#601 - Chapter 601: Unexpected Discovery

“I understand a bit. Back then, a large-scale war broke out between humans, and the ecology was severely damaged. Intense solar radiation caused Venus's temperature to rise continuously, and most plants and animals became extinct. Humanity's last moments were spent underground, but due to a lack of resources, they all perished within a few years,” Mongka explained simply.

“Did you witness the war between humans firsthand, or record any related footage?” Dongfang Chen asked.

“Originally, there was some, all stored in the Mars database. However, the base was damaged later, and a lot of content was lost,” Mongka said.

Long San said that during the Nata civilization period, Mars was hit by an asteroid, and most of the base was damaged. Only a very small part has been repaired so far.

“Then tell me what you remember,” Dongfang Chen said.

“I only saw this much. See if it's useful,” Mongka directly projected the images onto the big screen.

Super-intelligent robots like Mongka have their advantages, but they also have disadvantages.

The way they perceive things is actually simulating humans.

This leads to the things she stores being very fragmented, like human memories.

This is very different from ordinary artificial intelligence.

How does ordinary artificial intelligence demonstrate intelligence? It requires massive data and countless training sessions. This is actually a kind of pseudo-intelligence.

Like Xiaolin, she knows everything that's in the database. She knows nothing that's not in the database.

Why is it called pseudo-intelligence? Because the intelligence it displays is actually an efficient data processing process. Its creativity is very limited; it can disassemble and recombine data, but it's difficult to achieve emergence.

What is emergence?

It's creating something that doesn't exist in the database.

For example, if humans need to solve the energy problem, can it independently develop controllable nuclear fusion?

No!

True intelligence is capable of emergence, or rather, it naturally has the characteristic of emergence.

True intelligence can create new things.

Mongka is this kind of robot that can emerge.

She can flexibly formulate strategies based on the actual situation without human control.

But this leads to another problem: the data she stores is not infinitely expandable. Even with the support of the Mars main base database, the data she can store and retrieve is limited.

Just like a person, you can remember recent events, you can remember things from a long time ago, but you don't remember everything. People selectively remember some things, and also ignore and clear some things.

For example, you remember breaking a cup when you were a child and getting beaten up by your mom. But where was the cup at the time? Were there any other things around? What were they? You probably don't remember.

Therefore, Mongka, as a super artificial intelligence, also exhibits similar problems. She may retain some memories of Venus from a billion years ago, but they will definitely be very scarce and fragmented.

Sure enough.

Mongka compiled the images onto the big screen, and Dongfang Chen felt dizzy looking at them.

The center of the screen showed some seeds, bugs, and stuff, but the surroundings were either blurry and full of mosaics, or simply all black.

It was extremely difficult to sift out anything useful.

“Mongka, do a preliminary screening first, and screen out the images containing human living areas or human wars,” Dongfang Chen said, rubbing his eyes.

“Okay, let me think,” Mongka replied cooperatively.

As Mongka thought, something useful finally appeared on the big screen.

“Wait, go back to the aerial view from outside the atmosphere just now,” Dongfang Chen suddenly caught sight of something familiar.

Mongka returned to the previous image.

This was the scene she saw from the spaceship when she arrived at Venus once.

Venus at that time was indeed a bit like the current Blue Star, with blue oceans, white clouds, and brownish-yellow land.

Dongfang Chen's attention focused on something in the clouds.

“Zoom in here,” Dongfang Chen pointed to the thing.

Mongka zoomed in on the image as requested.

“What is this?” Dongfang Chen asked.

“This is a building,” Mongka replied.

“Who built this building?” Dongfang Chen asked.

“I didn’t notice,” Mongka shook her head.

“Xiaolin, check if there are any records of this in the database,” Dongfang Chen said.

The Mars base had already authorized him to access the database, so Xiaolin could directly query it.

“Commander, no relevant content was found,” Xiaolin replied.

Dongfang Chen had also guessed this; if Mongka knew, she would have said so already.

Because two hours ago, the Yinba Nation had built four such buildings in the border city of Mordo.

The amount of information revealed here is very large.

The Yinba Nation actually has some connection to Venus from a billion years ago!

Moreover, Mongka is unaware of this.