Chapter 8 Chapter 7 The computer is alive!

I was very angry, and Lieutenant Colonel Tan shook his hands quickly: "Listen to my explanation, everything was done by the six of them. They seriously violated the code of conduct for officers, and they will definitely be severely punished!" I was completely confused and had no idea what he was talking about. Lieutenant Colonel Tan said again: "Maybe you don't understand, let them tell you, maybe you will understand." I looked at them, and they all lowered their heads and said nothing, Lieutenant Colonel Tan shouted: "Quickly tell, it was by Who came up with it first, Lieutenant Mann, it was you, tell me!"

One of the six female officers looked up. She is the youngest among the six people, with a round face and big eyes, she looks very elf, but at this time she looked at me like a lamb, and after a while, she said: "The last First of all, my idea, I think, if you send a letter... into the computer and let the computer reply to the letter, I don’t know what the result will be. It started three years ago. We randomly cut it out of a magazine. A notice to seek friends..." I took a breath: "That's Gao Caihong's call for friends." "Yes, we cut it out completely randomly, it was just for fun, to see how the computer responds, on the friend notice, there are Gao Caihong's interests, hobbies and age, I...translated it into the language of the computer, As a result, we got a reply letter, which I translated and sent out.”

I smiled wryly and sat on the sofa, not wanting to stand up at all. It turned out to be such a joke! My words also sounded weak: "In the past three years, the computer has always been responsible for answering letters?" "Yes," the female officer's face became more frightened, "the computer doesn't have a name, so we randomly named it Yile, and we translated Gao Caihong's letter into computer text and sent it to the computer, and the computer replied by itself." Done, and it's been like that for three years." I took another deep breath and closed my eyes. At that moment, I remembered the letter that Rainbow showed me, and I found that what the female officer said at this time was not wrong at all, because except for a Apart from computers, there is no one person who has such a wealth of knowledge and knows almost everything.

In the letter, "Yile" said that there were six people serving him, and that was naturally the six officers on duty. I quickly turned to read, but suddenly, my eyes widened and I jumped up from the sofa! My sudden action must have been beyond everyone's expectations, because the eight people stared at me with wide eyes, not knowing what happened. At this time, not only did they not know what happened, but even my own heart was extremely confused, because I thought of something strange that could not happen! I shook my hands: "No, no, there is something wrong with this!"

The female officer looked at me, still not knowing what I meant. I said: "I have read all those letters, so naturally you have read all of them?" "Of course, I translated them all by myself." "I think you must also be able to see that those letters are full of emotions, which are extremely strong emotions, human emotions, not emotions that can be produced by electronic devices!" I almost screamed . The female officer smiled wryly: "We discovered this a long time ago, but we didn't know that the matter would develop so seriously that you and Miss Rainbow would find the base—"

I interrupted her: "No, that's not what I mean, I'm asking: the reply from the computer is full of emotions only human beings have, what's your explanation?" The female officer did not make a sound, another older female officer said: "I can explain, I am a computer expert who has undergone strict training, and I can explain this." "Please say." "Although a computer is a dead instrument, it will also respond to changes based on the information given to it by humans. There are so many data stored in a computer, and all of them are given to it by humans. Then, It is not surprising that there is human emotion in its response."

I can barely accept such an explanation, but I still have two huge questions in my heart! I first raised the first big question: "Everyone, you must not deny the fact that the computer itself proposed to meet Rainbow. In the letter, it also said that you would not let it have Freedom of movement, isn't that...too much?" The older female officer nodded and said: "Yes, after reading this letter, we also feel that this game should be stopped, and we also feel that the emotions of this computer are no longer... controlled." "What did you say?" I asked aloud, "The computer's emotions?"

"I should say it's the computer's reaction. The computer's reaction is the natural reaction of the computer's accumulation of data. The computer thinks that after three years of communication, the two parties should meet. That's what ordinary pen pals will bring up after three years of communication. Worth the... strange." I looked directly at the female officer: "Miss, you are speaking against your will. You are a computer expert. It's not that you don't find it strange, but you find it very strange! Because the computer complained to you, complaining that you restricted it. freedom, don't let it see the rainbow!"

