Chapter Twenty-Seven: Testing

"Our time of death has come!" Bald feet and little black ants invariably conveyed this meaning to each other, maybe this time it was really a disaster. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info only the little one, who paid no attention to what was happening, still nibbling on the same flavor in this tossing and turning black box as when they first discovered the cake.

The big white coat carried them to another room, opened the black box, and docked it with another box with a pool. "What the hell is he going to do? To drown us? Bald Foot asked the little black ant suspiciously.

"Haha, it's really comfortable to eat perfect food and take a bath." The guy ran to the pool first, and the little one didn't seem to know that he was facing a threat of death.

The little ones were playing happily in the water, and there seemed to be no sign of drowning or poisoning, and it seemed that death was still some way away. So, the little black ant and the bald foot also climbed into the pool, in fact, the little black ant had long longed for such a pool of water to wash away the horror left by the hut.

Seeing that they had had enough, the big white coat drove them into another clean box and carried them to a large room next door. The little black ant had never seen this kind of room before, the floor was spotless, the table, the cabinet was full of all kinds of inexplicable equipment, surrounded by some things that the little black ant had never seen before, and it was a little puzzled, where would their dry food hide in such a large room? And where will the delicious peanuts, peaches, plums, and rice be hidden? It asked Baldfoot, who shook his head in annoyance, saying that they had visited so many farmers' homes, but had never seen such a place, and asked the little one if he had seen it, and the little one asked him what a peanut was, and it was clear that the little one had grown up in that black box, and had never lived in the wild, so he could not know these things.

Before he could figure out what was going on, the coat forced them into a sealed space filled with mist. The heat inside was so hot that the little black ant couldn't stand it, it wanted to open its mouth to shout baldness, but it couldn't make a sound, it scurried around, I don't know if it collided with the little guy or baldfoot, it almost fainted, only felt that its head was about to explode, and it was convulsing all over, and finally, it didn't even have the strength to climb, and the scale armor on its body stood up one by one. Bald, where did the bald foot go, and that little guy?

The little black ant knew that it was about to die, but it never expected that it would die in such a place, it would rather die by mistakenly ingesting poison, so that at least it could find a cool place to wait for the end of its life。。。。。。

When the little black ant woke up, he found that he was staying in the black box with good dignity, and the bald feet and the little guy were like it, weak and weak, but unscathed, could it be that he had a nightmare just now, or was it just a hallucination caused by poison? The little black ant didn't know, and he didn't want to know, if there was such a place for him to stay, it might as well die in the nightmare just now.

Seeing that the ants had returned to normal, the big white coat carried the black box to a corner in the room, where there were more than a dozen people in white coats waiting for their arrival, the big white coat put the black box on a white workbench, and another big white coat with white hair came over and supported the little black ant, bald feet and the little guy with the palm of his hand, and more than a dozen big white coats next to him also followed, the little black ants tried their best to bite his hand, but the gloves were too hard to bite at all, and the big white coat with white hair smiled at them, Then he said something to the person behind him with a solemn expression.

In an instant, more than a dozen white coats were scattered and began to get busy quickly, the ants could hear the gentle collision sound of various machines, the little ones trembled with fright, the little black ants and the bald feet took a note, played their tricks, and suddenly lay down in the black box and did not move, their limbs twitched, their eyes were straight, their tentacles were forward, and there was no movement at all after a while, which was their only hope of survival.

"Haha。。。。。。"

The little black ant heard them laugh wildly, but the white-haired coat said something and the laughter stopped, but it didn't understand what they were saying at that time.

The white-haired big white coat pinched the little black ant with his thumb and ring finger, and the opportunity to escape seemed to come, but it couldn't break free from his powerful palm, and the little black ant was pinched into a transparent crystal box by him, and then its body was fixed until it had no room to move. Suddenly, it felt like something was piercing its buttocks, then it felt like it was being pierced by something, and then its head, and it seemed to fall into the thorny weeds, and it couldn't move. The little black ant gave up struggling, gave up everything, and waited for death to come.

