Chapter 379: Responding
What is life? What is wisdom?
Can a machine, an artificial intelligence, truly evolve into a form of life? How should one define the distinction between them?
If artificial intelligence becomes capable of independent thought, does that make it a form of life?
Yet, at its core, thought is merely a process of analyzing and reorganizing known information—a process that machines can simulate with sufficiently advanced computational power.
So, how can the difference between the two be clearly defined?
For now, Luo Wen couldn’t arrive at an answer. Fortunately, time was on his side—an abundance of time to reflect on these matters. Perhaps, in the future, when his knowledge had grown broader and deeper, he would finally arrive at a conclusion.
But for now, he decided to focus on the immediate challenges.
An analysis of the gathered information revealed both good news and bad.
The bad news was that the Interstellar Technological Confederation was indeed extraordinarily powerful. It currently consisted of over 200 civilizations and species. Among them, aside from the Ji, the most powerful and ancient civilization boasted a history exceeding 500,000 years, with a territory spanning nearly a hundred star systems.