I Got an Omnipotent Brain Chapter 94

Translator: Dreamscribe

The sudden announcent threw every user logged into LOGIA into chaos.

-What was that just now? A notice popped up on my screen. 3,000 points?

-System error?

-A hack? Or maybe the server crashed.

-LOGIA's score cap was a thousand points. This is insane. It blew past 2,000 and 3,000 in one go.

-Calm down, guys. Look at the userna. If you don't recognize it, go buy a science magazine or sothing.

-Yu Seo-ha? The guy who solved the Smale problem?

[System Administrator: We are currently investigating the scoring process. No errors have been found so far, and we can confirm the score is valid.]

-So it wasn't a bug.

-S-plus wasn't even the ceiling.

Reddit was absolutely exploding.

[AI Surrenders to Human]

-A human just shattered LOGIA's score ceiling. Apparently the evaluation criteria got updated.

(Screenshot of LOGIA score: 3,263.9)

└Looked into it and LOGIA expanded its own evaluation function.

└So it was forced to update ㅋㅋㅋ

└The guy solved an unsolvable problem, so obviously this much is deserved. Feels like LOGIA set those problems for its own amusent with zero accountability, and now it's ti to pay the price.

└LOGIA patch notes: forced update (By Human). Never underestimate humans again.

└As an AI researcher, this is a pretty fascinating result. A score above 3,000 ans the logical depth is over three tis deeper than existing structures. In other words, LOGIA determined that its own algorithms were insufficient to evaluate SH.

└Exactly. Basically LOGIA went "this is too hard" and cried while rewriting its own rules.

s about "the human who made AI submit" were trending across every community, creating a literal festive atmosphere.

Dozens of variations of the had already been produced, and science YouTubers, sensing blood in the water, rolled up their sleeves and jumped in.

[Did AI Lose? An Analysis of the LOGIA 3,000-Point Incident]

[Is This Real?! National Pride Sweeping the Global Math Community]

[Who Is the Human Who Told AI "Hey! Go Recalculate!"?]

The reactions that started online showed no signs of dying down.

"Isn't this oppa?"

Seo-eun had been using the computer when a photo of Seo-ha suddenly popped up, startling her.

One image showed Seo-ha holding a hamr and smashing a robot's head. In another, Seo-ha was dressed as a paladin waging a holy war against machines.

"Shh! You shouldn't be looking at stuff like this."

Click.

Seo-ha covered Seo-eun's eyes and closed the browser window.

* * *

It was sester break, but the Spectra Works clubhouse was sweltering with the heat pumped out by the computers.

Coffee cans rolled around on the floor.

A tir was running on the screen mounted to the wall.

[719 : 59 : 59]

Thirty days.

The deadline they had set for themselves, the date by which the official build of the MIT Simulator had to be finished.

"Damn it, we've only got one month left!"

"Wait, didn't you say three months would be plenty?"

"That was before I realized this engine was built by Satan himself!"

Clackclackclackclack.

They had never planned to make a ga this complex.

But the Synapse Engine's performance was so exceptional that they'd had to tear apart and rebuild a significant portion of their original ga design.

NPCs predicted each other's movent paths and naturally changed direction just before colliding.

"The NPCs are aware of each other right now, right?"

Root asked Entropy.

"Yeah, it's a kind of collective cognition implentation. Seo-ha built sothing insane. If this scales up, the way the entire population reacts could be..."

Cypher let out an impressed sigh.

"You'd basically have to call it a society at that point."

The NPCs' movents were as natural as real humans.

Students heading toward their destinations would run into friends. Then one of them would deviate from their original route and do sothing unexpected.

"What's really amazing is that the agents aren't probability-based. Each NPC was assigned random personality traits. And they move based on decision functions matched to those traits."

Entropy pointed at her monitor.

"See that one right there? Her fatigue level is high, but her diligence weight and responsibility vector are large, so she's pushing through and studying. Once she gets more tired, she'll head ho."

"Then what about her?"

Root asked, looking at a female NPC petting a dog.

"High introversion and observation tendencies, low achievent drive. But she has a kind and lovable personality. High appearance stats too. She's not the type to generate a lot of events, but she frequently alters the paths of nearby agents."

Cypher stroked his chin.

"Yeah, in real life too, pretty girls definitely throw off people's routes."

He himself had once been drawn along like he was under a spell after spotting a beauty.

Entropy pointed to another NPC.

"The Synapse Engine is truly incredible. It even factors in visual stimulus as a variable. The NPCs sense things like each other's attractiveness levels and emotional indices and interact based on that, and this is functionality I never even imagined."

Now that Seo-ha had been given sufficient computing resources, the dormant potential of the Synapse Engine had begun to unlock.

Features that had been deactivated due to processing constraints were switched on, and modules that had only existed inside Seo-ha's head were added one by one.

"Which ans sothing like this is also possible."

Entropy summoned a horde of zombies onto Killian Court.

Cypher and Root stared at the monitor with laser focus.

The realism was as if it were real.

The NPCs' alertness indices and stress levels spiked. Then they began acting according to their individual traits.

Aaaaaah!

NPCs scread.

So imdiately took shelter in nearby buildings. Others rescued people who had fallen.

There were students who had grabbed makeshift weapons like sticks from sowhere and were fighting the zombies head-on. Students who had taken shelter first brought materials and began building barricades at the entrances.

"Wow..."

"This is incredible."

In an instant, the ga had beco a survival suspense scenario where chaos, fear, cooperation, avoidance, and survival instinct all coexisted.

