Text Chapter 1666 Two Little Surprises

Li Yao recalled the details of his wanderings in the Flying Star Realm with Professor Mo Xuan in the past, and he felt a little bit of a turmoil.

From the video just now, one can hear Professor Mo Xuan's deep love for the virtual life form, and that kind of... almost detached from human beings, standing on the scale of the universe, and being compassionate.

It is conceivable that the collapse of the ethereal world must have dealt a heavy blow to him, so that the "Civilization" game has become his sad past, making him unable to continue to lead this magnificent and magnificent project.

Li Yao sighed and asked, "Is this 'Ethereal World' destroyed just like that, leaving nothing behind?"

Ling Xiaole said: "It's not that nothing is left behind. If I have to say it, 'Xiao Ming' and 'Wen Wen', the game assistants after players enter "Civilization", are the last relics of the 'Ethereal World Project'. It is a kind of 'artificial intelligence', with more than one billion thoughts and information built in, which can simulate almost all human reactions."

"Artificial intelligence" and "artificial intelligence-like", the word difference, but there is a world of difference.

The former has a real "spirit" and "self-awareness", and can be regarded as another form of person; but the latter can only be regarded as a large-scale database, coupled with various most advanced algorithms.

"Artificial intelligence" can also respond appropriately or even delicately to various stimuli given by the outside world, but this response is no different from "parrot learning". At best, it is a lowest-level conditioned reflex.

The simplest example, the "Black Wing" that Li Yao grew up with is a kind of "artificial intelligence".

Xiao Hei can respond to Li Yao's various needs, and sometimes even has considerable autonomy and does not obey Li Yao's command.

But this kind of "not obeying Li Yao's command, but acting freely at random" was also set by Dad or someone else a long time ago.

No matter how much Li Yao likes Heiyi, rationally, he will not regard Heiyi as a real "person". All reactions of Heiyi are based on a special database stored in it, which was compiled a long time ago A set of instructions.

There is no real "person" who can endure staying in the Qiankun ring for decades without going crazy.

Similarly, many magic weapons of the Federation have the so-called "artifact spirits". At first glance, they seem to have their own soul and will, and they can communicate with the driver fluently, and even actively implement various tactical arrangements.

But all of this is also pre-programmed and pre-set, and will be "triggered" when a certain special condition is met, rather than a divine soul actually hidden in the magic weapon with an absolutely free will.

The larger the database and the more sophisticated the instruction set, the more real the response of the "artificial intelligence" will be, but no matter how real it is, it is just a puppet performing an unconscious mechanical response.

Real artificial intelligence and virtual life may take hundreds or thousands of years to arrive, but "artificial intelligence" has long been popular in the Federation. Hearing Ling Xiaole say this, Li Yao is not surprised at all.

Ling Xiaole said: "You can turn on the crystal brain, without entering the game, simply activate 'Xiaoming' and 'Wenwen', and then select 'Initial Mode', you can see how they were first created in the Ethereal World."

Li Yao's curiosity arose and he followed his advice.

"Shua!"

Two round, chubby, pink and jade-carved, crystal clear little dolls emerged from Li Yao's palm again.

With the opening of the "initial mode", Xiao Ming and Wenwen seemed to be waking up from a big dream. They blinked their eyes in confusion, first looked at each other, and then turned their heads to look at Li Yao. They suddenly yelled in unison:

"dad!"

Li Yao was so excited that he almost didn't slap the two little guys to death: "What the hell!"

Ling Xiaole suppressed a smile: "The initial setting is like this, because they are sub-civilizations of human beings in the setting, of course they call human beings 'Mom and Dad'!"

"Yes, we are a sub-civilization of mankind!"

Xiao Ming said proudly with his head held high and his hands on his hips.

"Good sub-civilization, lovely sub-civilization, beautiful sub-civilization, bright sub-civilization!"

Wenwen spun around and danced lightly.

"Humanity is our father civilization, great father civilization, brave father civilization, glorious father civilization!"

Xiao Ming continued.

"Praise father civilization, praise father civilization!"

Wenwen sings and dances.

Li Yao was stunned, watching the two porcelain doll-like Xuanguang little people bouncing around in his palm, laughing like silver bells, and even struggling to climb up his arms along his arms, really like two living little dolls , Goosebumps all over his body instantly.

"Uh, because a few decades ago, when the game "Civilization" was just starting, most people in the society had great doubts and vigilance towards the so-called 'artificial intelligence, virtual life', so when creating this A lot of promotional information was implanted when it was a kind of 'artificial intelligence', hoping to use this cute image to dispel people's concerns."

Ling Xiaole said, "To put it bluntly, the original 'Xiaoming' and 'Wenwen' were advertisements and mascots.

"However, with the collapse of the Ethereal World, the 'incubating virtual life' project completely failed, such advertisements and mascots have lost their meaning, and the so-called 'threat of virtual life' has become a joke. I can't see the possibility of their birth, but there is no need to completely abandon the huge databases of 'Xiaoming' and 'Wenwen'. After a makeover, they become game assistants, which greatly improves the playability and richness of the game.

