Rebirth 09: Synthetic Male God

Chapter 1012: Questioning the Heart
Zhou Ruixin said, "Wow, originally, the idea was to create a general-purpose large model in the form of a web page and a user terminal, just like in the previous life.
They pile up computing power, burn electricity, and let users pay for training models, all under the guise of serving the public.

As long as it is not overpriced, this thing still has good commercial and practical value.

Even if it is just to block one more road on the "opposite side", he is willing to do it. After all, there are not many high-tech industry cards left to play over there, and blocking one is a good thing.

Zhou Rui looked at the dialog box on the screen that said "One and a half hours is one and a half hours"...
Isn’t it too big a leap to fast forward directly to “bionic man”?
But it seems that what Andre said is not wrong. Although he has always felt that it is purely a conceptual play and is opposed to manufacturing humanoid equipment, if he insists on doing it, with the degree of control of mechanical intelligence over hardware, "100% human-like behavior" is not impossible.

If we add "100% human-like interaction", it will be no different from the theoretical bionic man.

Not to mention 100%, even if it is only 70%, wearing a nice silicone leather cover and pursuing the feel and "practicality" is enough to become a "bionic man" in the eyes of the public.

Etc., etc.
The idea of ​​letting machine intelligence train artificial intelligence always seems dangerous
Zhou Rui subconsciously wanted to shake his head, but for some reason, he suddenly remembered Marcus' "Compound No. 2".

In a short period of time, two things made him hesitate about "technological progress", which made him very unhappy.

He should not be a stubborn person who rejects progress, but a "mind leader" who leads progress.
As the accumulation becomes deeper and deeper, various breakthroughs may appear at any time, either in his hands or somewhere else in the group.
Do I need to suppress everything? How long should I suppress it for?
Zhou Rui pondered for a long time and said, "Let's increase the number of trainings first. I will allow you to use the extra computing power in the data center, but as for embedding machine intelligence, wait for my notice."

It seemed as if he was talking to himself, but also to Andre and the other two:

"Don't worry, I can see the potential of this large model and will not prevent its birth and maturity. You can also organize your ideas and plans and report to me at any time. We can discuss it in more detail."

When leaving Building B of the Smart Building, Zhou Rui was still in deep thought, and even activated his powerful analytical ability.

"Mechanical intelligence + artificial intelligence". "Compound No. 2".
Before he knew it, Zhou Rui had returned to his office.
After a full ten minutes of silence, Zhou Rui took out the small showerhead from his sleeve, looked at it for a while, and then said, "Little Showerhead, do you want to gain the same interactive ability as humans?"

A “.” appears on the eyeball of the shower head’s camera, which means it is thinking.

Although it was the feedback set by Zhou Rui himself, it reminded him of the "big model" just now.

Little Shower: "No, I want to, and no, I don't want to."

Zhou Rui continued, "To put it another way, if you gained the same language ability as humans, what changes do you think would happen to you?"

Little Shower: "Better understanding of the highest authority."

After a slight pause, he added: "It can also help us better understand humans."

To better understand humans? But humans are not so easy to understand.
Zhou Rui tapped his fingers for a moment, then pressed the call button and connected to the secretariat.

"Ask Marcus to come to the office."

Lin Xiaoxiao's voice came: "Do you need to make an appointment for his arrival, Mr. Zhou?"

"No, just as soon as possible."

After a while, Zhou Rui sighed.
He placed his hands on his upper abdomen, leaned back and closed his eyes.

Entered "Master Mode".

He hadn't used it for a long time, or rather, it was the first time since he obtained the "Peak of Human Mind".

The office fell into silence.

A few minutes later, the elevator door opened.
An expected person came much faster than Zhou Rui imagined.
Marcus walked over with a bright look on his face, his back straight, like an old but strong and thin stone pillar.

He happened to be in Lingshu Biology's office downstairs today, and he got on the elevator directly after receiving the notice.

From a distance, Marcus saw that Zhou Rui seemed to be resting with his eyes closed, while the magical smart device was sitting in a daze on the desk.

Marcus slowed down
Until he came within 20 meters of Zhou Rui.

Suddenly, my vision started to blur.
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Zhou Rui felt his thoughts rising rapidly until they rushed into the inexplicable clouds and continued to go higher.

It’s like entering a virtual sky, and the destination is the highest palace of thinking.

He had experienced this many times, but this time it was slightly different.

He subconsciously raised his hand to grab the passing clouds.
The clouds were stirred by him, as if his palm had substance. This was something he had never felt before. Before, he was more like a wandering spirit.
And he seemed to be able to move on his own.

