Chapter 1,427 Automated City, Trapped Artificial Intelligence!
Thunderbolts rumbled and lightning flashed.
An invisible protective shield wrapped around Soma, like a meteor streaking across the sky, leaving a faint trail.
Although the teleportation in the game uses divine power, is silent and fast, compared to the delivery on the B6 floor, Sumo still prefers the latter.
This is a technology that humans cannot yet analyze.
But as long as the principle can be analyzed in the future and combined with nuclear fusion to obtain nearly inexhaustible energy, the way humans travel will be completely transformed.
By then, it won’t take too long to get to any place in the wasteland.
It is much more promising than this magical power delivery that cannot be replicated and has a simple and crude principle.
Not long after.
The tail of the meteor slowly disappeared, and the invisible protective shield fell straight down, stopping in a mountain stream.
To be on the safe side, this place is still 200 kilometers away from the outermost edge of Hu Lai City.
Even if Hu Lai City opens its detection equipment to the outside world, it will not notice such a long-distance change.
On the tributary of the Dragon Immortal River in the mountain stream, a frigate slid over silently.
Sumo paused, rushed forward from the steep boulder, and landed accurately on the deck of the frigate.
This distance is at least fifteen meters.
This height is also nearly six meters.
However, for him, who has already used the route upgrade coupon compensated by the game to upgrade the route level to level 21, it is easy.
Boom.
There was a muffled sound on the deck, and two footprints appeared faintly on the surface of the steel plate.
Several sailors who were still planning to build a bridge were stunned, swallowed involuntarily, and stood in awe.
"It's been hard on you staying here these days."
Soma's eyes swept over the sailors who came over, and finally his eyes fell on Ming Wu Jing.
The two nodded in tacit understanding and walked into the captain's cabin, which was isolated from the cabin.
"Has Hu Lai City been fully investigated?"
"It's almost done. The situation here is much simpler than we expected." Ming Wu Jing hurriedly responded and took out a stack of information that had been prepared long ago.
The three major forces of Blue Star each have their own characteristics.
The college is famous for its research and development, and is able to continuously make innovative breakthroughs in various technologies, always occupy the technological high ground, and collect a steady stream of patent fees and royalties.
The foundation relies on its large number of people to spread its trading scope to the entire planet, and has a powerful armed guard to protect the transaction and make huge profits.
As for an enterprise, its greatest advantage has nothing to do with the first two.
Completely automated.
This is a key advantage that companies can develop from the bottom up!
Whether it is a factory, process turnover, or terminal construction, companies have been pursuing automation from the beginning.
This also makes it possible to have a stable bottom line no matter what risky moves you make once automation reaches a certain scale.
"Compared with other cities in the company, Hulay City is the first city to be fully automated. This leaves the city owner Leo Kulikov with no control over the city, decision-making power, and only a small part of the right to participate.
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"Is it possible that the control of Hu Lai City is in the hands of...artificial intelligence?" Sumo frowned slightly when he heard this.
The reason why Blue Star declined is because it took a wrong path in the development of artificial intelligence.
This led to the artificial intelligence faction and the anti-intelligence faction constantly fighting, creating Star Wars.
Unexpectedly, after so many years, companies still haven’t given up and are still researching artificial intelligence?
"Yes, the power is in the hands of the artificial intelligence 'Singularity'. At present, whether it is the policy towards surrounding survivors or various strange external material supplies, they are all orders from Singularity."
"Singularity..."
Sumo narrowed his eyes. The name sounded quite bluffing, but he didn't know which of the two artificial intelligences was more powerful compared to Zero.
"Has his purpose of doing this been found out?"
"We have detected some, but the authenticity is not yet certain." Ming Wu Jing paused and continued: "We have communicated with only four survivors who have entered Hu Lai City, and learned from them the same thing.
Information, Singularity is looking for energy supply sources!”
"As long as a sufficient energy supply source can be provided, or information is available, Singularity will issue a large number of rewards, including S-level technologies that are not traded to ordinary people."
"If the value of the energy provided is high, then it is possible to be absorbed by the Singularity and become Hu Lai City's new citizen, new manager, or even... the new city lord!"
In fact, a fully automated city does not require the existence of a human city owner at all.