The face of the female officer suddenly became terribly pale! Because of my abrupt words, Lieutenant Colonel Tan suddenly called out: "Mr. Wei, what are you talking about?" I made gestures to silence them all, and then I said: "Lieutenant Colonel, I mean, after three years of communication in the computer, the computer itself has produced a new emotion because of it, this kind of Emotions, accumulated over time, are out of their expectation, Lieutenant Colonel, this computer fell in love with Gao Caihong!" After Lieutenant Colonel Tan listened to my words, his face looked like he had taken too much hallucinogen!

He opened his mouth wide, looked at me for a long time, and then said: "Mr. Wei, are you... Are you asking a joke? How can a computer fall in love with a person?" I didn't answer Lieutenant Colonel Tan's question directly, but said, "You can ask them, they are all computer experts." Lieutenant Colonel Tan immediately looked at the six female officers. All six of them had ugly faces. After a few minutes of silence, the oldest one sighed. The oldest person sighed: "Lieutenant Colonel, Mr. Wei's words, or is it true, we all found...found...the computer is out of control on...the rainbow...and..."

"And what?" Lieutenant Colonel Tan and I asked in unison. "And..." the female officer said bravely, "and it gave us a final warning." At that time, the expression on my face was about the same as that of taking an overdose of hallucinogens, because my voice, to my own ears, had a sense of illusory, and I asked back: "Warning?" The female officer said: "Yes, the computer sent out a text tape automatically, saying that it must meet Rainbow, otherwise... otherwise..." "Otherwise what?" I asked impatiently. "Otherwise it will... destroy itself," replied the female officer. Lieutenant Colonel Tan stood up, waving his hands aimlessly, as if he wanted to wave away some nightmare, he said: "Enough, enough, it's ridiculous, the matter has come to an end here, Mr. Wei, please tell me everything Miss Gao, we will punish them." I said in a deep voice, "Lieutenant Colonel, the matter has not come to an end." "What else?" "And that commercial, Colonel," I replied slowly. Lieutenant Colonel Tan obviously didn't understand what I meant, so he stared at me with wide eyes. I repeated: "The advertisement on the computer, Lieutenant Colonel Tan, Lieutenant Man, don't you find it strange? I don't think any of the six of you has ever controlled the computer to send out that advertisement, right?" The six female officers didn't even know about the advertisement, and after I explained it clearly, they were all horrified: "Of course it's not us, that's... that's..." They hesitated and did not speak out, but Lieutenant Colonel Tan roared: "What is that?" The oldest officer stood up, her face was very pale, but her expression was very serious, she first saluted Lieutenant Colonel Tan, and then said: "Lieutenant Colonel, you must report to the highest authority immediately Report this." "What's the report?" Lieutenant Colonel Tan was a little helpless. "That computer," the female officer paused, "Lieutenant Colonel, that computer, we think...or I personally think that computer...it...is alive. Or it shouldn't be said that it's alive, but It should be said... should be said..." She obviously couldn't find the appropriate words to describe the changes in the computer, so she hesitated to speak.I immediately answered: "It should be said that based on the accumulated data, the computer has produced new thoughts that are not controlled by humans? This kind of thought of the computer is expressed through the text tape." My words made the six female officers nod endlessly. Lieutenant Colonel Tan showed a strange and inexplicable look on his face, and smiled bitterly: "If I report such a situation, then the superior will definitely send me to the mental hospital." I said sternly: "Lieutenant Colonel, the situation has developed to this point. It has nothing to do with me personally, but it has a very important impact on your country. This computer does have its own feelings now. Your own thoughts, this is a problem that cannot be ignored, you must report it, and ask first-class experts to save this matter!" Lieutenant Colonel Tan was obviously moved by my persuasion, although he kept murmuring: "It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous!" He stood up: "I will do as you say, Mr. Wei, you must stay here under supervision, and I will meet with the commander of the base to discuss countermeasures." Lieutenant Colonel Tan walked out with his adjutant. In Lieutenant Colonel Tan's office, I talked with the six female officers for a while, so that I knew more clearly the ins and outs of the whole incident.The six of them sent Rainbow's letter to the computer, and sent the computer's reply letter to Rainbow for fun. It was naturally a very boring action. But what is to be forgiven is that they never thought that the matter would have such serious consequences.Rainbow will fall in love with "Yi Le" from the computer's reply letter. In fact, it is not surprising, because this computer has accumulated a lot of information. No