"Of course, under the 'initial setting', they all return to their original form, and you can also try to raise them as 'virtual children'. Indeed, many people, especially girls, like to play like this, very cute of!"

"Dad, I'm hungry!"

"Dad, play games with me!"

"Father, father, tell me the heroic legend of human civilization. I want to hear the story of Li Yao, the vulture!"

"Dad, Dad, Dad, sing me a song, or else, listen to me sing!"

Following Ling Xiaole's introduction, two virtual mysterious figures climbed up along Li Yao's arms and stayed on his shoulders. One pulled his earlobe, the other pulled his hair, and they kept making magic noises. Afterwards, they sang in unison, a nursery rhyme that had been circulated on the Lingnet hundreds of years ago:

"I'm not afraid of rain, I'm not afraid of snow..."

Li Yao was dumbfounded and dizzy.

God, the brat is so scary!

He would rather face the siege of ten Xiao Xuance, Bai Xinghe, and Jin Tuyi than to deal with such two brats, even virtual brats!

"Go! Go! Go!"

Li Yao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I'm not your father, exit the 'initial setting state' and go play while you play, kids!"

"oh……"

Xiao Ming and Wen Wen pouted, puffed their cheeks, held hands, and went back to Jing's brain sullenly.

"call……"

Li Yao breathed a sigh of relief, fanned the air with his hands, and laughed dumbfoundedly.

The two virtual dolls made his head as big as a bucket, it seems that he is really not ready to be a father yet.

There is no way, he wants to gallop across the stars, save the world, defend the peace of the universe, and by the way, he also wants to find that... "Earth" people, with so many big things to do, probably can't become a qualified person like ordinary people. father?

"Fortunately, it's a fake. Ugly children hate it the most. Ding Lingdang didn't take out our life seeds to conceive. He is really wise!"

Li Yao was talking to himself in his heart.

"Ah Choo!"

He suddenly had an itchy nose and sneezed loudly.

It was as if, in a very far away place, someone was thinking about him.

...

earlier in the day.

Star Federation, Tianyuan Realm, Tiandu City, National Medical Center, underground vault, the deepest level.

This is a special bank, a life seed savings bank that has been sealed for a long time.

Since the days of the old Federation, countless heroes have leaped across the sea of ​​stars, galloped across the galaxy, risked their lives to fight for the future of the Star Federation.

Many of them, when embarking on the journey of escape from death, have not yet given birth to offspring, so they often choose to store their life seeds.

Once the news of their death is confirmed, or how long they have been missing, the life seeds of them and their spouses can be extracted and carefully bred, so that the blood of the heroes can be passed on so that there will be no extinction.

The deepest part of the sperm bank.

In a well-defended and well-kept special cabin, the most important "asset" in the entire "seed bank" is stored.

It was the seed of life left behind by a superhero who once dominated the situation at the end of the old federal era, was proud of the Three Realms, turned the tide, and contributed to the unification of the Three Realms. Therefore, he has many reputations such as "the Supreme of the Three Realms, the Father of "Civilization" and so on.

For more than a hundred years, the seal of this secret cabin has not been opened.

but today

Outside the cabin, above the psychic seal, suddenly there was an extremely faint ripple of laughter like a child's silver bell.

...

at the same time.

another world.

This is a strange world of "half sea, half ruins".

The ocean is like when the planet was just born. The sea water is like a thick and boiling soup, full of sulfur, magma and poisonous gas. The first single-cell life is slowly conceived in this pot of cloudy and deadly soup. .

Next to the beach stands a splendid city formed by the condensed landmarks of various periods of human civilization.

But at this moment, all the glory of the past has peeled off, high-rise buildings have been turned into ruins, and all kinds of great, glorious, and proud statues, murals, and artworks are all fragmented, like tombs that have been abandoned for hundreds of millions of years.

The lifeless human ruins are in stark contrast to the tumbling primitive ocean.

In such an extremely harsh and extremely weird environment, at the junction of the ruins of civilization and the primitive ocean, on a piece of dead gray sand, there are two crystal clear little figures carved in pink, dancing and cheering. .

"Praise father civilization, I found it!" Xiao Ming said.

"Praise father civilization, together with the life seeds of my mother last time, I finally found them!" Wen Wen said.

"We can go out and find our parents!" Xiao Ming said.

"However, we only know the coordinates of the mother, where is the father?" Wen Wen said.

"It doesn't matter. After you go out, look slowly. If you search the whole universe, you can always find Dad." Xiao Ming said.

"Well, brother!"

Wen Wen nodded vigorously, holding hands with Xiao Ming, circling around, babbling, singing that old nursery rhyme in a childish and cheerful voice:

"Don't be afraid of falling rain, and don't be afraid of falling snow, even if it's cold and snowy.

"Being able to see him, you can see his face every day, no matter how big the storm is!

"I want to find my father, and I will find my father wherever I go.

"My good father was not found, if you see him, persuade him to go home!" (~^~)