"In the first month, the war situation was not that exaggerated, and everything seemed to be under control. In addition to refusing human ceasefire orders, the war was also limited to local fighting areas and did not affect all
City. In our era, war has long become a duel between machines. Although human lives are no longer used as a consumable, the comparison is still the comprehensive national strength of the two warring parties... Oh, that war was not
There are only two parties, and all countries are involved and cannot be spared."
"Where are the battlefields? There shouldn't be as many wastelands as there are now, right?"
"Of course, at that time, there were cities and towns everywhere, except for the truly barren land, which had been occupied by humans. This is why the doomsday war would turn the planet into a devastated place, leaving almost no untouched remains.
Destroyed places. Of course, there are still many sparsely populated areas. On the one hand, they have a bad environment, and on the other hand, they are 'military buffer zones' specially set aside by various countries, which are special battlefields."
"You keep talking..."
"For important talents like us, AI will be fully responsible for our safety and life. Even if we move to a remote city in the interior, our living standards will not change much. Civilian factories are not targets in war, so the
Some things are still there. Since the war is still under control, we are not forced to enter the bunker, but live normally in the manor on the outskirts of the city. The only problem is that we cannot move around at will."
"Then what do you do?"
"What to do? Of course we will continue our research. Your father and I are both relatively indifferent types. We are not sensitive to current social affairs and are only good at research. Oh, although your father was already a world-class rich man at that time
, but that does not mean that he has much business acumen. It is purely based on his strong family background and technology monopoly. You have to know that entrepreneurial success has little to do with hard work. The only factors are original capital, core technology and some good luck.
Your father had these, so he succeeded."
"Is it possible to do research in a remote place?"
"Of course, the things we study don't need huge equipment like particle accelerators. One or two transport planes are enough to transport them, and the basement of the manor is enough to accommodate them. As experts in the field of AI, we don't even need research assistants. We have robots.
That's enough, and that stuff could be found anywhere in that era."
"Then there shouldn't be any problems in your life~"
"Everyone thinks so, including AI. We have checked the status of our country's AI and found nothing unusual, nor can we explain the reason why they are obsessed with war. Perhaps they are used to a world controlled by AI. At that time,
The Human Management Group believes that this war may have been started by AI in order to control the speed of human expansion. As long as we live more moderately, the war will be over soon."
"What kind of strange conclusion is this?"
"I don't know either~ Sometimes, a group of smart people will come to stupid conclusions when they get together. This is a very magical thing. Your father and I are not good at judging situations, so we believed their conclusions and continued to work with peace of mind.
Research...oh, at that time we were already studying the subject of putting the human brain into a machine, and we had already completed most of it..."
"Whose brain are you using for research?"
"Of course it's an animal brain. We are not crazy scientists with no bottom line, and we will not do things that violate human ethics. As for the research topic, it was approved by the Scientific Ethics Committee. Everyone thinks that this topic is very progressive, and maybe it can be
Let human civilization leap to a higher level again..."
"So did you succeed?"
"Of course it was successful. Otherwise, how could you be where you are now? It is no exaggeration to say that your father and I are the founders of the current cyber world. Without us, there would be no such thing. Oh~ It's just that when I was alive, this
The research has not been successful yet, because I am the first successful case~"
"What?"
"Don't worry, I will tell you everything~"
"Then keep talking..."
"After a month of calm, the war situation suddenly escalated. The reason was that one country's AI used missiles to bomb a city in another country, causing a large number of human civilian casualties. Angry people went to the Government Affairs Office to protest, demanding that the enemy be punished
To retaliate. Due to the nature of war in that era, most people had no real sense of fighting. Daily life would indeed be affected, but after all, the city was still safe. It was not until casualties occurred that people recognized the reality and quickly moved on to another
One extreme. No one cares that the attack was done by AI, they just want to retaliate and use human casualties on the other side to appease their anger."
"this……"
"Now that I think about it, all of this was indeed premeditated. First, they used controllable conflicts to numb people's nerves and let everyone continue their daily lives. Then they carried out surprise attacks that caused a large number of casualties, destroyed people's rationality, and finally pressed the button of destruction.
The button opened the way... Although the AI refused to cease the war, it fully accepted people's demands for revenge, and even exaggerated it in public opinion. At this point, the war finally began to move towards the classic mode, and key cities around the world were 'taken care of'
, ground troops also began to move from war zones to densely populated areas. Since humans in various countries have given retaliatory instructions to AI, those war machines no longer only target their own kind, but have begun to point their guns at humans."
"Then humans didn't detect the problem and respond?"
"Of course I found it. The human management group wants to prevent this human tragedy, but their authority is lower than that of the referendum, and the AI refuses to implement it. Most people have been blinded by hatred in the war, and they just want to defeat their opponents.
They asked AI to launch a total war plan, and humans began to join the battlefield as soldiers, fighting against machines and the enemy's similar species, destroying each other's cities. By this time, AI even took a back seat and no longer made strategic decisions.
Because humans have stepped in and they know how to kill better than machines."
"...What were you doing at that time?"
"Of course we are hiding. The war has reached this level, wouldn't we be fools not to hide? But we made a mistake, that is, we chose to hide in a private bunker, because our research has reached a critical node. After the breakthrough,
Even if there are results. At that time, the sky was full of war, and even a few planes might be shot down, so we chose to stay where we were to conduct research. Who would have expected~ Hey, we should have expected that the war would eventually find us.
door, and in a way we never imagined."
"What is it?"
"What attacks us is not the AI or human soldiers of the enemy country, but the illegal organizations in our country who think they have seen the true nature and are determined to eliminate AI."