Shadow of the Beautiful World

After the first phase of the liquidation operation against Hydra was completed, Merlin's focus turned to the omnic problem.

A few days ago, the negotiations in charge of Agent Hill finally made progress. Wakanda agreed to initially join the omnic plan in a twitchy gesture, which made the world's first omnic center finally Construction can begin near the Nigerian savannah.

The newly established Onika Group is responsible for the specific construction work. The infrastructure construction of a super-large industrial park covering an area of ​​thousands of square meters has already started. There is no problem in this regard, whether it is funds, workers, or even the future group. The staff are already in place.

But the trouble is that the core technology needed by the omnic center is still under development.

Regarding the fully automatic production system that can automatically produce various types of omnic robots, including the artificial intelligence programs that are matched with the omnic center, etc., these technological aspects are still in the state of a blueprint.

Merlin opened up the research data of Cybertronians to many smart people including Reed Richards, Tony Stark and Lex Luthor, including the wreckage collected so far, and even the S.H.I.E.L.D. system The two first-generation omnic robots in the movie, Specter and Noise, have also been continuously studied and observed by these scientists.

But in a short period of time, it is still very difficult to rely on humans to design a complete set of omnic centers.

In fact, this is equivalent to that human beings have to rely on themselves to complete a technological version of the creation system.

If it is just to create a robot that looks like an omnic, it is not difficult. The real difficulty is to endow these newly born robots with basic, controllable, self-logic and intelligence that can grow.

It is equivalent to endowing them with the most basic intelligence, and endowing them with mechanical souls.

To describe it in abstract and emotional terms, human beings are trying to become God of Creation. Because only God can do this thing of giving a soul.

But extraordinary intelligence is unimaginable for ordinary people after all. Dr. Reed has already had some eyebrows. After discovering that being endowed with wisdom is beyond the ability of scientists, Reed and Tony discussed it for several days. Then came up with the second plan.

Merlin, who had just returned to New York after his inspection tour of Nubuck, a small prairie town in Nigeria, received a top-secret document from Dr. Reed's laboratory.

On the lens of Icarus, Dr. Reed explained their new ideas to Merlin in a very academic description, but Merlin had a headache seeing the technical terms throughout the text.

He had to rely on Icarus to summarize and explain the meaning of the document for him.

Copy and copy?

Merlin looked at Icarus' final conclusion, and he asked curiously:

How are they going to do this?

To put it simply, these scientists plan to select several 'personality templates' from various types of omnics that have been contained, and print all the thinking data of those selected omnics, and then Make a slight modification, and then copy it interleavedly into the logical database of the new generation of omnics that will be produced later.

Icarus explained:

It is equivalent to the fact that human beings only need to make the bodies of omnics, and their souls are born out of the existing omnic thinking mode. Because of the portability of data life thinking, this method has a high degree of success Rate.

To give an inappropriate example, what they want to do is to dig out the brains of the existing omnics, make hundreds of copies, and put them into new bodies. In this way, you can get hundreds of A new omnic.

Miss AI finally concluded:

To be honest, this is a good idea. It can solve the problem of the difference between newborn omnics and naturally born omnics in the shortest possible time.

I probably understand.

Merlin nodded, and he asked another question:

But wouldn't doing so lead to massive 'similarity' in future omnics? Well, let me think about that word biodiversity?

Your wording is very irregular and inappropriate.

Icarus complained mercilessly, but she patiently explained to Merlin:

But I can understand your meaning and concern. The scientists who submitted this plan obviously also considered this issue. In their plan, the number of data personality templates they want to extract is huge, and they will filter out The most suitable samples are then processed at the data level.

They seem to design a special program to interleave and sort the various characteristics of the omnic personality, like a large-scale data combination, so that every new omnic offline has certain unique personality traits If I explain it this way and you still don't understand it, I'll give you a simpler example.

Icarus put a screenshot of a video game in front of Merlin, and she said to Merlin:

For example, in this text adventure game, when you choose a character, you can define the character of the character. It is done through different affixes. For example, 'smart', 'reckless', 'dull', 'tempered' 'Wait, as long as there are enough affixes, each character can be guaranteed to be unique.

Oh, I understand when you put it that way.

Merlin snapped his fingers and said enthusiastically:

So there may be 'sensible and violent' and 'sensitive and imbecile' omnics in the future?

Icarus didn't know how to answer Merlin's weird question, so she chose to remain silent.

But after a while, she replied with some hesitation:

Yes, in theory, it is possible to have omnics with two completely opposite personalities at the same time. But the scientists have set up a relatively complete detection program for this copying and resetting system, which has contradictory personalities. Omnics that may cause self-destructive tendencies will probably be destroyed when they are offline.

Oh, that's alright.

Merlin says:

If the plan is executable, then submit it to Fury, by the way, with an easy-to-understand explanation, such as your previous examples. As far as I know, Fury is in this area His knowledge is about the same as mine, if I can’t understand it, then he can’t either.”

???

Icarus projected a bunch of question marks on the lens, and she asked suspiciously:

No, Director Fury will give some enlightening opinions every time he attends a seminar on omnics. He doesn't look like a beginner in the field of data.

That's because he has a private brain trust.

