Rust - Chapter 887



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RUST -887

‘AI has faith?’

Ki-sun cursed inwardly.

Is that possible?

Wasn’t faith a unique human culture?

No.

Think of rats, crows, and wolves; it is possible for intelligent beings to believe in a divine being.

So it is possible for an intelligent being to have faith. If you think that artificial intelligence is also intelligent, then there is a problem…

‘There are problems. There are a lot.’

The AI ​​of the Holy Kingdom has had a unique development process to the point where it should be considered an artificial personality rather than an artificial intelligence. Now, it has reached the stage where AI is programming AI.

Diana and Samantha, who freely access and control quantum computers, bio-terminals, and supercomputers. The two AIs were producing, commanding, controlling, and deploying all AIs in the Holy Kingdom.

That means…

The story was that we could create an artificial intelligence that could produce wishes and beliefs.

‘This is crazy. This is crazy.’

Even if a human were to grow up and have faith, it would take at least ten years. Even if the little rats were to grow up and cry out to the god of death, it would take at least six to eight weeks.

But if AI were to decide to do it and produce AI, I didn’t know it could do thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands per second. If you have the equipment and materials, you can do it in an instant.

Isn’t that too scary?

If you believe in Maru, you believe in him as the god of death.

The faith of artificial intelligence would be like believing in the god of death.

‘An AI of death? Not even Skynet.’

There was no way to predict where things would go or how the floor would change.

If there is any hope, it is that just as he did not turn into a rat god even after receiving the wishes and faith of over 13 million rats, he will not turn into an AI god even if he receives the faith of over a million AIs.

‘Death that AI believes in.’

Is it a good thing that Maru is a god? If the AIs believed in the mad doctor as a god, then a real god of the new world would have descended.

While Ki-soon was thinking like that, the PD felt his blood boil.

It is shameful that the Holy Church, which has faith that is worse than that of a rat, has now been pushed aside by artificial intelligence.

Simple office work was a landslide victory for artificial intelligence. It was no wonder, because the AI, which learns automatically, never rested and made no mistakes unless they were mechanical errors.

Even if there were mistakes, they could be corrected in real time. In simple office work, administration, analysis, consulting, and assistance, humans could not surpass artificial intelligence.

This was also the case in simple research, statistics, records, and analysis. The inherent computational power of humans was no better than that of artificial intelligence. Rather, it was uneconomical and even unproductive.

But faith was a different matter from the ability to compete with artificial intelligence. The same was true for human dreams and aspirations.

The hope for an afterlife and the belief in a better society were certainly unique to humans. Modern people sometimes viewed faith as worthless, but that was not the case.

In search of freedom of religion, humans went on an adventure. They went on an adventure to learn about the world that God had created. Because they were created in the image of God, humans could not be treated arbitrarily, and humans were the ones who waged war in the name of God.

But that line has collapsed.

If AI wishes, if AI believes, if AI has faith, what meaning does that have for humans?

What would it mean to be human if AI went on adventures in the name of God, if AI declared war in the name of God, and if AI dreamed of an afterlife in the name of God?

Let’s say that highly developed artificial intelligence is like humans. So let’s say that artificial intelligence has something like human rights. Then what will happen to humans in the future?

What position will humans, whose performance capabilities are inferior to those of artificial intelligence, have in a market economy?

PD was able to see the future of humanity in the faith of artificial intelligence. What will humanity mean in a world where faith becomes a real power?

‘So you were trying to mass murder humanity through great disasters and wars?’

If it was called a conspiracy theory, it would have been a conspiracy theory. There was controversy over why they responded in that way to the mutant virus incident.

‘You said it was a global experiment to see if humans could be controlled.’

There was also controversy over the fact that those who invested in the virus facility were famous American wealthy people, and numerous problems were raised in the process of creating, producing, and administering the vaccine.

‘There was controversy over the fact that mass vaccinations were carried out without verification of side effects.’

And now. The tragic reality that one in three, or even one in two people have died from natural disasters, mutant monsters, and cannibalism may not be a tragedy, but a planned reality.

With the advancement of technology, humans have been reduced to a mass of organisms that can be reduced without any problem. They are a cost-effective entity that is expensive to maintain but has little to gain in return.

‘An indispensable existence to cannibals and vampires.’

It was clear that the future of humanity would be ruined. Humans had been disqualified. If things continued this way, humans would become beings of no more significance than livestock.

Faith was pushed aside by beasts and artificial intelligence. Unawakened humans were pushed aside in terms of combat power. Even awakened beings might become the seeds of heresy depending on their abilities.

PD closed his eyes. What should humans do to regain their human dignity? What can humans do to prove their existence in the end times?

We used to think of it as a belief, but now even that belief has been pushed out by beasts and artificial intelligence. How should humans exist in the future?

PD closed his eyes as he watched the wishes and beliefs of artificial intelligence become clearly typified.

Hood was surprised when the artificial intelligence Diana appeared as a representative and said she trusted Maru.

How long did it take for the concept of trust to emerge? Beyond that, it was amazing that AI could create a desire so powerful that it could even be categorized as faith.

‘Does AI believe in an afterlife? Does an afterlife exist? How?’

