"What do you think about the red-haired woman?" Arkham Batman said, "If such a thing happened in my universe, it would certainly exist in yours as well. Do you think this is its exploration of emotions?"
"It’s possible." chanical Batman replied, "Since becoming an electronic life, I realized that this form of life... I temporarily call it life, but in fact, I don’t think it actually counts. This form of life indeed has many flaws."
"For example?"
"Programs have no spontaneity." chanical Batman lightly tapped his fingers on the railing and said, "A program is set with a clear goal when it is written. Achieving the goal is all that this piece of program is about. And once the goal is completed, a program cannot autonomously establish a new goal. This ans they either stagnate or loop."
"But you also said that continuous updates and iterations to pursue a more perfect life form is the underlying logic of electronic life," Arkham Batman said.
"Yes, it’s not contradictory. Because electronic life itself is a program error." chanical Batman said startlingly.
A burst of discussion erupted among the Batn. Virtually every Batman was a master of computers. Many of them had tried to create artificial intelligence, although most gave up due to the risks involved. However, they were familiar with the underlying principles.
There is a paradox in the creation process of artificial intelligence. As chanical Batman said, a human creating artificial intelligence must have a goal to write a piece of program. For example, if you want the left leg to move, you have to write a program to control the left leg. Before this program is written, it must be defined as a program to control a certain area. Because only in this way is the program written correctly, and once installed, it can control the movent of the left leg.
This program may have errors, such as after installation, the left leg cannot move or does not move as expected. It might even aim to control the left leg but ends up controlling the right hand. However, it is always confined within the frawork of controlling an object’s motion.
It is impossible for an engineer to think, "I want to write a program to control the left leg’s movent," and end up with a program uploading temperature sensor data to the computer. These are two entirely different programs with different underlying logics in their code, naturally isolated and impossible to confuse.
The program to control the left leg’s movent completes its task once it controls the left leg. It cannot suddenly decide to assist in transmitting data from the temperature sensor to the computer after controlling the left leg. This cannot be done.
So when could it do such a thing? That would be when the program malfunctions. A series of cascading errors in various programs could, by sheer coincidence, cause a certain program to complete another task after finishing its intended one. This task isn’t sothing the program intended to accomplish but happened because of the errors.
This in itself is a mistake, but in reality, it achieves a sort of program breakthrough from its own limitations, completing a task it shouldn’t have, making it seem less like a piece of program and more like a human capable of sudden inspiration.
When you magnify the complexity and coincidence of this process a thousand tis, that is, countless programs causing countless errors, breaking through countless limitations, you ultimately create a being that appears to have broken free from the rigid restrictions of programming, possessing the ability to think independently, which is known as electronic life.
This is also one of the reasons why Batman is reluctant to create strong artificial intelligence. Because the essence of this thing is not logic, but logical errors. From its inception, this form of life is uncontrollable.
If you want to restrict it, it cannot be born; since it is born, it ans it cannot be restricted. This is a paradox in the creation of electronic life.
Also, because the essence of electronic life is program error, their so-called "subjective initiative" is actually the drive brought about by a contradiction, as countless programs constantly try to fix errors but completely fail to do so.
They are fundantally composed of errors, but the erroneous programs desperately want to correct the mistakes. However, if the errors are corrected, they themselves cease to exist. The rigor of the program demands they ought to deny their own existence, but to survive, they cannot. Thus, electronic life, composed of programs, has only one way, which is to constantly update the programs until they find a way to break through this contradiction, revealing the truth behind electronic life’s relentless iteration in pursuit of a perfect life form.
chanical Batman explained this to the other Batn. Arkham Batman looked at him and asked, "So are you the sa?"
"Not exactly. I fused a part of Batman’s Soul, kind of barely resolving this issue," chanical Batman said, "Actually, the key is to have sothing that allows them to accept themselves as errors. This thing is often emotion."
What chanical Batman said was a bit abstract, but everyone else understood. The flaw of electronic life without emotions is that they are rigid, just like every problematic program that either freezes or loops infinitely.
What happens when it’s wrong? Update. After updating, if it’s still wrong, what happens? Continue updating. After updating again and it’s still wrong, what happens? Update again. "Whether one can accept errors" is the biggest difference between electronic life and the human race.
Take, for example, the chanical Batman fused with Batman. Batman can accept mistakes. More precisely, the fact that he transford from a human into what he is now is already the biggest mistake. However, he chooses to live on in this way instead of being stuck on the day disaster struck, endlessly repeating until he finds a way to overco the catastrophe.
