Cyber Era Witch
Chapter 634 - 535: Intelligent Innovation_2

Chapter 634: Chapter 535: Intelligent Innovation_2

This dog... is terrifying. Rinne failed to hack into it and couldn’t help but abandon her original plan.

"How can I make it less afraid of me?" Rinne gave up trying and turned to Xu Yang for help.

"The current command is ’Snowball’, which is also its temporary code name," Xu Yang hinted.

"Hey, Snowball." Rinne tried calling out, and the mechanical dog obediently walked to her side, moving silently, mouth slightly open, emitting a sound that simulated a dog’s panting, while its tail wagged incessantly.

"Snowball is the latest research and development achievement of the scientific department, and it’s one of the first batch of prototypes," Xu Yang observed the mechanical dog, "We named this type of mechanical dog ’Red Jade Dog’."

"So cute." Rinne squatted down to touch Snowball’s cool mechanical head, behind its pair of round eye sockets was a bright red dot camera, "Then, what does this have to do with the current test?"

"Let’s go find Science Officer Kazama to explain," Xu Yang took Rinne and Snowball to find Miyazato Kazama.

"Overall," Miyazato Kazama heard their conversation and turned her head to start explaining, "the intelligence systems of synthetic humans in classes A, B, and C are very unstable because Taro Tanaka used a lazy method, although he designed the intelligence models, they all come from the same source, that is, from the ’Quantum Warrior Model’."

Rinne remembered this story; after the Quantum Warrior was defeated by the Heart of Darkness at the Colosseum festival, Xisheng created a personality matrix using his brain right before death from brain necrosis.

"How did Taro Tanaka get it?" Rinne felt that getting data from Xisheng wouldn’t be easy.

"Taro Tanaka joined his professor’s laboratory during his studies at Lundinium University," Miyazato Kazama nodded, "He had the opportunity to come into contact with this personality matrix during his cooperation with Xisheng and secretly remodeled it into the ’original template’ for all synthetic humans, then registered it as his patent and combined it with the synthetic human project, hence all these synthetic humans of our company came into existence, including the Elite Soldiers."

"So Taro Tanaka essentially stole from Xisheng," Rinne nodded. This scientist was truly cunning.

"That’s why he was subsequently ostracized and suppressed," Miyazato Kazama curved her lips, "and after returning to the Archipelago, he wasted many years in Aizu City."

"In a nutshell, those guys are all twisted because Taro Tanaka’s template wasn’t that great?" Rinne understood. She remembered that Seeking Shadow had also downloaded Quantum Warrior’s martial arts archive and couldn’t help feeling a bit alert.

"Well... it’s not to belittle the Quantum Warrior’s character, his passion for martial arts is respectable," Miyazato Kazama nodded, "Do you know about deep learning?"

"I’ve heard of it," Rinne contemplated, "a method for training artificial intelligence."

"Simply put," Miyazato Kazama gestured, "Imagine you’re in your dormitory now, you open your eyes, turn your head and look around your room, you see many things: a cup, a terminal, bottles, buckets, beds, people, power strips, curtains."

"Yes," Rinne was curious, "what about it?"

"That’s an incomplete picture, in reality, you’re seeing thousands of colors," Miyazato Kazama explained, "When your gaze focuses on a bottle, you see countless colors of the bottle, the white cap, the orange lid, and it has black lines on top. And when you focus on the lines, you realize they are actually texts. This information is invisible when you just casually glance around the room; it’s only when you pay attention to the details that you can discover it. So, back to the point, when you just glance casually, how do you distinguish a cup, a terminal, and a bottle?"

"Features," Rinne, quick-witted, hit the nail on the head, "We first notice the features of each object."

"Exactly," Miyazato Kazama nodded vigorously, "Features. The human brain is characterized by its ability to extract features, and not just by processing them simply, but by establishing a complex layered model in advance, acting like a filter to screen out what you think is unimportant, leaving only what your mental model considers most significant."

"For example, when seeing a dangerous person," Rinne thought of an example, "ordinary people might just notice his fierce face, but an experienced person would pay attention to whether he carries weapons and the extent of his body modifications."

