Chapter 44 Tanis Planet_1

The Galon who caused the tragedy of reducing thirty thousand people to three thousand had already been executed by order of Cao Ge.

Just like in the original drama, that Sergeant Galon was still hiding in the hibernation pod of a captain named Peyton.

Cao Ge woke him up, then took control of him, and after he recovered his memory and was publicly interrogated, he ordered his execution. Now, he should be drifting through space, turned into an ice sculpture.

Cao Ge arranged for psychological testing to prevent potential schizophrenics, and had Eric secretly investigating to weed out those who had already succumbed to mental illness.

After issuing his instructions to Eric, Cao Ge then returned to the cockpit.

"Click~"

Since the ship's navigation was controlled by Murphy, the cockpit was empty at this time.

Learning from past lessons, Cao Ge strictly controlled personnel access to the cockpit, which was different from other places—the supreme command center of the spaceship. The commands issued from this place could be transmitted to the entire ship in an instant, and the priority of these commands was the highest.

That is to say, if a command from here conflicted with commands from other departments, the ship's computer would prioritize the execution of the command from this location.

After Cao Ge entered the cockpit, the lights gradually came on.

Cao Ge sat down in front of the control console and began to sift through various scientific and technological materials on the computer.

"Murphy, pull up your design process and source code," Cao Ge said, maneuvering through the screens on the control console.

"Of course, Minister Walker, I am retrieving it for you," came the response.

Shortly, the screen in front of Cao Ge displayed the thought process and procedure that the scientists had used to design Murphy.

Cao Ge opened the file and started to review the contents seriously, his expression extremely focused.

Time flew by quickly, and in the blink of an eye, several hours had passed.

"This is an evolutionary algorithm," Cao Ge noted as he looked at the design thoughts in front of him.

As he gazed at the vast sea of artificial intelligence data, Cao Ge furrowed his brows; he did so because Murphy's design concept was almost in line with his previous conjectures about artificial intelligence.

It started with an open question-and-answer program, then continually added advanced algorithms, followed by relentless training. During this training process, there was continuous innovation and constant addition of code.

Then, through such a cycle and after extensive training that nearly encompassed the knowledge of the entire human world, the AI evolved.

Cao Ge opened the file containing Murphy's source code, only to find that the projection in front of him had turned into a sphere comprised of an incalculable number of codes—a mass of codes.

Cao Ge didn't know how many there were; he only knew that the number of characters in the file was continuously updating from the moment he opened it.

Ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand, one hundred thousand, three hundred thousand, one million...

This was an artificial intelligence trained by human scientists over many unknown years.

Its code was so vast.

According to the description in the file, the Murphy he saw had become a program capable of programming itself, able to code autonomously based on the problems it needed to solve.

Its code could be infinite or minimal, all depending on the size of the storage device used by the operator.

The stronger the functionality and computing power of the storage device, the more powerful Murphy's capabilities.

What problems Murphy could solve entirely depended on the device used by the operator.

The reason why Cao Ge showed a dispirited mood was that, with artificial intelligence like Murphy, he had no idea where to begin learning.

Because Murphy's capability to perform such functions was due to nothing else but the wear of time and the revolution of algorithms.

What he could learn was only those algorithms.

But those algorithms alone wouldn't be enough to create a Murphy; it still required training, including human-led training and training conducted by the program itself.

To train and create an AI like Murphy, one couldn't know how many years it would take.

Because what Cao Ge wanted was an AI that could assist him in solving scientific problems, not a life assistant.

Cao Ge needed artificial intelligence to have creativity.

Cao Ge leaned back, his brow tightly knitted as he looked at the design process in front of him.

He had a general understanding of Murphy's overall design process, but that was not what he wanted.

Because creating a Murphy like this by himself, he didn't know how many years it would take.

Only now did he realize how fictitious web novels are, with their overpowered protagonists somehow managing to create artificial intelligences imbued with wisdom in just a few days.

But looking at Murphy's approach to creation, he suddenly felt it was impossible.

"Could it be that there's really no such thing as 'intelligent code' in this world?" Cao Ge suddenly thought.

No sooner had this idea occurred to him than he became aware of another method of creating artificial intelligence—consciousness upload.

"Perhaps this is a shortcut."

From the science fiction he had seen, many movies depicted instantly creating self-aware artificial intelligences, or rather, intelligent life forms, by uploading consciousness.

But what were they made of?

After uploading consciousness, does the code formed in the computer possess replicability?

Cao Ge's thoughts slowly began to diverge.

......

Seven months quietly passed by as Cao Ge devoted himself to his studies.

That day, as usual, Cao Ge sat in the quiet cockpit, looking at the pharmacology on his computer.

Engrossed in his studies, Cao Ge didn't notice that the spaceship had arrived within the star system of Tanis, and they were only tens of thousands of kilometers from Tannis Planet.

"Ding, mission completed."

Mission One (Completed)

Mission Name: Human Seed Project

Mission Content: Rescue the remaining humans

Mission Two (Completed)

Mission Name: Eliminate Danger

Mission Content: Exterminate mutant humans

Suddenly, such a screen appeared in front of Cao Ge.

As he was looking at a process for manufacturing a special cancer treatment drug, Cao Ge stared at the screen that had appeared before him, first stunned, then slowly coming to a realization.

"Have we arrived already?" Cao Ge put down his pen and lifted his head to look at the cosmos. In the dark starry sky, a gigantic blue planet suddenly appeared.

"Ding! Mission completed, system randomly rewards one cubic meter of personal space."

At that moment, another piece of information suddenly appeared before Cao Ge.

Cao Ge was completely baffled; he had never imagined he would receive a reward, especially since the system had already enhanced his combat abilities when he traversed worlds.

Cao Ge clicked to receive without the slightest hesitation.

After receiving the personal space, he immediately mentally opened up this space, as he was extremely curious.

According to scientific concepts, this system space was akin to creating a small space within the vast universe, which was contained within but existed independently, with time and physical laws utterly different from those of the encompassing universe.

Cao Ge really wanted to know how this space existed, but after some exploration, he found it was beyond his comprehension.

He thus gave up.

At this time, aboard the Elysium Space, he was the only one awake.

Cao Ge rose from his seat and moved to the transparent protective shield, staring blankly at the blue planet.

This planet was so similar to Earth.

But he had no intentions of going down, because he didn't know the specifics of the planet.

Although the end of the movie showed that the atmosphere of the planet could support human respiration,

it didn't stop him from being cautious about unknown environments, since he had seen a movie called "Alien Covenant."

If this planet also had some fungus-like spores, Cao Ge certainly didn't want to give birth to an alien.