Chapter 751: Chapter 748: Thought Tampering
Yamamoto hesitated for a mont, then nodded, “Alright, I will grant you prison administrator access; there shouldn’t be any security issues.”
In the virtual prison, there were also a certain number of staff responsible for maintaining order, but not everyone had administrator access.
With the help of several doctors, Zhang Yuan lay down in a hibernation chamber and closed his eyes.
[You are entering Virtual World 0701101, please wait…]
A few seconds later, Zhang Yuan had a completely different perception.
When he opened his eyes, he found himself in the virtual world. In front of him was a bright room with two security robots performing tasks. When they saw Zhang Yuan, they saluted him.
Zhang Yuan pushed open the large door of the room and entered the prison.
The human governnt treated these prisoners of war rather well; the prison was equipped with various facilities, each prisoner had a separate compartnt, there was one or two hours of social activity every day, and a certain level of entertainnt equipnt…
Zhang Yuan walked directly to a room where a forr new human regint commander lived, who was the highest-ranking detainee.
The middle-aged man looked a bit haggard, sitting in a chair, staring blankly. There was a newspaper from the New Human Civilization on the table, recording the final outco of this war.
He looked up when he saw Zhang Yuan enter the room. The commander easily recognized Zhang Yuan, a very famous scientist.
“Mr. Zhang, hello.”
Zhang Yuan asked, “What is your surna?”
“My surna is Chang.”
Zhang Yuan asked rcilessly, “Why did you choose to take up arms and rebel against your forr Mother Civilization? Do you know how many people your rebellion has cost? Your family would be ashad of you… Of course, to reduce social chaos, we can only claim that you died in battle.”
“I… I did it to protect and guide our civilization onto the correct path!” The man nad Chang beca agitated, loudly saying, “I truly realized that joining the Aleph Civilization was a wise choice. This civilization is much more tolerant than we imagined, and its ultimate goal is to establish a perfect ho at the Galaxy Level! Every intelligent being can choose their own path in life in this perfect ho.”
“Our past actions were really too narrow-minded. That silver-colored robot didn’t kill anyone; everyone was just unconscious… But we destroyed it…”
Zhang Yuan was montarily taken aback; it seed that the other party wasn’t lying.
Mr. Chang even furiously countered: “It was only later, to not disrupt the entire starry sky expansion plan, that we actually fought back… Do you know what you have done?! If this launch base was destroyed, the plan that spans the entire Milky Way could be delayed by decades!”
“Every one of you knows there are so many civilizations living in severe distress, unaware of their purpose or the aning of life, just existing aimlessly. Intelligent life shouldn’t be like this!”
“The Aleph Civilization will bring them true hope! When the capability is great enough, shouldn’t we act this way?”
“Now you have destroyed this hope… No, you can’t destroy this hope, you’ve just delayed it by several decades. It’s all in vain… Our plan will ultimately be realized!”
As he spoke, the man beca fanatical, beginning to brainwash Zhang Yuan in reverse, fervently attempting to establish a “Milky Way Grand Ho,” a place filled with hope for everyone!
“Not unlike now, where most civilizations indulge in their Mother Stars and the Milky Way is lifeless, looking empty and deserted!”
“In other Milky Way systems managed by the Noah Faction, the prosperity level is much higher than the Milky Way. If asured nurically, the number of Fourth-level Civilizations and even Level 5 Civilizations is ten thousand to even a hundred thousand tis higher than in the Milky Way!”
“Compared to this grand goal, what does abandoning everything now count for? If humans want to beco a Level 5 Civilization, don’t they also have to abandon the majority of things? Can humans, with their nature and Racial Value, beco a Level 5 Civilization?”
“Of course not.”
This conversation had a massive amount of information, even involving extra-galactic systems, where Alef Civilization is just one of the Level 5 Civilizations within the Noah Faction. Humans couldn’t even handle the Alef Civilization, let alone the broader Noah Faction. Thinking about this made Zhang Yuan’s scalp tingle and all sorts of thoughts burst forth.
“But firing on your own kind is not the right action.”
“No, Professor Zhang, you should know that sotis, a fist is required to reform others more effectively.”
Zhang Yuan scratched his head; he had to admit, this guy had a point, and he genuinely believed it, not just making it up…
Even the mission statent of the Alef Civilization might be precisely this.
Such a lofty goal, though the ans are quite barbaric… But without barbarism, could reasoning alone transform the entire Milky Way? Clearly not.
Zhang Yuan shook his head, dismissing these wild thoughts, and then asked, “But, Mr. Chang, have your thoughts been altered by the Alef Civilization? Don’t you realize it? The origin of these thoughts is mind alteration! Originally, you were a normal human.”
Mr. Chang responded, “I know my thoughts have been forcibly changed, but I think my current state is excellent, better than it ever was! I’ve found the aning of life… I am not betraying humanity, but I believe this is the correct path for humanity! I will continue down this path.”
“Even if you imprison , in the end, it will prove that I am right… Joining the Alef Civilization is the best choice, it will elevate our entire civilization!”
Regarding this fanatic, Zhang Yuan had nothing more to say, as argunts born from differing beliefs were pointless.
He fell silent for a while, then changed the subject: “After those robots captured and transford you, what kind of work did you do for the entire base?”
Mr. Chang did not try to conceal this, sharing everything he knew: “We engage in so constructive tasks. The infrastructure of this base, many were destroyed in ongoing wars, the developnt was slow, so industries require real sentient beings for more flexible production.”
“We handle so managent, planning, and detailed supplental work for the base.”
Zhang Yuan understood what he ant. Strong artificial intelligence was intelligent and capable, but still imperfect. For flexibility tasks not in its database, it needed to allocate computing power to perform calculations.
Sotis, tasks that are simple for humans require a significant amount of computing power for AI. For example, when a machine breaks down, humans can simply decide it’s too hard to repair and discard it, but strong intelligence would need to analyze the complexity of the repairs, making several distinctions.
Like sorting garbage, humans can roughly judge what can still be used, but strong intelligence must analyze extensively.
Though these minor matters take less than 0.001 seconds each for it, the base being so massive with all kinds of miscellaneous chores, adding up there wouldn’t be one hundred million, but at least ten million matters, requiring imnse computing power.
The calculation capabilities of strong artificial intelligence still have an upper limit; it cannot infinitely escalate, not just by adding a CPU to increase computing power. Because from the algorithmic level, it has essential differences from weak intelligence, involving many intricate relations, and upgrading is not that easy.
Especially self-replication, which requires vast amounts of ti to accumulate.
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