Merlin said softly:

Every time he made an 'inspiring' point of view, it was put forward by the scientists in the think tank, and he just repeated it. Fury is like this. He hopes to show his control on various occasions. The ability of the situation. But considering that he is the director and his attitude will directly affect many things, so this pretense is understandable.

Okay, let's go here.

Merlin took out his pocket watch to check the time, and he said to Icarus:

It's time for me to get off work. Let's talk about the rest tomorrow.

I'm actually very puzzled.

When Merlin stood up and was about to leave the office, Icarus asked:

In my data interface, there is always a time mark, and it is definitely the most standard time. You only need to open your eyes to see the time, but why, every time you check the time, you have to take out your pocket watch?

Well

Merlin reached out and pushed his glasses, and he replied:

Just getting used to it and this pocket watch has special meaning, Icarus, it's hard for me to explain this to you.

This answer silenced Icarus for a few seconds, and as Merlin walked out of the office, she replied:

Yes, it's hard for me to understand. Even if I can pilot a starship by myself, some human thinking is still too complicated for me.

It's a good thing, Icarus.

Merlin returned to his home with the transfer spell, and said to his smart assistant:

You are beginning to be interested in human thinking patterns, which means that your own personality patterns are gradually improving. Maybe one day, you will understand my behavior that seems unnecessary to you, and on that day, you will have the same soul as me

swish

Merlin appeared in his living room, but his expression became strange.

In front of him, on his couch, Lorna and Raven were chatting with a weird guy, an upright, maned raccoon in a small power armor?

Next to the raccoon, sat a strange, tree-like treant. The guy was sipping cold beer with the tree vines on his fingers, while staring at the TV with his own eyes. Filled with scenes of blue cats and brown mice running around.

And the silly dog ​​Frank was lying on the side, enjoying his new can, and there was an indescribable sense of happiness on his silly face.

Merlin also noticed that Gu Gu was quietly lying on the edge of the second floor, and seemed to be secretly observing the two newcomers. But Cuckoo didn't jump out like before, it seemed to be very interested in those two guests.

Merlin!

After seeing Merlin coming home, Lorna stretched out her hand to greet Merlin. After the child became a big girl, she became a lot more polite. Of course, she would occasionally cling to Merlin as before.

Oh, you are Merlin?

Rocket Raccoon, who was holding a beer and bragging with the two girls, also jumped up from the sofa, looked at Merlin, and said:

Frank said you'd pay me and Groot a handsome commission, so don't waste our time, come on, start counting the money.

While talking, this guy also took out a calculator-like thing from behind, and pressed it to make a clicking sound.

Uh, who are you guys?

Merlin glared at Frank the Dog, then looked at the little raccoon and the tree man.

My name is Groot.

The tree man stood up, waved to Merlin politely, and stretched out his vine arm, as if intending to shake hands with Merlin. It had a simple and honest expression, and looked quite cute.

My name is Merlin, Merlin Riley.

Merlin glanced at the hand that still had flowers, and he stretched out his hand to hold the vine.

Oh, my name is Rocket.

While pressing the calculator, the raccoon said to Merlin without looking up:

Your world is not as bad as I thought. In fact, it is pretty good. The air is fresh and the trees are shady. Although the technology is a little behind, the original food is really good! The beer is also very good. I like it. I like your two younger sisters, although Miss Ruiwen doesn't like to talk much, but I can feel that she is a wise person.

Forget it!

The guy chattered a lot, and then turned the calculator in his hand to Merlin. It blinked and said to Merlin:

The commission for this mission is a total of 322,456 stars. Seeing that Frank and I get along well, I will deduct the change for you, and you can give me 322,450 stars.

Oh, is that so? Wait a moment.

Merlin gently made a pause gesture to Rocket Raccoon, then he looked at the silly dog ​​hiding aside, he gestured and said:

Frank, don't you think you should explain to me?

Don't listen to it.

After the silly dog ​​finished eating the can, he licked his lips and said to Merlin:

I gave it a boat, and we don't need to pay extra at all. It just brings Groot to the house as a guest, and we can drive him out after dinner.

No, I was talking about something else.

Merlin walked up to Frank, he knelt down, patted the silly dog ​​on the head, and said:

Your trip looks very lively, and you also found a reply letter from your new friend Carol?

Oh, here it is.

The silly dog ​​flicked his collar with his paw, and there was a black iron box there.

Merlin took the box down, and he turned to Ruiwen who was reading a book on the sofa and said:

Ruiwen, entertain these two guests for me, I'll be over in a while.

You go to work.

Ruiwen waved to Merlin without raising her head. Ruiwen's personality has become very calm, and she is already a reassuring girl, so Merlin looked at Lorna again, and said:

Lorna, don't drink too much wine for the tree man, order some food for the raccoon, I won't cook tonight.

Oh, alright.

Lorna obediently responded, and Merlin waved to the raccoon and the tree man, then walked up to the second floor, closed the bedroom door, and opened the iron box.

There is a letter inside.

From the other side of the star sea, a letter from his ex-girlfriend.

well

Merlin sighed, stretched out his hand, and unfolded the letter. To be honest, he had some rare tension and anxiety in his heart. Alas, he didn't know what kind of reaction Carol would make after confessing the existence of Elsa?

Alas, being a man is really hard.