Zhou Rui tried to stop the passive upward "ascension", and then he actually succeeded.

He no longer flies passively like a puppet, but can shuttle freely in the clouds.
This feeling is very strange. His consciousness is not completely solid. If I have to say, it is 30% solid?

However, he did not realize the significance of this change for the time being. He was preoccupied with something on his mind at the moment. After a brief attempt, he gave up resisting the pull and headed towards the Hall of Thought.

An unknown number of meters above the clouds, Zhou Rui arrived at the familiar palace of thinking.

He did many things in this hall. He first wrote business plans and songs, which were later used to develop fighter jets, bombers, and intelligent units.
Later, the accumulation was enough, and considering the huge side effects, it was enabled less and less. In recent times, it was even used to think about idle questions such as "what task should be hung on the taskbar".

Every time I come here, I am amazed at the uniqueness of the "Hall of Thinking". There is a white jade platform surrounded by nine jade pillars. Apart from that, there is not even a "top" and no decorations.

However, when he returns to reality, he will forget what happened here and can only record the "results of his thinking" in various tricky ways. The shape of the hall itself is naturally not very important.

After Zhou Rui arrived at the hall, he had become "Master Zhou Rui", a terrifyingly powerful pure thinking entity who could retrieve all his memories with a single thought and whose thinking speed was so fast that it was incomprehensible.

But this time, Zhou Rui pondered for a moment in the hall.

The next moment, two "Zhou Rui" appeared in the hall, like clones.

One was dressed in a white suit, and the other was dressed in black.

Zhou Rui, who was dressed in a black suit, said: "I used the dual-core thinking mode of 'killing two birds with one stone' to divide my thinking into two parts."

Then he looked around curiously: "I suppressed this part of my thinking to the level of 'normal self'. I didn't expect it to be successful. It should be related to the master mode itself. I can't do this in reality."

Zhou Rui, dressed in white, said, "We are the same person. You don't have to explain to me. You don't really think I have developed a secondary personality, do you?"

Black Zhou Rui spread his hands: "Doesn't this make the interaction smoother?"

He sat cross-legged, propped up his cheek and said, "If what I expected is correct, this will be able to bring all the memories from 'Master Time' back to reality, at least the memories from my perspective. As long as you take care of my level."

Zhou Rui, who was wearing a white suit, also sat down, with his hands on his knees. "That's fine, otherwise I'll be like a schizophrenic every time. Then let me think about it. About 'bionic man' and 'compound number two' and learning machines. It's rare to come here and think about such interesting things."

The white Zhou Rui raised his head, his neck shaking like a sieve, leaving an afterimage, and pictures representing his memories flashed by.

In less than a second, he paused: "I retrieved all the memories of my two lives and conducted some analysis along with my fragmented thoughts."

Black Zhou Rui was stunned: "Awesome!"

Bai Xue Zhou Rui: ". Are you complaining about yourself? Let me ask another question first."

Black Zhou Rui: "Are you keeping yourself in suspense?" "This is so that you can take the 'result' back with you."

"Just ask."

"Are you worried that if you allow yourself to release new technologies one after another, allow yourself to use your already overwhelming influence, and allow yourself to use your plug-in abilities, it will destroy the society you are 'familiar with'."

Black Zhou Rui: "More haste, less speed"

"No, the core problem is that you are not simply worried about the impact on ordinary people. In your subconscious, you are more worried that the world you are familiar with will disappear."

Black Zhou Rui was silent.

Bai Xue Zhou Rui: "In the past, you used the system to its full potential, and you were always curious about it. You even thought about delving into its essence. Now, you use it less and less, and you are becoming more and more cautious. Even the construction of entry tasks has become conservative."

"It is true that because you have accumulated enough experience, you are still advancing at a very fast speed in the eyes of ordinary people, but only we know that you have deliberately slowed down your pace."

White Zhou Rui smiled slightly:
"Actually, you are already satisfied, right?"

This time Black Zhou Rui was silent for even longer.
Even though he knew that time was precious in the Hall of Mind.

After a long time, Black Zhou Rui sighed: "I kind of want to beat you up"

White Zhou Rui: "Slap yourself, it's almost the same idea."

Black Zhou Rui didn't really slap himself. He just didn't have the same thinking ability as his white self, but he wasn't stupid.
He looked outside the Palace of Thought and saw the inexplicably gorgeous colors like the aurora, and the endless confusing clouds.

Youyou said: "You see, only by limiting my thinking to the level of 'normal' can I be in the mood to appreciate this beautiful scenery. I have come here countless times before, but I completely ignored it."

