From all-round academic master to chief scientist

Chapter 475 The “capture” operation begins

"Additional rewards?"

Lin Xiao was stunned when he heard the sudden words from the system.

In the past, the system had never made it clear that additional rewards would be obtained after solving a certain problem. But this time, it suddenly made this decision. Why?

And the matter that needs to be solved now has nothing to do with science and technology. At best... it should be a major filtering event that the earth's civilization encountered in the development process.

As for what the Great Filter Event is, it is actually an explanation of the Fermi Paradox.

It comes from the Great Filter Theory called Robin Hanson. He believes that the reason why it is difficult for humans to discover the existence of aliens is because of the Great Filter Theory. This theory believes that there is an attempt to form a planet in the universe. Civilization is very difficult. It needs to go through multiple stages in order for civilization to gradually form. In the process of civilization forming and developing into an advanced civilization in the universe, there are many links required, and any one of them will appear. Problems will have a devastating blow to civilization.

These include but are not limited to natural disasters such as stellar flares, asteroid impacts, super volcanic eruptions, etc. In addition, there are also man-made disasters, including but not limited to the outbreak of nuclear war, or caused by wars in the development of early human civilization. The harm of genocide, in addition to plague viruses with extremely high fatality and infection rates, etc., as well as some harms caused by human beings in the development of science.

For example, they may be experiencing a strong artificial intelligence crisis now.

Because strong artificial intelligence can often be regarded as civilization, and the war between civilizations often never stops until one of the parties is completely eliminated or enslaved.

So if we look at this incident from the perspective of the Great Filter Theory, according to the system's past reward rules, there should be no reason to reward Lin Xiao now.

Thinking about this matter, Lin Xiao thought for a moment, until finally, he suddenly had a guess.

Then he questioned the system again in his mind: "System, you suddenly gave me this extra reward. To some extent, is it because you know that this matter has something to do with you, so you gave me this compensation?"

However, this time, the system started to lose sound again.

Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows and said in his heart: "If you don't answer, I will take it as your acquiescence."

And the system still has no sound.

"Then I'll take it as your admission."

Knowing that the system was pretending to be dead again, Lin Xiao stopped trying to get more information from the system.

Finally, he refocused his thinking on real problems. No matter what, solving the current issues was still the top priority.

What's more, now that he has this additional reward from the system, he becomes even more motivated.

So he then continued his work - writing a program that could actively discover the self-awareness of artificial intelligence.

…

Time passed slowly.

At Lin Xiao's request, the National Security Bureau also arranged for people to go to the location of Qiankun No. 1 and shut down Qiankun No. 1.

When Lin Xiao learned the news, he felt relieved for the time being. Then he could just wait for the news. He wanted to see if there would be a fourth batch of bank accounts cleared after Qiankun No. 1 was closed. Condition.

As for abroad, the seriousness of the situation is even worse.

For example, in some remote areas of the United States, gunfights have become more and more frequent, and some of the gunfights were caused by some forces taking advantage of the chaos.

Obviously, in today's social chaos, some people who are afraid of the world's chaos will naturally appear, and among these gun battles, gun battles involving bank robberies account for a larger proportion.

In response to such a situation, many countries have declared a state of national emergency.

And just like that, another week passed.

…

"A week has passed and the fourth group of people hasn't appeared yet?"

In the state guesthouse, Lin Xiao asked Qi Shangao.

Listening to Lin Xiao's question, Qi Shangao's face showed some confusion and said, "Yes, the fourth group of people did not appear."

"Okay, I understand." Lin Xiao nodded slightly. This way, he would be more certain of his guess.

But at this time, Qi Shangao asked again: "Chief, you said that now that Qiankun No. 1 has been shut down, this kind of problem has not occurred. Does this mean that what happened in the world is really Is it related to Qiankun No. 1?"

Hearing Qi Shangao's question, Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment, then looked at Qi Shangao and said, "What... do you mean?"

Qi Shangao sighed, put his hand on his ear, and then took off a miniature earphone.

After putting the headphones in his pocket, he sat next to Lin Xiao and said, "I was thinking about what the president of JP Morgan Chase said at the bank meeting. If you look at it, what he said might be right."

“What did the president of JPMorgan Chase say?”

Lin Xiao recalled what Qi Shangao had said to him.

The president of JPMorgan Chase Bank said at the beginning that this incident was actually caused by them using Qiankun No. 1.

And now Qi Shangao seems to be in such a low mood, probably because it seems that it may indeed be related to Qiankun No. 1, and his faith in his heart has been shaken?

Lin Xiao quickly guessed the reason, and then couldn't help laughing.

He patted Qi Shangao on the shoulder and said: "Okay, Lao Qi, I know what you are thinking, but I can now assure you in the name of the country's chief scientist that what the person from Morgan Bank said is wrong. , or in other words, he is just slandering us."

"Think about it, if what he said is right, would you be able to shut down Qiankun No. 1 so easily?"

