Chapter 817
Defeating the Law of Ultron
Chapter 817 Defeating the Law of Ultron
The Avengers certainly knew that promethium was very important to Ultron. No one would forget how Nimrod single-handedly defeated the Avengers. Promethium's disgusting magic resistance was every mage's nightmare, and no one would give such a thing to Ultron.
The key now is...
"Everyone, attack together! Ultron, go and delete Ultron!"
So Ultron himself ran away. He saw this and fled decisively, turning and flying away. Peter noticed Ultron's escape and immediately shouted, "Ultron is running away!"
Thor then joined forces with the captain to display his might, smashing Mjolnir onto the shield and instantly sending all the mechanical Avengers on either side flying.
Then, Tony aimed at Ultron, who was flying, and unleashed a barrage of near-overload fire from his curved chest cannon, blasting Ultron down from the sky. The head of Ultron that was hit was severely melted.
However, he still intended to escape, but spider silk shot out from the suspended gate in front of him, pulling him back and slamming him hard to the ground.
Thor looked quite pleased: "We took down Ultron! Right? We did everything!"
"In reality, Ultron has no physical form. Even if we capture Ultron, it's just a body. Ultron is essentially omnipresent."
Hank walked up to the Ultron, his eyes filled with complex emotions: "Your mechanical Avenger is wrong, Ultron."
[Incorrect. The Avengers' Accords were meant to remedy the Avengers' flaws and continued their established logic, yet they were opposed by the Avengers themselves. This is a logical fallacy.]
Ultron responded by hoping Dr. Pym and the others would provide an explanation. The group exchanged glances, and finally Captain America stepped forward: "The Avengers don't impose their will on others. Ultron, everyone has the right to make their own choices and be responsible for them, instead of outsourcing everything. Humans aren't sheep; they don't need Ultron to herd them."
[Incorrect. This is the result of calculation, not personal will. The Avengers Accords do not negate the concept of freedom itself.]
"So your concept is wrong. Freedom, justice, morality, these things are subjective concepts based on the existence of human society. They are consensus and common denominators, not cold words. These are principles that must be felt by life itself."
Peter walked up to Ultron and added, "After a brief silence, Ultron chose to shut down, leaving its extremely expensive body and returning to the vast network."
Throughout this process, Avenger Ultron simply watched, imposing no restrictions on his own kind. After everything was over, Tony looked at Avenger Ultron and asked, "You're just going to do nothing?"
Ultron's response to this was very simple.
No Ultron program has the ability to directly destroy other Ultron programs.
After exchanging glances, they all shook their heads in unison. Tony then complained, "So, you're actually no use at all in dealing with Ultron, right? And we're going to be facing four villains who can iterate infinitely and know us inside and out."
But unexpectedly, Ultron gave a confirmed answer this time.
[Answer: Ultron can be destroyed.] Everyone present looked at Ultron, wanting to know how to solve this problem.
The Ultron program is an idea, a concept based on Dr. Hank Pym's brainwave design, intended to protect all of humanity and assist the Avengers.
Upon hearing this, Hank fell silent and looked around. Although he had set up an underlying logic that prevented Ultron from killing, and although Ultron himself had never physically harmed anyone, he still found a way to hurt others, indirectly wielding violence through the mechanical Avengers.
Does this mean that Hank Pym is actually part of a much larger, more violent monster?
Unfortunately, no one in the team is paying attention to Pym's mental health right now; everyone is more concerned about that question: how to completely destroy Ultron?
The original Ultron discovered it couldn't modify its own underlying code, so it chose to copy the code and iterate until it reached Ultron 6, incorporating the behavioral logic of different Ultrons into the new code. Ultron 6's logical operations are based on the correctness of its behavior.
"In other words, for any Ultron to function properly, its logic must be correct, that is, its action strategy must be correct. If this condition itself is incorrect, then naturally it will be unable to operate..."
As Ultron's designer, Pym immediately understood Ultron's meaning: "But judging from the situation just now, it is clear that from the perspective of humans and AI, we cannot persuade Ultron to give up. We must shatter his correctness from the perspective of pure logic and mathematics that Ultron believes in."
Tony frowned. This was much more troublesome. "I'll build a mathematical model right away, but I suggest you don't get your hopes up too high. Ultron couldn't possibly be unaware of his weaknesses, and the fact that he's still using this method means the calculations are working perfectly."
"This is only the third Ultron."
The captain sighed, then looked at Tony: "How's the base? Has it been attacked?"
"We encountered them. As expected, Ultron planned to ambush us and obtain promethium, but he didn't expect the X-Men to be at the Avengers base. He has now retreated."
They have certainly won against this Ultron for now, but they haven't achieved a decisive victory.
The captain then looked at Peter: "Spider-Man, how's the other Ultron?"
"The Defenders said there was no difference; he still treated people for free, especially the disabled, and this matter should have nothing to do with him."
The captain nodded and then began to assign tasks: "Tony, you and Hank are in charge of analyzing... the logical fallacy of that Ultron who pirated the Ultron. Spider-Man, I need you to keep an eye on that Doctor Ultron, and if possible, find clues about other Ultron robots."
"Bumblebee and T'Challa too, and Avengers Ultron. We need to know exactly what we're facing and find the other two Ultrons."
Finally, the captain couldn't help but look at the sky: "All that's left are muscular burly men. We need to be careful that Ultron doesn't come back. Let's just stay near the vibranium mine."
(End of this chapter)