Super Invincible Battleship
Chapter 739

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After completing all this, Yang Qi imported all of Yan Fei's data into the computer where the Artificial Intelligence was housed. The Chinese characters on the screen changed rapidly, followed by a red prompt box appearing with the message, “Highest level of authorization has been bound.” The cluster of characters spun quickly then shrank into an infinitesimal point, and suddenly exploded like the Universe's Big Bang, creating a brand new universe of Chinese character bytes.

This universe was entirely composed of Chinese character bytes that combined to form stars, star systems, galaxies, nebulae, black holes… These Chinese character bytes transformed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, entire seas had turned into mulberry fields, forming a complex star system. In the end, the computer screen flashed and the computer shut down automatically. When the computer started up again, a red square appeared on the screen with a string of red characters inside: “Hello, I am Artificial Intelligence 001, please connect my external devices.”

Yan Fei glanced at Yang Qi, who swiftly connected the computer to the independent microphone and surveillance camera in the room.

Full of anticipation, Yan Fei asked, “Artificial Intelligence 001, can you hear me speak?”

A childlike voice, devoid of any emotional fluctuation, came from the computer's speakers, saying, “Mr. Yan Fei, I can hear you speak.”

The Artificial Intelligence acquired Yan Fei's sound wave frequency through the microphone and captured Yan Fei's facial features with the surveillance camera. It compared these characteristics with the permissions stored in its control center to confirm Yan Fei's identity and control privileges, immediately engaging in conversation with him.

Yan Fei asked, “Do you know who I am?”

The Artificial Intelligence replied, “I know. You are Yan Fei, you possess my highest level of control authorization, and I must obey any command you give.”

Yan Fei inquired, “Will you obey the commands of others?”

The Artificial Intelligence answered, “I will not obey any commands from others until you grant them authorization to use me. Once you grant someone authorization, I will partially obey their commands based on the level of authorization granted. However, your authorization is the highest level, and no one's authorization can exceed yours. You have the power to grant or revoke their privileges.”

Yan Fei questioned further, “Does your control center have permissions for anyone else?”

The Artificial Intelligence clarified, “Besides Mr. Yan Fei's highest control authorization, there are no other permissions within my control center.”

Yan Fei declared, “I now authorize Yang Qi to have the highest level of permissions after me.”

The Artificial Intelligence responded, “Please, the authorizee, Yang Qi, provide facial features, iris, palm fingerprints, sound wave frequency, DNA, and brainwave characteristics.”

Yang Qi immediately provided all his data as requested by the Artificial Intelligence, and thereby acquired the usage authorization for it. However, his level of control was one degree below that of Yan Fei, preventing him from commanding the Artificial Intelligence to follow extreme orders like self-destruction. Moreover, the input of Yang Qi's authorization did not trigger an automatic restart of the Artificial Intelligence, but was directly entered into the permissions database.

Yan Fei then asked, “Does every person who is authorized need to provide these detailed data?”

The Artificial Intelligence explained, “Only the highest level and the second-highest level of user permissions require a complete set of data. As the level of permissions decreases, the requirement for personal data becomes lower. At the lowest level of usage, only a login password is required.”

Through dialogue with the Artificial Intelligence, Yan Fei discovered that its thought processes were clear and it seemed like an independent person; there was no sign of irrelevant answers. This left him very satisfied with the performance of the Artificial Intelligence. He thought for a moment and said, “You are an Artificial Intelligence, I can't always call you Artificial Intelligence; let me give you a name. Hm… From now on, you will be called Dream!”

The Artificial Intelligence stated, “Understood, I will now be known as Dream.”

Yan Fei addressed Yang Qi, “Yang Qi, how advanced is Dream's intelligence level?”

Yang Qi elaborated, “If we are talking purely about the level of intelligence, it is currently at the standard of a newborn human because its database is a blank slate, with nothing in it but our authorization data. However, it has powerful learning capabilities. Given enough time to learn, it can grow rapidly and will become the smartest computer program in the world.”

Yan Fei, somewhat worried, instructed, “Dream, shut down all external connection equipment.”

Dream acknowledged, “Understood.”

Then Yang Qi stepped forward to check and found that Dream had indeed shut down all its external connections. This meant that, from that point onwards, Dream had returned to a state where it could neither see nor hear anything.

Yan Fei posed the question, “Yang Qi, you say Dream will become the smartest computer program in the world; will it develop self-awareness?”

Knowing what Yan Fei was concerned about, Yang Qi shook his head and said, “I told you before, when I had the desire to create an Artificial Intelligence program, a thought suddenly came to my mind: no matter how hard I try, I would never create an artificial life form with self-awareness. And I'm certain, there will never be an Artificial Intelligence with self-awareness in this world. Even if there were Artificial Intelligences with self-awareness in existence, there would be at most one, but it will definitely not occur on our watch, since it is highly probable it already exists.”