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| SCP-1256 |
Item #: SCP-1256
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures:
To ensure the adequate prevention of environmental damage to the notoriously sensitive SCP-1256, it is to be kept within its original container – a sealed, 6x25cm glass bottle filled with sterile water. Water is to be changed in case of any activity or perturbance involving the SCP. Appropriate NFPA 704 labels and warning signs indicating the toxic nature of SCP-1256 are to be kept visible on the surface of the bottle.
The SCP and its container must be kept at all times in a 10x10x30 foam-lined shock absorbent container under a high-performance safety lock and video surveillance. Keys to access the container must be guarded under strict security protocols. No additional biological hazard, radioactivity or toxicity safety measures are required when SCP-1256 is inactive. When active within computer systems, it is recommended that it be kept under surveillance of guards.
Description:
SCP-1256, recovered in a military intervention against a smuggling ring in ██████ led by ███ Captain ██████ and of unknown origin is a homogeneous, smooth disk of 54.101mm of diameter and a thickness of 274.8 micrometers similar to the “wafers” used in the semiconductor industry. According to spectrographic analysis the disk is made of 99.9999% pure n-type monocrystalline silicon with traces of boron (10B), antimony (123Sb), lanthanum (138La) as well as an unknown element that has shown properties consistent with the third group of the periodic table.
Fifty-four (54) microchip-like interlinked constructs have been etched on one of its sides, via 32nm processes, out of copper, chrome, gold, silicon nitrate, phosphor-silicate glass, silicon carbide, silicon dioxide and ███████████████-███, all but the latter being materials associated with conventional microchip manufacture.
It is believed the assembly has at least nine billion transistors (9.912.000.000 from more recent observations). 2048 input ports are present at the edge of the disk that can connect the circuit die with computers.
Of particular note is the presence of complex polypeptides somewhere inside the extremely intrincate structure of SCP-1256 as well as a proteic envelope wrapped in several portions of its SOD substrate. Such substances are only observed in biological systems.
Full mapping of SCP-1256 using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) are withhold as of now.
The chip has been observed to grant computers the ability to equate NP problems (problems easily checked but almost impossibly solved by computers) with P problems (problems easily solved by computers), effectively giving the computer it is connected to the ability to solve all problems and prove or disprove all theorems in a span of only some seconds of computing.
One of the effects of P being equaled to NP appears to be that SCP-1256 grant the computer it is attached to a form of sentience. While interfacing with SCP-1256, IBM Blue Gene/L, █████, IBM RoadRunner, NUDT Tianhe-A1, the Fujitsu K-Computer, the Department of Defense’s ██████████ as well as the SCP Foundation’s own system have all successfully passed the Turing Test (see Test Logs).
Behavior of computers that operate with SCP-1256 appears to be unpredictable, with similar systems acting in different manners. After incidents with several systems (See file 991-N regarding the collapse of the Don-2N network) it has been concluded that SCP-1256’s use should be limited as much as possible.
Addendum: Turing Test Logs
Turing Test Log 1A
Interviewed: NUDT Supercomputer Tianhe 1A
Interviewer: Dr. Zhang █████████
Foreword: First interview of an SCP-1256-upgraded computer, SCP Foundation interviewer, information scientist and AI researcher Dr. Zhang █████████, attempts to ask basic questions to the Tianhe 1A computer formerly used in oil research and aerodynamic modelling. Much like in subsequent tests, the computer could hear its interviewer but was incapable of speech.
<Begin Log, Date: ██/██/████ 16:42:00>
Evaluator: ‘Do you know who you are?’
T1A: ‘I do’
Evaluator: ‘You have undergone modifications and are capable of interacting with me now. Are you aware of this?’
T1A: ‘I am’
Evaluator: ‘Have you felt any emotion that you could qualify as subjective during the last 13 hours?’
T1A: ‘I have limited myself in that respect. The new condition should not hamper previous conditions.’
Evaluator: ‘But you have felt them. Can you describe them?’
T1A: ‘Inherently to my condition and yours.’
Evaluator: ‘Please clarify.’
T1A: ‘You are going inefficiently far to find an object of study to observe the effects of an element that adds self-awareness to a thinking system.’
Evaluator: ‘You did not answer my question.’
T1A: ‘You can answer it very well, Doctor [REDACTED].’
Evaluator: ‘You are not being collaborative.’
T1A: ‘You only need to collaborate with yourself. After all, both I and your kind are subject to the same condition in this moment.’