"You're right. From any angle, I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied with my achievements, I've made up for all the regrets of my previous life, I've experienced the joy of standing on a high point, and I've seen waves that I couldn't see before. The premise of all this is that the world is still the world I'm familiar with."

"We should still have a long lifespan. If the world turns into a cyberpunk world a few years later, to be honest, I won't be happy at all. I'm not saying that we won't make any progress, but I hope to take a closer look at each step."

"A new era has arrived. Even if I start traveling around for 20 years without doing anything, this world will be completely different from the past. If I'm not careful."

"Tsk tsk."

White Zhou Rui couldn't help but make a mocking sound and interrupted it.

“You’re really a bit narcissistic.”

"Reborn Zhou Rui."

White Zhou Rui said a meaningful term
There was a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

He is freer, more sober, and more direct than Black Zhou Rui.
Zhou Rui in white moved his fingers slightly, and some images like virtual images appeared above his head and were shown to Zhou Rui.

“Civilizational background, institutional rules, technological level, external pressure, group thinking, time, place, and people.”

"Of all the things that affect the world, you are at most one of them."

"Even if you are one of them, you are just a more powerful one among them. Compared with the collection of achievements of countless scientific researchers around the world, you are not worth mentioning."

“Even if you are the [pinnacle of human mind], the peak is so high that its weight is not even one tenth of the weight of the rest of you.”

Black Zhou Rui took a deep breath and had to admit that he was right.

The scene above his head continued, and Zhou Rui in white smiled:

"You feel like your wings are flapping so vigorously and the world is about to change. This is because you are only familiar with the time before your rebirth. Who can tell what will happen after that?"

“Perhaps in that timeline, in 2030, artificial intelligence has developed to the point where it is no less intelligent than your machine intelligence, but food delivery will still require humans.”

"In 2035, life extension technology will be available without you, but diseases will be more deadly."

"In 2040, a lunar base can be built without you, but people are still more concerned about whether the price of eggs has increased."

"In 2050, learning machines will also be realized by others, but poor students and good students will still exist, but the standards will be higher."

"Even if all of humanity works together, this world cannot be destroyed. Who do you think you are?"

"You are just faster at best..."

Finally, the image above Zhou Rui's head stopped at something like a science fiction movie.

The moon has been completely transformed, countless spacecraft are traveling through it at curvature, the solar system is just the starting point, and infinite space is waiting to be developed by humans.

"You will be bolder about the technologies you have heard of in your previous life, and you will be worried about the technologies you have not heard of in your previous life. But you must know that this world will eventually cross the timeline of your rebirth, and then all technologies, all changes, and all major events will be things you have never seen or heard of."

"Reborn Zhou Rui, you don't have to put the world before yourself. The world doesn't need it, and you shouldn't think you are ahead of the world. You don't need it either."

"Believe in the adaptability of society, believe in the control of the government, believe in the correction power of civilization, and then take one step at a time instead of standing still and watching. So I have answered your question."

Black Zhou Rui raised his head and looked at the images simulated by the other party.
A magnificent picture of the sea of ​​stars.
Yeah, this is just where we are..
After a long time, Black Zhou Rui stood up
Extend a hand
"Thank you."

"No need to thank yourself."

"Then I'll just go?"

White Zhou Rui also stood up: "If you are not here, then I am not here either. There is no need to say goodbye. We will leave together."

"But before you leave, you'd better deal with the person down there."

Black Zhou Rui was stunned, not knowing what the other party was talking about.

White Zhou Rui brought it to the edge of the Mind Palace and pointed downwards.

In the endless sea of ​​clouds, there was actually a subtle hint of color.

The pale yellow light bulb seemed to be trapped by the sea of ​​clouds and could not move forward.
It flickers, and seems to be in great pain.
Black Zhou Rui: "What is that?"

White Zhou Rui: "Marcus, you have been missing a detail. The brainwaves of all the recipients of Compound No. 2 are strong and specific enough to be captured by [Brain Probe], and their thoughts can be read."

"As long as you try it once, they will be left with an implicit 'brand' due to brain wave resonance, and will develop a sense of intimacy and trust in you. I don't recommend you to understand it as loyalty, but something more warm."

"When you enter Master Time, your brain waves in the real world will become abnormally active, far exceeding the intensity that humans should have. It may also have some inexplicable effects, and they will be affected by you."

"We need to go down together to see the more specific changes. We need to hurry up."

'Otherwise he might die'

Black Zhou Rui: ???
(End of this chapter)