Chapter 308: Chapter 227: mory
The Prison Governor Norton did not wish for Duan Mingyuan to have too much interaction with the prison’s artificial intelligence, the reason being that over the years, the behavior of these AIs had beco increasingly peculiar, and more and more akin to that of a real human.
Norton was certain this deviated from the designer’s original intention.
The initial concept for the AI of Prison Star Jail was simple: the researchers just wanted to eliminate human subjective emotions to create an Adjudicator devoid of any personal sentints, ensuring that every criminal received their due judgnt.
Duan Mingyuan leaned against the bed, flipping through the prison manual that Norton had given him before he left, which docunted the long history of the prison.
Over a hundred years had passed since the birth of artificial intelligence, and the team that originally created it had long since passed away; the "Judge" had thus beco one of the most precious legacies they left to this universe.
However, in reality, the initial form of this research was not to create a fair Adjudicator but a tool for mory extraction.
For the company, it was one of the most important creations of the last century. The "Judge" was rely a byproduct of this technology.
Whether the convicts sent to Prison Planet wished it or not, their mories would be searched before they passed through that gate, after which the Adjudicator would weigh their every cri against their deeds and render them their final verdict.
Although it wasn’t explicitly stated in the prison manual, Duan Mingyuan could easily guess why the Universe Company was eager to apply this technology to Prison Planet.
The creation of the Judge was filled with legitimacy; every criminal it judged had committed a litany of cris in the universe. If left to humans for judgnt, the only verdict would be "death penalty," the most severe sentence under current universal law. However, in practice, people found that for these fugitives, the death penalty had long since lost its deterrent effect.
These villains had committed too many sins and knew full well that once captured, death was inevitable, so they only beca more ruthless.
The Judge quantified their sins for the first ti, and for a long ti, it was seen as the spokesperson for fairness and justice.
This was precisely the effect that Universe Company hoped to achieve.
In this way, they could legitimately use this technology on a wide scale, gathering a massive amount of experintal data to help with further adjustnts and research.
Reading mories was indeed a convenient ability that saved them a great deal of unnecessary effort in various aspects of their work, like opening up the brain of the other party and directly reading the content they wanted.
Rebels, business competitors, dignitaries of other civilizations...
In the face of this technology, no one could keep secrets from the company anymore.
No one understood the benefits of this technology better than Duan Mingyuan, and today—a century later—this technology had beco a common practice for Universe Company, widely used in areas such as business, espionage, and interrogation.
However, people often overlooked the dangers of this technology.
Amongst the many abilities, mory reading was one of Duan Mingyuan’s least favorite to use.
The human brain is like a computer with a vast amount of data stored in it. When you delve into those mories, what you get is not only the part you want.
Especially if the subject is a person of extre wickedness.
The mory and malicious emotions can subtly influence the mory searcher, and the process is akin to a first-person film. In those constantly flashing back segnts, you beco one with the mory, experiencing the past they endured.
This is probably also why the project’s researchers insisted on using artificial intelligence, as they believed that only AI could withstand such a plethora of negative emotions and remain themselves unaffected after bearing witness to the sins of the universe.
In their twilight years, the researchers did not spend their days surrounded by flowers and applause.
The Universe Company greatly valued the wealth they created, so much that they wished to have all their knowledge passed on to... all of humanity, without reservations, after their death.
Thus, this technology was applied to the researcher multiple tis.
In the words of the "father of the Judge," he felt like a stripped prostitute, examined without any privacy.
Duan Mingyuan did not know whether this was a case of poetic justice, but from the current Prison Governor’s concerns, it seed that artificial intelligence was not as immune to these negative emotions as the researchers had thought.
In the last few decades, they had beco increasingly neurotic, acting more and more like a living human being.
Mingyuan noticed a subtle number.
The changing numbers all pointed to one person.
Eisenberg-Adler.
This genius’s sentence was 1603 years, the second-longest in Prison Star Jail, which ant that no matter how much his sentence was reduced, he would never leave this planet. All the deaths caused by his abuse of power on the front lines of the "Cocoon" war were attributed to him.
Although Eisenberg had never personally killed anyone, there probably wasn’t any other criminal in the prison who had brought about more deaths than him.
Mingyuan couldn’t help but be curious about the person who had set the prison record with a 1721-year sentence.
He found it hard to imagine what kind of cri could warrant such a sentence.
Regrettably, this prisoner was held in the deepest part of the jail because he was too dangerous, forbidden to go out, to be visited, or to participate in any trial, and his identity was unknown to anyone. Everyone only knew him by the number 1721.
Thus, 1721 had beco his na.
As the person with the second-longest sentence in Prison Star Jail, Eisenberg-Adler also had his own area, which spared him from dealing with those extrely vicious criminals.
The environnt in the area wasn’t too bad; it was at least much more comfortable than other places, with clean water sources and decent als. In the prisoners’ words, it was a place fit for humans.
It wasn’t easy to see Eisenberg-Adler.
The artificial intelligence forbade any visits, and even the prison guards couldn’t enter the area where Eisenberg was held.
This seed to be because the company had exercised so privileges, allowing Eisenberg to contribute to the company even while incarcerated.
These contributions would be exchanged for his relatively free life in prison.
But from the affair with Morgan VII and the "Key of Dominance," it was clear that Eisenberg wasn’t content to just sit quietly on Prison Planet; he had sohow gotten involved with the Chamber of Comrce and even sold his research to them.
This was not good news.
Mingyuan observed that the relationship between the prison guards and The Adjudicator was very delicate; their only reason for being there seed to be maintaining an outward appearance of human and AI joint managent for the prison. However, the internal situation was such that even the Prison Governor Norton had little say in front of The Adjudicator.
As an outsider, he was even less likely to get permission to visit Eisenberg.
"Dong dong dong, dong dong dong—"
The knocking at the door interrupted Mingyuan’s train of thought.
"The door’s unlocked, please co in."
As he spoke, the familiar robotic prison guard pushed open the door of the single room. From the mont he arrived at Prison Star Jail, The Adjudicator seed to have taken a great interest in him.
Norton thought this wasn’t a good thing.
The Adjudicator rarely invited people to the prison as guests, and those who were "invited" often didn’t end up in good circumstances.
"Please rest assured, the pirates are all arranged,"
the chanical prison guard said, "Now the ti is all ours."
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