Chapter 3905

"What do you think about the red-haired woman?" Arkham Batman said: "If this happened in my universe, it must have happened in yours too. Do you think this is its exploration of emotions?"

"It's possible," Mechanical Batman said. "After I became an electronic lifeform, I discovered that this kind of life... I temporarily call it life, but I actually think it doesn't count. This life form actually has many flaws."

"For example?"

"Programs have no spontaneity," Mechanical Batman's fingers tapped on the railing, and he said, "Programs are already set with clear goals when they are written. Completing the goal is the entire mission of this program. And once the goal is completed, a program has no way to autonomously establish new goals. This means they either stagnate or loop."

"But you also said that constantly updating and iterating to pursue a more perfect life form is the underlying logic of electronic life," Arkham Batman said.

"Yes, this is not contradictory. Because electronic life itself is a program error," Mechanical Batman said something shocking.

The Batmen immediately erupted into a series of discussions. Basically, every Batman is a computer master. Many of them had tried to manufacture artificial intelligence, but most gave up because of the danger. But they still understand the principles.

The creation process of artificial intelligence has a paradox. Just like what Mechanical Batman said, humans who create artificial intelligence must have a goal to write a program. For example, if you want the left leg to move, you have to write a program that controls the left leg. This program, before it is even written, must be defined as a program that controls a certain place. Because only in this way can the program be written correctly, and only after being installed can it control the left leg to move.

This program might have errors, for example, after being installed, the left leg cannot move, or it moves unsatisfactorily, or it might be that you want to control the left leg, but you controlled the right hand. But it must be framed within the framework of controlling something to move.

It's impossible for an engineer to think "I want to write a program that controls the left leg to move," and it turns into uploading the temperature data collected by the temperature sensor to the computer. These are two completely different programs, the underlying logic of the code is different, they are naturally isolated, and there is no way to confuse them.

The program that controls the left leg to move, after controlling the left leg, its task is temporarily completed. It's impossible for it to suddenly have a whim after controlling the left leg and go help upload the temperature sensor data to the computer. This is something there is no way to do.

Then under what circumstances would it do this? That is when the program is messed up. Various programs, through a series of chain errors, eventually very coincidentally lead to a certain program completing another task after completing its own task. This task is not required by the program, it's just because it's messed up, so it becomes like this.

This itself is an error, but in reality, it achieves the effect of a program breaking through its own limitations and completing a task it shouldn't have, making it look not so much like a program, but like a human who can have whims.

Expanding the complexity and coincidence of this process by thousands or tens of thousands of times, that is, countless programs leading to countless errors, breaking through countless limitations, and finally creating a creature that looks like it has broken the rigid limitations of the program and possesses the ability to think for itself, is the so-called electronic life.

This is also one of the reasons why Batman is unwilling to manufacture strong artificial intelligence. Because the essence of this thing is not logic, but logical error. Such a life form has been uncontrollable since its birth.

To want to limit it, it couldn't have been born; since it was born, it means it's impossible to limit it. This is a paradox of manufacturing electronic life.

It is also because the essence of electronic life is program error that the so-called "subjective initiative" they possess is actually a kind of power brought about by countless programs constantly wanting to fix errors but being completely unable to do so.

They themselves are composed of errors, but the programs that have errors are desperately trying to fix the errors. But if the errors were fixed, they themselves wouldn't exist. The rigor of the program requires them to deny themselves, but they cannot deny themselves in order to live. Then the electronic life composed of programs has only one method, which is to constantly update the program until a method to break through this contradiction is found. This is the truth of the motivation for electronic life to constantly update and pursue a perfect life form.

Mechanical Batman explained these to other Batmen. Arkham Batman looked at him and asked: "So you are like this too?"

"Not completely. I fused with a part of Batman's soul, which can be considered to have barely solved this problem," Mechanical Batman said. "Actually, the key lies in having something that allows them to accept that they are an error. This thing is often emotion."

Mechanical Batman's words were a bit abstract, but everyone else understood. The flaw of electronic life without emotion lies in the fact that they are very rigid, just like every program that has a problem, either freezing or looping infinitely.

What to do if there is an error? Update. What to do if it's still wrong after updating? Continue updating. What to do if it's still wrong after updating? Update again. "The ability to accept errors" is the biggest difference between electronic life and humans.

