Chapter 6796: Implications of Smart Al Templates

Chapter 6795 Implications of Smart Al TemplatesVes had a strong awareness that the choice of smart Al templates would have an enormous influence on his work and life trajectory in the next years and decades.

As much as most humans wanted to run their advanced civilization through manpower alone, this is plainly impossible.

Their society had grown too complex. The tool-using race had developed their latest tools far beyond what they were able to properly comprehend and control by themselves.

This was why nearly every piece of modern tech possessed certain degrees of automation. Humans alone could not fully control the sprawling technologies that they depended upon to live and fight. It was a rather sad state of affairs, but it was an inevitable outcome.

The best humans could do to control their increasingly more complicated tech was to formulate sound design principles and avoid the common pitfalls of relying too much on Als and algorithms to control their own tech.

It remained to be seen whether the Red Fleet was on the right track by developing smart Al templates.

There were clear risks related to turning Als into sentient beings that could think for themselves. Sigrund's performance in the first stage of his reawakening from long-term hibernation was a particularly acute example of the horrors that artificial intelligences could unleash.

Who could have known that when Saint Davia Stark traveled to New Constantinople and happily left with her newly upgraded Amaranto Mark III, she had come awfully close to the ultimate culprit of the Sand War?

The hybrid alien Al had very clearly instigated the sandman race to uproot their peaceful existence just outside the borders of human space and invaded the Komodo Star Sector in a grand manner.

The invasion attempt was doomed to fail. From the moment the sandmen violated the bottom line of the Big Two, the race was destined to become extinct.

Exactly as Sigrund intended.

With the control he exerted over his former race, Ves bet that Sigrund could have easily chosen to employ less destructive means to eradicate his fellow sandmen. Trillions f innocent third-raters did not have to die to satisfy his strategic objectives.

This meant that Sigrund undoubtedly had the blood of a huge amount of innocent civilians on his hands.

In this meeting between the two, Ves may have indirectly caused the deaths of a lot more people, but Sigrund definitely possessed much greater culpability for the deaths caused by the Sand War!

The former sandman admiral bore so much guilt, but still managed to escape the eyesight of the newly christened Executioner of Light!

This was a deeply ironic occurrence!

Ves had no intention of spilling the truth to Saint Davia Stark. Sigrund was more valuable to him alive than dead. There was no obvious benefit to pointing out the ultimate cause of the Sand War to апуопе.

While Saint Stark still remained haunted by the past, Ves only had eyes for the future. He bore too many responsibilities for the members of his clan and the people of red humanity to waste his time on ancient history.

Right now, he was much more interested in selecting the next smart AI templates to his SF-02 RF Smart Al Data Processing Cluster.

"Well, I think the most obvious choice here is to select the ARMOR POLISHER template." Ves said. "That is a really bad label, by the way."

"Trust me, my fellow re


"That is up to you, Professor Larkinson. You can choose for yourself to let the ARMOR POLISHER do all of the work, or grant total responsibility to the PLAGUE DOCTOR. You can also choose to make them work together according to a split of your designation. For example, you can command them to share equal processing power, or you can choose to grant the PLAGUE DOCTOR 80 percent of the available processing power so that it takes the lead. By experimenting with these settings and instructions, your SF-02 can produce drastically different results.'

That... actually sounded really fun!

Ves could already foresee situations where equal or unequal splits in processing power could produce all sorts of interesting and whacky design solutions.

This would especially be the case if the smart Als developed eccentric and extreme personalities! At this time, Ves still felt torn between the two available choices. He even felt tempted to change his mind on reserving the last smart Al template slot and simply pick both the IRON MONGER and the PLAGUE DOCTOR templates to complete his selection. However... he had reasons not to go for this obvious solution.

Ves did not want his choices to result in boring and generic design solutions. Standard choices often led to standard solutions. There was not much wrong with that, but if Ves wanted to stand out and continue to create radical inventions, then it was clear that he needed to specialize the SF-02's research capabilities in an unusual and exotic direction.

Perhaps if he was able to exchange a second SF-02 from the Red Fleet in the future, he might pick up

the smart Al template that he had turned away from this time.

Ves made up his mind.

Although the PLAGUE DOCTOR template sounded incredibly interesting, right now his clan needed

the services of the IRON MONGER template more.

Just the fact that it could massively speed up Gloriana's work was reason enough to favor this choice!

"I will pick the IRON MONGER template this time.

"Noted, professor. That makes for 4 out of 5 smart. Al templates. You have one left. What do you have in mind for the last available slot?"

"I want a template that is unusual! Ves said. 'It doesn't necessarily have to be focused on combat or research. I just want a smart AI that can add more color to the works of other smart Als and introduce a perspective that is radically different from others. It should ideally be predisposed towards irrational thinking when it develops greater sapience. If I want a straightforward answer, I can resort to the other 4 smart Als. I need at least one deviant that is willing to engage in contrarian thinking. This is the best way to obtain second opinions!"

"That is... a remarkable attitude.' Commodore Reze looked impressed. "Very few fleeters have expressed this sentiment. They still think of smart. Als in the same framework as non-sentient Als. You are among the first to truly recognize the greater potential of Als that possess their own souls.' "Enough flattery. Do you have a recommendation, or should I trawl through the list myself?"

"Well, one choice immediately comes to mind.

"Which one?" "The NATIVE GOD template. As you can guess, it is a template that deliberately seeks to develop an

inhuman personality in a smart AI. You can rest assured that it will not defect to the enemy side, but only if you raise it correctly.

Ves looked surprised. "Why would you fleeters create such a template?"

"Why else? We want to understand our enemies. This template is also able to generate different solutions related to phasewater technology"