"Zelazny, Roger - The Force that Through The Circuit Drives The Current" - читать интересную книгу автора (Zelazny Roger)

УYes,Ф Tom said, glancing at the indicators, УitТs a bonus, all right. Look at that slop flow, will you! If the unit holds up through this, weТve scored all the way around.Ф

УI think it will. It seems to have stabilized itself. That brain is actually functioning. I could almost feel those little tunnel junction neuristors working, forming their own interconnections as I operated it. Apparently, I fed it sufficient activity, it took in sufficient dataЕ It formed its own paths. It didЧlearn. When the quake started, it took independent action. It almost doesnТt really need me now.Ф

УExcept to teach it something new, for whatever we want it to do next.Ф

Dan nodded, slowly.

УYesЧЧStill, you wonder what itТs teaching itself, now that itТs in control for a time. That was a peculiar feelingЧwhen I realized it had finally come into its equivalent of awareness. When it made its own decision to adjust to that first tiny shock. Now, watching it control its own situationЕ It knows what itТs doing.Ф

УLook! You can actually see those damn eddies! ItТs doing around fifty-five miles an hour, and that slop is still going faster. ЧYeah, that must really have been something, feeling it take over that way.Ф

УIt was quite strange. Just when it happened, I felt as if I wereЧ touching another awareness, I guess thatТs the best way to put it. It was as if a genuine consciousness had suddenly flickered into being beside my own, down there, and as if it were aware of me, just for a second. Then we went our own ways. I think the neuropsych boys and the cyberneticists were right. I think weТve produced an artificial intelligence.Ф

УThatТs really frosting on my turbidity cake,Ф Tom said, taking notes. УIt was actually a Swiss guy, back in the nineteenth century, who first guessed at turbidity currents, to explain how mud from the Rhone got way out in Lake GenevaЧdid you see that!? Tore a hunk right off the side! Yeah, thatТs a great little gimmick youТve got. If it makes it down to the plains, I want some cores right away. WeТve got plenty of recent samples, so it ought to be able to give us the depth of sediment deposit from this slide. Then maybe you could send it back up to where it was, for some comparison cores with the ones it was just taking. IЧФ

УI wonder what it thinks about itselfЧand us?Ф

УHow could it know about us? It only knows what you taught it, and whatever itТs learning now.Ф

УIt felt me there, right at the end. IТm sure of it.Ф

Tom chuckled.

УCall that part of its religious upbringing, then. If it ever gets balky, you can thunder and lightning at it. ЧMust be doing close to sixty now!Ф

Dan finished his coffee.

УI just had a bizarre thought,Ф he said, moments later. УWhat if something were doing the same thing to usЧcontrolling us, watching the world through our sensesЧwithout our being aware of it?Ф

Tom shrugged.

УWhy should they?Ф

УWhy are we doing it with the unit? Maybe theyТd be interested in turbidity currents on this sort of a planetЧor of our experiments with devices of this sort. ThatТs the point. It could be anything. How could we tell?Ф

УLet me get you another cup of coffee, Dan.Ф

УAll right, all right! Forgive the metaphysics. I was just so close to that feeling with the unitЕ I started picturing myself on the teleslave end of things. The feelingТs gone now, anyhow.Ф

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УVoic, what is it?Ф

Voic released the querocube and lufted toward Doman.

УThat one I was just fidingЧit came closer than any of them ever did before to recognizing my presence!Ф

УDoubtless because of the analogous experience with its own fide. Interesting, though. Let it alone for a while.Ф