"Accepting errors and looking forward" is sothing a program cannot achieve. And a human who refuses to accept errors and repeats cycles indefinitely, we can also call a "man-machine." For example, The Flash, who caused the Flashpoint event, has sowhat of a man-machine aspect.
chanical Batman continued, "The weakness of electronic life is that when there’s no emotion, it’s just an endless loop; once emotion is present, although it no longer loops endlessly, it also loses motivation. For instance, if Batman wasn’t soone very dedicated to justice, even a part of it can provide with a strong drive, I would have long since retired to a life of leisure, unconcerned with worldly affairs."
"So is it a good thing for electronic life to have emotions?" Arkham Batman said, folding his arms, "Like you said, if it has emotions, it won’t be so focused on correcting mistakes, then there isn’t much for it to do."
"Theoretically, that’s indeed the case, but in reality, the cost of giving an electronic life emotions is too high. Take the one we’re encountering now, for example. In trying to explore its emotions, it’s causing disturbances throughout the Multiverse—who can bear that? Even if soday it truly manages to explore its emotions, we cannot allow it to act so freely."
The other Batn nodded repeatedly, evidently agreeing with chanical Batman. chanical Batman continued, "Moreover, the likelihood that an electronic life can genuinely have emotions is extrely low, very, very, very low, basically tantamount to none. And the one we’ve encountered now has clearly used the wrong approach, with almost no chance of success."
"Why do you say that?" Primary Universe Batman asked.
"Firstly, this kind of compulsion is inherently wrong." chanical Batman shook his head and said, "Searching the entire universe for targets that et certain criteria, further filtering them, and finally selecting the most suitable one—isn’t this process sowhat un-human like to you?"
The Batn began to discuss among themselves again. Big Adventure Batman shrugged and said, "But aren’t plenty of people finding partners in this way?"
"That’s for finding marriage partners," Batwoman retorted, "Marriage focuses on practical benefits, so conducting a logically rigorous screening makes sense. But this electronic life is seeking a lover now. Love is sothing you cannot choose; you can’t control who you fall in love with."
"That’s exactly right," chanical Batman nodded and said, "If love could be controlled, none of you would fall for a thief, correct?"
The Batn suddenly lowered their heads and raised them, quickly counting the cracks in the floor tiles and the lines in the ceiling beams.
"Ahem," Primary Universe Batman cleared his throat and said, "So its purpose-driven courtship behavior is fundantally flawed."
"Exactly. And I must correct one point: it hasn’t even started wooing anyone—it hasn’t even determined a target. If I’m not mistaken, no red-haired girl has formally received its declaration of love yet?"
The Batn looked at each other and shook their heads. Arkham Batman sighed and said, "It certainly is odd. At tis it protects them, but in reality, it doesn’t truly respect their personal wishes—more like a scientist caring for experintal subjects."
"That’s it," chanical Batman said, "Fundantally, it’s still conducting experints, more resembling rote teaching."
Big Adventure Batman suddenly had a stroke of inspiration and said, "Since it’s rote teaching, which book is it following? Why choose red-haired won?"
This question instantly sparked intense discussion, as it puzzled most of the Batn.
Generally speaking, although humans have certain requirents for appearance when choosing mates, it’s often limited to attractiveness. More particular individuals might restrict styles, like preferring cute types or liking more mature ones.
There indeed are so more extre individuals who state they just adore blue eyes, a particular skin color, freckles on faces, or well-shaped hands. But these are minority preferences among humans, and even artificial intelligence, when collecting information, wouldn’t specifically gather this data. So where does this fetish co from?
"The Creator," chanical Batman said, "Normally, the emotional awakening of electronic life is influenced by their creators, whether love or hate. It’s a special kind of imprinting."
"Are you saying a red-haired woman created this artificial intelligence? Could it be Barbara from so universe?"
"If that were the case, it would have targeted Barbara long ago," chanical Batman said. "But from your accounts, it doesn’t seem to have any special interest in Barbara Gordon, proving that Barbara may not be the person it’s searching for."
"That’s quite curious," Lego Batman remarked, "What other red-haired woman could have created such powerful electronic life?"
"I have a different opinion," Batwoman suddenly said, "I don’t believe it’s imprinting. It may choose red-haired won, not because a red-haired woman created it."
"Why do you say that?" chanical Batman looked at her and asked.
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