Chapter 1769: Implied Bus, Wisdom Brain Test

Nan Jing, Tower of Time.

Since returning from Seventon a few days ago, Xia Duo has been working overtime to create a total of 62 Artifact Spirits based on Communication Magic Tools; in their initial state, these 62 Artifact Spirits all possess relatively complete intelligence.

But it is precisely because their intelligence is complete that they possess human weaknesses, namely, they are not adept at large-scale repetitive or non-repetitive thinking, or in other words, "calculation."

Xia Duo's approach is to select seven typical thinking patterns from his own consciousness to serve as "Meta-programs," or one could call them "Meta-Thinking" or "Meta-algorithms."

These Meta-Thinking units, having lost their intelligence, do not have the various weaknesses of humans and are closer to machines; above the Meta-Thinking layer are the "Judgment Nodes," which have also been pruned of intelligence and are primarily responsible for distributing higher-level commands to the Meta-Thinking layer.

Above this layer is the Instruction Layer, which possesses a certain level of intelligence and is responsible for converting vague commands from the layer above into specific instructions for the layer below, while also being responsible for feeding the results back to Xia Duo.

It is a three-layer network structure in the shape of a pyramid; because Artifact Spirits are different from the so-called artificial intelligence built purely from algorithms on Earth, they possess true intelligence.

Therefore, in situations where the usage is relatively singular and the instructions are not complex, only one less-pruned Artifact Spirit is needed to serve, and no additional Artifact Spirits are required.

As for the Judgment Layer, different nodes are set up according to the number of Meta-programs at the lowest level; Xia Duo only used two nodes in his initial experiment, which means two pruned Artifact Spirits.

According to Xia Duo's speculation, Meta-programs can be configured in different proportions depending on the task, and it is not necessary to use all seven of the initially selected basic thinking patterns.

One could use seven of Pattern One, or five of Pattern One combined with five of Pattern Two.

As for how to configure them specifically, he has no count for now; he will wait until he summarizes the patterns after multiple tests to see, and who knows, maybe the seven basic thinking patterns he initially selected will also change!

It is possible for them to increase or decrease, though an increase is more likely; after all, true intelligent thinking cannot be reproduced by just a few variables.

Of course, if the number of basic thinking patterns increases, then the number of Judgment Nodes and even Instruction Nodes will change accordingly, and even the relationships between the nodes will undergo a qualitative change.

In the Laboratory.

Xia Duo arranged 20 specially modulated Communication Magic Tools in three rows; although the arrangement does not affect the actual efficacy, it at least allows him to see them more clearly.

The top row is the Instruction Layer, with only a single, lonely Crystal Ball; the second row is the Judgment Layer, with two Crystal Balls.

The third row has more, a total of seventeen, divided into two groups, one group of seven and one group of ten, gathered respectively beneath the corresponding Judgment Layer nodes.

Next is what Xia Duo considers the most troublesome step in the Wisdom Brain project—

Using 【Suggestion】, with his own consciousness as the link, to establish information transmission channels for all Wisdom Brain nodes.

In other words, this so-called "Wisdom Brain" is actually built upon his own consciousness, only using several other Consciousness Copies as "computing hardware," while his own consciousness merely acts as a medium for information transmission.

Through this method, he reduces the computational (thinking) burden on his primary consciousness.

The reason why this step is called "the most troublesome" by Xia Duo is that he needs to design a set of information transmission methods for each node individually.

His preliminary experiment only used 20 nodes, which requires at least 20 Suggestion spells, and if the number of nodes increases in the future, he will have to redesign it.

Unlike the previous creation of Artifact Spirits, which was purely "manual labor," this is entirely mental work; if one is careless and fails to consider everything, one might end up unable to find the bug after countless experiments.

If that situation were to occur, it would be a nightmare; the process of finding the bug would be almost equivalent to tearing down this entire system and starting over.

This is only the problem that might arise in terms of design, and if one adds the operational aspect—what if the content suggested by the Suggestion spell is wrong during casting, and he thinks it is correct—that would be another nightmare.

Therefore, even though he feels it is troublesome, Xia Duo has no intention of delegating it to "Artifact Spirits"; he personally thinks through and double-checks all the content of the Suggestion spells.

Fortunately, there are only 20 nodes now, and the communication logic between the nodes is not yet complex; Xia Duo completed the entire node communication design on the fifth day after returning from Seventon.

After that comes the process of casting, and mental work also includes physical labor, similar to typing on a keyboard or moving a mouse on Earth.

However, Xia Duo does not mind this.

Counting the time for breaks, nearly two hours passed, and the Wisdom Brain prototype was officially born!

……

For the testing phase, Xia Duo did not go on stage himself, but called Niya over.

Niya had been busy alone in the Blue Crystal Plane for the past few days; she knew that Xia Duo was researching an Artifact Spirit cluster device called a "Wisdom Brain," and she was quite surprised to suddenly receive an invitation to test it.

"Are these the Communication Magic Tools?"

"Yes." Xia Duo pointed to the Communication Magic Tool at the top layer of the Wisdom Brain's three-layer nodes and said to Niya, "Take this Instruction Node; the Artifact Spirit has a vague Perception of sound; just ask it whatever you want to know."

Niya was skeptical, picked up the Communication Magic Tool, and then tentatively asked, "How is the weather today?"

"……"

Xia Duo was speechless, "Don't ask questions without clear answers; ask questions that can be answered definitively based on existing knowledge, no matter how complex they are."

How is the weather today seems to have an answer, but for an Artifact Spirit based on a Communication Magic Tool, it is impossible to obtain relevant clues; even if it answers, it would at most be a speculative result based on past weather conditions in the basic Ziliaoku within the Consciousness Copy.

In reality, Xia Duo did not create the Wisdom Brain for these vague questions; he wanted a practical tool that could save him the process of thinking.

Next, Niya thought carefully and asked: "Spell 1-ΞwΔΠΞΔΠΣyΣyoΣ, 2-ΨΛxΞΔΠxΛiΠ, 3-wΠΛxΞΔxΞΣyΨ, 4-ΠyΘΛΛxΞΔ, 5-ΞΔΠΣ, if I increase the Ascending Ring by two levels in the maximized direction, what is the result?"

Niya had not yet finished speaking, but Xia Duo already knew the answer; it was not that he had calculated the result himself, but that he had subconsciously acquired it when the Instruction Node transmitted the data back.

But this result had not been verified in practice, and Xia Duo could not judge whether it was right or wrong.

As for Niya, after receiving the Sending from the Instruction Node, she was very surprised, because this spell was one Xia Duo had taught her previously to test the Mythallar.

The spell itself did not need to be Ascending Ring, but she still tried to do it, just curious about what the effect would be after the Ascending Ring.