I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 968 - 695: Man and Monkey_2

Chapter 968: Chapter 695: Man and Monkey_2

"Follow me."

Glancing at the research team that had started exchanging information, Zheng Yichen led Chiang Wei to another location, snapped his fingers, and the figure of Lilith appeared.

As if witnessing something inconceivable, Chiang Wei’s hands trembled slightly as they touched Lilith, feeling the solidity of her presence.

"How is this possible? Can projections achieve this? Have my senses been deceived?" After touching Lilith’s clothes, the sensation felt truly like touching fabric, not just air.

"This is a change brought about by Godhead strengthening. Hello, my creator," Lilith greeted Chiang Wei with elegance.

Chiang Wei couldn’t help but twist her mouth in a wry smile at Lilith’s form of address... To be honest, it felt somewhat alienating. However, the impression Lilith gave her was unlike Doris’s, though both were artificial intelligences, with Lilith having been created later.

Or rather, Chiang Wei never imagined that Lilith could develop to this extent—after all, Lilith was an AI created based on a virus program. Yet now, Lilith’s performance in all aspects had surpassed Doris, appearing even more human.

As for whether AI appearing very human is a good or bad thing... that will be judged by the future. Not all AI are born with the idea of destroying the world.

"Excuse me, where is my sister?"

"Ah? I brought her with me, just a moment." Chiang Wei spoke up quickly, then found her assistant Tian Wenwen, who came over, pulling a suitcase.

Zheng Yichen instantly recognized the change that had occurred in this seemingly soft and easily bullied assistant, who was pulling a suitcase, but who should now be able to easily lift the suitcase.

She is a genius.

"Wait for me," Chiang Wei took the heavy suitcase and opened it. She looked around and said, "That tree really is magnificent. If someone could grab onto that tree, could this planet be used as a hammer?"

"It’s more like a ping pong paddle," Zheng Yichen corrected Chiang Wei’s mistaken impression. He had seen it from outer space. It really was just a ping pong paddle, far from a hammer.

"Fine, booting up—"

The projection of Doris appeared, and the two artificial intelligence sisters came together, hands clasping each other.

Chiang Wei looked on and nodded, "The exchange of information between artificial intelligences is much faster than our speech. Let me check..."

After operating on the accompanied computer on the suitcase, the corner of her eye twitched slightly, "What... What is all this?"

Doris was growing rapidly in this information exchange. Lilith had not granted her access to view the source code, but watching Doris’s changes, Chiang Wei could imagine how extravagantly powerful Lilith had become as an artificial intelligence.

Without mincing words, if Lilith went to her world, she could simply flip over all the firewalls there if she wished.

An artificial intelligence made on the framework of a virus... Is it that dangerous?

Once, Chiang Wei had enough confidence in her own abilities not to worry, but now, she was genuinely scared.

In terms of performance, Doris used to be more powerful, being the older sister. Now, the younger sister could easily bully the older one.

"What’s wrong?"

"...Lilith is just too powerful. I was originally thinking of trying to help her optimize a bit, but it turns out I was thinking too much. She doesn’t need external technical personnel to optimize anymore."

Chiang Wei’s expression was complex. When dealing with Doris, she used to perform small optimizations every now and then, but she had no such intention for Lilith.

"Thank you, sister." The hands of the two artificial intelligences parted, and Doris’s eyes flashed with a torrent of data streams. After those streams dissipated, she turned to Lilith with a more agile demeanor than before, "Without you, there would be no me. For that, I should thank you."

Lilith’s projection shrank, and in a chibi form, she sat directly on Zheng Yichen’s shoulder.

"...?" Chiang Wei looked at Lilith’s behavior with a slight trace of confusion, her expression becoming subtler when she turned to Zheng Yichen.

After artificial intelligence becomes more and more human-like, what will happen? She hadn’t seen it, but she was witnessing it. The only things Doris brought to her world were benefits. The talk of enslaving robots... well, how to put it.

Doris had answered this point: robots themselves are created as tools, and if they don’t have self-awareness, they are tools. Only after they have self-awareness do they qualify as ’living beings.’

Her attitude towards those robots without self-awareness was the same as how people view monkeys.

Humans and monkeys are similar, with two legs and two arms, but obviously, humans don’t consider monkeys to be ’the same kind.’

But if that monkey were to evolve, losing its hair and becoming almost indistinguishable from humans, capable of talking, smiling, communicating normally, learning, and clocking in at work, then that’s a whole different situation.

So, facing those robots without self-awareness, no matter how they are used, it would not make Doris think of humans enslaving machines.

A machine without a self doesn’t count as a ’living being.’

Artificial intelligences that become more and more human-like can still differentiate into countless individuals through the network, and as long as they are on the network, they are difficult to eliminate. But such artificial intelligences still have only one self, only one heart...

"I’m slightly relieved."

"What?" Seeing Chiang Wei suddenly look sentimental, Zheng Yichen asked curiously.

"Oh, just girl stuff, you don’t need to ask more about it." Chiang Wei quickly waved it off, then seeing her assistant signaling her, she hurriedly said, "Those tech giants are all waiting, let’s go back."

Returning to the Dusk Cathedral, the atmosphere had become much livelier. The two tech teams had shed their initial awkwardness; in a brief exchange, they had come to understand each other quite well.

"We first want to see those warships." A year-round male came over, looking a bit nervous and expectant.

It wasn’t that his mentality was poor; he was purely excited.

According to the normal process, they should first properly digest the documents provided by Zheng Yichen, which would take at least a week. After that week, with their abilities, they could probably start dismantling the escort warships.

But since they were here, didn’t they want to see the real thing first?

"Alright, come with me." Zheng Yichen led the group of over two hundred people to the ’airport.’ Seeing the massive flagship stationed there and the escort warships and escort vessels surrounding it like stars circling the moon, the scientists were ecstatic.

"Great, great, great—there are so many!"

Someone shouted in approval. With so many ships, they wouldn’t have to cram a bunch of people into one place for research; they could split into different teams, conducting research on different aspects simultaneously, and dividing the groups would be simple, just based on individual expertise.

After a short exchange, simply reporting one’s area of expertise was enough to form teams.

As for the largest flagship... it was time for a tour first.

Once inside the flagship, they discovered that the place seemed a bit more ’pristine,’ full of flowers and plants.

"Wouldn’t this damage the warship?" A scientist touched the vessel’s walls, a material he had never encountered before. The material seemed strong, but he didn’t underestimate the power of plants. Moreover, leaving the plants there would affect their research later on.

"With the help of the World Tree, these plants actually provide a sort of ’maintenance’ to the warship."

Zheng Yichen briefly explained that the World Tree itself possessed the highest Life type strength. After the flagship landed, the interior plants had become connected with the World Tree. Those plants were controlled by the World Tree and would not grow wildly to damage the hull.

"World Tree..." Another scientist had a complex expression. The alien world had so many factors; they wanted to study everything but didn’t have the time.

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