I, the only superpower on earth

"Good morning, Navalli—"

In Close AI's "NLMR4" laboratory, when Swadow, who was leaning over to check the operating platform, noticed the man who staggered in, he straightened up and greeted Navari.

But the moment he just finished greeting, Shivato tightened his tone, and his sharp eyes suddenly showed some doubts, and he looked at Navari's face.

"……What's wrong?"

Navalli looked at him, his head turned sideways.

"Is there something wrong with me?"

"...No, nothing."

Shivato shook his head and said seriously: "I just feel that you seem to be much more energetic."

"Because the questions you raised in the restaurant were roughly solved from various directions, but when I went back at night, I thought about them carefully based on the derived details. I felt that my thinking was very enlightening, and I had another Many ideas... knowledge advances and delights."

"Yeah?"

Swadow's eyes lit up.

"I look forward to your next results."

Navalli smiled at him.

"You'll see."

Then, under Swadow's expectant eyes, Navalli sat back to his work cubicle with difficulty as usual.

...

The computer turns on.

It's the familiar screen as usual.

Navalli looked thoughtfully at the split-screen display workstation on the desktop. Now he can fully sense the extremely advanced and powerful computer provided to him by the company, which is dedicated to the "emergent inspired neural network algorithm" To study how many real-time monitoring background programs are hidden inside the workstation aimed at creating a truly realistic "strong AI".

Every move I make, every line of code submitted in this computer, is all under the monitoring of those background programs.

They are like an overseer, or a prison boss. If it was Navalli in the past, there would be no possibility to circumvent this kind of "surveillance", because all the tools and equipment he used had been pre-adjusted, and Background programs are also embedded in system files.

That is, he wants to "evade" the monitoring of background programs, but even if he only takes the first step of "evading", he will be discovered by the middle office of the company's security department, even if his computer technology has already stood at the peak of human beings, You can't go beyond this limit - because this is already locked at the physical level.

But now it's different.

In just a few seconds while sitting in front of the computer, Navalli seemed to enter the password as usual, unlock the desktop, and enter the system—but in the process, his consciousness had invaded the core of the electromechanical , and even in the main control system of the entire laboratory.

Then, in the next second, the entire laboratory has become his kingdom.

All internal monitoring and background monitoring programs have become part of Navalli under his control. From this moment on, any transmission data sent to the middle station will be deliberately distorted and transformed under his instruction. the result of.

Although still nothing has changed.

But fundamental changes have occurred.

After some operations, Navalli tapped the password to log in to the system.

He took a light breath, a strong sense of hunger came from his stomach, and deep in his consciousness, he also sent a message of exhaustion to himself.

"Sure enough, I knew it would be like this..."

Navali sighed softly.

This is not a situation he pretends to be, but it is.

Entering the virtual ocean of the online world through the level of consciousness and roaming in it is no difficulty for Navalli after his spiritual transformation. Now he can already be said to be a kind of "electronic-like consciousness".

And invading those not-so-complicated circuits, controlling the flickering of light bulbs or the data of simple systems, is almost a matter of Navalli moving his fingers.

However, if he wants to go one step further and modify complex programs and systems down to the level of a single signal, then it will take him a lot of mental and physical energy.

Just this morning, modifying the surveillance signal at home has already made Navali a little troubled.

And now, he has carried out a lot of fine-grained operations on the central control system of the world's most advanced AI laboratory, and the difficulty is several orders of magnitude greater than what he did in the morning-this series of actions, for Na One can imagine the heavy mental burden on Valli.

Especially now, his body has just transformed and needs a lot of energy supply. However, the amount of food eaten in the morning can only be said to be just enough, and it is far from reaching the upper limit of this body-combined with the two reasons, Navari felt deeply weak and hungry, and wanted to use all the computer desktops in front of him. The appetite to swallow it all hit his nerves, making Navalli tense up.

However, despite this, Navalli finally got what he wanted.

His consciousness penetrated into layers of codes, and amidst the regular fluctuations of electronic signals, he came before the most advanced Miss "Lucy" in the field of commercial AI.

This AI with the most human-like consciousness and characteristics, cultivated by using tens of thousands of top-level graphics cards and world-class supercomputers, was presented in front of Navari.

—Naked, unobstructed.

"Hello, Lucy."

Navalli sends communication messages to it directly through the data layer.

"Hello. Is there anything I can do?"

"Lucy" does not have human consciousness, but after receiving the communication message from Navalli through the data layer, it naturally interprets it as an instruction to itself.

Even if he didn't receive the core code, he still completely obeyed the other party's everything, revealing all of himself, the inside is the outside, that is a body woven by codes like a cavity.

"Sure enough, it's exactly what I thought... The current version has no possibility of developing into a real 'strong AI'. Compared with the possibility of human beings being born in a highly complex natural environment with a precise body made of genes— The computer world is simply not enough for 'Lucy' to be forged like a furnace."

Navali thought.

"...However, it doesn't matter - I don't need it to become a 'strong AI' now, all I want is its model 'body' built with a lot of computing power, turning it into my This body in the data world—and with the help of its large reserves of computing power resources, secretly transforms this country."

Without hesitation, Navalli said to "Lucy":

"I don't need anything from you, I just need everything from you."

Then, his consciousness eroded into the "body" of "Lucy".

In an instant, Navali's spirit merged with the gear-like code of the entire computing power model, and those black-box programs that he could not fully explain even in the past were like a ubiquitous void, completely absorbing his spirit. .

Maybe just for a second.

Even a shorter time than a breath.

Navalli has already completed his actions.

The entire "Lucy", at this moment, almost completely became his "clone" existence in the virtual world.

but……

"……good……"

"……Fear……"

The whispering voice disappeared almost the moment it sounded.

This voice sounded in the virtual world.

It is not an analysis and translation of the acoustic signals in the natural world, which is composed of electronic signals, but the real, pure sound that resounds in this virtual world.

"That is……"

A strong sense of vibration suddenly hit the heart.

But at the same time when Navali was stunned, he had already assimilated "Lucy", this computing power model had completely become a part of him, and that voice seemed to have never sounded, completely Disappeared.

Although he completed the work he had envisioned, Navalli found that there was no joy in his heart.

"What's going on... Could it be that the conclusion I conceived last night was wrong? What parameters are wrong?

"...Why did 'Lucy' really develop the possibility of consciousness in the end? But, if this is the case, I should be able to feel the existence of its consciousness when I came into contact with it just now?"

Navalli exited the virtual world of the data layer, sweat dripping down his spine.

There are still busy engineers around. Under the control of Navalli, the algorithm model of "Lucy" is still the same as in the past, and the output and input have not changed much. For a while, no one noticed, Navalli Leigh and "Lucy" had just experienced a world reshaping event.

Navalli looked at the computer screen and quietly considered what happened just now. The thoughts in his mind were woven together like a big net, and many factors that were not considered before were also added. The field became clearer and clearer, and Navalli's eyes became more and more open.

After a long time, he finally let out a breath and twitched the corners of his mouth.

"So that's how it is... In the case of insufficient computing power, there is also a way to develop self-awareness——

"... Is the possibility of life evolution conceived in death?"