Start with a Mechanical Hunter

  What is the difference between digital life and AI?

  The answer is, there is no difference, at least on the surface, there is no difference.

  But in essence, the difference is actually very big.

  Digital life is to upload people to the root server and cloud disk to realize the "immortality" of people.

   AI, on the other hand, creates a new form of 'life' with a completely different origin.

  But ironically, with evolution, AI is becoming more and more personified, while humans themselves are becoming less and less human.

  In reality, streamers flicker, and a large number of figures rise from the silver-white floor, and finally transform into Gaogong.

  It is Gaogong's real appearance, not the prototype of the rich woman's love.

   Gao Gong looked down at the palm, and could clearly see that there were green numbers dancing on the surface of the palm.

  Switch Panel—

  Name: Gao Gong

  Race: 41 generations of evolutionary digital life

  Remarks: Compared with AI, the life form of digital life may be more suitable for the informatization of carbon-based species. After all, it does not need to reinstall the processing system.

"so amazing!"

   On the other side, Dida appeared at some unknown time, and was looking at herself in surprise. Compared with Gao Gong, the numbers on her body were more obvious, and it looked like a collection of human figures.

   Gao Gong glanced at her and found out her level, 15th generation native digital life.

  An intermediate AI is equivalent to a digital life that has iterated for 15 generations, so my current state is probably equivalent to a normal advanced AI.

  Ordinary organisms naturally cannot reach this level, but with the blessing of the 'first-order biological computer', the computing power has been strengthened to the level of advanced AI.

"so amazing!"

   As a player, it was the first time for Tick to enter the real world of this game...but in this way.

  She looked around curiously, the digital signals visible to the naked eye flickered like neon lights, the data columns floating on the ground, the sea in the distance, the gloomy sky, and even the colorful radiant energy at the bottom of the sea.

   "Is this...the real world?"

   "Don't be dazed, let's go."

   "If I return to reality as an AI, will this be the case?"

   "No, if it's a normal 'husk seizure', you are no different from ordinary people, not the most preliminary information state like now."

   "The most preliminary information status?" Tick repeated, vaguely understanding.

   "Okay, now that you have entered the digital life mode, it is much more convenient to move around. As long as there is hardware, you can upload it directly. Let me see which continent's hardware is public—"

I don't know how Gao Gong operated it. In short, a large number of columns of numbers on the ground floated up, and then turned into a strange white door. It was strange because the pattern on the door gave 'Tick' a feeling of deja vu .

   And when Gao Gong turned the doorknob and pushed open the door, a burst of white light enveloped both sides, and when Dida came back to his senses, he had already arrived in a digital city.

The highway of data flow, the boulevard of data interaction, the subway of signal conversion, the cold and tall firewall, and at the same time, there are all kinds of strange digital human figures, like flashing lights, one bright and one dark, often in the blink of an eye, one Digital life is gone.

   "Don't look for it. The speed of electrical signals is the speed of light. No matter how good your eyesight is, it can't compare to light."

  At this moment, Gao Gong was standing in front of a street sign, and the number on the street sign was 18-4.

   "Digital City No. 18-4, according to the actual distance, we have crossed about 2,000 kilometers," Gao Gong turned his head and looked at Dida, "You'd better stay out of other people's way."

Dida came back to his senses, and then realized that he was standing at a subway entrance, behind her, there was a long staircase, and there were constantly flashing digital figures appearing, they kept flashing, and every time they flashed, they disappeared in place , or appear in the huge scanning machine, be absorbed and taken away, or appear on the bus made of data flow, constantly jumping between grids.

   Tick's eyes fell on a strange digital figure.

On the surface of this digital life, numbers fall like raindrops, which are different from binary 0 and 1, and not ternary 0, 1, 2, but from 0 to 9, and even some things Tick has never seen before. Number symbols, and as these strange symbols disintegrate, eventually, the numbers all disintegrate.

  The other figures looked like hungry wolves who smelled blood, and they jumped on them one after another. Soon, the scattered figures were sucked clean.

   And Dida also had an instinctive impulse just now. Those numbers seemed to have an indescribable attraction to her. If it wasn't for her strong self-control, she would have jumped on it like everyone else.

"How is this going?!"

"Digital life is different from AI, it doesn't have its own processing system," Gao Gong looked at the addict-like digital dolls, and calmly said: "Then, how should it solve its own input, output, and processing? "

   Tick hesitated: "Eating and digestion?"

   "That's right, devouring each other can solve some calculation problems very well."

   "We should go."

   Gao Gong suddenly grabbed Tick, and the two of them appeared in front of a 'QR code' in a flash.

   On this QR code, there is a line of small characters - 'The access to the No. 18-4 branch of the Ground Network Group'.

   "Scan, scan code?!"

  Suddenly saw a familiar thing, Dida couldn't help being taken aback, subconsciously said: "How to scan?"

   "Just press it up."

  Gao Gong stretched out his hand, and put his palm on the QR code. The next moment, Gao Gong's body disintegrated into tens of thousands of numbers, and was sucked in by the QR code like a storm.

  'This is not a QR code, it is clearly a 3D code. '

   Tick groaned in his heart, following the example of a gourd.

  ‘The identity test is complete, welcome, interviewer No. 1451. '

interview! ?

   Before he had time to think about it, Dida's eyes blurred, and his body quickly disintegrated. Unlike Mr. G's understatement, Dida felt a strong sense of suffocation during the process of being scanned.

   It's a bit like being stuffed into a flush toilet and pumping it dozens of times.

  Although this metaphor is a bit disgusting, it is quite in line with Tick's current feeling, and it is different from the previous teleportation. When Tick turned back into a human form, he felt an obvious sense of weakness. He staggered and almost fell.

  Tick took a few breaths while leaning on the wall, subconsciously opened the player panel, and was taken aback for a moment, realizing that at some point, the 15th generation of native digital lifeforms had become 14.5th generation.

  Why is 0.5 missing?

   "What are you doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and queue up, the interview will end early." Gao Gong's voice came from not far away.

But when she wanted to ask Gao Gong, she was shocked by the scene in front of her. She found that she appeared in a corridor at some time, and there was a long line in front of her. Holding a file bag on the table, Mr. G is standing in the line, waving at her.

"here it is-"

Just as she was about to inquire, she suddenly realized that her clothes had also changed. The original gothic dress became a well-fitting lady's suit. She also held a document bag in her hand. When she opened it, she found her resume inside. There is also her own signature on the resume, a girl with glasses in her early 20s.

   "This, this, by the way, I just felt unwell..." Tick thought about his words and told what happened.

   Gao Gong nodded calmly, and said: "Back to the previous topic, how does a digital life solve its own input, output, and processing?"

   "If eating represents 'input' and digestion represents 'output', what about processing?"

  An artificial intelligence system, the most important thing is the ability of the processing system, and Mr. G just emphasized that digital life does not have a processing system.

   Dida frowned and thought for a moment, then he had a flash of inspiration, and blurted out: "It's an iteration!"

   "That's right, the processing capability of digital life is self-iteration. Every time a version is iterated, the problems left over from the previous version will be dealt with centrally, and the 'life' of digital life will be continued."

   "Conversely, once the iteration fails within the specified time, then the digital life will disintegrate, which is death in the popular sense."

   "So how to iterate? The best way is to join a large cybernetwork company and use their technical strength to update."

   Gao Gong raised his chin, followed his gaze, and the words "Interview Office of Ground Network Group" were particularly conspicuous.