"Do you think it is possible for robots to have real feelings?"
Hearing Chairman Li Guangya's sudden question, Wu Shuhua, who was standing next to the desk, was slightly stunned.
She frowned and said, "Robots have feelings? What are you talking about? "
"Nothing, I just feel a little interesting, and this is indeed a question worth thinking about." Looking at the report in his hand, Li Guangya's index finger gently tapped twice on the desk. He said in a chatty tone, "Remember the robot that awakened naturally before?"
"You mean … Tail?"
Li Guangya: "I think so. If I remember correctly, she should be a robot that awakened naturally, and she published her core code on the world's largest academic forum? "
"I have an impression of this matter." Wu Shuhua nodded and continued, "But why do you mention this matter?"
"Because of the 1024 data people … Their bodies have been destroyed, but their consciousness has been uploaded to the hardware by those robots. We now have two choices. One is to treat them as legally dead and delete their data. The other is to give them a body similar to a robot and let them continue to live with another identity. "
Wu Shuhua did not make any comments on this sensitive issue. Instead, she asked in a watertight manner.
"What do you think?"
Li Guangya: "I'll be straightforward. For humanitarian reasons, they are victims of war. We should give them a body and let them reunite with their families. But reason tells me that this choice is full of risks. "
Wu Shuhua: "Actually, I don't quite understand, that pioneer … David Lawrence, why did he do this?"
"Maybe it was for an experiment, maybe it was just out of boredom. After all, no one knows except for him … "Li Guangya leaned back on the office chair and said thoughtfully," Unfortunately, he is already dead. This is too good for him. "
This was not just a problem he was facing.
It could even be said that this was a test for the entire Pan-Asian Cooperation society.
If they gave up on those people, they would get an extremely "pure" society. If they chose to accept them, they might usher in a diversified future.
"Speaking of which, is Academician Lu still in North America?"
"Yes."
When Li Guangya heard Secretary Wu's answer, he sighed in frustration.
"If only he could come back earlier. I still have a lot of things to talk to him about."
Wu Shuhua: "You seem to trust him very much."
Li Guangya: "He is indeed a trustworthy person. This is proven by his actions. Is there a problem?"
Wu Shuhua: "I don't deny that, but I didn't expect you to rely on others."
"You're changing the concept. Trust doesn't mean dependence. I have my own judgment on what to do, but before that, wouldn't it be better to consult the expert's opinion?" Li Guangya smiled faintly and said, "At least, you can avoid some detours."
…
The church in Princeton.
White tombstones were erected on the lawn behind the church.
With his index finger touching the tiny epitaph on the tombstone, Lu Zhou softly read it.
"Great scholar, great professor."
[Pierre Deligné]
He was a respected teacher, not only because of his achievements in mathematics, but also because his wisdom inspired many talented souls.
"I didn't expect to see you again in this way … I wanted to commemorate you in my own way, but the management here told me not to light a fire."
Lu Zhou gently placed the flower in his hand on the tombstone. He didn't stay here any longer. He turned around and walked away.
Over the next two days, Lu Zhou didn't immediately leave Princeton. Instead, he began to study the "autobiography" of David Lawrence that he borrowed from the Firestone Library.
Interestingly enough, this autobiography wasn't written by someone else. It was written by him, or at least by his dictation.
Until he graduated from Princeton, his dream was to become a historian. However, because of a sudden change, he had to give up his academic path and go back to inherit the Lawrence family business.
As one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the B City Consortium, he had a terrifying amount of wealth in his early thirties.
Although he was always on the opposite side of his old friend, Lu Zhou, in the layout of the technology industry, this loss was nothing compared to the huge family business left to him by his father.
"… Disease, aging, natural and man-made disasters, weak flesh and blood will one day decay. Only by engraving thoughts on the circuit board can one truly obtain eternity.
"I started to sponsor scholars and dreamers that I thought highly of and invested in future industries. I hope that I can upload my consciousness to the Internet while I'm still alive. At that time, I will use everything I have to create an omnipotent body for myself, as well as the smartest brain in the world. In the form of numbers, I will obtain a superhuman body and an eternal life that the nobles of the Middle Ages could only dream of. "
"However, the road to the truth is always uneven. Just like not everyone is worth investing in, not every investment will eventually bring me the return I deserve. Some research had to be fundamentally overturned in the end, and some were stuck in a bottleneck. I couldn't see a way out.
"On my fortieth birthday, I gradually began to feel despair. It wasn't until a piece of amazing news came from China across the sea that a ball of fire was ignited in my heart. "
"Fate is such a wonderful thing. Although my old friend has defeated the companies I support more than once, the neural interface device he developed this time has encouraged my negative emotions."
"I choose to continue to bet on Mr. Musk, as well as many scientists who are engaged in the research of neural access devices. I built a research institute in B City dedicated to researching derivative technologies of neural access devices, namely, uploading consciousness.
"In fact, this technology is not difficult. After the bottleneck of direct connection between the nervous system and the computer was solved, we, who have been researching in this field for many years, quickly grasped the key to solving this problem.
"However, I knew that this was not enough. The fake program could not replace my consciousness. The person on the screen was at most a high grade replica of me. At this time, my researchers told me that if I wanted to obtain eternal life in the form of numbers, I had to at least make the program written into the hardware come to life. In other words, I had to make it have a high level of intelligence in order to become a real person.
"My plan once again fell into a trough. One night at the end of 2022, I drowned my sorrows in alcohol. I put on the virtual reality helmet and was about to escape into the virtual world. However, at this moment, an unknown power pulled me into a pitch-black space. I thought there was a bug in the program until I saw another me in there.
"Do you want to live in the sea of data forever like me? Then please pass my test. The other 'me' said to me and downloaded a 5MB program into my terminal. "
"When I woke up and found the program on the terminal, I couldn't describe the surprise in my heart. It was as if it came from nothingness and saved me from falling into darkness. I opened it like a treasure and found the secret of evolution inside …
"It was a comprehensive proposition that mixed sociology and information science. Even though it was only 5 MB in size, it was still not an easy task to solve it. As the calculation continued, I continued to provide it with experimental materials and objects to observe. The size of the program grew almost exponentially. In the end, I had to buy a supercomputer center and even explore an uninhabited planet to satisfy his appetite. "
"Although his appetite was getting bigger and bigger, I was full of confidence for the future. The end of evolution was in front of me, and soon I would achieve eternity. The selfless me would share the secrets of evolution with everyone. "
After Lu Zhou finished reading David Lawrence's autobiography, he took a deep breath, closed the book, and cast his gaze outside the window into the dark night.
The timeline matched. His guess was right.
The night at the end of 2022 was the day when the ILHCRC carried out high-energy physics experiments on abnormal energy zones. It was also on that day that human civilization looked up at the world on the n + 1 dimension for the first time, which was called the Void by The Observer Civilization.
And the program on Ceres came from there!
"When you stare at the Void, the Void stares at you."
Lu Zhou repeated this sentence over and over again. He sighed softly.
"I didn't expect that just a quick glance would release such a big problem."
100 years.
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