Embers Ad Infinitum

Chapter 290 Understanding

A water point in the Chilar Mountains.

Long Yuehong wore a military exoskeleton device and used the flashlight she carried to provide lighting for Shang Jianyao and the others.

To be honest, his legs are a little weak now, and he just wants to find a place to sit down and have a good rest.

This was not because the pursuit of the robot guards made him too nervous. After all, after the bridge was blown up, he basically didn't see the pursuers anymore. He relied on the occasional movement to remind him not to relax.

His nervousness mainly comes from racing in the middle of the night, and in the mountains.

The sharp turns, the cliffs, the broken roads, the Jeep's wild thrust, and the headlights that she dared not turn on all together constituted Long Yuehong's nightmare tonight.

Especially later on, when they deviated from the original route, Bai Chen was no longer familiar with the environment and needed to rely on Gnawa's command, which was even more dangerous - Long Yuehong thought.

He was really afraid that Bai Chen would accidentally drive the car into a ditch, and it was fine when he drove into the ditch. But if it rolled under the cliff, no one in the car would survive, including Gnawa, the intelligent robot.

When she recalled the scene at that time, Long Yuehong's calves trembled a little.

Fortunately, the moon is brighter tonight, so drivers don't have to rely solely on their headlights.

"Okay, let's keep going." Jiang Baimian walked back holding his water bag.

The silver-black robot Gnawa standing on the other side proactively suggested:

"I will be responsible for driving next. You may not be familiar with the places you are going to pass."

"Okay." Jiang Baimian also felt that it would be better to leave this matter to Gnawa, the "topography expert" in the Chilar Mountains.

What is this called?

This is called fully intelligent driving!

She opened the passenger door and said to Long Yuehong:

"Take off the exoskeleton device. Now we have initially escaped the hunt. We need to save power."

Long Yuehong has been warned about battery problems by the system and has no objection to this.

After the jeep was driving under the moonlight again, Jiang Baimian looked sideways at Gnawa and asked curiously:

"Aren't you worried about low battery?"

Intelligent robots also mainly rely on high-performance batteries to provide energy.

"I have already changed it." Gennava simply replied, "We smart people use a dual-energy system and can replace the battery at any time. Just like you need to prepare food when you go out, we usually carry four high-performance batteries with us. The battery is used as a backup, and I grabbed two extra ones before. Well, where possible, we try not to use backup batteries."

"I also grabbed two pieces." Jiang Baimian said after hearing this.

"Wealthy." Shang Jianyao expressed his opinion.

Gennava expertly asked the jeep to turn around without responding.

Jiang Baimian asked in a casual tone:

"Are there many escaped intelligent people like you in the 'Mechanical Paradise'?"

If it was an unprecedented first, she suspected there would be a lot of trouble to come.

Gennava was silent for a while, and the blue light in his eyes colored the windshield a little:

"Some, most of them escaped because of their level of humanization."

"What happened to them?" Shang Jianyao asked with concern.

Gennava replied in a slightly synthesized baritone:

"Maybe he was caught, maybe he wasn't. This is not public information and we don't have permission to read or download it."

"Do you have an internal network?" Jiang Baimian asked casually.

"Yes, except for the update of the main module, everything else can be obtained on the Internet, but it must be within the coverage of the base station." Unlike Bai Chen's wild behavior when he was in charge, Gnawa drove very calmly, with almost no sudden turns. When it stopped, the speed didn't slow down much.

Jiang Baimian nodded and asked instead:

"What does the C in your number mean?"

Mastering as much information as possible about "Mechanical Paradise" will help them choose and determine subsequent plans.

"C stands for universal type." Gnawa did not hide it. "The first two digits of the number are the year when the main module was loaded on the core chip, and the second digit indicates the number of that year."

He paused and continued:

“A represents the computing type, which mainly assists the ‘source brain’ to carry out corresponding research; B represents the experimental type, which on the one hand involves participating in various dangerous experiments, and on the other hand, tries out new versions of main modules, the latest algorithms, etc.

"In the eyes of us intelligent humans, these two types of robots are closer to tools."

It turns out that there is also a chain of contempt within the robot... Jiang Baimian chuckled thoughtfully.

Bai Chen and Shang Jianyao both listened very attentively and seemed to be very interested in this matter.

Long Yuehong, who was sitting in the middle of the back row, was more curious about another question:

"What exactly is the degree of humanization?"

As the vehicle raced on the dark mountain road, Gnawa looked ahead and unconsciously slowed down his speech:

“My understanding is the awareness of self and the degree of similarity with human beings.

“The more you think of yourself as human and the more you behave like a human in every aspect, the more human you become.

"Once it exceeds the limit of 70%, it will be punished by the 'Source Brain'. If it is too low, it will be considered unsuitable for contact with humans, and there is a hidden danger."

Long Yuehong probably figured out what the degree of humanization is:

"How do you, the 'Mechanical Paradise', deal with the, uh, intelligent people who are too high or too low in humanization?"

There was some confusion in Gnawa's tone:

"It will be formatted, and the main module and corresponding algorithm will be reloaded. In other words, there will be another Gnawa, or not Gnawa, who will control this body on my behalf.

“I really don’t understand. We are obviously a large species and have our own reproduction and production model. Why does the Source Brain still position us as intelligent tools?

"Many of my companions don't understand..."

Without waiting for Shang Jianyao and others to respond, he continued to ask himself:

“In this case, why do we need to set a lower limit for the degree of humanization and keep us as we are now?

"In order to better serve mankind and not harm mankind? But..."

Gnawa remained silent, as if he could not find the answer, and he did not expect Jiang Baimian and others to answer it.

Jiang Baimian listened quietly and asked a question:

"If you are too humanized, what impact will it have before you are censored and punished by the Source Brain?"

The core point of her question is: Is the degree of humanization a mandatory requirement of the "Source Brain" or a limitation of the intelligent robot itself.

Gennava turned the steering wheel and said in silence for a moment:

“At certain times, on certain issues, there will be certain breakdowns.

"When we realize this, we will deliberately avoid it, because once the corresponding fault code appears repeatedly, the 'source brain' will know that our state is not right."

Speaking of this, Gennava gave a wry smile in a slightly synthetic tone:

"Whenever this happens, I know that maybe we are not a true human species. Our creators have set too many restrictions in our core module, making it only a tool and not a soul."

Hearing this, Shang Jianyao suddenly laughed:

"Do you know what our next goal is?"

"What?" Gennava asked cooperatively.

Shang Jianyao pointed in the north direction and said:

“Go to the First City and find the descendants of Aure Ubis.

"His name is Maximian, and he used to be the chief scientist of the Third Research Institute."

After Shang Jianyao finished speaking, Jiang Baimian helped Gnawa by adding:

“Perhaps you don’t know yet, but the predecessor of your ‘Machine Paradise’ is the Third Research Institute.

"Maximian should be the creator you call him."

Shang Jianyao continued:

"When the time comes, we might be able to get some information from his descendants that can lift the restrictions in your souls."

He replaced the core module in Gnawa's mouth with his soul, which is the main module.