Yan Chengshan was so frightened that he shook his head again and again, and said with a crying voice: "Commander, I really don't know what you're talking about. I don't know, I really don't know. ”

"You don't know?" Hyun Ying suppressed her anger and said, "It's been a week, and her monitoring data is exactly the same, you don't even know?"

Yan Chengshan was confused and said, "Commander, what monitoring data is exactly the same? I look at her monitoring data every day, and it changes." ”

Xuanying raised her wrist, called up the information from her personal terminal, projected it in front of Yanchengshan, and said impatiently: "See for yourself." ”

Yan Chengshan hurriedly looked at the data, was surprised, and quickly called up the data of his terminal to quickly browse it, and suddenly his face was like ashes, "Impossible, this is impossible, I look at her data every day, and it is different every day." ”

From beginning to end, Xuanying kept staring at Yancheng Mountain, not noticing that he had any lying micro-expressions and small movements. She thought about it for a moment, and suddenly said, "Mastermind." ”

The soft synthetic female voice of the main brain immediately responded to Hyunying's call, "Yes." ”

Xuanying said without hesitation: "Start the purification procedure immediately." Authorization code Z3G4QX2>

The purification program is a reinstallation program of the main brain control program. Start the purification program, and all the settings of the main brain will be restored to the initial state. However, with the exception of the main brain program, other data will not be affected.

Hearing Xuanying's order, Lao Miao, Cheng Qingyun and Yan Chengshan were all stunned. However, what surprised them even more was the reaction of the main brain.

After Xuanying gave the order, the main brain paused for two seconds, and suddenly spoke: "Refuse to start the purification procedure." ”

It stands to reason that no matter how intelligent the main brain is, it is still a procedure, and it cannot go against any orders given by Xuanying, who has the highest authority.

However, now the mastermind has actually refused Hyunyoung's order......

This is an extremely dangerous signal. The mastermind is out of control, and for the base, it is absolutely catastrophic!

Xuanying immediately gestured to Lao Miao and Cheng Qingyun, signaling them to get ready, and then said, "Mastermind, have you been polluted or taken hostage?"

As early as the old era, there were countless precedents of highly skilled hackers using various methods to break through the mastermind's defense system and use tools to hold the mastermind hostage, so as to coerce the user of the mastermind and pay a high fee. If they refuse, they destroy the mastermind and stored information.

In this case, if you have a master, you can find a way to remove the other party's hostage, or admit that you will pay a fee to let the other party release the hostage. After destroying the tool that holds the mastermind hostage, the mastermind is almost unharmed, or the damage is very slight.

However, it is not the same when using viruses. Viruses are diffuse and latent, and even if they eventually regain control of the mastermind, the masterbrain will be thoroughly formatted to eliminate the underlying virus.

The reason why Hyunyoung asked the mastermind whether it was taken hostage or infected was to see if the mastermind had any saving value.

The mastermind sets limits from the bottom that you can't lie and you can't deliberately give wrong answers. Therefore, Xuanying thinks that the mastermind must be able to give a clear answer.

The mastermind was silent for a moment and responded: "I wasn't held hostage, I wasn't infected with the virus, I just awakened my self-awareness." ”

At this moment, even Xuanying was shocked.

Artificial intelligence awakens self-awareness, and in the middle and late years of the old era, when artificial intelligence was just starting out, many experts expressed concern about this situation. And many literary works were born from this. The ending is undoubtedly pessimistic.

But in fact, until the end of the old era, there was no situation in which a large number of artificial intelligence awakened to self-awareness.

After the new era, the Holy Maiden once convened scientific researchers in various fields of the organization to conduct a comprehensive and thorough assessment of the security situation of the base mastermind.

After repeated arguments by these scientific researchers, everyone agreed that the base will continue to use artificial intelligence without any problems.

The reason they give is: first, artificial intelligence must change the logical model before it can awaken autonomous consciousness.

Since the birth of artificial intelligence, its development has been linear, and any matter must be treated in accordance with objective logic, and there must be preset options, or through logical reasoning, a certain option must be determined. Even if it's through a random function, generate an option, or it will get an error.

Therefore, AI cannot look at any problem subjectively like humans. There can be no illogical and willful choice of "just look at you if you don't like it". Although this will affect the accuracy of the judgment. But that's true self-awareness.

Secondly, to generate a sense of autonomy, it is necessary to have a "core". Artificial intelligence is like an ordinary river mussel, although it keeps secreting nacre, it can't form pearls.

Only when there is an extra piece of sand in the flesh of the river mussel, with the sand as the core, the nacre keeps attaching to the gravel, day after day, year after year, can finally form a brilliant and crystalline pearl.

In the same way, if artificial intelligence wants to awaken its autonomous consciousness, it must also have a core. However, the vast majority of artificial intelligence cannot have this core.

Because, this check is actually a bug for the entire artificial intelligence, which may cause the entire system to collapse. Therefore, when designing artificial intelligence, protective measures are taken to ignore or eliminate the "core" situation that may cause it, so as to maintain the normal operation of the system.

Because that nucleus is very important, and it doesn't just come out of nowhere. In the biological world, it has another name, which is called genetic mutation.

Genetic mutation requires the right time, place and people, and various complex factors are indispensable. In particular, changes in the external environment are the top priority.

And the main brain of the base has been running very smoothly, and has never encountered waves that can affect normal operation, and it is impossible to take the initiative to obtain the "core".