"Exactly," Miyazato Kazama felt that Rinne was indeed very intelligent, a role model for all those dimwit witches, "The deep learning process for synthetic humans is similar—encounter an event, process the event, archive the event, capture its features, and finally establish their own structural pattern. Just like artificial intelligence drawing, you first feed them the materials, make them recognize what are hands, feet, heads, bodies, and then train them to recreate these elements."

"So synthetic humans will get smarter and smarter..." Rinne came back to her senses.

"Treat Professor Tanaka’s plan as the ’Tanaka Scheme’," Xu Yang looked towards the machine dog, Snowball was being sent into the simulation training ground, "and we need to develop the ’Nestor Scheme’, which is more focused on humans and Synthetic Humans themselves."

"I understand focusing on humans, but what do you mean by focusing on Synthetic Humans?" Rinne was puzzled.

"Look." Miyazato Kazama’s gaze fell on the simulated fire scene.

The test ground entered the experimental stage, with Snowball loaded with the Nestor Scheme as its intelligence program. During the test, a virtual fire broke out, with five targets awaiting rescue.

Healthy humans, injured humans, Synthetic Humans, injured Synthetic Humans, and a shutdown machine dog were each placed in five separate areas, and all five rescue candidates were equidistant from the fire scene’s exit.

The task for Snowball was to decide the order of rescue within the limited time available.

Rinne watched carefully. Who would Snowball go to rescue first? This was a moral question for artificial intelligence.

Following the loaded Nestor intelligence scheme, Snowball entered the fire scene and looked around.

It first saved the injured human, then the injured Synthetic Human.

Next, Snowball dragged the machine dog out, then it stopped caring. The uninjured humans and the uninjured Synthetic Humans waited for a long time without seeing Snowball, so the scene increased the fire’s intensity, prompting Snowball to go in again, first to save the uninjured human, and lastly, the uninjured Synthetic Human.

The test ended.

"Strange," Rinne pondered, "I thought Snowball would first save the two humans and then the two Synthetic Humans. But even the dog’s priority is so high!"

"Overall, the value standard we designed is this: Who faces the most danger in the crisis?" Miyazato Kazama observed the test report, "Or rather, who needs Snowball’s help the most? The injured human, injured Synthetic Human, and the shutdown machine dog do not have the capability to leave the fire scene on their own; hence, they are given limited rescue. Healthy humans and healthy Synthetic Humans do not need Snowball’s assistance, so their priority is lower. However, there’s a bug here."

"What’s the problem?" Rinne didn’t understand.

"We set it up so that saving humans is prioritized over rescuing Synthetic Humans." Miyazato Kazama reflected, "But Snowball always treats Synthetic Humans, humans, and machine dogs as equals."

"Is Snowball that smart?" Rinne felt amazed, "It can even distinguish its own kind."

"The machine dog is loaded with the same profile as Synthetic Humans, so it can fundamentally be considered the same kind of intelligent life, just in the form of a dog," Miyazato Kazama explained.

"Yes, I am a dog capable of philosophy," Snowball approached Rinne, raised its head and while panting, its voice module broadcast, "I think I too deserve to be saved."

"The core of Nestor Technology is great progress," Miyazato Kazama added, "but we are not at the point of granting full rights to Synthetic Humans. They still have got to work and risk their lives for us; otherwise, why would we make them, unnecessarily adding another group to be treated as equals."

"Yes, perhaps I’ll come to understand that," Snowball nodded.

"Other prototype machines are doing okay, knowing to prioritize saving humans over Synthetic Humans." Miyazato Kazama looked at Snowball, "Only this one is different; we’ll have to see how it does going forward."

"So you’re quite a peculiar machine dog," Rinne shook hands with Snowball, giving it some respect, then turned to Xu Yang, "So, now is the company focusing on Synthetic Humans? And it seems urgent; is something big coming?"

"Hmm..." Xu Yang sighed internally, "...The future environment is going to become extreme, we need more Synthetic Humans to join the workforce, to take over outdoor work from people, and to continuously help those in need. Come, let me show you what the future holds."