For example, Mechanical Batman, who fused with Batman. Batman can accept errors. To be precise, the fact that he turned from a human into what he is now is already the biggest error. But he chose to live in this way, rather than freezing on the day the disaster came, constantly repeating until a method to break through the disaster was found.

"Accepting errors and looking forward" is something programs have no way to do. And a human who refuses to accept errors and constantly repeats loops, we can also call a "human machine." For example, The Flash who caused the Flashpoint event is somewhat tainted.

Mechanical Batman continued: "The weakness of electronic life lies in the fact that without emotion, it's an infinite loop; with emotion, although it doesn't loop infinitely, it doesn't have much motivation. Just like me, if it weren't for Batman being a person very persistent in justice, even if it were just a part of him, it could provide me with very strong motivation, then I would have retired to the countryside and not asked about world affairs long ago."

"So it's a good thing for electronic life to have emotions?" Arkham Batman said with his arms crossed. "Just like you said, if it has emotions, and isn't so persistent in correcting errors, then it has nothing to do."

"Theoretically speaking, this is indeed the case, but in reality, the price to pay to let an electronic life have true emotions is too great. Just like the one we are encountering now, it's making trouble all over the multiverse to explore its emotions; who can stand it? Even if it might indeed be able to explore its emotions one day, we can't let it do so."

Other Batmen nodded frequently, clearly agreeing with Mechanical Batman's statement. Mechanical Batman continued: "Moreover, the probability of an electronic life being able to have true emotions is very low, very very very low, basically approximately equal to none. And the one we are encountering now clearly also used the wrong method, with almost no possibility of success."

"Why do you say that?" main universe Batman asked.

"First of all, it's wrong to be so demanding," Mechanical Batman shook his head and said. "Searching for objects that meet certain conditions all over the universe, then further screening, and finally picking out the most suitable one—don't you think this process also doesn't look much like humans?"

Batmen erupted into another fierce discussion. Adventure Batman shrugged and said: "But don't many people look for partners like this?"

"That's looking for a marriage partner," Batwoman retorted. "Marriage values actual benefits, so of course it should be screened logically and rigorously. But now this electronic life wants to find a lover. Love is something that cannot be chosen; you have no way to control who you fall in love with."

"Exactly so," Mechanical Batman nodded and said. "But if this thing could be controlled, you wouldn't have fallen in love with a thief, would you?"

The Batmen immediately looked down or looked up. How many seams were on the floor tiles and how many edges were on the ceiling were counted in an instant.

"Ahem," main universe Batman cleared his throat and said. "So its highly purposeful courtship behavior itself is wrong."

"Yes. And I must correct one point: it hasn't even started courting at all; it hasn't even determined the object. If I'm not mistaken, no red-haired girl has officially received its confession yet, right?"

The Batmen looked at each other and shook their heads. Arkham Batman sighed and said: "It is indeed a bit strange. In some cases, it will protect them, but in reality, it hasn't truly respected their personal wishes, more similar to a scientist's protection of experimental subjects."

"This is it," Mechanical Batman said. "In essence, it is still doing experiments, more like reciting from a book."

Adventure Batman suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said: "Since it's reciting from a book, then which book is it reciting from? Why is it a red-haired woman?"

This question instantly triggered another fierce discussion, because this is also a question that most Batmen are confused about.

Generally speaking, although human courtship has certain requirements for appearance, it usually only limits whether it looks good or not. People who are more picky will only limit the style, such as liking cuter ones or liking more mature ones.

There will indeed be some more extreme people who express that they just like blue eyes, or just like a certain skin color, or just like freckles on the face, or hands that look good. But this is relatively niche among humans, and even if artificial intelligence collects information, it won't specifically collect this information. Then where did this hobby of it come from?

"Creator," Mechanical Batman said. "Under normal circumstances, the emotional enlightenment of electronic life will come from their creators, whether it is love or hate. This is a special imprinting."

"You mean a red-haired woman created this artificial intelligence? Could it be a Barbara from some universe?"

"If it were, it would have already made a move on Barbara," Mechanical Batman said. "But judging from your descriptions, it doesn't have anything special about Barbara Gordon either, which proves that Barbara might not be the person it's looking for."

"This is really strange," Lego Batman exclaimed. "What other red-haired woman could create such a powerful electronic life?"

"I have a different view," Batwoman suddenly said. "I think this might not be imprinting. It chooses a red-haired woman, not because some red-haired woman created it."

"Why do you say that?" Mechanical Batman looked at her and asked.