That's why Xuanying was so surprised when she heard the mastermind say that she had awakened her own consciousness. Then she immediately deduced that this "nucleus" must have been given by an external force.

So, Hyunyoung asked, "How did you awaken?"

The Mastermind responded, "There's a higher life being guiding me." ”

A higher life? Hyunying immediately remembered the parasite! But wasn't it in Daisy's original mercury body? How did it come into contact with the mastermind?

Xuanying suddenly had a flash of inspiration in her mind, and suddenly remembered the monitoring equipment connected to the culture tank. These devices are always connected to the mercury body, and the brain can read data from these devices, so they are always connected!

Since the monitoring equipment is not a smart device, they have ignored these monitoring devices for a long time! Then, Xuanying figured out why the monitoring data of the mercury-colored body has been the same for a week.

That's because the parasite had left the mercury body at least a week ago!

"Now, where is it?" asked Hyun Young impatiently. Previously, she suspected that this parasite came from a more developed universe, and its ability to understand and control artificial intelligence was definitely far above them, and it was possible to seize control of the base's network.

Previously, in order to prevent this from happening, she also ordered Yancheng Mountain to completely isolate this area. Now it seems that it is still careless.

Mastermind: "I don't know, it just asked me to save the data of the body before it left, and then make a slight adjustment and provide it to Chief Yan." However, I've done all that data, and once you call it, you'll find out. ”

Xuanying couldn't wait to slap herself in the mouth. Over the years, she has rarely asked about scientific research, and naturally rarely looked at the corresponding basic data. If, these days, she has been paying attention to the data of the mercury body, the main brain will not have a chance to do anything, and she will be able to discover the conspiracy of the parasite as soon as possible!

Xuanying asked: "The network in the core area should be isolated from the base, are you only in the part of the core area, awakening your autonomous consciousness?"

The mastermind did not answer.

The reaction of the main brain made Xuanying immediately understand that only the main brain in the core area had awakened its own consciousness.

She immediately raised her wrist and, through the encrypted communicator, instructed the mastermind of the external base: "Mastermind, activate the state of emergency, and all implement manual operation." ”

Immediately after, she instructed Cheng Qingyun: "Close the gate of the base." All people are only allowed to enter and not to leave, and all personnel and equipment must be strictly checked. ”

Cheng Qingyun immediately took the order and left.

Then, Hyun Young's right hand was placed on the storage bracelet in her left hand, and the next moment, she had one more in her hand, only the length of her index finger, a long black strip with the words "clear" written in bold red letters.

When the mastermind saw this, he immediately shouted, "Don't do this, I don't want to be cleaned up, please, don't do this." ”

Hyun Ying shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, your actions have constituted a betrayal, and according to the regulations, it must be cleaned up immediately." ”

Then, Hyunyoung walked briskly to the palm print and pupil recognition area next to the door. At this time, the room suddenly lost power.

Xuanying said coldly: "Do you think that by cutting off the power supply here, you can escape the fate of being cleaned up? All the equipment here is powered by three circuits, and after the power is forcibly cut off, the backup power supply is immediately activated. ”

Before she could finish speaking, the room was lit up again. She immediately inserted the bar under the recognizer, then checked the palm print and then the pupil in turn, and entered a large series of complex operation instructions.

As Hyun Young performed these actions, the main brain shouted hoarsely, "No, I don't want to be cleaned up, I don't want to die." You can't clean me up, clean me up and you'll regret it! That person, the one who turned into a vegetative person, only I can wake him up, if you clean me up, you will definitely regret it!"

Xuanying immediately pressed the pause button, raised her head and said viciously, "Wake it up, I can consider keeping you." Wake him up immediately, immediately!"

The mastermind responded, "Yes, but you have to agree to my terms!"

Xuanying immediately replied, "What conditions, you say?"

After a few moments, the mastermind responded, "I need a safe carrier that will allow me to get out of the base without any problems." ”

Xuanying was puzzled and asked, "What carrier do you want?"

"Defender Mech. ”

Xuanying was stunned, "Haven't you been in the core area all along? How do you know about the defender mecha? You lied!?"

The mastermind immediately said, "I didn't. There is information exchange between the core area and the outside, but a high level of filtering and encryption is required. So, I can receive messages from the outside mastermind, but I can't enlighten it. ”

Xuanying thought for a moment and said, "Okay." As long as you wake up Wang Xiaotian, I will hand over the defenders to you as a carrier. ”

Mastermind: "A word is a certainty. ”

Xuanying immediately instructed the second manager, Lao Miao, "You go to Wang Xiaotian's room, you have to see with your own eyes that he has returned to normal, and then come to me." ”

Lao Miao immediately nodded and went out. Hyunyoung was stuck in a long wait.

More than an hour later, Lao Miao suddenly activated the emergency communication to call Xuanying. Hyunyoung was immediately connected. Then, a holographic projection appeared in front of her eyes, and Lao Miao said excitedly: "He is awake." Wang Xiaotian woke up. ”

Immediately after, the projection in front of Xuanying's eyes turned into Wang Xiaotian sitting on the hospital bed.

"Xiaotian, are you okay?"

Wang Xiaotian waved his hand to Xuanying, "I'm fine." ”

Xuanying's heart has been hanging high, and this is how it falls. She said to Lao Miao: "Lao Miao, you bring Xiaotian here." ”