The little black ant saw the bald feet and the little guy with the peripheral vision of his eyes, all of them were like the little black ants, first struggling, then giving up, waiting for death with the little black ants.

The white coats all dispersed, returned to their respective seats and stared at the flickering thing, looking a little nervous, only the white-haired white coat stared at the flickering electronic display with various bright lights, saying something to the other white coats, those words were sonorous and powerful, although the little black ant could not understand, but for it, it was a call to death.

Suddenly it felt a hot current rushing into its brain, and it felt wonderful and painful, as if it was jumping over the ditch, as if it was flying, and as if it was enjoying itself in the peach blossom ditch, and then it seemed to return to its anthill, and then it felt that it was being chased by a strong anteater, and it was running so hard; It seems that he has just come out of his burrow and encountered a nosy pangolin, and he seems to have seen a fire all over the mountain, and hundreds of billions of ants have been scorched, and its little black ant is one of them。。。。。。。。。。。。

I don't know how long it took, but the unbearable hunger woke up the confused little black ant, isn't it dead yet? The little black ant shook its head, and the tentacles could still feel the rapid air flow around it. Luckily, it's not dead. Ah, there's a piece of brioche bread in the box, and it thinks it's the rich sweet smell that brings it back to this world that it's still very nostalgic for.

"Hey, why didn't the bald feet come and separate my food from me?" The little black ant suddenly remembered the bald feet and the little one.

The little black ant searched the whole room, and finally found that Bald Foot and the little guy were in a box side by side with it, and there was a piece of cake in each box, but no matter how the little black ant made a sound, they just ignored the little black ant, and it was estimated that they were dead. It was people who tortured them to death, and the little black ant's heart was like a knife, for its brother, and for the little guy who met in the water.

After eating the bread, the little black ant suddenly felt that he had some inexplicable thoughts, it seemed to know the answer to the question that bothered it, it looked around, and felt that this environment was very familiar, what was the name of the room where it was staying now? Oh yes, it's called a lab. What is a ceiling light with solar cells called? Oh, that's a solar-powered lamp, the bottles and cans on the cabinet are called experimental instruments, the ones that flicker and glow are called electronic devices, the ones that flicker pictures are called Galaxy computers, and this box, which is made of crystal, and this floor, which is a marble floor. It looked out the window, oh, that's the blue sky, and it's the white clouds that float; A tall tree soars into the sky, it is a betel nut tree, on the tree, flying around, it is a bird that will shake its wings; The boundless waters where the waves crash against the reef are the sea。。。。。。

The display window facing the sea conjures up a few red letter combinations - "unity, truth-seeking, pioneering and innovative", haha, this is called Chinese characters. Chinese character? English letters? How come it never had this concept before?

This sudden question made the little black ant feel a little frightened, what the hell is going on? It tries not to think about these things, but it can't stop more and more crazy thoughts: it thinks of Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period, who, when he was alive, lectured and was rejected all the way, like a lost dog; In the second half of the 4th century B.C., the 22-year-old Macedonian king Alexander led 40,000 men and horses to conquer the vast areas from Asia Minor to northwestern India in less than 10 years, and established the first huge empire across Europe, Africa and Asia. His legendary rise, lightning-like conquests, and ambiguous abrupt abandonment have left future generations with doubtful mysteries; the Monkey King of Huaguo Mountain; The Seven Dwarfs and Snow White。。。。。。

And the human who walks upright, grows his own food, builds his own spaceships and trains, hates them to the core, and gets the little black ants here; By the way, what do people call their kind? Oh, ants, if there are many of them, they are called ant colonies, but words like "a thousand miles of embankments collapse in an anthill" and ants gnaw bones are used by humans to describe themselves.

The little black ant's brain is about to explode, is there something like a god or a devil attached to it? The little black ant had to think about things for him, be happy for him, worry for him, and starve for him?

