Chapter 132 The Shocking Truth Suddenly Discovered
Chapter 132 The shocking truth suddenly discovered
That night, Wang Ping'an lay in the smart medical device in the infirmary and sighed heavily.
Angele's voice came from the side: "Why are you sighing?"
Wang Ping'an: "I want to be a radar person!"
"Pfft. Do you really want your brain to receive radar signals?"
"You do not want it?"
"I don't want to. And think about it, if you adapt to the existence of radar signals, won't you feel uncomfortable when you return to real life? You are missing one of your senses. If you don't believe me, why don't you do an operation and dig out your ears?
"
Wang Ping'an curled his lips: "It's not like I've never experienced temporary deafness. In fact, I feel pretty good."
"Temporary deafness is not the same thing as losing the ear completely."
Wang Ping'an was speechless, and then naturally brought the topic back: "How do you think we can get used to radar signals?"
“But when human consciousness is scanned and uploaded to a computer and then run, this self-organization phenomenon is not observed.
Wang Ping'an fell silent.
"Let me remind you, no mammal can receive radar waves."
"Ordinary people can also have access to real AI. For example, you astronauts, you have to go to the psychology center on the ground every three years to accept the psychological assessment of the super AI. At that time, the AI that is questioning is the real AI, and its body is located in
Super quantum computer cluster at the Center for Psychology.
"If we could directly connect radar signals to the brain, we might be able to achieve similar effects."
Angele: "Convert it to visual signal input, just like before. And you have to rely on the computer to filter out the clutter, so wouldn't it be enough to process it into a visual signal and input it into your brain?"
"That's because there are no such strong radar waves in the natural environment, and living organisms can't emit them themselves, so naturally there won't be any. Then if on a planet with a strong electromagnetic environment, living organisms evolve organs to receive and analyze radar waves.
Is that normal?"
Wang Ping'an frowned: "Wait a minute, your statement... You said that the underlying principles of supercomputers' artificial intelligence are the same as human consciousness. Can I understand that supercomputers' artificial intelligence has a soul?"
"Yes, it's normal. But that requires millions of years of evolution. Do you still want to go through the millions of years of evolution in an instant?"
The information obtained by the body's thermal sensing device was directly mixed with the image of the optical device, so Wang Ping'an did not vomit because of receiving infrared signals that he would not normally receive.
Wang Pingan frowned and said nothing.
"Neurons in the human brain can only make simple responses, which you can understand as 'yes' and 'no', or 0 and 1, but 80 billion neurons combined together, coupled with a large number of external stimuli, combine into
Together, self-organization is produced, and subjective consciousness is born.
Tu Shengli paused and continued: "I am not an expert in the field of artificial intelligence, but as an authority on brain-computer interfaces, I know a little bit about this matter. The generation of artificial intelligence is essentially caused by redundant computing power.
The self-organization phenomenon is similar to the human brain's self-awareness.
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The next day, Wang Ping'an asked as soon as he entered the laboratory: "Will the radar wave signal still be connected as it is today?"
"But you think of it as algorithmic AI that you can usually come into contact with, don't you?"
Tu Shengli smiled and said: "That's because the ethics committee's cover-up was very successful."
"It makes no sense to scan human consciousness and run it on a computer. We have already conducted relevant experiments. No matter how advanced and powerful a computer is used to run the scanned and uploaded human consciousness, there are no signs of self-awareness.
"
Tu Shengli: "Why, do you still want to repeat yesterday's vomiting and diarrhea? Or do you plan to keep trying until your brain gets used to it? Don't do this, even if it can be directly connected to your brain, can you analyze it? Then
This is information that the human brain has never been exposed to. Let’s leave it to the computer.”
"The latest generation of AI is different from the previous algorithmic AI that was 'fed' with data. It is a self-organizing phenomenon that occurs inside a super quantum computer. Its underlying principles are the same as human consciousness.
Tu Shengli nodded: "It's normal. The ethics committee did not deliberately block this information, but it placed the information in a place where most people would not think of looking it up, and deliberately made people unable to remember to look it up, and confused the algorithmic AI.
and real AI.
Angeli said: "Wait a minute, since AI can have souls, theoretically speaking, they can completely replace us? How can they not be able to deal with emergencies if they have souls?"
Wang Ping'an was so shocked that he couldn't speak: "I originally thought I was well-informed enough."
"No," Tu Shengli shook his head, "We have tried enough yesterday. Today we are going to try to visualize the signal, and then let the brain manage the visual division to receive it. If it still doesn't work, we will take a step back and visualize it.
The radar icon is mixed into the image taken by the body camera. In other words, the same method as infrared detection is used."
"To put it more metaphysically, the human intelligence uploaded to the computer does not have a soul."
Angele asked back: "Then which area of the brain are you going to use to process radar signals? Are you not dizzy enough? I almost vomited my stomach!"
Wang Ping'an: "But I have been dealing with AI for a long time, and I don't think they..."
Angele waited for a while and saw that he had no intention of speaking anymore, so she comforted him: "Okay, there is nothing wrong with visualizing the radar signal. After all, it is more intuitive to directly enter the brain than through the dashboard.
, and much faster.”
"That's because they are so-called algorithmic AIs. They don't have real souls. If you scan your consciousness and upload it, it will feel almost the same."
"This is the first time I've heard of this..." Angele interrupted.
Tu Shengli nodded: "Yes, isn't that of course? The soul is actually a self-organization phenomenon. Mathematicians have been trying to explain this phenomenon using mathematics. The current research direction of the mainstream academic circles is from the perspective of group theory."
Wang Ping'an: "I had a dream when I was sleeping last night. I dreamed that I uploaded my consciousness to the computer, so I could suddenly understand the radar signal."
"Yeah." Wang Ping'an responded.
Wang Ping'an: "That's what I think. You see, mammals are the same. Dolphins and whales can hear ultrasonic waves..."
Wang Ping'an was silent for a few seconds, and then asked: "The process of computer filtering clutter, isn't it possible to filter out some real signals as well, just like the sonar signals used to fight in the water on the earth, most of the time the computer processes them
, but when encountering some special situations, you still have to rely on the sonar operator’s ears.
Tu Shengli: "Do you know how big the world's smallest real AI is? It's almost 32 cubic meters, and it consumes a lot of power. The human brain is still the smallest and most energy-efficient self-organizing unit. So manned spacecraft are still mainstream, because
Algorithmic AI cannot cope with emergencies.”
Wang Ping'an: "Real or false...Wait a minute, I suddenly remembered a famous science fiction story by Asimov. In that science fiction short story, human beings have lost their computing power due to the widespread use of computers, and then a genius rediscovered four
Calculation, it was discovered that humans can also calculate.
"Then that technology was bought out by the military in excitement, because all missiles at that time were guided by bulky computers. If humans could calculate, expensive and bulky computers could be replaced with cheap and lightweight wetware."
Tu Shengli raised his eyebrows: "In a sense, the scene depicted in this science fiction novel is exactly the current situation. Okay, enough nonsense, are you ready to connect?"