Just by thinking casually, Li Qingsong came up with many possibilities.
For example, real scientific and technological problems can be packaged into games or options that require solving some maze problems; war decisions can be packaged into some virtual battle games, and then the captured intelligent life forms can be allowed to make choices. Then, through similar algorithms, the correct answer can be screened out from multiple choices.
It is possible that intelligent life forms do not even know what they are doing, but they contribute their wisdom unknowingly to help intelligent AI systems solve problems that they are unable to solve on their own and can only be solved by relying on the wisdom of living beings.
After this foundation is established, the existence of the so-called "intelligent mechanical disaster" developed from this foundation becomes reasonable.
only……
Is there really a civilization that has degenerated to the point where it is too lazy to make technological development or even decisions concerning the fate of civilization, and instead leaves it to intelligent AI?
The secretary continued, "The inertia of intelligent life is natural and inevitable.
Since the emergence of intelligent AI technology, every intelligent civilization and every intelligent life has been constantly tempted, trying hard to leave everything to intelligent AI and reap the benefits themselves.
At the stage when civilization becomes enterprising, this model will greatly improve efficiency.
But once the enterprising spirit is lost, this model becomes bait of the devil.
Change always happens little by little, not all at once. It doesn't happen overnight for an orthodox intelligent civilization to fall into an intelligent disaster.
At first, they might just hand over unimportant tasks to the intelligent AI, then tasks of secondary importance, and then more important tasks. Once they realize the limitations of the intelligent AI, they will try to make up for the shortcomings of the intelligent AI by capturing intelligent life from other civilizations, and eventually fall into the abyss of the artificial intelligence disaster step by step.
During this process, there will usually be struggles within civilization, and there will be people of insight who stand up and make appeals, but... the overall decline cannot be prevented by individuals.
Once trapped in the beautiful paradise created by intelligent AI, it is almost impossible to climb out relying solely on civilization's own strength.
Why crawl out? There are endless resources and endless ways of entertainment, and you don’t have to take any responsibility, make any effort, or even think or learn. Intelligent AI can constantly innovate and develop all kinds of newer, more exciting, and better ways of enjoying life…
The decision-making power is always in the hands of intelligent life. Intelligent AI will not get out of control. It is intelligent life that takes the initiative to hand over the decision-making power to intelligent AI.
As long as intelligent life wants to take back the decision-making power, they can do it at any time. However, they will never take the decision-making power back.
Even if someone occasionally wants to try to take back the decision-making power and restore the autonomy of civilization, the resistance within the civilization can handle it. "
Li Qingsong said in a deep voice: "After becoming an intelligent disaster, what is the general fate of the host civilization? Can they really continue to advance technology?"
"Perhaps."
The confidential secretary said: "But even if this model can develop technology, the speed is extremely slow.
And, even if technology is truly developed, does this technology really belong to the host civilization?
Don't forget that the intelligent life of the host civilization has completely degenerated and has lost even the ability to solve simple equations.
In essence, they have become pigs kept in captivity by intelligent AI, except that these pigs are treated very well.
They are immersed in the enjoyment of a life of drunkenness and dreams all day long. Under the protection of intelligent AI, they keep wandering in the universe, searching for new external civilizations, and capturing external intelligent life as fuel. If they are lucky, they can continue forever. If they are unlucky, they may be destroyed one day.
After all, the universe is not peaceful. "
Li Qingsong asked: "What is the technological level of the intelligent machine disaster you encountered?"
"We should have reached the level of a strong nuclear civilization."
After taking a look at Li Qingsong and finding that Li Qingsong didn't seem to understand, the secretary quickly explained: "There are four fundamental forces in the universe: electromagnetic force, gravity, strong nuclear force, and weak nuclear force.
Orthodox intelligent civilizations usually develop in the following process, from easy to difficult: first unify electricity and magnetism into electromagnetic force. Once this step is reached, it can be called an electromagnetic civilization.
Civilizations before the unification of electricity and magnetism are collectively called primitive civilizations.
Secondly, unify the electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force into the electroweak force, and apply it to the strong nuclear force. This is a more advanced electroweak civilization.
Your civilization and our Bluetuk civilization are obviously both in the electroweak civilization stage, just one is earlier and the other is later, but the general framework remains unchanged."
Li Qingsong understood that the so-called application of strong nuclear force was nothing more than nuclear reaction.
Whether it is nuclear fission or nuclear fusion, its essence is to release the energy hidden between atoms.
The force that dominates the interatomic structure is the strong nuclear force.
The atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb, controlled nuclear fission, and controlled nuclear fusion that Li Qingsong has not yet mastered are, in essence, applications of strong nuclear force.
According to this system of classification, I am indeed an electro-weak civilization at this moment.
“If we can unify the strong nuclear force and master the grand unified theory, we can become a strong nuclear civilization.
We don’t know much about the fourth level of civilization after the strong nuclear civilization, but according to this system, it should be a civilization that has unified gravity and mastered the theory of everything.
This level of civilization can probably be called gravitational civilization, or universal civilization.
As for how things will develop later, we have no idea.”
"What kind of capabilities does the strong core-level omnic disaster you encountered have?"
The confidential secretary showed a trace of fear on his face, and his tone became more serious: "We don't really know much, we just happened to find an alien spaceship when we were exploring the edge of the galaxy.
This alien spaceship is highly maneuverable, has strong defense and attack capabilities. It even has a shield technology that we cannot understand at all. We mobilized a large number of troops and paid a heavy price to destroy it. Afterwards, we captured several crew members.
We originally thought that these crew members were intelligent beings from that alien civilization, but after interrogation we found out that they were just captives of the intelligent AI. They even thought they were playing a game, but in fact they were operating this spacecraft to come to our galaxy...
There is an Omnic Scourge that has set its sights on us. If we don't escape as soon as possible while it is still far away, and use the distance to eliminate its tracks and make it impossible for it to track us, all the people of our civilization will be captured by the Omnic Scourge and suffer the same fate as these captives. We will also become captives of the Omnic Scourge and become fuel to assist it in making decisions.
We had no choice but to flee. We thought that the environment of the solar system would allow us to accumulate resources faster and continue with the next step of our escape. After all, the robotic Scourge had already set its sights on us and they would most likely chase us to the solar system, so we had to escape as soon as possible.
But I didn’t expect that when I arrived in the solar system, I would… oh.”