This is also the prerequisite for artificial intelligence to operate efficiently.
Once humans are involved in the decision-making process, there will inevitably be many disagreements that are difficult to resolve in a short time.
As long as differences are not resolved, progress will not be advanced.
But in the final analysis, the company's automation technology is not mature, and its artificial intelligence level is also half-baked.
Therefore, after Hu Lai City was built and operated for a period of time, a city lord was reluctantly assigned to it.
Nominally, the city lord Leo Kulikov controls the operation of Hulay City, but in fact the character portrait is more likely to be the secretary of a listed company.
When the artificial intelligence 'Singularity' needs a secretary to deliver execution orders, Leo Kulikov has something to do and must do it well, otherwise he will be dismissed by Singularity and replaced by someone else.
But if Singularity wanted to bypass the city lord and implement some orders and policy changes, Leo Kulikov didn't even have the right to object.
Except for the additional right to report to the corporate headquarters, there is no difference from the managers in the city at other times.
And right now, Hu Lai City is facing exactly the same predicament.
Since losing contact with the enterprise terminal, Singularity has entered a state of alert, gathering all its powers, and is always ready to implement many self-rescue strategies that have been preset at the bottom of the system.
As for Leo Kulikov, the city owner, after his biggest corporate power was eliminated, his methods were no different from those of the survivors outside.
Although he wants to get closer to the players on Earth and wants to learn more from humans.
But there is a 'singularity' restriction here, and Hu Lai City has no say at all, so naturally it is unable to carry out various actions to be friendly to the survivors.
Until after the metal aging disaster, until the energy alarm in Hu Lai City.
After the 'Singularity' activated the lowest level emergency plan, Leo Kulikov became involved.
"Seventy percent of the current external announcement policies in Hu Lai City are issued by Singularity, including technical support for surrounding survivors, the release of resource search tasks to outsiders, etc. These were all previously written by companies in Singularity
The underlying emergency plan is being advanced step by step according to changes in the situation."
"The other 30% is Leo Kulikov's idea, including a range of five kilometers outside, selecting outstanding survivors to become new citizens, external adventure team exploration, and a series of activities related to contact with the wasteland.
He ordered it."
That's it...
After listening to the explanation of the Ming Five Classics, I learned about the changes in the company in recent times.
Sumo finally understood the reason why the company did not take any action at first and then made a collective effort later.
Giving all the power to issue orders to artificial intelligence will indeed make it impossible to make rapid responses in complex and unknown scenarios.
Especially the current environmental changes should obviously be beyond the cognitive scope of artificial intelligence singularity.
Sumo even secretly speculated whether the Singularity database would be destroyed due to a metal aging disaster?
Without the ability to learn online, there are not enough data samples.
AI?
Artificial intelligence is the right thing!
Even an existence like Zero, which can be considered a rudimentary artificial intelligence, is currently far from being able to stand alone and can handle everything satisfactorily.
How can the ‘singularity’ created by enterprises surpass it and reach intermediate or even advanced artificial intelligence?
"So, if you want to communicate and cooperate with Hu Lai City, the best entry point is artificial intelligence singularity?"
"That's right. If you complete the mission, you can become the city lord. This is Singularity's personal promise to the players."
"What qualifications are needed to enter the city?" Sumo thought for a moment, and the energy stone should not be able to meet the energy demand of the Singularity at present.
Calculated based on the current power generation capacity, it would take half a month to accumulate a fuel rod of 500,000 degrees Celsius with the amount of energy stones laid in Tianyuan territory.
This collection speed is nothing more than a drop in the bucket for the huge Hu Lai City.
To meet the energy needs of the singularity, perhaps one or two nuclear fusion towers are far behind.
"Hey, that's not right. Doesn't Hulai City have the ability to build nuclear fusion facilities on its own?"
Sumo suddenly realized an important problem.
Nuclear fusion facilities are nothing new in Blue Star. For example, Sunny Harbor Shelter has a tall tower.
Right now, even if the energy facilities in Hu Lai City are damaged by natural disasters.
According to the company's technical reserves, it will definitely not be blamed on outsiders, right?
"This is the problem. The construction and maintenance of nuclear fusion facilities... require authorization from the academy. The Singularity is a product jointly created by the enterprise and the academy. It contains technical locks left by the academy and has not been verified and authorized.
