Von Neumann Probe
"Electromagnetic pulse bombs are really a good thing. They are a powerful weapon against rebellious robots. It's hard to imagine a scenario where all civilized robots rebel... Is there a battle between intelligent life and robots?"
Zhang Yuan took a deep breath and watched the spacecraft carried by the soldiers set off again to explore new clues.
This time there was no big problem, and the exploration team quickly brought back a large number of effective objects. After bringing all the items into the safe house, scientists from the new human civilization and the hemispheric civilization began to analyze the data stored in the equipment again.
After the electromagnetic pulse bomb was cleaned, most of the data was destroyed, making it very difficult to find effective information.
Fortunately, there are many experts in this field, and the new human civilization can be considered a novice in picking up garbage, and has not picked up too much interstellar garbage. But hemispheric civilizations are veterans at picking up garbage. When technology was slow to develop, they used to develop near the Dyson Sphere for a long time by picking up garbage and cracking technology, so they also trained a lot of professional scientists.
The hemispheric civilization directly dispatched a cracking team of two thousand people, while the new human civilization dispatched a thousand elites.
In this way, after a week of hard work, more than 3,000 people finally came to a conclusion.
Strong artificial intelligence!
There was indeed a strong artificial intelligence that occupied the main base of the Toss civilization and then caused this accident.
"We believe that this artificial intelligence cannot be regarded as the type we expected. Its strength does not extend infinitely as imagined. Because we have been here for so long, it has not attacked us. It shows that its ability has certain flaws."
"In other words, we believe that its main purpose is not to destroy intelligent life, but to occupy the entire galaxy!"
"So, the main reason for the matter is this..."
An iron ball quietly arrived at the base of the Toss Civilization. After the large salamanders discovered this, they were naturally very nervous and began to carefully explore and analyze it.
If it is too dangerous, they will prepare a large force to evacuate.
As a result, the "artificial intelligence" in the iron ball did not directly attack, but actually tried to recruit the Toss civilization and let them join the faction of the Aleph civilization!
This "joining" is not just a matter of words, but a special brain chip must be implanted in all people!
After being implanted with chips, all members of the Toss civilization will become part of the Aleph civilization and jointly build a beautiful galaxy home...
The leader of the Toss civilization was simply stunned when faced with this request. They said they were angry and shocked.
What kind of interstellar joke are you kidding? Of course, the large giant salamander who yearns for personal freedom is not willing to have an inexplicable chip implanted.
If a chip developed by a fifth-level civilization is rashly implanted, their thinking will be forcibly changed, their culture will be completely lost, and even their lives may no longer belong to them. Will they still be who they are? !
"So, when the conversation failed, this artificial intelligence quickly launched an omnic rebellion and robbed the entire underground base. Even if it was vigilant, under the influence of the digital virus, the Tos civilization was still unable to guard against it and was completely defeated. In the end A portion of the population barely escaped."
This story was recorded in the wreckage of the spacecraft collected by people.
This part of the truth is pieced together by scientists from different descriptions.
Zhang Yuan's heart was heavy. Just the five characters "Aleph Civilization" were enough to make people feel heavy.
What is even more shocking is that the "Aleph Civilization" actually adopted this method to unify the entire galaxy.
"Yes, the most efficient way."
"So, that iron ball..."
"Now, there are more than a hundred iron balls in the square. Are they all copies of it?"
One of the vice-captains said a little seriously: "We can boldly believe that those iron balls are the theoretical von Neumann detectors!"
Von Neumann detector!
Zhang Yuan sighed in his heart, this is the method of level five civilization. The von Neumann detector has appeared, and the time of the entire galaxy is really running out.
Among the Fermi Paradox that was discussed during the period of earth civilization, there was the term von Neumann detector.
At that time, people believed that civilization was rare, the universe was dark, and humans were definitely the lucky ones in the universe.
People have a hypothesis about the method of interstellar colonization at the Milky Way level, which is to create a drone capable of deep space travel, then use the materials on the new planet to replicate itself in about 500 years, and send the replica to the next target. .
This kind of machine that can travel into deep space and replicate itself is called a von Neumann probe.
It is like a virus multiplying, blooming and bearing fruit from one planet, and then spreading its copies to the next planet. It is an exponential form of rapid growth.
At that time, humans estimated that even if they traveled at a speed much slower than the speed of light, this model would only take 3.75 million years to complete the colonization of the entire galaxy.
Of course, humans at that time did not observe the von Neumann detector, so they blindly believed that there was no too advanced intelligent civilization in the universe.
Now people know why. At that time, humans were too optimistic and underestimated the difficulty of developing strong artificial intelligence, and they were also too optimistic in estimating the progress of science.
It is very difficult to manufacture this type of machine, which requires at least strong artificial intelligence level technology!
Because a spacecraft capable of deep space travel is extremely complex, from the energy room to the engine, to the control center, computing center, and self-maintenance robots.
After arriving at the destination, it still needs to obtain local materials, smelt and process it, and complete a series of production lines before it can completely replicate the second spacecraft.
There are countless processes involved in smelting a piece of ore into a super alloy, let alone manufacturing these materials into industrial products.
Do you want to do it with weak artificial intelligence alone? It's impossible to do it. Self-maintenance alone is even more difficult. Humans absolutely don't have this technology!
The new human civilization needs at least 100,000 high-end talents and a large amount of equipment to restart civilization on a different planet.
Moreover, the smaller the population, the more time it will take to restart civilization. Cultivating high-quality next generations is a huge problem. In the end, it will take millions of high-tech talents to barely develop a system that spans the galaxy. Spaceship production line.
Therefore, the von Neumann detector has always been a legend.
Human beings can't do it on their own, and they still can't do it now. In the past, the old level five civilizations or level six civilizations had no interest in filling the entire galaxy with such detectors. They really had no interest.
But now, when this von Neumann detector appeared in front of him, Zhang Yuan felt the panic in his heart.
The Milky Way is so big, so what?
In the face of exponential growth, coupled with warp speed navigation, it does not require 3.75 million years at all. It may only take a fraction of it, 50,000 years, or even only 10,000 years!
Relying on this infinitely increased value of the detector, the Aleph civilization will be able to occupy the entire galaxy in 10,000 years! By then, new humans will discover its existence every time they land on a new planet!