one in the world has such a wealth of knowledge, and no one has such knowledge. With such a good literary talent, no one can understand a person's psychology so deeply from a letter. It is naturally the best in the world for a computer to play the role of a big lover. No wonder Rainbow fell in love. I found the base together with Rainbow, and asked Lieutenant Colonel Tan if there was anyone named "Yi Le" in the base.Lieutenant Colonel Tan is the supervisor of the data department. All the data, including personnel data, are stored in the computer. If Lieutenant Colonel Tan wants to check whether there is "Yi Le", he must use the computer, so the six female officers also immediately Knowing that Rainbow and I came to the door, they knew they had caused trouble! After they knew about it, they naturally didn't dare to take the letter again, which is why no one came to pick up the letter that had been placed in the letter slot in the cafeteria. Originally, as long as the six of them could keep the secret, no one would know that they had played such a "game". However, the ad appeared in the newspaper out of the blue! According to the six of them, that advertisement draft was not the first time that the computer sent out text tapes automatically and uncontrollably. Before that advertisement draft, there were many document tapes, some of which even threatened to self-destruct words, but they were all put away by the six of them. It may be that the computer also knew this. When the text tape of the advertisement was sent out, it was not when the six people were on duty. The other officers on duty did not know that there was such a "game" , I don’t know that this pair of computers has thoughts and actions of its own, and when it sees a text tape being sent out, it will naturally translate it and send it out. So, I saw that ad. I have a very clear understanding of the whole process, but I feel as if I have fallen into a fog: the computer is alive, which is incredible! Perhaps, the word "live" is not used very properly, but it is indeed alive, and it has its own thoughts, which are not the accumulated materials, but are produced in the accumulated materials. To some extent, computers are very similar to human brains. During the process of human growth, human brains are constantly absorbing knowledge, just like computers are constantly increasing the accumulation of data. After the human brain absorbs knowledge to a certain extent, many reactions exceed the absorbed knowledge, and new inventions and new ideas are produced.The new is produced on the basis of the old, the human brain can produce new things, why can't the computer be in the same situation? The more I thought about it, the more terrifying I felt, as if my body was immersed in ice water! This pair of computer is now troubled by "love", and its "emotions" are in extreme panic, but it bears the most important responsibility of this long-range nuclear missile base! I believe that so many long-range nuclear bombs must be launched under the control of a computer. If it "behaves"... I had several cold shocks in a row, and I had to tell Lieutenant Colonel Tan and the top person in charge of the base what I thought of, because the matter was so serious, it was so serious that it was unimaginable! I hurriedly said to the oldest female officer: "What do you mean by the situation where the computer is out of control?" The female officer smiled bitterly: "When we are on duty, the text tape will be sent out automatically." I took a deep breath: "The computer has the ability to work by itself, is it possible?" The female officer was forced to cry: "I don't know, theoretically, it is possible, as long as there is a power supply, it can move. I don't know that there will be such a result." I said sternly: "I'm not trying to scare you. Have you ever thought that if a computer has the ability to work automatically, what would happen if it 'raged'? I think that the launch of a long-range nuclear missile must be controlled by it. If it's automatic too—" When I started speaking, Lieutenant Colonel Tan, two generals, and several civilian clothes personnel had already walked in.But I continued with my words, and when I finished speaking, the female officer screamed: "Cut off the power, cut off the power!" Lieutenant Colonel Tan grabbed her arm and shouted, "What's your name? The computer's power supply system is independent and cannot be cut off because it is at the center of the computer." I hurriedly said, "What does that mean?" "At the beginning of the construction of this pair of computers, it was estimated that it would have to work 24 hours a day for years and months, so its power supply is specially designed. In the central part of the computer, it is automatically controlled by the computer to generate electricity, that is to say ——" Lieutenant Colonel Tan gave a wry smile. "So what?" "Even if we cut off the power, if the fact is as you said, the computer is already 'live', then it will turn on the power again, Mr. Wei, just now you mentioned long-range nuclear missiles, unfortunately, things are just as As you said, the launch of the missile is