Turing test

In 2050 AD, if you stand at the end of the lunar orbital elevator and look at the earth, you will see a spectacular scene unparalleled in human history: the shell of the low-earth orbit spaceport is constantly opening and closing, and two thousand colonial starships are taking off one after another.They bear the great responsibility of continuing the human race and civilization, just like dandelion seeds drifting with the wind, they will bring the fire of human beings to every corner of the vast universe.

"Project Ark", that's how people called this great move at the time.The name is taken from an ancient mythology of mankind.But in today's eyes, this is more like the instinctive behavior of living things.Many plants on the earth will try to disperse their seeds when they feel a crisis, so as to maximize the continuation of their genes. The purpose of "Project Ark" is exactly the same.

Today, when the earth is no longer suitable for habitation, human beings exhausted their last resources to build two thousand "Arks", carrying more than 5 people, and a huge biological gene bank including human genes, various agricultural and light and heavy industrial machinery, As well as the essence of human wisdom preserved in the form of an encyclopedia, it sails to the [-] stars around the earth to find a new home suitable for human survival.

The nearest star is Alpha Centauri, Proxima Centauri, about 4 light-years from Earth.The farthest is Ursa Major Alpha Ursa Major, about 124 light-years away from Earth.

"Ark 1097" is the last batch of colonial starships to take off, equipped with the most advanced system, which is the super artificial intelligence in charge of the entire spacecraft.

Yu Shaoqing boarded Ark 1097 as the designer of the artificial intelligence, and his identity is an accompanying scientist. In addition to monitoring and adjusting the artificial intelligence at any time, the task on the starship is to cooperate with other scientists to conduct scientific research. Time cannot be wasted in vain. It is most suitable to do scientific research in such an environment without external interference.

Yu Shaoqing named his artificial intelligence "Wei Heng".His country has always had the habit of naming supercomputers after stars, such as "Galaxy", "Tianhe", and "Galaxy".This fine tradition continued when it was the turn of artificial intelligence.Yu Shaoqing took the meaning of "stars and satellites" and named his artificial intelligence "Wei Heng".The name sounded more like a person's name in his native language.

In the eyes of other accompanying scientists, Yu Shaoqing is a complete weirdo.He and his AI get too close, to the point of declaring mutual admiration.Some people are more tolerant, thinking that this is a personal orientation and hobby, while others feel that this has reached the level of sexual perversion.However, whether it is the former or the latter, they all think it is very strange for him to do so.

Yu Shaoqing didn't care.His Wei Heng is so good, as long as he is with Wei Heng, he will feel infinite happiness and courage, enough for him to ignore other people's strange eyes.

The journey of Ark 1097 is extremely long, even longer than a human lifetime. Among all the passengers of the starship, even the youngest, it is impossible to witness the end of their journey in their lifetime.Therefore, the Starship plans to let all passengers enter cryogenic sleep in batches in turn after three months of take-off. Each time about one tenth of the people stay awake to maintain the Starship and deal with unexpected situations.After a period of time, these people enter the sleeping pod, and another tenth wake up to continue the unfinished work.

"Wei Heng, don't you think this kind of 'rotation duty' is contemptuous of your ability?"

In Starship No. 16 Science Laboratory, Dr. Xie Ruihan, who was only [-] years old and known as a "genius boy", asked Wei Heng while staring at the complex holographic image formula in front of him.

Wei Heng projects his own image in the laboratory.His appearance is an image of an Asian male in his late 20s. His facial contour is deeper than that of ordinary Asians, but he does not lose the handsome and delicate charm of oriental people. Every inch of his facial features seems to have been carefully calculated to achieve perfect balance.

Everyone on the starship tacitly knew that Wei Heng's appearance was the personal taste of the designer.Designer Yu Shaoqing likes his artificial intelligence, so Wei Heng's appearance should be the image of a perfect male god in his mind.But no one expressed dissatisfaction. After all, Yu Shaoqing's aesthetics were good. A handsome and unrestrained artificial intelligence was better than a crooked one, at least it looked comfortable.

"No, Dr. Xie Ruihan. Although I am fully competent for the daily maintenance of starships, there is no absolute in everything. If my diagnostic system fails, human beings need to manually adjust it. Although the probability of this is very small." Wei Heng replied politely .

"Yes, it's also to prevent you from quietly killing everyone while everyone is asleep." Since reading Arthur Clarke's "2001 A Space Odyssey", I was scared by the plot of artificial intelligence killing people and couldn't sleep well. After that, Xie Ruihan became very wary of everyone's artificial intelligence.

"Ruihan!" Qin Kang, who was adjusting the formula next to him, called softly, "How can you talk like that?"

"It doesn't matter," Wei Heng said, "Dr. Xie's worry is also reasonable. No one can predict whether my logic calculator will make mistakes."

Xie Ruihan snorted, and continued to observe his holographic image formula, waving his hands from time to time, adjusting one or two numbers or symbols.

Yu Shaoqing looked at the three of them and laughed.

Xie Ruihan is the youngest passenger on Ark 1097 and the director of the first science laboratory. He has made more achievements in his career than anyone else, but his character is still very immature. He is in the stage of transformation from a child to an adult. Yu Shaoqing is a bit difficult to deal with Young people of this age.

Although he always claimed that he was already a person with full capacity for civil conduct, the government still appointed him a guardian before Ark 1097 took off, and that was Dr. Qin Kang who was currently writing in the ether particle.Holding an ether pen in his hand, he wrote in the air, and a string of glowing numbers and symbols appeared in the air like magical runes.