Before, there was absolutely no possibility of opening.”
Ming Wujing gave a wry smile. Who knows how many times he was shocked when he collected this news.
The "rule-abiding" of artificial intelligence is simply eye-opening.
Even after arriving in the wasteland, even if he could no longer contact the headquarters, he still had no intention of crossing this restriction.
However, it can also be seen from the side that after a crisis caused by artificial intelligence, Blue Star people are cautious about setting foot in this field again.
Under the shackles, Hu Lai City has been separated from the supervision of the company.
A year has passed and there is still no loss of control.
"Then, they want to find a new technology that can replace nuclear fusion?"
Sumo understood somewhat.
In this case, it is possible for someone with advanced stone skills to get a good rating at Singularity.
Maybe it could only be graded B before, but now it's not surprising even if it's grade A, or even grade A+.
"Is there any way to go into the city and communicate with the Singularity?"
"Yes, there are three ways!"
When Ming Wujing heard this, his expression became solemn, as if he had expected that Soma would do this.
"The first way is to get the approval of Leo Kulikov. As long as he can come forward to recommend it, you can enter the city of Hu Lai unimpeded and have face-to-face communication with the Singularity. But until today, I have met Leo Kulikov.
There are only a few people with Kulikov, and none who have spoken to him."
"The second way is to enter the S-level area at the front. As long as you can get recommendations from 95% of the population in the area, you will have the opportunity to enter the city and communicate with the Singularity."
"The third way is the simplest. As long as you have a B-level or above status in the company's operating system, you can enter Hu Lai City and live for one month in every natural year. During this period, you can also apply to the higher level to work with Qi.
Click for remote communication.”
Recommended by the city lord, recommended by survivors, status level.
The three methods don't sound difficult, but after entering the city to communicate with the Singularity, just relying on a power stone technology that may reach an A-level evaluation is definitely still far from mutual cooperation.
Moreover, Sumo never thought about cooperating with Hu Lai City from the beginning to the end.
As long as Adam doesn't bring the native people from the Blue Star world, Hu Lai City will be an isolated city.
As long as this city can be captured, the vast amount of technology in the database will be equivalent to free prostitution.
This kind of income is really too tempting.
Coupled with the mere restrictions of the academy, Singularity lost an arm and was forced to seek help from outside.
If they really cooperate, if he wants certain technologies, he may still need authorization from the academy.
Too many restrictions and too many troubles.
“We don’t have enough time to take the right path, so it seems we can only start from a sideways approach.”
"Fortunately, the real owner of Hu Lai City is an artificial intelligence, otherwise there would be some trouble."
Sumo had an idea in his mind.
Making a crazy assumption, what if Zero can replace Singularity and become the new city lord of Hu Lai City?
In the short term, it will definitely be difficult to do so with Zero's current capabilities.
But if you use survival points to upgrade Zero for a few rounds, the probability of conquering the singularity will only increase.
"I understand. Let Su Chan, Feng Long and others return to their territory. The company will be temporarily sealed here."
"Ah? Shouldn't we continue to explore?"
Ming Wu Jing was stunned for a moment and thought for the first time that he had heard something wrong.
After preparing for such a long time, they all thought that Sumo was coming to the city to negotiate with Singularity.
Unexpectedly, he gave up so quickly and decisively?
"There is no need. Artificial intelligence bound by rules is like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. What we should do is not wait for it to jump out of the sheepfold, but go home and sharpen the knife and prepare to kill the sheep."
"Before the first gambling battle is over, let's leave this place alone. When we and the alien race decide the winner, the disaster will be inevitable. The technological reserves here are the capital for our humankind to take off!"
After Sumo finished speaking calmly, he felt relieved.
Rather than Hu Laicheng becoming a monster, he is actually more worried about Hu Laicheng reaching some cooperation with foreign races.
In the end, humans not only have to deal with alien races, but also with corporations.
Fortunately now, the city lord of Hu Lai City is an artificial intelligence and is bound by rules and regulations.
Not to mention joining forces with alien races, even joining forces with humans has been brewing for such a long time.
At this moment, you can completely free up your hands and attack the alien race!