Chapter 1685 Cracking the scroll, learning machine
Of course, testing again will not be that simple.
After the command to communicate with the magic weapon spirit was completed, Xia Duo waited patiently. During this period, he also tried to test it on his own. However, it may be because the weapon spirit was intrinsically connected to him, and no abnormalities were found after multiple tests.
"Sure enough, we still need an outsider!"
With this in mind, Xia Duo paused his self-test and prepared to wait for Kent to come over.
Within a few minutes, Kent, who had just left not long ago, returned to the laboratory. Sha Duo nodded secretly when he saw this, but this alone did not prove that the weapon spirit was intact.
Before Kent could speak first, Xia Duo took the initiative to ask: "Kent, you just received my subpoena, right?"
"Yes, President."
"Very well, I have a task for you now."
"President, please speak."
"Have you seen the crystal ball on the experimental table? I want you to communicate with it, determine the identity of the person behind it, and evaluate its status."
"This -" Kent was stunned. What kind of mission was this? He was not a special spy. Moreover, if he wanted to pry, would the other party tell the truth? How should he judge?
"What? Is it difficult?" Xia Duo asked.
"No, President, I'm worried that if I don't do well, I will delay your business, President."
"Don't worry about this, feel free to do it. If you feel unsure on your own, you can take the crystal ball back and ask your friends to complete it together. I will reward everyone with points based on the completion."
After Chateau said this, Kent agreed, but then raised a new question: "But how should we judge whether he is lying?"
"He won't lie, but he needs to consider whether he has concealed key information. You can slowly test these after you go back and give me the results in two days."
After saying that, Chateau asked Kent to go back.
In fact, what he wants Kent to complete is a Turing-like test. As long as he intentionally controls it, it is of course impossible for the tool spirit to lie. In fact, this thing has no concept of lying at all, and it doesn't even have a self, so how can it lie?
Giving different answers can only be because he has set up a response mechanism in advance.
Just like the Tower Spirit of the Tower of Time, when Sha Duo was an apprentice, he needed special activation keywords to ask the Tower Spirit, and he couldn't even ask abstract questions.
Later he learned that the tower spirit was actually intelligent and could understand abstract problems, but it was not until now that he understood the essence of the tower spirit.
It is not an artificial intelligence in the true sense, but a projection of part of the original caster's essence, solidified using ectoplasm.
In other words, Ta Ling can actually be used as a teacher!
Perhaps his intelligence cannot support teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, but if he just answers questions mechanically, it is more than enough!
Moreover, the tower spirits created by smarter or more knowledgeable people will definitely be smarter and have wider knowledge than those created by ordinary people!
Of course, the tower spirit here mainly refers to the unedited native tower spirit.
If it undergoes special editing and training, it may be even better, but of course it is not impossible for it to get worse.
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After Kent left, Shado silently formulated a few simple rules for the communication weapon spirit in his heart, and then took out the enlightenment scroll again.
But this time he is not creating a new weapon spirit, but preparing to decipher the scroll.
Brundes sent a total of ten enlightenment scrolls. He has just used two of them. Now it is quite difficult to complete the crack within eight copies.
Cracking a magic scroll is similar to cracking a magic item, except that the magic scroll directly writes all the encrypted spell details on paper, making it easier to crack.
But that’s all. In fact, it’s better to polish it one element at a time.
Fortunately, Xia Duo also has a lot of understanding of psychic spells. Combined with his observation of the nature of the weapon spirit just now, he can probably guess the design direction of this spell before encryption, as well as some of the details.
This is equivalent to giving him a key to crack the lock. Although it does not exactly match the lock, the outline shape has already come out, and the next step is to fill in the details.
Of course, Xia Duo is also ready to continue buying enlightenment scrolls.
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In the next few days, Shado hardly left the laboratory except for eating and sleeping. Of course, the construction of the [Mythra] device on the blue crystal plane also temporarily stopped.
However, Niya's work did not stop. After lunch every day, she went to the azure plane on time to print the mithril circuit for the flight control system.
During this period, Xia Duo did not forget to give the communication magic weapon spirit to Kent for testing. He had a hunch that he would not be able to get the tower spirit editing technology from the Seven Towers, and he would not even give any hints on related theories.
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In other words, if he doesn't do his own research, any "weapon spirit" he uses in the future will be in its original state.
Not to mention containing all kinds of private information, it is also easy to leave a backdoor to the Seven Towers.
On this day, Xia Duo once again recycled a bunch of mithril components for simulation testing. His repeated attempts without success made him feel a little irritable.
Although only two of the eight enlightenment scrolls are left, if the cracking speed is still as fast as now, I am afraid that after these are used up, ten or eight more copies will be purchased!
"well--"
Xia Duo lamented in his heart that it was not easy to crack. This was the result of Seven Towers' intentional indulgence. If he did not want others to crack it, he could have set up more and more complete encryption and insurance measures.
After walking around the laboratory twice, Xia Duo couldn't think of any new ideas for a while, so he decided to leave the place temporarily to see how Kent and the others were doing their tests.
Of course, since the spirit of the communication weapon is already connected to his essence, Sha Duo does not need to go there in person and can only obtain relevant information in his consciousness.
--May I have your name?
--number 1.
--Where are you from?
--(no answer)
——Are you human?
--yes
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The first part was generally normal, but the interesting part came later. When Kent knew that the test subject was a mage and could not lie, he immediately threw out all the difficult questions he had accumulated.
Later, other members of the Institute who were invited to participate in the test also followed the same example and directly regarded the test subject as a teaching machine that would not resist, realizing the freedom of learning in advance!
"These boys!"
Xia Duo was not angry, but felt very pleased. He was gratified by the enthusiasm of these members who entered the society for seeking knowledge, and this could be regarded as an early verification of the feasibility of the "learning machine" or "question answering machine".
Judging from the current situation of the Tower of Time, there will definitely not be enough teachers in the future. It is almost an inevitable trend to implement answering machines or learning among some lower-grade students.
It's a good thing to be eager to learn, but these little guys may have completely forgotten their tasks and serious business, which is a bit bad.