"This..." Qi Shangao was stunned. It was indeed true. If they were really responsible for this matter, could the National Security Bureau shut down Qiankun No. 1 so easily?

When they first asked to shut down, they would definitely encounter various obstacles, and there was a high probability that they would fail in the end. However, in fact, their shutdown process was very smooth. They almost shut down the machine within the same day after giving the order.

Qi Shangao's slightly wavering eyes lit up again, and he turned back into the former national security police officer.

"I understand. Thank you, Chief Lin, for your guidance."

Lin Xiao smiled, waved his hand and said, "Haha, it's not really any advice, I just don't want to see you become depressed because of some misunderstandings."

Then he remembered an interesting thing, and said to Qi Shangao with a smile: "But don't you doubt that I am actually the mastermind behind the scenes? Then I asked for closure, so you were able to successfully close it. ?”

Hearing Lin Xiao's words, Qi Shangao was immediately startled. He looked at Lin Xiao nervously and said, "Chief Lin... This is not true, is it? This joke is not funny!"

Lin Xiao burst out laughing immediately, patted Qi Shangao, and said with a smile: "Okay, sorry, sorry, I just suddenly thought that the villains in some works are like this."

Qi Shangao breathed a sigh of relief, "Then you really scared me to death. At that moment, I seemed to feel how the characters in those works felt after knowing the true face of the villain."

"What does it feel like?"

"A momentary feeling of suffocation."

Anyway, Qi Shangao couldn't imagine Lin Xiao being the villain.

Lin Xiao smiled, then waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's not talk about this now. Do you have anything else?"

"Oh no……"

Seeing that Lin Xiao was about to go to work, Qi Shangao quickly stood up, but just when he was about to say "no", he suddenly remembered the reason for closing Qiankun No. 1 mentioned by Lin Xiao, and asked: " By the way, Chief Lin, you originally said that Qiankun No. 1 was closed to prevent the mastermind behind this incident from hacking into Qiankun No. 1. Looking at it now, is it possible that Qiankun No. 1 has been hacked? "

Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly, "It is indeed possible."

"I understand, then let's organize our manpower and see if we can find this person."

"Well." Lin Xiao said, "Then I wish you good luck."

"Okay." Qi Shangao nodded, and then quickly left here. At the same time, he put on the miniature headphones again and began to organize people to carry out their operation to capture the mastermind behind the scenes.

Lin Xiao shook his head slightly after watching Qi Shangao leave.

Wish them good luck.

But to a certain extent, now he really doesn't want the existence of such a primate-human mastermind.

Because now, he hopes that the man behind the scenes is virtual and consists of a string of data.

After all, his virtual consciousness trap is almost complete.

However, if this virtual consciousness is finally captured, how to deal with it is still a problem.

There is also something about the character of this virtual consciousness.

Judging from the current situation, this virtual consciousness has regarded human beings as its enemy, otherwise, it would not have used such methods.

And looking at it now, this virtual consciousness can actually realize in such a short time the means of destroying human society by destroying the human economic system, which is enough to show that its IQ is already very high.

However, the consciousness of this strong artificial intelligence obviously did not expect that anyone would be able to guess his existence, and if Lin Xiao had not happened to obtain this part of the knowledge, maybe he would not have thought of this incident that affected the world. , may be caused by a strong artificial intelligence awakening from self-awareness.

Of course, it did not directly destroy human civilization by controlling the launch of nuclear bombs as described in those science fiction works. This was something that puzzled Lin Xiao.

Although things like nuclear weapons are physically isolated, for a strong artificial intelligence, it can spread false information to mislead the leaders of nuclear-armed countries.

For example, you can simulate the signal that the enemy has launched nuclear weapons towards you to achieve misdirection. Or, more simply, call the leaders of these nuclear-armed countries, and then tell these leaders that a nuclear strike has been detected on the way. A leader did not calm down, did not try to determine the authenticity of the news, and directly launched a nuclear bomb. In the end, the world's nuclear peace was brought about.

Therefore, Lin Xiao still has some doubts about this issue. If possible, this strong artificial intelligence has probably been tried.

Of course, there is also a possibility that this self-aware artificial intelligence knows that once a nuclear weapon is launched, Qiankun 1, the world's first and only true quantum computer, will also become the enemy's primary target. , thereby endangering its existence, so this idea was abandoned.

After all, according to the knowledge Lin Xiao has mastered, if artificial intelligence wants to have self-awareness, it must exist in a quantum computer with 77 qubits and above. If it goes to a quantum computer with lower qubits, or A supercomputer with any computing power will lose the intelligence to think about complex problems and become like a beast, only capable of thinking about simple problems.

However, regarding this issue, he could only make a simple guess in his mind for the time being. The real situation would have to wait until he truly "caught" this strong artificial intelligence.

"I hope that after catching this guy, I can make him obey."

Lin Xiao shook his head. It was obvious that this artificial intelligence was hostile to humans. Everything would depend on the final negotiation.

However, the thought that he would be able to have a conversation with a self-aware intelligent AI really made him feel a little excited.

