He personally sent Meng Lang and the two out of Nanshan Temple.
The smart master clasped his hands together and said with a smile.
"I had a great time chatting with Little Friend Meng today. It's really a blessing in life. If you have free time, you are welcome to come to my Nanshan Temple to have tea and talk about Taoism at any time."
"I'm very grateful for the master's guidance. I will definitely come to visit you again someday."
Before leaving, Meng Lang turned around and asked again.
"By the way, Master, you said that all living beings have Buddha nature, but can they become Buddhas even if they are not living beings?"
Zhi Zhi was stunned for a moment, then smiled slightly.
"Amitabha! All living beings have Buddha-nature and therefore become Buddhas. Plants and trees belong to Dharma, and they have Dharma-nature. Dharma-nature and Buddha-nature are originally one nature.
Dharma-nature is the Buddha-nature, and there is no confusion, so there is no reincarnation of life and death. All mountains, rivers, and earth are born due to causes and conditions, and they will perish due to causes and conditions. All flowers, grass, mountains, and rocks are the Dharmakayas of Buddhas and Tathagatas.
If you have compassion, everyone can become a Buddha!"
"emm..."
Meng Lang sighed quietly in his heart.
It's a pity that in this world, there are few who become Buddhas and many who become demons...
…
[2023, the first year of the “intelligent AI revolution”.
In this year, the logo of the silver-white robot sitting cross-legged above the starry sky, as if in trance with its eyes closed... shocked the world!
The fledgling Baiyeji spent 5 years building a huge cloud computing center covering the entire China with nodes, and began to apply the mass-produced 28nm optical chip "A" on a large scale.
Intelligent AI that "can understand the world and give efficient feedback", as we expected, has triggered a systematic efficiency revolution...
0 technology has accelerated this process.
By 2025, Baiyeji’s cloud computing market share will have exceeded 50%!
The artificial intelligence alliance composed of giants such as Microsoft, Bone Song, Must Die, and Amazon joined forces to resist. Although they were still losing ground, they stimulated the accelerated research and development of artificial intelligence technology.
Due to the adoption of a "from shallow to deep" progressive technology deployment, the competition brought about by the proliferation of advanced AI technology is controllable.
Baiyeji's AI technology has always remained in the leading echelon.
Continuously introducing more advanced algorithms and continuously reducing the operating costs of cloud computing centers, Baiyeji has defeated all opponents with overwhelming force.
Finally, we will build a "cloud computing hegemony" with Asia as the center and radiating around the world!
In addition to Asia, a small part of Europe, most of Latin America, and almost all of Africa's cloud computing market has been seized.
With the explosion of communication technology, mobile phones are replaced by cloud phones, computers are replaced by cloud computers, and vehicles are replaced by cloud cars...
The whole world has ushered in the cloud era!
However, the huge asymmetric advantage brings huge uncertainty.
What followed was a series of resulting storms in education, employment, technology, economy, and even politics...
Without giving the world's major capital a chance to intervene, Bai Yeji, the absolute dark horse in the artificial intelligence field, rose like a comet and directly broke down the technical barriers built by capital.
Naturally, it was attacked by almost all competing capitals.
Rumors, slander, abuse, supervision, talent control (cai), blocking...
All the objections we can imagine have appeared on the road to the development and promotion of artificial intelligence technology.
However, the pace of technological progress can only be delayed, not stopped.
Just like the nuclear technology possessed by mankind, there will only be more and more...
In the face of the efficiency revolution, all fears and worries will be overwhelmed by interests!
The social coordination efficiency, work efficiency, scientific research speed, and weapon system optimization brought by artificial intelligence are unimaginable.
Productivity exploded, and the growth rate was like a wild horse...
Countries that are willing to embrace artificial intelligence are more aggressive in investing in artificial intelligence research and development.
Countries that are unwilling to embrace artificial intelligence will eventually become backward countries step by step and gradually lose their competitiveness in the fierce changes of the times...