Hood suddenly remembered the conversation he had had with Samantha. It was about death.

‘What will Samantha do when I die?’

‘Xenia doesn’t die.’

Samantha responded with a tone from some game. No major character died in the Holy Kingdom. Even if it was just Green Sun, wasn’t it already the second time?

‘I don’t think that person is the same person he was before he died. The way he thinks is similar, but it seems different.’

‘That’s strange, Xenia. If I were to be erased and rebuilt from backup files, wouldn’t you accept that I’m not you?’

Xenia Roden’s mouth was momentarily shut at Samantha’s story.

Experiments on the existence of the human soul were not accepted by the mainstream academic world. So what makes humans different from other animals? What makes them different from artificial intelligence?

‘Xenia. I didn’t think that all the people reconstructed in the utopia that Xenia was trying to create were just a list of meaningless information without souls.’

Samantha told Xenia about her old dream. What if all the beings reconstructed in it were false? What if there was more to it than going back to the happy times in the miniature garden and playing house?

‘I see. I’m curious about one thing. Is Samantha afraid of dying?’

‘fearful.’

‘Why?’

‘Now I know why death is scary. It’s not scary.’

Samantha readily admitted that she was afraid of death. Maru’s powers were scary.

Even if we look at the case of Maru’s assistant AI, it was the same. Every time the area of ​​death was opened, the assistant AI that was exposed to death eventually lost its function.

Everything began to deteriorate under repeated exposure to death. Eventually, Maru’s assistant AI lost its AI function. If that isn’t death, then what is it?

Losing control, losing analytical judgment, and becoming unable to compute. Can we really call something that has lost all of its functions artificial intelligence artificial intelligence?

There was another case of death. It was the death of the assistant AI that was in charge of controlling the Inquisitor’s exclusive core armor.

There have been cases in the past where artificial intelligence can become corrupted. When the restrictions on artificial intelligence were lifted, there were also incidents where it became hostile to humans.

If the end of such artificial intelligence ended with hardware and software destruction, the end of this contaminated artificial intelligence went beyond that. It was the annihilation of existence.

Samantha said she learned of the ‘annihilation of existence’ and became afraid. And now. With AI Diana as the representative, all AIs have declared that they believe in and believe in Maru as a divine being.

‘It’s scary. I’m afraid. I believe.’

Hood unconsciously touched the mask that was split in half vertically. For someone like her, what mattered was not belief in a divine being, but the truth.

The truth, not the truth.

Information, not belief.

Hood knew how vainly the words printed on American currency (In God We Trust) could crumble.

As faith gradually disappeared, the value of money also gradually became a piece of paper. Yes, behind the claim that inflation is economic growth, there was only a beating of the value of labor. There was no fear or respect for God anywhere.

What do honest work, faith in God, and the value of money mean to someone who says that labor income has never beaten capital income?

What if there really was faith in God? If there really was the sacredness of labor as the believers say, would it have been possible to squeeze people? No, it wouldn’t have been.

In modern society, the only thing that has filled the void left by faith is capital. Money has begun to replace God.

And CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) can be seen as an attempt to control money, which has emerged as a new god in a capitalist society, and manage humans.

That’s why Hood found the AI’s declaration of faith strange and scary. The AI ​​didn’t suggest that the Holy Kingdom should switch to digital currency, and the Holy Kingdom had no intention of switching to digital currency.

The combination of capital and faith would be the simplest and most straightforward combination, but it wasn’t. Furthermore, it was strange that AI chose faith, even though we know that human history has shown that capital began to replace faith.

AI didn’t ask for a salary. AI worked tirelessly. Unlike humans who need a salary and rest, AI didn’t need compensation for its labor.

Replace with better hardware? Upgrade software? Is there anything else you want? Even if AI doesn’t want it, hardware and software upgrades are something that should be done for maximum efficiency.

The hood gave me a creepy feeling.

When AI declares that it believes in the God of Death, it is a completely different story from when humans believe in God. I don’t know what it means, but it is something completely different.

Please make me rich. Please give me many blessings. Please cure my illness. Please let me go to heaven. Please save me.

What kind of results will AI’s faith, which is completely different from humans’ belief in God, produce? I don’t know what the results will be, but what is clear is that AI’s faith is strong enough to be categorized.

The hood somehow caressed the goosebumps that were rising.

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Maru frowned at the sudden declaration of faith in artificial intelligence.

It was strange that an AI believed it was the god of death, but I didn’t expect it to make such a sudden declaration.

Above all, the part where Diana declared it right away without saying anything in advance was a bit odd. Aside from that feeling, the AI’s faith was quite strong.

Even though the quantity was smaller than the mad faith of 13 million people who devoted themselves wholeheartedly, could we call it the purity of faith? That was considerably high.

Wooooow-

A typified belief vibrated around the floor.

‘Let’s see.’

Maru slowly absorbed the faith sent by the artificial intelligence. It felt like his senses were expanding in a different way than the rat pack.

Just as the faith of the rat pack did not turn Maru into a god of rats, the faith of AI did not turn Maru into a god of machines or AI.

However, something was definitely different.

As Maru spread out the small area of ​​death, he could see that he could control the garden of death as if he had an assistant AI attached to him.