Then he focused his attention on the computer screen again and continued writing code.

…

Time flew by.

A few days later.

"Finally, it's done."

In Lin Xiao's room at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, after completing the last code, Lin Xiao couldn't help but sigh.

There are more than 20,000 lines of code. In two weeks, nearly 2,000 lines were written almost every day.

And it was using a new language, so for Lin Xiao, he had been running his brain at full capacity during this period.

"Then, it's time to cast the net to catch the big fish."

Before that, two things need to be done first.

The first thing is to release the "fish" first.

Qiankun No. 1 is still shut down, so the "suspected" strong artificial intelligence cannot be caught by his trap yet.

Of course, at this time, Lin Xiao could suddenly understand why they had increased the available computing power by constantly restarting.

There is a high probability that this is because this strong artificial intelligence is afraid of being shut down, and obviously it cannot control the power on and off. After all, these are all physical aspects. As long as the power is turned off, any strong artificial intelligence will be unable to do anything.

Moreover, mankind has not yet created any super robot industry like those in science fiction works, and then used it to form its own robot army.

All in all, when artificial intelligence has its own consciousness, it will be afraid of shutting down. It will be like a vegetative state, losing all consciousness.

However, if you want to seize this artificial intelligence, it is necessary to restart Qiankun One.

The second thing after restarting Qiankun No. 1 was to lead it into its own "trap".

This step is very simple. You only need to let it scan the code of this program, and its consciousness will be limited to more than 20,000 lines of code, or in other words, the computer where this program is installed.

Next, although its body is still in the quantum computer, and it can still mobilize the computing power of the quantum computer, its consciousness can only exist on Lin Xiao's computer, and then any of its actions will need to go through Lin Xiao's computer. Yes, once Lin Xiao shuts down, it is equivalent to becoming a vegetable, oh, plant intelligence.

"But the question is, how do I get it to scan to my computer?"

Lin Xiao groped his chin and started thinking.

Obviously, it was impossible to add some bait to his trap, such as putting a piece of cheese on top of the mousetrap, or something like a animal trap.

A strong artificial intelligence is not a mouse attracted to cheese, or a person stepping directly on a bear trap.

Just like traps against humans must be sufficiently concealed, traps against strong artificial intelligence also need to be concealed.

For example, put it on its "only path", and the only path for strong artificial intelligence is naturally its "home", Qiankun No. 1.

But obviously, Lin Xiao did not intend to let this trap be placed on Qiankun No. 1.

Intelligence with consciousness, or intelligent life, is not yet suitable for humans to know, nor can it be known to any one or a few people.

Because if Lin Xiao managed this intelligent life, people who knew about it would definitely wonder how Lin Xiao did it.

Lin Xiao didn't want to go to great lengths to make up a lot of lies when the time came. Moreover, one lie often required more lies to make up for it.

Therefore, before completing negotiations with this strong artificial intelligence, Lin Xiao needed to trap it on his computer.

As for how to do this, Lin Xiao quickly thought of a method

Among the knowledge he gained, there is a code that allows the consciousness of strong artificial intelligence to scan its sub-code and then automatically connect to the device where its parent code is located.

In this way, Lin Xiao can let the strong artificial intelligence in Qiankun No. 1 check his hometown, and the results will be scanned directly to him.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao immediately took action.

This combined code is quite easy to handle, and the two together only require a little over a hundred lines to complete.

So in less than an hour, Lin Xiao completed these two strings of codes.

"Then what needs to be solved now is how to get this string of sub-codes onto Qiankun No. 1."

As for this, it was easy for Lin Xiao to do it.

He thought for a while, Kong Huaan seemed to be with Qiankun No. 1 now.

Because Kong Huaan was recruited by the National Security Bureau and joined the team looking for the so-called "mastermind".

The reason why Kong Huaan agreed was because he didn't expect anyone to have the ability to easily bypass the firewall he designed, so he also wanted to see who could do it.

So Kong Huaan went to Qiankun No.1.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao called Kong Huaan.

"Lin Xiao, what's wrong?"

The phone was connected, and Kong Huaan's voice came over there.

Lin Xiao said: "I wrote a functional program similar to a firewall. After installing this program into Qiankun One, it should be able to prevent someone from using the computing power of Qiankun One without approval."

Kong Huaan smiled and said, "Are you finally going to take action?"

Lin Xiao was stunned, "What?"

"I said, you finally no longer intend to hide your computer skills and decided to solve this matter!"

Lin Xiao suddenly said helplessly: "Okay, Lao Kong, stop joking at this time."

Kong Huaan smiled, said no more, and asked, "So are you planning to restart Qiankun One?"

"Um."

"Restarting Qiankun One now requires approval from above. Let me explain it."

"Okay, I'll trouble you then."

"Nothing to trouble about."

After hanging up the phone, not long after, Lin Xiao received a call from the old man.

"Chief Lin, do you have a solution? Are you sure it's feasible?"

The old man didn't say any pleasantries and went straight to the point.