The little black ant crawled around in the box, trying to alleviate the fearful thoughts. At this moment, the door opened, and the white-haired white coat with a large number of student-like people I had seen last time walked straight in.

"Students, the two laboratories we visited above are about biomedicine, where we have clearly understood how to use other creatures to cultivate human organs and use them to experiment with new drugs, and this laboratory is a little different from the previous one, called the Artificial Intelligence Biological Laboratory." The old white coat introduced.

Ah, the little black ant can actually understand what he says.

"Professor Ling, what kind of research work does this laboratory mainly do?" One student asked. "That's a good question, let me give you a brief introduction to the basic situation of our laboratory." Professor Ling replied. "As you know, man is a social animal, and his IQ is much higher than that of any known creature, and even many times higher than that of apes, which are genetically closely related to humans. It is mainly the unique material structure of the human brain, and there is a very unique concept of 'self' in thinking, which is formed by human beings in millions of years of evolution and labor, and it is this concept that distinguishes human beings from all other animals, and makes human desires fundamentally different from the simple desire for food and the instinct of thirst for the opposite sex of animals and other small creatures. "Human desire is a kind of possession of wealth and material things all the time, this desire is endless, this desire is embodied in the creation of progress and prosperity in society as a whole, of course, this desire also has its side effects, and this side effect is the war caused by the irreconcilable desires between people.

"But we know that animals and other small creatures have only instincts, they have no fear of death, they only instinctively run away from it, and sheep eat grass not because they don't eat meat because they believe in Buddhism, but because that's their instinct."

"But," Professor Ling continued, "just because animals and other creatures don't have the concept of 'self' in their brains doesn't mean they can't receive 'self' from the outside world, and the instinctive response of the brains of animals and other creatures is smarter than our state-of-the-art artificial intelligence engineering, so if we force this concept into their brains in some way, and also instill some knowledge in them, guess what will happen?" ”

Everyone shook their heads, confused, their eager eyes anxiously awaiting answers.

"This will be an AI system that has never been seen before! The previous artificial intelligence system is based on the computer as the carrier, but the effect is not ideal, this is mainly due to the linearization of the computer operation, the algorithm alone has no way to make it have a 'self', without a 'self', intelligence can only stay in a very naïve stage, but if we change the artificial intelligence system to other living brains as the carrier, the situation is very different. We can instill in the brains of other living beings the knowledge, experiences, and concepts we want to inculcate, and these abstract concepts will play an unexpected role in the amazing biological computers of the brains of other living beings. ”

The young men's eyes widened in curiosity, and one of them asked, "Has this idea become a reality?" ”

"Actually, it's perfectly possible, because the brains of other creatures and human brains are the product of natural evolution and survival of the fittest, and we did this experiment on ants. Let's take a look here! Professor Ling walked up to the little black ant, Bald Foot and the little guy woke up, oh, it turned out that they were not dead, but unfortunately the two of them didn't hear what Professor Ling just said, "The ants in these three boxes have done the experiment I just said, they are no longer ordinary ants, they have a 'self', and they have been infused with a lot of knowledge, which is equivalent to the level of an undergraduate graduate." ”

"Wow!" The students exclaimed. "Professor Ling, why did you choose ants for this experiment?" One student asked. "Because the ant brain has the flexibility that other small creatures can't match, the ant brain is a very high-end biological computer, but this computer can't use its maximum power because of the ant's short lifespan and weak size, but after injecting knowledge, it's different.

"In fact, before the experiment, they were not ordinary ants, they went through three days and three nights of maze experiments, looking for food in the maze, and only they succeeded.

"Also, have you heard of the little black ant with wings? Maybe I've heard of it, but it's in the cartoon world," Professor Ling pointed in the direction of the little black ant and said, "This rare ant was caught in a hot spring meadow in Nagqu, Tibet, but no one can figure out why it has thin and transparent wings, maybe it's a mutation, we suspect that it has extremely high intelligence." "The other one comes from the great desert near the equator of Mars, this ant has a very strong ability to dig burrows, in ordinary soil, it can dig 0/5 meter burrows in a minute," Professor Ling said, pointing to the bald feet, "The other one is a product from the laboratory." Professor Ling then pointed to the little guy and said.

