Jin and his team were watching a mock battle between submarines on a monitor screen in the of the .
"Fighting until one of them is destroyed is not <>, is it ......?"
Marikka said.
The <> answered.
"Marikka-sama, by <> I do not mean a battle between submarines, but between bases. And when you say destroy, you mean destroy until it stops functioning, not until it disappears.
"Ah, that's what you mean. I understand. <
"No, I am happy to be of service.
Then a voice from echoed.
"Oh, yes, of course."
"Let us see, Lady Marikka."
and Marikka stopped talking and looked at the monitor.
Incidentally, Neige and Rouge are playing in a separate room, as it is bad for their education to show them a bleak battle scene.
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In the sea, the battle had finally begun.
The first to take the lead is the from .
The submarine fires a drill torpedo.
Relative motion is required for the drill to make a hole in the object.
To put it simply, <> or <>.
If the drill bites into the object even a little, the drill will stop unless there is some force to keep the rotation going.
Furthermore, the condition that <> is also necessary.
<> at the East Base of Zigzald had an adamantite exterior, the same hardness as a torpedo.
The torpedo's low mass would cause the drill to stop rotating if it bit into the torpedo a little. Instead, the torpedo itself would recoil and spin backward.
But there is no way that <> could have been unaware of this.
< was driven by the same quality of power as the used by Jin.
In other words, the torpedo has enough power to continue spinning even if it bites into the target.
However, it is not possible to sustain it for a long period of time after it is launched.
After a minute or so, the rotation stopped and the drill torpedo did not fulfill its function.
But the is not sitting idly by waiting to be drilled.
In return, it fired eight similar drill torpedoes.
The submarine takes evasive action. But the drill torpedoes continue to follow.
< uses its maneuverability to continue its evasive maneuvers, but the drill torpedoes are even more maneuverable.
It is hit by one on its starboard side. The exterior of the torpedo is made of orichalcone, which is not as hard as adamantite, the material the drill is made of.
That means that it will be eaten into in a very short time.
If ...... remains the same.
In addition to <><>, another force was sent to the sea area where the battle was taking place.
Yes, it is the <>.
<> is a third force, but one that is allied to the > where Jin is located.
<> approaches the drill torpedo that is biting into <>.
With its underwater maneuverability being superior to anything else in the area, Mermaid 5 will have no problem catching up to and attaching to the <>.
Once attached, all you have to do is destroy the drill torpedo with the underwater knife in your hand.
Even the drill torpedo, made of adamantite, which boasts high hardness, could not resist as much as shoji paper in front of the knife made of , an ultra-high-speed vibrating sword with even greater hardness and strength.
The drill torpedo ceased its function before it could penetrate the armor plate of the <>.
At about the same time, the seven <> from 6 to 12 caught up with the drill torpedo tracking <>. and stopped the drill torpedo with an underwater knife.
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<>
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They were aware that there was a third force in the battle area. However, they had not anticipated that it would intervene in the battle between the two bases.
No, it was mentioned as one of the possibilities, but we ignored it because it was too low a possibility.
However, it does not mean that the supervising magical brain of <> is incompetent.
One of the important issues in the development of AI (Artificial Intelligence) is the theme of <>.
This can be simply described as follows.
First of all, <>.
Therefore, it is necessary to extract only the necessary matters.
However, it is necessary to consider <>.
Here <<>.
It is something like .......
It is not easy to create an artificial intelligence that can execute commands such as <>, which humans can avoid without difficulty.
< solved this problem by combining multiple artificial intelligences.
The assumption is that an AI pursuing only a specific goal will not get lost. An example is an AI that plays Go or chess.
Such an AI does not care whether it is raining or not. It just silently pursues the best move in Go or chess.
Such an AI pursuing a specific purpose is an offensive AI such as <><>, and also a defensive AI such as <><>. Defensive AI such as <><>, and Evasive AI such as <>>... and so on. The structure is like this: assumes the possible situations, and then puts an AI to control them and operates it as needed: .......
The example I just gave is a <. Similarly, the controlling magic brain was designed to be able to perform a vast amount of parallel processing, such as for <> to manage materials and deal with malfunctions, and <> to respond to <>, etc.
Moreover, since <>, there are countless possibilities and options to be discarded.
It would take an infinite amount of time to consider which of them are not necessary.
If AI has only finite processing power, we can choose from a finite number of options.
The downside of this is the possibility of <...... like humans.
As I have explained at length, because of this background, even the magical brain created by <> is not infallible.
Jin took advantage of such a gap and assisted the < at .
>.
< described the <> as such.
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"Oh, that's ......."
"I can't see it clearly, but the <> is assisting them, isn't it?"
< and Marikka looked on in amazement at the battle situation with the help of the <>.
It was the first time they had seen how well the <> could fight and what they could do.
"Oh, our torpedo hit that hemispherical submarine over there."
"You're just following up, aren't you, Jin-sama?"
< directly destroys torpedoes when defending itself, but it does not directly target its opponents when attacking.
This can be seen even on a poor quality monitor.
"But a hemispherical submarine would not be very maneuverable, would it?"
Jin was watching the battle unfold.
"Father, the first surprise attack may have decided the outcome of the battle, didn't it?"
"Well, maybe. It doesn't look like they're going to destroy it thoroughly.
Jin imagined that since the had a resource-starved past, it might have been ingrained in their behavioral principles.