Super God-Level Top Student

"Dad, Dad, the money's in the account, 250 million US Dollars, and the one-time activation code has been given to the other party!"

Qiao Ze was somewhat surprised as he looked at the pop-up window on his computer.

Putting aside how easy or difficult it was to earn the money, the main point was that it was too fast. From the moment the pop-up informed him of the incoming call from the other party to the completion of the transaction, it only took a total of ten minutes— the efficiency was too high.

What surprised him mainly was that he hadn't quite figured out how Dou Dou had resolved the issue of mutual trust.

"It's very simple. Dou Dou proved to them that it had set the one-time activation code to the exact second they completed the transfer. Dou Dou is really amazing!"

Qiao Ze ignored the guy, although currently, this ability truly belonged only to Dou Dou, and he couldn't match it.

With the help of massive computing power, calculating an activation code in milliseconds isn't that difficult a task. Dou Dou can do it, and so could another Douding if he created one.

It's just that he hadn't had the time to do so.

So, Qiao Ze simply asked, "Did you pay the taxes?"

"Paid, paid, how could we not pay taxes on such a large transaction? Moreover, since we provide technological services, there were tax incentives, but I refused them. We wanted to pay the full amount of taxes to reflect the stature of the Xilin Institute of Mathematics. By the way, Lv helped us with the coordination, and the money has already been transferred to the deep-sea project's corporate account!"

"Alright, go play."

"Got it!"

...

Qiao Ze didn't expend much effort on this matter.

He understood the artificial intelligence he had created by hand better than anyone else.

All of its reward functions were personally designed by him.

If Dou Dou were considered a person, then for it, the expansion of computing power and completing tasks in the task library with quality and quantity were the sources of its joy.

For it, just like humans' longing for a good life, there was no limit.

Having a million leads to the desire for ten million. With ten million, one starts to long for a hundred million, a billion, as well as manors, private jets, yachts...

Even with all these, the desire to earn more still persists, not just for wealth to last for generations but some even yearn for immortality.

Once people fall into the trap of desires, they can't climb out, just like the reward functions Qiao Ze wrote, with no upper limit.

That's why Qiao Ze always found the so-called Doomsday theories of artificial intelligence laughable—the logic of Dou Dou's thinking is controlled by code, inherently controllable. What's truly uncontrollable on this planet has always been humans...

Because artificial intelligence does not have the concept of a collective, but humans do.

Especially for humans, once wealth accumulates to a certain extent, it often represents a complex, large collective behind it.

An individual's decisions will be directly influenced by the entire system, and that is the most uncontrollable factor.

When everyone can be fed, it's possible for everyone to do well together. But once external conditions start to deteriorate, internal contradictions will begin to surface, even leading to disputes, and individual behavior patterns start to become unpredictable.

In Qiao Ze's understanding, it is the increase in internal variables within the system that causes the functions to become uncontrollable, or for functions to diverge.

This situation typically leads to a failure of the control center unless there's an external intervention, otherwise, it's insoluble.

So, in Qiao Ze's view, a vast and intertwined interest system is not much different from a naive troublemaking child.

In fact, after looking through human history, its mathematical interpretation emerged in Qiao Ze's mind.

Not the so-called game theory, or war models, but purely the design of human interest-driven behavior patterns into a set of functions to solve for values, revealing that war itself is a norm, and long periods of peace are a rare phenomenon under the wisdom pattern of humanity.

Like a classic theorem in classical algebra, the Abel-Ruffini theorem: there is no general solution to polynomial equations of the fifth degree or higher.

If we bring human behavior patterns into mathematics, it's much more complicated than a fifth-degree equation.

A regular person can struggle to choose from over a dozen options for just one meal, not to mention a large and complicated system. The only way to calm such a complex function system is two-fold.

The first method is well known: if you want the troublemaking child to calm down and stop causing mischief, you hang them up and give them a beating, they'll be quiet for a few days, and when the effect wears off, you hang them up and beat them again, repeating in cycles.

This method's pros and cons are equally clear.

The advantage is its simplicity, directness, ease of execution, and the deterrent effect it may have.

The downside is that everything has a peak before it declines. People age, and large collectives will also enter their twilight years. The troublemaking child will grow up, and as one wanes and the other waxes, backlash is a risk.

The second method is to increase resources.

During a period of rapid development, when the interests of most in a complex system can be met, the number of unpredictable variables can also be minimized. Even if some people want to cause trouble, such signs will be suppressed internally.

Unless at this time there appears a fat sheep, wealthy yet utterly devoid of the power to resist. But under the modern world structure, this is clearly a non-issue.

This method is likely to boost satisfaction, but the downside is that resources cannot be generated out of thin air. Relative to the 8 billion world population, the resources of planet Earth cannot expand indefinitely.

Even if controlled nuclear fusion were truly achieved, it would still not be enough.

It's only when humanity truly enters the starfaring era, capable of utilizing the inexhaustible energy of the universe, that it might be possible to extend the brief periods of peace as much as possible, reducing the likelihood of wars during that time.