"By the way, guess how they find food in the maze?"

"With your own memories of the labyrinth?" One student replied tentatively. "It's not possible, because there's no light in the labyrinth," Professor Ling immediately denied, and continued, "They use their own urine, their own urine to identify the places they walk, which is very clever." ”

"Professor Ling, your technology can't be used to modify the human brain, so that we don't have to learn, we can have all the knowledge by doing an experiment, and we don't have to waste so much time learning." One student asked innocently, and her question drew a lot of buzz. "Theoretically, yes," Professor Ling replied, "but there is a fatal flaw in this way, which is that the people who are cultivated have no personality, and what does it mean for us humans to have no personality?" That could be a disaster, because this technology can transform you into a scientist and an unbeatable cold-faced killer, so I'm not going to do that, and as long as I'm alive, I'm going to stop governments and academic organizations from doing this research. The premise of scientific experiments is respect for human nature, but this study goes against that premise.

"Just now I said that the experiment was successful, please take a look at this instrument," Professor Ling said, pointing to a square instrument: "This is a thinking brainwave monitor, through which you can figure out the brain activity of animals and other small creatures, these brainwaves reflect what the ants want to say, now let's talk to these ants and see what they want to say." ”

Professor Ling shone the probe of the instrument on the box of the little black ant, and then smiled and said softly to the little black ant: "Little black ant, you heard what I said just now, these high school students are very naïve, they are extremely thirsty for knowledge, but you have more knowledge than they are now, you are no longer an ordinary little ant, you are the witness of my thirty years of blood and sweat, you are the glory of my life, in order to make you smart, I give up everything, my lover, son, Martian villa, And my first solar-powered spaceship to set sail into space, but with you guys, I can get it all back to me and will get more! ”

The students screamed in surprise as they gathered around the device, as if they had really seen what the little black ant wanted to say. But Professor Ling didn't pay attention to this, he seemed to be moved by his true feelings, tears flashed behind his reading glasses, and he continued: "It's all like a dream, isn't it? You've gone from being a little ant who is busy moving around all day to a biological computer with an artificial intelligence system, which is much better than those little creatures who grow human organs and do experiments, and you can do anything now except for those who can't speak and don't have dexterous hands, so if I put you back on the mountain, you'll build a huge empire of ants, and all three of you have gained extraordinary abilities because of my experiments. Professor Ling glanced at the bald feet and the little one.

Professor Ling opened the black box, held the little black ant in the palm of his hand, and continued: "My dear, don't resent us humans just because you have become smart, scientific research is the means of survival for some people, and they have to do it for the sake of survival and dignity. Professor Ling gently supported the little black ant's wings with his hands, and it felt his tears fall on its scalp, slowly seeping into its epidermis, cold, and it used sensual words to describe this feeling for the first time. All the mysteries of the little black ant have been solved, it may have been really lucky that it was not used to grow human organs like other small creatures, but it did not intend to thank Professor Ling for giving it intelligence, because in its current opinion, all this is full of fear, absurdity, and cruelty.

Professor Ling closed his eyes lightly, and gently stroked it with his hand, as if to soothe it, unconsciously his hand relaxed, and the group of students were still staring at the computer screen intently, suddenly the little black ant used the greatest force to shake its wings and flew up to the top of the nearest cabinet full of test tubes and glass bottles, and then flew quickly towards the window along the low altitude of the cabinet, only then did the old man Ling come back to his senses and exclaimed: "Quick, close the window, catch it, don't let it run away, it is not an ordinary flying ant, it will take revenge on humans!" ”

But it was too late, the little black ant fluttered its wings and flew out of the open window, and if it had not happened to fall on a tall clump of dog's tail grass, it would have died, but it still broke its wings and was a little injured, and it endured the pain and burrowed into the dark crack at the foot of the wall。。。。。。