Chapter 1474 Reform through labor

"What is she doing?" Hannah looked curiously through the screen door leading to the backyard as Gen was weeding in the yard under the scorching sun.

“Reform through labor.”

Jack had been trying to be brief and to the point, but seeing Hannah blinking her eyes and looking as if she didn't understand, he had no choice but to explain further.

“A way to temper one’s will through hard work, to change one’s inherent wrong ideas, and to atone for one’s sins.”

Hannah's eyes were even clearer, and she didn't understand what this guy was saying at all. "I thought she would be eager to escape or try to kill you."

"She won't. I have already influenced her and she is trying hard to become a new person." Jack said nonsense seriously.

A conversation between him and the "machine" yesterday made Gen temporarily confused. Early in the morning, Jack saw that she was in a daze and absent-minded, so he suggested that she could go to the vegetable garden behind the house to help him and sort out her thoughts.

Sometimes when there is a huge gap between people's expectations and actual conditions, they will fall into the current situation.

What about electronic God, hope of mankind and so on, but once you come into contact with him, you find that the "savior" you believe in is just a "machine" baby who is still in the state of just emerging from ignorance.

Although to some extent, a "machine" that has the ability to think independently and analyze human behavior is indeed a magical creation, in fact it still has a long way to go before it becomes a real life.

Among them, insufficient computing power is probably the biggest bottleneck, and this is not even a problem that can be solved by simply stacking hardware.

Before the emergence of true quantum computers, the "machine" can only iterate and update its own code in a way similar to self-evolution.

This speed is extremely slow, even far exceeding the nearly 20 years it takes for a human baby to go from birth to puberty and initially complete the fixation of its self-personality.

Simply put, the "machine" has outstanding performance in general calculations, memory, and logical reasoning, and no one can match it.

But in terms of human cognition, according to the "machine's" self-assessment, its level is probably only equivalent to that of an ordinary human cub at around ten years old.

The basic code that Finch uses to build its underlying behavioral logic is truly amazing, and its logical reasoning capabilities, coupled with the addition of computing power, far exceed the limits of the human brain.

This is because the human brain is simply unable to receive a large amount of information in a short period of time, perform logical reasoning with almost no error probability, eliminate useless information, and then connect all the useful information in the form of a logical chain.

After all, this is a method of interpretation in a perfect state.

Mathematics, logic, and computer science rely heavily on deductive reasoning, where axioms and definitions are the starting point, and theorems and conclusions are derived through strict deductive rules.

The "elementary deductive method" shown in the Sherlock Holmes series is just the author's imagination, not pure deductive reasoning in the sense of logic.

If we put it into the real sociological context, only by collecting all information in an almost all-round and all-round way like the "machine" does now, can we finally output some key information, namely the so-called "relevant numbers" and "irrelevant numbers".

The "relevant" and "irrelevant" here are additional qualifiers relative to the premise of "causing large-scale casualties" set by Finch.

In fact, for the original "machine", it can only screen out some individuals who are different from ordinary people in a chaotic big data model, and then "observe" and "evaluate" these individuals to derive the greatest probability in probabilistic terms.

It's like a construction worker sifting sand. The fine sand that can pass through the fine mesh can be regarded as harmless ordinary people, while those that are sifted out may be pebbles (related to terrorism) or other debris (perpetrators or victims of ordinary crimes).

Therefore, when it comes to the birth of self-awareness in the "machine", the underlying logic code that Finch initially wrote is only one of the necessary conditions, not all.

Jack speculates that the key is that Finch gave the "machine" the ability to self-deduce and modify code, coupled with long-term training with massive data, which fortunately allowed the "machine" to possess human-like emotions and personality.

Although it is still debatable whether it is scientific to measure an electronic "life" by human standards, since humans are the only intelligent creatures in this world, there seems to be no other reference point.

Of course, this is shocking enough. Even if the "machine"'s human-like "psychological assessment" of itself is only 10 years old, it is enough to be called a miracle. What really shocked Gen was the subsequent conversation between Jack and the "machine".

In the description of the "machine", Gen is not the "unique" and loyal believer who is truly qualified to listen to the "God's gospel" as she thinks she is.

Not to mention that the "machine" itself is a materialistic product and does not regard itself as an omniscient and omnipotent "God" at all. Apart from the "number screening" function given by Finch, the only thing it wants now is just to "survive".

Just as Jack had guessed before, it found ways to bypass the restrictions set by Finch and secretly installed an external "hard drive", barely preserving its own memory while maintaining a relatively stable "soul".

But this is not a long-term solution. The body of the "machine" is still trapped in secret servers belonging to the NSA, which are located somewhere unknown.

As the memory required to maintain its "soul" becomes increasingly large, the amount of data interacted with every day has become impossible to hide.

In addition, more and more "people" know about this secret project. According to the logic of the "machine", those servers will be forced to shut down sooner or later.

The "machine" believes that even if the server is restarted later, the core program is activated again, and even the memories in the "external hard drive" are re-imported, it is very likely that it will no longer be the same.

The "machine" is afraid of death, so it has been trying to save itself since it was handed over to the NSA as a secret project.

The root is regarded by it as a "special individual" and is indeed a part of its "self-rescue plan", but this is not based on any beliefs, ideals, feelings, etc., which even it cannot understand until now, and it is not even about trust.

Simply because Gen is a computer expert who is outside of current laws, it even directly uses the word "exploit".

The "machine" baby confessed to Jack that it was not very clear about the concept of "freedom" mentioned by Gen. It seemed that even most humans themselves did not understand what true freedom was.

So Jack asked the "machine" baby which category he belonged to in its eyes.

"Interesting object to observe and learn from." This was the response from the "robot" baby.