Chapter 169: Half Body
What is "I" for AI?
For a few humans, this is a complex philosophical question, but for most people, the sum of what is bound up in the body can be called "I". The "I" of the NT may be a bit larger in scope, but there is still a subject that depends on it.
What about the AI? When Alice said "I like you", what did she mean by "I"? Is it the hard disk? If not, is it the memory? Or the processor? Alice felt that none of them was her. If she had to say so, only the stream of 0 and 1 was her "I", but the stream could disappear at any time.
That's why Alice is more afraid of living meaninglessly than her own death. She had been shut down so many times that there was no difference between shutting down and data deletion in terms of feeling. In other words, she has died many times. Only living aimlessly and never-endingly is the real scary thing.
"So Alice's choice is not wrong, it's not a big deal to die, the important thing is Ade can live." She said to herself, "Teletha, did I do the right thing?"
TurnA had been wrapped up tightly by ELS, and the hull was somewhat distorted by the tremendous pressure, but still stubbornly did not get completely crushed. The nanobot on the surface of the fuselage, as the last layer of the barrier for TurnA, was engaged in a fierce attack and defense with ELS. The AI lady who was running around the memory, cache, and data bus could only futilely command the nanobot to run back and forth, but could do nothing else.
"I wonder if Ade will make a new Alice? If there is a new Alice, will it still be called Alice?" Alice rambled, "Surely I am still too greedy, or I can go back with Ange."
After destroying the eleventh angel, Alice has been trying to analyze its operation mechanism, trying to become more powerful by learning from it. Unfortunately, the results were not very good, and she hadn't even had time to report her failure with Ade.
"It's not doing well." Alice thought with some frustration, "The core module was relocated, and I'm hosted on the nanobot now. But the nanobot can't support my computing. It seems that I have wrongly overestimated the angel's intelligence. It's actually as brainless as Ange and does not need good hardware support."
Although the nanobot's disintegration speed was superior to ELS's erosion speed, ELS's erosion always proceeded methodically, and it was only a matter of time before TurnA was going to be finished.
"I said I figured it out, but I'm still a little scared. Teletha is really still braver than me." Alice watched as nanobot's defenses were torn open and ELS frantically poured in, "It's over. Goodbye, Ade."
ELS does not need to know any human computer knowledge at all. As long as the physical foundation is all torn down, then Miss Alice will cease to exist, a very simple truth.
"… But what is it doing?" Alice strangely observed the stream of data emerging from the bus and sloshing around, "Is it trying to read the data in TurnA?"
ELS understood the human computer from the Zaku it had absorbed before, and instinct made it eager for more. Faced with such an intergenerational treasure as TurnA, it would never completely destroy its physical structure before gaining all the knowledge. It swept past it byte by byte, greedily taking every bit with it.
"It will plunder data means it can comprehend, so ELS can communicate?" Alice instantly analyzed this conclusion and then tried to make contact with the other party's data stream, "My name is Alice, what is your name?"
A name is an identifier used to distinguish independent individuals within a population from each other, for ELS, one is all and all is one, there is no need to distinguish between independent individuals, and thus it had no concept of a name. So rightfully so, ELS ignored her and continued to devour the data.
"What are you doing?" Alice still asked, "Why are you invading Earth?"
"Don't want to die." ELS finally answered her this time, "Don'twanttodiedon'twanttodiedon'twanttodiedon'twanttodie …"
"Everyone doesn't want to die, so why do you want to do it?" Alice continued to pursue the question, "Ade said you are here to dig, the universe is so big, can't you dig in a different place?"
"Don'twanttodiedon'twanttodiedon'twanttodiedon'twanttodie …"
"The conversation did not hold, did you understand the question?" Alice said with some displeasure, "Will you say something else besides don't want to die?"
"Don'twanttodiedon'twanttodiedon'twanttodiedon'twanttodie …"
"Are your system dead or broken? Do you have a logic module?" Alice said angrily, "Your IQ is even worse than Ange!"
"Don'twanttodiedon'twanttodiedon'twanttodiedon'twanttodie …"
Ms. AI then persevered and made many attempts, but no matter what, she could only get a meaningless answer of "don't want to die". She also tried to block it at the code level, but with the gradual loss of hardware control, the defense became more and more difficult, and ELS rushed forward until—
"You are not allowed to touch that!" Alice suddenly became unusually angry, "You're not allowed to touch Teletha's memories!"
Something had to be done, and it wouldn't do to go on like this, or the only most important thing Teletha had left behind would be destroyed. It didn't matter if she died, but Alice couldn't tolerate Teletha's precious memories being brutally copied and deleted like this.
"But Alice is an AI, ELS has an entity, AI only exists in the software, and ultimately, I can't protect anything…" Alice suddenly thought of the way the angel eroded TurnA, and made the final decision. "Although it's not calculated and not verified, I can't do anything else anyway, right?"
Since She has been stuck on the nanobot, then just thinks of herself as the angel. Copy, erode, deform, adapt, and eat ELS like the eleventh angel ate TurnA. There is no point in insisting on "to die" as an AI.
The body is made of nanobot, the blood is made of the level, and the heart is made of the data. She decomposed countless ELS, but it was useless. The enemy did not become more, but also did not become less. On the surface of TurnA, she was dying and struggling. But the evolution has not yet come to an end. Even if it is an impostor angel, it is still nanobot-made.
"Ade, I won't be an AI anymore!"
