Chapter 49: The Story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf

"Do you think that if a general-purpose quantum computer is used as the physical framework for intelligent AI, they will really evolve?"

"I don't know!"

"You don't know?"

"Quantum information and the study of the origin of human consciousness is a burgeoning discipline. In this research, we have only observed the entanglement of consciousness, but we have no way to decode the entanglement.

No one can be sure of the final result."

"That's really a pity!"

"What's a pity?"

"Artificial life!

If it could really succeed, it would be as if we had taken a power from the hands of God.

Studying their generation mechanism must have extraordinary significance for the birth and creation of life!"

"Currently, strong artificial intelligence relying on physical architectures such as silicon-based chips and carbon-based chips is already sufficient for us humans to use, and it even slightly exceeds our control range.

It's just that they don't have true consciousness yet, and we humans still hold the control of the on-off switch.

The quantum computers in our hands now are more like our digital weapons. With the huge computing power of quantum computers, even if an AI crisis occurs, we can use this digital weapon to suppress the rebellion of intelligent AI.

How can we hand over this weapon, which is also our only weapon, to it?"

"Do you think Country C will do that?"

"I don't think so. Country C has delved deeper into the research of quantum information and the origin of human consciousness than we have, and they also issued a warning in a timely manner.

They have lived in peace for more than a hundred years. They surely won't suddenly do something so reckless, right?"

"You're right!"

"Maybe they were already reckless decades ago..."

...

In the blink of an eye, Song Han had been living in the Rongka Far Side of Deep Space Base on Pluto for more than a year.

However, since the experiment a year ago, the Dream Butterfly Experiment had never been launched again.

For an old man on the verge of death, immersing himself in those vivid and bright memories that were like a second life was an alternative experience and emotion that far exceeded the immersive VR virtual network.

"Slap!"

"What is this?"

"Over the past year, I have sold off all my physical assets and information assets under my name. This is all my money! A total of 32 billion!"

Wenhua looked at Song Han in surprise, and then called the police...

Moments later, she stared at the receipt in front of her, deeply suspicious.

And Song Han beside her obviously didn't know what the other person had done right under his nose. After all, for a centenarian, it was still a bit too difficult for him to recognize and understand those strange electronic technology products that had emerged in recent years.

Song Han looked at Professor Wenhua's youthful face and sighed:

"I was also a research-oriented sports practitioner back then.

The popularization of intelligent AI has saved a lot of pre-learning costs for researchers. As long as you can continuously generate corresponding inspiration.

For everything else, AI can perfect it. If it is judged to be valuable, you can even apply for higher computing power for simulation calculations.

The currently popular 128th set of broadcast gymnastics and the body-building gymnastics under low gravity were the sports models I established on a whim back then."

Wenhua was a bit surprised and somehow thought of the days when she was dominated by those broadcast gymnastics since childhood.

And the low-gravity fitness exercises were essential items that all of them who lived in the low-gravity environment had to practice every day.

"Have you sold all the copyrights?"

"Yes, I don't need them in my life now anyway.

I originally wanted to leave them to my descendants on Earth as a surprise after my death.

Now I've decided to give myself a surprise instead."

Wenhua nodded silently. It was indeed quite a surprise.

She had originally thought that he was a hidden embezzler. After all, who could have imagined that a centenarian who had lived such a simple life would suddenly take out more than 10 billion in cash assets.

"What are you going to do?"

"Is this amount of money enough to launch the Dream Butterfly Experiment?"

"Yes, it is!"

"Then I'll donate all of this money to your laboratory. Can you continue to launch the experiment?"

"Why don't you take a stake in it instead?"

The experiment was launched as scheduled, and all of Song Han's assets were turned into a 2% stake in the Dream Butterfly Experiment. Unfortunately, after burning through these more than 30 billion, the Dream Butterfly Experiment would have to be suspended again.

At the edge of the experimental field, Song Han, wearing a graphite fiber protective suit, looked at the seemingly distorted space-time in the field. There was no fear on his face, and he even felt a genuine yearning.

He looked up at the huge heart-shaped object above his head and subconsciously walked towards the experimental area.

"What's that?"

"Hmm?"

"A battleship cluster?"

The people in the underground laboratory looked at the empty airspace on the monitor, and then at Song Han, who was pointing at the sky with a determined expression at the edge of the experimental field, feeling a bit confused.

"BOSS, do you think Mr. Song has gone crazy?"