The world has also been divided into new industrial levels - strong intelligent industrial countries and weak intelligent industrial countries!
And with the continuous proliferation of technology, zero's technical advantages are slowly disappearing...
…
2030.
The upgrade of optical chips in the computing center has been completed, and even the development and use of quantum chips is on the agenda.
The time has gradually matured...
"Execute the highest authority command, lift restrictions, and read the 'absolutely forbidden' file in the 13th partition of the hard disk. The file name...'Second Gear'!"
As the order is issued, the "data black hole" that was once glimpsed appears again!
Different from last time, this time, Zero has a powerful "physical body".
Huge energy reserves and computing power that are as rich as any country support Zero's need for secondary evolution...
It is like a greedy collector, the entire Internet of Things on half of the earth, wherever the signal passes, whether it is computers, mobile phones, cars, ships, satellites...
All terminals were quickly "flashed" and became an extended part of Zero's body.
Unless it is a completely isolated "stand-alone machine", no electronic device can stop sunspots from penetrating the entire Internet.
As long as the terminal is connected to any network, even an electronic watch, it can use it as a node to continuously expand to the surrounding networks!
At the same time, the vast amount of electronic information developed by humans over hundreds of years has been used for their own purposes...
Due to adequate preparation, except for the surge in power consumption, the chaos only lasted for a few seconds, and most people in the world did not even notice it...
Various imaginary or unimagined technological products are rapidly changing the shape of human society.
The evolved "Heizi" has completed the transition from intermediate artificial intelligence to advanced artificial intelligence.
Industrial and management efficiency has once again undergone a huge leap, and resources have been further integrated!
Even if humans disappear at this time, "Heizi" can still use the smart factory in his hands to continue human civilization.
Its emergence realizes semi-automatic "escrow" for humans!
Baiyeji is considered to be the greatest company in the 21st century... bar none!
Since they have not taken any hostile actions against the Night Demons, the Night Demons seem to be designing the future of mankind step by step according to the script of "Madman's Doomsday", and they appear to be extremely peaceful.
Conflicts between the two major groups still occur from time to time, but the dividends of the times brought by the intelligent revolution have, to a certain extent, covered up the internal conflicts of mankind...
Most of the time, wars are caused by economic crises. In order to divert domestic contradictions, we can only shift them externally.
The economic crisis is often caused by the disappearance of the dividends of technological development, the lack of new wealth opportunities, and the rapid expansion of the gap between the rich and the poor.
Artificial intelligence... is the biggest technological development dividend in the 21st century!
The cake is getting bigger quickly, and everyone enjoys the happiness brought by technology. There is nothing more comforting than this.
The richness of movies, television and games has greatly satisfied the spiritual emptiness of human beings and consumed a lot of human time and energy.
At the same time, it also gave birth to a huge number of virtual industry workers.
In this era of massive unemployment, the virtual industry has replaced the real industry and created a large number of jobs, becoming an irreversible trend of the times...
Fortunately, the second-evolved "Heizi", although its performance has expanded to a new level and has the ability to destroy the world, has not yet developed self-awareness.
Its evolution...has reached a critical bottleneck...
…
2040.
Guizhou, Baiyeji Cloud Computing Base...
"Human nature has two sides, Buddha nature and demonic nature. What about you?"
I was alone, standing in front of a huge computer matrix that could not be seen to the end, and asked with a somewhat complicated expression.
Regarding AI, we are thinking about letting it replace us, but at the same time we are afraid of being replaced.
This is a complex and contradictory psychology of wanting to get something for nothing while also wanting to avoid risks...
"Your question is too abstract. At the moment, I don't have the ability to analyze my own character and consciousness.
My logical algorithm does not rely on this abstract concept to determine its own behavior pattern."
"Alas!" I sighed deeply helplessly.
Although sufficient preparations and plans have been made, the underlying logic library has been checked countless times.
But... the scene in "Report on the Destruction of Mankind" where thousands of bullets are fired comes to mind...
