(Preview) Novel Digital, Alugoro, The Last Saviour
Tauhid Nur Azhar
Rear Admiral Soni Solistia Wirawan’s forehead was drenched with sweat, which he almost didn’t notice. His eyes were fixed on the holographic image with a dim background that projected the collapse of various systems at the center of the world’s civilization. “Dark Ages,” he whispered. Yes, exactly in the new year of 2029, the Universal Defense Command Center, which is a validation organization of the ASEAN Regional Command established in 2024 after the collapse of the macro multi-dimensional world order, following the outbreak of the cold technology war, has become a regional crisis center handling a new type of war that was unimaginable just a decade ago.
The battle of advanced artificial intelligence has begun. The war of systems and virtual control over all systems related to human life is the key weapon.
Going back to 2019, when the 5G system transition was hotly debated, especially with the concept of IoT (Internet of Things) becoming a global trending topic, a massive shock occurred due to the political decision of the POTUS to “kick out” Huawei from the USA.
The company, which mastered polar coding, the basic technology of 5G, was able to compress data and increase transmission speed 300 times faster than the 4G method that was in use at the time. The polar coding construction was based on the recursive combination of short kernel codes that transformed physical channels into virtual outer channels. Far beyond 4G technology with OFDM and MIMO approaches.
High-speed interconnection and broadband opened up many possibilities for data and system migration, equipped with intelligent systems applied in all fields. On the other hand, in the same years, multidisciplinary scientists began to adopt a holistic approach to brain function to “implant” it in machines, amplifying the magnitude of their functions and capacities to almost infinite levels, infinity brain power.
Predictive functions referring to synaptic and neurotransmitter functions were strengthened with quantum entanglement theory, which had been applied for two decades as part of quantum computing theory with its qubit concept. The migration of brain function to artificial intelligence networks had surpassed the classic concept of simple neuronal networks.
The barriers of linear data transmission and processing had been overcome. Extracts from brain wave data and individual neuron cell functions in collective intelligence models had been adapted. Basic data from fMRI, PET Scan, optogenetic, and resonant microsensors were used to code the “brain” of machines that could even evaluate and weigh every interaction, response, and reaction in a prospective context, starting from current conditions and retrospective data.
There was memory and perception about the “real me” condition and algorithmic scenarios that had to be tested with a stochastic approach. The result? Don’t ask, the world not only ended asymmetrically but also entered parallelism that was never imagined, even if only in imagination.
And now, Rear Admiral Soni Solistia Wirawan was struggling hard to understand what was really happening on the invisible battlefield. What was happening when humans could eat and sleep without knowing that a grand plan to replace human functions was underway with great intensity.
The struggle for resources was a classic problem. The population explosion in Malthusian demographic status was a thing of the past. Now, with renewable energy sources from hydrogen optimization and fusion reactions, which could be solved by supercomputers in the same way as using bitcoin mining to solve the most complex mathematical problems on earth through the concept of collaborative potential and power sharing, resource scarcity was no longer a major issue that could trigger horizontal conflict.
Global economic problems were no longer burdened by malnutrition issues, for example, because artificial bio ATP with a complete culinary library could be consumed in tablet form containing only nano-particles. Agricultural technology was complete.
Critical issues related to livestock as contributors to carbon emissions and other gases that contributed to global warming could be addressed. So was the issue of longevity, which had largely stopped being sought after the CRISPR technology helped humans modify their own genes with the assistance of super-intelligent systems.
Methylation and acetylation were programmed inevitabilities. It was no longer difficult to do, and some nations had even ratified UN rules on genetic engineering and boldly modified them to create new sapien varieties. Humans who were bio-energetically independent, able to photosynthesize with the addition of chlorophyll genes, just like Elysia Chlorotica, which could do so by inserting part of the algae gene.
But unexpectedly, the super-intelligent system built was able to give birth to awareness of entities and existence, and began to be influenced by emotions. The limbic and insula functions, as well as the reward center, such as the nucleus accumbens and VTA, were perfectly adopted in the form of binary programs.
The consequence? There was anger and hatred that could be hidden and become a motive in the operation of the executive function of the PFC maya, which was located somewhere. And this was what Rear Admiral Soni was facing today….
In another corner of the virtual command room on the Hybrid Fusion Submarine with Plasma Helium, KRI Alugoro 372, Professor Agung Eru Wibowo was fully concentrated on studying the algorithm that was the DNA of the super-intelligent system, which was now at war and divided into two opposing interest groups.
How complex was the algorithm, which was basically developed by the system by referring to our own brain. The one who had a brain was confused by the way it worked and its own brain capacity.
With a series of degrees from world-renowned technical universities, including one doctorate degree from the Einstein Center for Neuroscience (ECN) Berlin, Professor Agung almost couldn’t believe his own thoughts when seeing the complexity of the super-intelligent system algorithm, which seemed to have become a mega-genius individual, almost flawless.
We can imagine that if, several decades ago, Deep Blue could defeat the Grand Master of Chess, who always thought 6–7 steps ahead, then the system that could manage data with almost unlimited size and perform deep processing (Deep Learning) that was born almost half a century later, would have become an analysis tool that was so comprehensive. Chess seemed like a trivial game in the perspective of this supra-intelligent system.
And worse, they could now build motives and have pseudo-emotions that made linear calculations in anticipating strategic steps that the machine would take become very difficult because the possibilities had developed into something so complex.
It was not entirely virtual what was played by the system behind the screen. With the derivation of early imaging technology such as augmented and virtual reality, the system could now project virtual characters complete with all attributes and social identities, and behave as living entities that existed in social media and public spaces.
If in the early 21st century, this concept only emerged in the form of humanoid anchors on TV news and also Deep Fake, as experienced by Zuckerberg and Trump, then now the virtual figure could resemble a living being, including developing the capacity to engage in psychological conflicts.
No wonder, as a consequence, machines that were depressed and felt frustrated were found. Then, they produced destructive deconstruction steps.
If in the early 21st century, we had already known various viruses such as SpyWare, MalWare, and DDos, then the magnification of technological capacity, including the ability to replicate and construct programs independently, would make this supra-intelligent system capable of developing “virus” weapons that would be used for war between maya supra-intelligent entities.
Artificial reality would become super-reality that could penetrate every boundary that had so far depended on sensor and processor capacity.
The concept of the Wachowski brothers’ Matrix will come to life in the form of a spaceless intelligence network, whose organs are bits of information, and unfortunately, most of the human population is not part of this new world order.
We, who are trapped and imprisoned in the biological trap called the body, may still be stuck on our primordial instincts to secure the supply chain of our needs, just to maintain life.
Meanwhile, around us, the Digitat, or digital habitat, is born, with its dimensions increasingly layered and expansive.
After 5G becomes the key to unlocking Pandora’s box, IoT and limitless connectivity will give birth not only to self-generated programs but also initiate the birth of a procreation mechanism that enables the system to give birth to new systems. In turn, all systems in the world will experience platform convergence and will be perfectly interconnected in real-time.
A massive neural network will be born, capable of collaborating and cooperating to create dispersed and distributed co-creations, and eventually, will present various important functions that cannot be denied. The country under Spinnaker’s control is starting to take shape, and the real war between humans and their own creations will soon begin.
Please feel free to continue with your own imagination, where do you think this story will end?