controlled by a computer!" I paused: "Then you still don't think of a way?" Lieutenant Colonel Tan's face was ugly, and he said: "Let me introduce you first, these two are the commander and deputy commander of the base." I shook hands with the two generals. Lieutenant Colonel Tan introduced two plainclothes officers, who were two tall western middle-aged men, and he said: "These two are senior technical consultants of the base and VIPs of our army. They are all computer experts. The main designer of the secondary computer." I just shook hands with them and sighed, "It's serious?" A consultant said: "We want to prove whether the computer generates its own thoughts in addition to the accumulated data." I said: "These officers can prove this point. Of course, we can go further to prove it." The commander of the base said: "I have talked to the Secretary of Defense and can suspend computer work for an hour." "Commander," Lieutenant Mann said, "the computer works normally without stopping. It has twelve text tape transmission ports. We can learn the computer's thoughts through the text tapes of any of the transmission ports." We looked at each other with a strange feeling in our hearts. Human beings probably feel that people cannot fully understand and trust each other, so they invented computers and handed over all the most important tasks to computers. Humans think that computers are their most loyal partners, because computers are dead, and all the knowledge of computers is given to them by humans.But I didn't expect that the computer can live and produce its own thoughts.It would not be surprising if one day computers would completely betray humans. We walked out together, and the other six female officers on duty in front of the computer console were still engrossed in their work. When we came to one of the consoles, the commander of the base personally gave an order to the female officer standing in front of the console, and the female officer left her post, and Lieutenant Yuman sat on the chair in front of the console . As soon as Lieutenant Man sat up, the thing that left us dumbfounded happened immediately! A dozen rows of small lights on the console suddenly flickered, and the lights moved quickly row after row, but everyone among us could see very clearly that Lieutenant Mann's hand had never touched any buttons. . Then, on the transmission port of the text tape, the red light came on, and a rhythmic "de" sound sounded, and the text tape began to spin out. (Press in 1986: The way computers express opinions now has long been displayed through the terminal screen, but the way computers expressed in the early days is indeed the same.) Not being an expert, I couldn't read the writing on the tape, because it seemed to be just small holes. Lieutenant Man and the two consultants were all experts. As soon as the text tape was passed out, Lieutenant Man grabbed one end of the tape and slowly pulled it out. Her face was pale. The faces of the two advisers also showed extremely strange expressions. When the text was transmitted to a length of three feet, one of the advisers said: "Lieutenant, please tell it, we will try." Lieutenant Man's fingers trembled a little, but her fingers were still typing quickly on the few rows of keys in front of the console.After Lieutenant Mann began typing on the keypad, the transmission of the tape also stopped, and the commander and the deputy commander asked in unison: "What does it say? What do these tapes say?" The two advisers smiled wryly: "It said: I want to see her, repeated this sentence... seven times, and then it said, if it doesn't see...the rainbow...then it will destroy itself, destroy everything. Its last words are: You should know that I have this power!" The two generals laughed together. They laughed under such circumstances, obviously they wanted to make the atmosphere more relaxed. Everyone thought it was a ridiculous and absurd thing! But because they didn't think that way in their hearts, the laughter they forced made people feel cold all over. And they heard their laughter too, and it had such a bad effect that they stopped laughing at once.And when they stop laughing, it's even worse! The deputy commander said in a very strange tone: "It's so ridiculous! How could the computer threaten us with such words? Everything we see is all the truth?" The two consultants were obviously easier to accept the facts, because they immediately said in unison: "Yes, it is the truth." Then, a consultant patted me on the shoulder: "Mr. Wei, you have a super imagination, that's why you realized that the computer has its own mind, and now the computer must meet that lady—" I said loudly: "That's meaningless, the computer is just a..." I wanted to say "a computer is just a machine", but now this computer, even if a rainbow stands in front of it, it can't see it. The consultant shook his head: "No, in fact it can see, it has twenty-four observation points, the observation points are formed by the principle of radio wave reflection, and what it 'sees' is also stored in its memory , it once recognized two planes of unknown nationality, they were Soviet-made MiG-19s."