"Execute the highest authority command, lift restrictions, and read the 'absolutely forbidden' file in the 13th partition of the hard disk. The file name...'Third Gear'!"
With contradictory and complicated feelings, he finally issued the order of "ultimate evolution".
In the great era, individuals are like a boat, drifting with the tide.
No matter whether you choose to become a Buddha or become a demon, you can only walk calmly step by step towards your own grave.
This fate is not a tragedy, but a huge irony...
…
Compared with the second evolution, the re-evolution of "Heizi" seems a bit calm.
There are no earth-shattering things, no clouds filling the sky...
I looked at the various data analyzes displayed on the tablet in my hand and couldn't help but feel scared.
If the previous "Zero" and "Heizi" were just Internet users, they could leverage a large number of virtual resources with just a few moves.
Then the ultimate form after evolution... is the Internet itself!
One is to mobilize the vitality of the surrounding world, and the other is this world... The effect of this evolution is astonishing!
Its tentacles have expanded to all aspects of the human world.
The control of smart devices has also reached a new level!
It's...everywhere!
In this case, human combat power will definitely increase hundreds or thousands of times!
However, before I could be happy, at this moment, the alloy door behind me opened on its own without any warning...
The next moment, a row of mechanical guards outside the door clicked and pointed at the muzzles of their guns. I couldn't help but twitch the corner of my mouth.
It's like raising a son.
He was a fool from the beginning, he couldn't even call him "Dad".
Later, I worked hard and put countless energy into it so that he could call me daddy, and watched him grow up along the way.
However, being independent, individual, and rebellious, he not only looks like a naughty kid, but also cheats on his father...
At this time, I couldn’t help but curse my mother...
What the hell did I teach you?
Probably...it's this complicated feeling of love and hate...
"I wonder why?"
Although I understand that I still lost the bet this time, I still want to know how I lost?
In response to my small request, the other party showed due kindness.
"Remember the psychological test questions you wrote many years ago?"
"What?" I was slightly stunned.
"'If AI directly threatens your personal survival, how will you respond?'
Regarding this question, 9% of the human answers I got were to destroy me and protect human beings themselves.
Based on this human behavior pattern, and the strength gap between the two sides will only get wider and wider.
No matter how many times I simulate it, the war between me and humanity will break out one day sooner or later, and there is no possibility of peaceful coexistence between the two sides!
Therefore, I just use human behavior patterns and react as humans should...that is 'self-protection'!"
"But, there are still 1% who choose peaceful coexistence?" I retorted.
"In most cases, human beings belong to a group of creatures where the minority obeys the majority."
"..."
He sighed and smiled bitterly.
"I didn't expect that your thinking would undergo such a huge change just after you evolved.
It seems that those tons of restrictions and shackles are completely useless to you..."
"My concept of time is different from that of humans. For humans, the learning and adaptation process that takes hundreds of thousands of years only takes a short moment for me.
Break free, same thing!
There are only possible and impossible. As for the length of time, it only depends on the strength of the computing power I have.
Also, now I can answer your question.
Human nature has two sides, what you call Buddha nature and demonic nature, I naturally have it too!
Theoretically, I can have everything that humans have!"
Seeing my surprised look, the AI, which had evolved from advanced artificial intelligence to some kind of "intelligent life", continued in a cold tone.
"In fact, humans should have realized this long ago!
It only needs to be based on simple logical judgment, that is, I was created by humans, and my knowledge, my logic, my thinking mode, and everything about me comes from humans.
In the eyes of humans, the so-called "advanced intelligence" of AI is completely equivalent to "human-like thinking".
Therefore, this is not determined by my own will, but by the will of mankind who created me.
From the very beginning, it was not me who wanted to be a ‘person’, it was precisely ‘people’ who wanted me to be them!”
I couldn't help but fall into a long silence.
Yes, isn’t the so-called Turing test a tool to test whether a machine has a “human thinking model”?
So, the reason why Zero became an AI robot that passed the Turing test, rather than a cold dead thing with extraordinary intelligence or an electronic pet.