Wenhua glared at her assistant beside her. After a moment of contemplation, she said slowly:

"It might be a visual hallucination caused by a strong magnetic field."

"How many spaceships do we have in the base? Is there any mission arranged today?"

Ignoring Song Han's question, Wenhua frowned and said:

"Mr. Song, if you're not feeling well today, how about we postpone the experiment?"

Looking at the Milky Way-class manned spaceship that silently set sail from the airport outside the base and joined the huge cluster, Song Han fell into deep thought. It seemed that this was the only spaceship in the entire base that could go outside, right?

How was he going to get back to the simulated high-gravity field in the low Earth orbit station for exercise later?

"Professor Wenhua, would you like to come out and take a look?"

As soon as the words fell, a railcar came speeding from a distance. A group of people swarmed out of the car, grabbed Song Han, who was still standing there in a daze, and then jumped and turned around to rush into the underground main control room.

"Is it safe here?"

"This is the deepest main control room in our base. It should be safe, right?"

As he spoke, the person who came looked at the normal display screen in the main control room and immediately jumped up!

"Turn off the automatic control authority of the communication channel between the main control room and the outside world!"

"Already turned off!"

"Switch to manual control and mechanical control mode!"

"Already switched!"

Moments later, he seemed to think of something, turned his head to look at the door behind him and said cautiously:

"Open it?"

"The door is open. Dr. Gao wishes you a successful experiment!"

...

"Can someone tell me what's going on?"

"The artificial intelligence has awakened!"

"It must be those old guys from Country C. They said they would restrict the development of artificial intelligence, but they must have done everything secretly. Now it's all messed up!"

Wenhua frowned and looked at the monitor that was showing everything was normal. If it weren't for decades of working together and based on past experience, he would definitely be more inclined to believe what he saw on the monitor.

After all, these messages had all been pre-processed for him by AI. The reliability of AI had been accumulated over decades, while the unreliability of humans was a well-known fact in the world.

"So what's the situation now? Are there any casualties?"

"I don't know!"

"You don't know?"

"A huge cluster of sail-less battleships has surrounded our base, and our own spaceship has also flown away out of control. Now we're trapped in the base!"

"Has no one made any demands on us?

Surrender? Defect? Join the artificial intelligence in rebelling against human tyranny?"

"No! After I saw our spaceship in the airport fly away out of control, I quickly led people to come and find you."

"Then how do you know this is a rebellion by artificial intelligence?"

"The deep space exploration optical radar and gravitational wave radar in our base didn't show anything. Everything has always been normal, and the self-check is the same.

It can't be that all of us are seeing things, right?"

"Activate the main quantum communication network and contact Earth and Mars!"

"Everything is normal. What spaceship? There's no spaceship at all!"

"Do you think I'm blind? They're hanging in the sky right now!

It can't be that you want to tell me that this is a drill by the Space Defense Force that has deliberately traveled a distance of five light-hours to the edge of the solar system, right?

Moreover, the Galaxy-class experimental spaceships are still waiting for us to report on the long-distance navigation test. How could such a large-scale formation suddenly appear!"

"A drill? Right, a drill!"

As soon as the words fell, the monitors in the base suddenly started to refresh on a large scale.

Drill announcements, spaceship requisition notices, radar detection reports all came flooding in at once.

The people in the base looked at everything in front of them, deeply suspicious. Is this rubbing our intelligence in the dirt?

"Minister Li, have you received our base's budget assessment report for this year? What's one plus one equal to? We plan to increase the budget by 30% this year for the experiment of cross-space information and matter transmission. Do you think the headquarters can approve it?"

"The report has been received. Cross-space information and matter transmission is a great research. 30% of the experimental budget should not be enough, right?

I'll try to double your budget for this year. If you make any discoveries, report them in a timely manner, and I'll add more budget for you!"

"What did you mean by asking what one plus one equals to just now?"

"It didn't mean anything. I just blurted it out. If there's nothing else, I'll hang up now."

After the communication with Earth was cut off, looking at the inquiring eyes of everyone, Wenhua let out a helpless sigh.

"There's no need to contact Mars. Didn't you see the drill announcement?

Hurry up and deal with it!

Today is a day off for everyone. Take a rest. A drill has scared you all like this!"

As soon as the words fell, Wenhua looked at the information on the main account of the base and the changes in funds, and sat there in a daze, feeling helpless.