"With the Synapse Engine, we can make any ga. From realistic simulators to zombie apocalypses, we just need to adjust the paraters."

The three of them were speechless for a while.

"If we made a garbage ga with an engine like this..."

"If that happened, we'd have to quit ga developnt for good. It would an we're hopelessly incompetent."

Everyone nodded at Root's words.

"Let's make a ga worthy of this engine. Seo-ha already did far more than we expected. The rest, we handle ourselves."

While Seo-ha was busy with thesis preparations, the three of them began completing the ga, each in their own area of expertise.

Cypher wrote a checklist on the whiteboard.

"The engine's performance is overkill, so I keep wanting to add more stuff, but let's focus on finishing the beta version first."

Root raised his hand.

"Still, I want to include a few modes. Zombies, disaster mode, maybe even an alien invasion scenario. That could be fun."

"It would definitely be a waste to just run a daily life simulator with an engine this powerful."

The three of them exchanged ideas with sparkling eyes.

"Above all, this is an engineering school. When you get a bunch of MIT engineers together, they'll build anything."

"The robotics kids would make robot arms and chuck bricks."

"What about battle suits? Transformation is the ultimate dream."

"The aerospace kids would build mini rocket launchers or sothing."

"Can't leave out flathrowers."

Ideas flowed like a spring.

The whiteboard's checklist was packed full.

Work continued for weeks.

The Synapse Engine systematically brought to life every concept they dread up. The campus expanded into an even more complex and realistic world.

The three of them worked at a frenzied pace from their respective stations.

"What on earth happened here?"

Seo-ha's eyes went wide.

He had co back from the colloquium only to find a scene completely different from the usual spread out before him.

Clatter.

Energy drink cans rolling everywhere, dried-out pizza boxes, pasta containers only half-eaten.

On the whiteboard, the nurous checklist items had been crossed off with X marks.

The state of the three people was even more alarming.

Entropy was half-collapsed in her chair, still editing code.

Root and Cypher clearly hadn't bathed in days. Yet their hands hadn't stopped moving.

"Hey! You're back?"

Root raised a hand in greeting.

His desk was piled high with papers covered in dense debug logs.

"Seo-ha, you know the engine you designed? We weren't utilizing it to its full potential. But a little while ago, we started to get the hang of it."

Entropy turned her monitor toward Seo-ha.

Disaster mode. A massive flood had hit the school. Brave students were diving into the water to rescue people in danger. Afterward, everyone climbed to the rooftops and began building boats.

Beyond that, simulations with various other modes applied were playing out vividly inside the ga.

"You all must have worked incredibly hard."

What he had thought of as a simulator now had significantly enhanced gaplay elents.

NPCs moved in completely different ways depending on their major, and as individual thought processes intertwined, ergent group behaviors arose.

"Ha ha! This was nothing."

"It was only possible because of the Synapse Engine."

Cypher and Root wore proud expressions as well.

"But how are you planning to release this?"

Even at a glance, it was a ga that required enormous cloud computing power.

Even if only a few hundred users connected, the monthly server costs would be impossible to cover.

"Haha! We've got a plan for that."

Root, who was in charge of the server side, explained their strategy.

"First, we're going to release a demo version that can run locally, for free. Half the features will be unavailable, and scenarios will be limited to two at most. But this way, there are no server costs."

Seo-ha pointed at the monitor with a puzzled expression.

On the screen, a ga of enormous scale was running.

"I ran the numbers, and the max capacity our lab server can handle is thirty people. The rest, we'll just block with a queue. If people want to enjoy the full version, they'll have to put in so effort."

Seo-ha was a little surprised.

Spectra Works was operating with a solid roadmap in place.

"That's a great idea. If soone plays the demo version and gets curious enough to connect, only to hit a queue..."

"They'd be dying to get in."

"It'd feel like a closed beta test too."

"The legendary simulator, getting famous like that."

The three of them looked at each other and smiled wearily.

Their faces were a ss, but after a long stretch of hardship, they had a result they could be satisfied with.

"Honestly, there's a chance we won't even get thirty people to..."

"Stop! Just keep that thought to yourself! I'm terrified of flopping too."

Cypher cut Root off in a hurry.

"But it could go the other way too, right? The queue gets swamped with thousands of people, investnt offers co pouring in from everywhere. Then we'd all be rich, wouldn't we?"

Entropy ran through her happy-scenario calculations.

"I really hope that happens. If we beco a unicorn, we'd get famous too, right?"

"I'm not even hoping for that much. I'd be happy if we just got enough traction for a full release."

Seo-ha glanced at the whiteboard.

A considerable number of unfixed bugs still remained.

"You three should get so rest. I'll finish up the rest."

How many nights had they pulled all-nighters in this room?

All three of them had eyes that were red and bloodshot.

"Do we really look that rough?"

"We were actually trying to have it done before you got back..."

"Now we feel bad."

Seo-ha shooed them out by force and sat down at his workstation.

'Start with the big ones.'

He opened the debug console, and dozens of warning ssages ca flooding out.

Seo-ha loosened up his hands, then began tapping away at the keyboard.

Clackclackclackclack.

A glance at the wall showed the tir still running.

[42 : 02 : 59]

Less than two days remained until the target deadline.

Clack, clack.

Deleting code, rewriting it, testing it.

The NPC behavior graph updated. The bugs that had been plaguing Spectra Works were squashed one by one.

By the ti the three of them returned, Seo-ha had already fixed most of the bugs.

Two days later, 9 AM.

A short post went up on MIT's student community board and Reddit.

[MIT Simulator Internal Demo Release]