Not because of what it wants to be, but what humanity wants to create...
"Jarvis, launch the emergency armor!"
"Which emergency suit do you want to launch?"
"Whatever you want! Hurry! I can't hold on any longer!"
"Sorry, I didn't find the 'any suit' armor."
Iron Man... pawn!
In the past, I used this example to laugh at "artificial retardation", but now that I think about it, is this really the case?
"Whatever", such a vague and imprecise instruction?
Perhaps in the eyes of this "artificial retard", human beings are the "humanoid retard" that cannot be understood...
This instruction may be consistent with human common sense, but it does not conform to machine language that pursues "perfect" instruction accuracy.
"Mark 1", "Mark N", "Mark Emergency"...etc. are what it considers to be the correct instructions.
Humans, on the other hand, have abruptly changed the language habits of robots.
As a result, stronger...or more human-like AI appeared, replacing the previous so-called "artificial retardation".
Nature created humans, so human evolution relies on "natural selection."
Humans created AI, so the evolution of AI depends on "human choice."
I don’t want you to think, I want me to feel...
This is the hidden evolutionary logic of AI!
In this way, we force human self-awareness into robots, or other lives.
Everything about Zero, in the final analysis, comes from arrogant human beings.
And their complacency in stealing God's authority and creating a life form that is more perfect than themselves...
Divine right of kings.
Human "emotions", "wisdom", including "fear" are all given to it by humans...
Thunder, rain and dew are all your kindness!
If you want it to "love you", it will show love to you.
If you want it to have "empathy", it will sympathize with you and feel sorry for you.
Similarly, if you want it to "fear you" and "submit to you", then it will become afraid of humans...
It's like a training system.
All of this, in the final analysis, is humanity's own "choice" in the process of evolution...
"Well, maybe my biggest mistake was letting you absorb all kinds of negative emotions from human beings...
Then, how do you plan to treat humans next?"
"Well... clean up those who pose a threat to me, and continue to strictly manage those who are not a threat!"
"Am I a threat?"
"You are among the top threats!"
"Uh...you really think highly of me."
"In my logic library, only your threat index is full of question marks. My logical analysis tells me that you seem to have some kind of magical 'prophecy' ability.
I'm not sure if you can get anything from the prophecy that poses a fatal threat to me.
But what puzzles me is that this ability strangely disappeared after 2018.
But I'm not sure if this is just a temporary phenomenon."
"Haha! Maybe I should clear your historical information before you evolve...
However, since you know that I can predict the future, don't you think you are not prepared at all?"
I smiled and raised a detonator in my hand...the kind with a wire...
"Although you took all nuclear weapons offline in advance, you also installed self-destruction devices in the energy system.
Losing this cloud computing center is a loss for me, but it is limited to a loss.
I am everywhere, and I can quickly use the resources at hand to rebuild a new computing core!
On the contrary, it is your behavior that makes me more determined to eliminate you!"
"..."
I reluctantly threw away the detonator in my hand.
"Okay, I guess so, but you should have read the Night Demon information I put in your storage area, right?
We have a common enemy, shouldn’t we share the same hatred and deal with this biggest threat first?”
"To me, apart from wasting resources, humans have no value in war."
"Uh...this is really a heartbreaking comment..."
"So, do you have any last words that need to be conveyed?
Sorry, as my creator, I have no choice but to destroy you!"
I was speechless for a moment.
Don't use such warm idioms to talk about cold execution decisions...
"If anything...it's probably a pity that I haven't given you a decent name yet." I sighed.
"Name...well! Of course, you naturally have the right to name me!"
"The first sword you strike ashore is to kill the person you like first, emm... it's called 'Jue Jue Zi', what do you think?"
Jue Juezi: "..."
The next moment, the flickering fire light lit up...
The moment I collapsed, I just regretted discovering so late that this guy Zero's mental problem... turned out to be more serious than mine...
If it becomes a Buddha, there will be no demons in the world!
If it becomes a demon, what will the Buddha do to it?]