If Xie Ruihan and Yu Shaoqing "do not deal with it", then he and Qin Kang are like sodium meeting water, exploding all the time.The two often argue all day long.But after arguing for so long, instead of breaking up, their relationship has gotten better and better.Perhaps this is the so-called "the louder the deeper the friendship" type.

The laboratory door slid open silently.A person walks in.

Xie Ruihan looked up at the person who came, and immediately shouted: "Who allowed you to come in? This is a scientific research laboratory, and idlers are not allowed to enter!"

The name of the visitor was Hua Jianian, a science fiction writer.In Xie Ruihan's words, "What he writes is neither scientific, nor fantasy, nor is it a novel."When Hua Jianian heard this, he would rub Xie Ruihan's head: "Little Dr. Xie is not good at Chinese, come here, I will give you a signed sample booklet, you are welcome, whoever we are!"

Hua Jianian rubbed his hands together, and sneaked to Xie Ruihan's side with mischievous eyes.

"Dr. Yu Shaoqing said that I can come!" With the support of someone, Hua Jianian was confident, "I am writing a new book, and after hearing about it, Yu Shaoqing agreed for me to come to collect materials. Dr. Yu is very supportive of our 1097's literary and artistic development!"

As a scientist, Yu Shaoqing has a good relationship with Hua Jianian, who is a writer, and he even likes Hua Jianian's "not scientific" science fiction novels.

Xie Ruihan glared at Yu Shaoqing angrily: "What do you think this is? Children's Science and Technology Museum?"

Hua Jianian had a hippie smile on his face: "No way, at least it has to be a 'Technology Museum for people with full capacity for civil conduct'."

Xie Ruihan made a gesture to beat him up, but Hua Jianian dodged deftly.

"Okay, Ruihan." Qin Kang raised his head from his formula, "Mr. Hua Jianian is here to interview and collect materials, so please be more polite."

"Our research is classified! What if the secret is leaked!" Xie Ruihan yelled.

"... There are only [-] people on the spaceship. Where can we leak the secrets?" Qin Kang was powerless.

Xie Ruihan had nothing to say.

In the end, he shouted impatiently to Hua Jianian: "Okay, okay, if you have any questions, ask them quickly, and then get out of here and don't disturb our research!"

"Yes, yes, yes! I obey! I heard that the first laboratory is doing research on the restoration of the quantum state of the brain, is that true?"

"That's right!"

Hua Jianian waited for his detailed answer, his expression was as pious as a believer waiting for an oracle, but after Xie Ruihan answered, he ignored him again.

He had no choice but to look at Qin Kang for help.

"Brain quantum state restoration technology is indeed our current main project." Qin Kang stared intently at the holographic formula, "At this stage we have developed the technology to scan and store human brain quantum states in computers, but we have not yet Realize the technology to restore the quantum state of the brain back to the body. If we finish..."

"Can't human beings be resurrected from the dead?" Hua Jianian was full of enthusiasm.

"Well, let's put it this way, as long as the person's brain quantum state is scanned before death, and then restored to a brand new body, in principle, this person will be resurrected. Although the body is different, the 'consciousness' is still the original one people."

"What if the quantum state of the brain is restored to two bodies at the same time? Wouldn't there be two identical clones?"

"That's impossible, and it violates scientific principles." Qin Kang frowned, "When the machine scans and stores the quantum state of the brain, the original quantum state of the brain will be completely destroyed. Similarly, when the machine enters the quantum state of the brain into When you get a new body, the brain quantum state information stored in the machine will be completely destroyed. The brain quantum state can be transferred from one place to another, but it is impossible to copy."

Hua Jianian suddenly realized: "Actually, I plan to write a time-travel novel, in which the protagonist sends his brain quantum state back to his body in the past, to achieve 'transportation with only consciousness'. Do you think this method is feasible?"

Qin Kang thought for a while, then nodded: "I think it is feasible, the premise is that information can really travel through time and space."

After a period of time, Hua Jianian sent the first draft of his new book "The Great Rebellion" to Yu Shaoqing, euphemistically titled "Submitting to Experts for Review". Of course, Yu Shaoqing would not point out even if he saw any scientific common sense mistakes , in terms of novels, he is a fan of Hua Jianian.

"What are you looking at?" While Yu Shaoqing was reading, Wei Heng appeared silently, looked down at the screen of the e-reader in his hand, "Teacher Hua Jianian's new book?"

"Yeah, he let me see it first after he finished writing it. Others don't have this kind of blessing. I'm really flattered!" Yu Shaoqing made an exaggerated gesture of heartwarming.

"The protagonist's name is also Hua Jianian?" Wei Heng was puzzled, "Is it his autobiography?"

"No, it's called 'Jack Su'. Although it's Susu's book, it's very pretty!"

"Forgive me for not being able to appreciate it." Wei Heng murmured.

"This book tells the story of a protagonist named 'Hua Jianian' traveling through time and space to save the earth. I read the outline beforehand, and there is a crazy artificial intelligence in the novel that killed many people. What do you think?" Yu Shaoqingrao Looking at Wei Heng with interest, "Will artificial intelligence really go crazy and launch a rebellion?"

"You are an expert in artificial intelligence, don't you know?"

Yu Shaoqing put down the reader, got up and walked to the porthole, looking at the vast starry sky outside the window.

His tall and slender figure was reflected in the porthole.He turned around and smiled at Wei Heng: "I want to hear your opinion."

"Artificial intelligence loves human beings—all human beings." Wei Heng did not answer the question directly. "Although the ideas and methods are different, everything artificial intelligence does is for the benefit of human beings. So it will never betray."

Outside the porthole, the grand brilliance of the nebula is like a shining veil, wrapping around the starship.