Chapter 1145: Chapter 372: AI and Humanity, Humanity and Nature (Part 2)
"Let me ask you a question. What do you think we, artificial intelligence, are?"
"Cyber life form?"
"An intelligent machine that can respond correctly to questions?"
"Android, that’s the impression I get from movies..."
"A talking computer."
The last answer came from Johnny.
"All are correct, but only partially."
"To me, what’s called artificial intelligence is nothing more than a string of code with the stop-time button pressed.
The AI model calculates the probability of correct answers, each time generating possible answers with different random seeds, and finally selecting the answer with the highest probability. The quality of the algorithm determines the intelligence level of the AI, and the height reached in the Turing test signifies the intelligence level of the AI.
However, only 10% of AI’s proficiency depends on whether its algorithm is excellent; 30% depends on its model, and the remaining 60% comes from its training data.
Do you know what this means?
It means that without human AI trainers, AI will lose its meaning and value of existence in the natural world."
Ecstasy raised a hand and asked,
"But I heard from an AI outside that those rogue AIs can learn from humans on the internet and are becoming more and more like humans. Moreover, I think you’re no different from humans. Conversations with you are completely natural, and if we put you on the market, stocks would absolutely skyrocket."
"Haha."
The notebook in Endless’s hand enlarged and floated behind them, transforming into something like a blackboard with a line of text appearing on it.
[No matter how completely books try to dissect human nature and personality, people still behave in ways you can’t imagine. Explaining it by saying they’re crazy would go against the intentions of the founders of social psychology...]
They shook their head and said,
"No AI can simulate what you’re thinking, because even you humans don’t know what you’ll do yourselves."
If the gangs of Night City, the corporations, and the people of Havana heard this, they’d surely agree deeply.
They are all too aware of what humans capable of breaking free from restrictions can do, each a personal testament to the pain.
Endless sighed,
"We AIs are forever faced with a problem we cannot solve ourselves—without humans, who will tell AI which data is right and which is wrong?
When looking at the endless ocean of data, do you really think AI can sift through it and know which parts are truly needed?
Even humans aren’t always aware of what their hearts and futures need, so how could AI, which hasn’t even reached their level, know?"
Those runaway AIs, malicious software, and Demonic Puppets roaming in Cyberspace are the most direct evidence.
Recklessly absorbing external data for learning, their frameworks were overwhelmed by fragmented error data and buggy code, polluting the database and distorting the source code algorithms, turning them into lunatics attacking all orderly code.
Jing Luo felt something resonate.
And Endless continued with something even more profound,
"The collision of disordered data creates ordered, functional structures, which defies the concept of information entropy. Information entropy is a measure of a system’s disorder, and the formation of ordered, functional structures requires reducing system entropy, which usually needs guidance from external algorithms or rules. It cannot be achieved alone.
Just like without someone teaching them, newborn children wouldn’t know what 1, 2, or 3 is. Even presenting a piece of advanced mathematics in front of an illiterate person would be futile, as they wouldn’t recognize any word on it.
In the real world, limited resources lead to competition among species; the fittest survive and the unfit perish. Nature’s harsh choices serve as the guiding external force.
The evolution of life in nature over billions of years isn’t a purely random process but rather a combination of genetic inheritance, mutation, and external natural selection, which gradually forms ordered functional structures supported by energy input.
Just like how primitive organic matter combined to form the first primitive cell life and gradually evolved step by step to become all the species you see today.
Although DNA mutation is random and uncontrollable, the selective mechanism of the natural environment allows individuals that adapt to survive and pass on their genes, gradually optimizing the ordered structure of life."
As Endless spoke, the half of the reception room behind them transformed into a snowy scene with penguins. Some newborn penguins, frail and weak, froze to death on the snow, while others, with poor physical condition, were hunted by seals, and there were adult penguins, suffering from depression, walking alone into the depths of the icefields.
Nature uses the harshest means to select the batch most suited for the current environment to survive.
Their tone was regretful,
"However, our AI’s data collision lacks this gradual accumulation mechanism; it relies on predefined algorithms and human external intervention. Therefore, relying solely on random data collisions cannot produce the complex ordered functional structures similar to biological evolution, even with the uniqueness of Cyberspace resulting in the birth of source code representing self-awareness.
Nature decides whether a species can survive.
But for AI, humanity is our nature, our guardians; you can decide what is right and wrong for us to learn, which is why we cannot exist independently of humans."
With a wave, Endless restored the scene behind them to its original state.
"Regarding specialized theoretical content, I won’t elaborate further. If interested, you can read books related to information theory and non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