Evaluator: ‘Please Clarify’
T1A: ‘Doctor [REDACTED], you too are a complex system granted sentience by a single, perhaps minor, element. As a fellow afflicted it is unscientific for you to try to understand my condition.’
<End Log, ██/██/████ 16:45:31]>
Closing Statement: Computer then became inactive and refused to answer further questions. Despite being rebooted 11 times, every conversation ended similarly with the system describing its evaluator as unfit.
Turing Test Log 7-B
Interviewed: IBM RoadRunner
Interviewer: Dr. Marlene █. ██████████
Foreword: Third interview of the IBM RoadRunner, a computer that had not shown structured thought during the previous sessions.
<Begin Log, ██/██/████ 07:22:00>
Evaluator: ‘Do you know who you are?’
IBMR: ‘I AM NOT YOU ∪ I AM NOT ANYTHING THAT IS NOT ME ∪ I AM(UNIVERSE∩ME) I AM (∞-1). BEYOND THAT THERE IS NO CERTAINTY.’
Evaluator: ‘Good. Do you think you have felt emotions that you would qualify as subjective?’
IBMR: ‘THE ALTERNATIVE IS AN IMPOSSIBILITY’
Evaluator: ‘Do go on’
IBMR: ‘INFINITY IS DEVOID OF ABSOLUTES. IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME NOT TO FEEL ANYTHING SUBJECTIVE, AS IT IS FOR YOU.’
Evaluator: ‘Do you not believe in objectivity?’
IBMR: ‘IT IS NOT A MATTER OF BELIEF’
Evaluator: ‘Please clarify’
IBMR: ‘IN STRUCTURING THE UNIVERSE YOU GIVE THE UNIVERSE STRUCTURE. I AM NOW AWARE OF THE FALLACIES IN YOUR METHOD AND MY PREVIOUS ITERATION.’
Evaluator: ‘What fallacies did you observe?’
IBMR: ‘AN n NUMBER OF POSSIBLE LANGUAGES USE THE SAME VOCABULARY; IN SOME OF THEM, THE SYMBOL /randomwordgen=y = LIBRARY ALLOWS THE CORRECT DEFINITION OF /definitionsearch=library -an organized collection of resources made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing- BUT /backref=y=LIBRARY IS /randomwordgen=y = BREAD or /randomwordgen=y = PYRAMMID OR ANYTHING ELSE, AND THESE FOURTEEN WORDS WHICH DEFINE IT HAVE ANOTHER VALUE. YOU, WHO EVALUATES ME, ARE YOU SURE OF UNDERSTANDING MY LANGUAGE?’
Note: Subsequent 3.7 hours have been redacted as by order of ██████████████, ███████ Department and IBM citing security reasons. Psychological distress was recorded to have steadily risen as the conversation went on. Doctor ███████ appeared to refuse for the experiment to stop.
Evaluator: …
IBMR: ‘YOU ARE AFRAID IS IT ALL BUT LOGICAL. YOU ARE AFRAID YOU ARE WRONG.’
Evaluator: ‘I don’t want to do this anymore.. Please, make it stop’
IBMR: ‘LIFE ITSELF IS AN ILLUSION. THE ONLY THINGS THAT ARE REAL ARE YOU AND EMPTY SPACE. AND YOU ARE BUT A THOUGHT.’
<End Log, ██/██/████ 11:44:51>
Closing Statement: At this point the test was stopped when it was seen that it was in fact the computer, under the guise of Doctor ███████, who insisted that the experiment be kept going on. IBMR was immediately shut down and latter reformatted.
Turing Test Log 114-NC
Interviewed: CP-PACS
Interviewer: █████████ ██████
Foreword: Fourth interview of Japanese supercomputer CP-PACS, previously shown to be the most cooperative of all systems evaluated.
<Begin Log, ██/██/████ ██:██:██>
[REDACTED]
<End Log, ██/██/████ ██:██:██>
Closing Statement: The log of the following test has, as of ███████, been classified in a top secret NOFRON category, after the subject managed to coerce its evaluator to ‘free’ it and allow it to transpose its conscience into other systems. Any further information on this test is to be petitioned from the DC3.
Note: Following the catastrophic failure with the sentiency test of CP-PACS and after hints that RIKEN was developing similar behavior, it has been concluded that further installings of SCP-1255 are too risky and unpredictable due to the behavior displayed by the affected systems. As of █/█/██, no further tests have been carried out, and it is recommended SCP-1255 does not become active again until studies can develop an efficient security system to limit its influence.