remaining robots will know this correct way of evolutionand they will choose to evolve in the right way.

Because of the powerful reproduction ability of infinite replication robots, the robots lost in the previous attempt will be replenished in a short time, and after reaching a certain number, the second trial and error will begin - the last attempt may be to reach the stratosphere, and this time the attempt may be to reach the ionosphere - still take the exhaustive method, based on the robots that can already reach the stratosphere, once again try all the conceivable evolutionary directions, and once again trial and error, the robots with the wrong evolutionary direction will still be eliminated, The evolved robot is retained, and then it publishes the information about its own structure, so that all the robots evolve in this way, and then replenishes the number, and when the number reaches a certain level, it performs a third exhaustive trial and error, and so on. In this way, evolution that does not depend on independent self-consciousness and does not depend on the scientific system is achieved.

This evolutionary method is an improvement over the evolution of natural selection, and the improvement mainly lies in two points, the first is to grasp the initiative of evolution, and the robots have begun to actively evolve, rather than passively adapting to the environment, and the second is to have a clear evolutionary direction.

There are two core key points in this evolutionary method, first, the setting of evolutionary goals, and second, whether the number of robots is sufficient to use the exhaustive method. Regarding the setting of evolutionary goals, Xiao Yun had this thought: "How did that genius set the direction of evolution that was beyond the scope of his own knowledge? ”

For example, if there is an ape walking on all fours in front of you, as a human, you will know very well that its next evolutionary direction is to leave the trees, walk upright on the ground, and then use various tools, use fire...... Step by step, but when this ape has evolved into a human like you, how do you guide it to evolve? After all, even you don't know what your next evolutionary direction will be.

In the case of the Infinite Replication Robot, the genius is the human in the example, and the robots are the ape. No matter how smart and powerful that genius is, his knowledge cannot be infinite, and there is always an end to his plan for the future evolution direction of the robots, and once the robots have evolved to the end of the plan and lost a clear evolutionary direction and the initiative of evolution, what should they do?

There is no doubt that at that time, the evolution of robots will stop, and such robots, Xiao Yun believes that they are still flawed, and if that genius is really genius enough, he will not use this method. (To be continued.) )