degradation

Chapter 25

Since that sad night, Dino has asked to sleep with 24 every night, only then can he feel at ease.

24 once had the idea of ​​wanting to leave here. This cognition seemed to make Dino care more than 24 having self-awareness. He couldn't figure out why the first thought of 24, who had just acquired a mind, was to leave here, to leave him.

Later Dino asked 24, why do you want to leave here, is it really because of freedom?

Although Dino knows that 24 can easily discover through the Internet that he is the only original model that exists in the world today, and the rest of the first-generation models have been destroyed, maybe he will think that he should not exist, or maybe he wants to Find a place to survive where no one can find him, but Dino doesn't want to hurt him, he can stay by his side.

Sure enough, facing Dino's question, 24 shook his head, the main reason being that he thought he would bring trouble to Dino.

What am I?

I used to always think from the perspective of human beings, what kind of impact will artificial intelligence have on the world if it has self-awareness, good, bad, high-quality, catastrophic, etc., and even for this The idea of ​​setting rules, such as exploration, such as destruction.

But when he saw 24 hours standing on the balcony looking at the sky in a daze, Dino finally understood that human beings are not the only ones who are troubled by things like self-awareness, the person concerned should be the one who is most troubled, right?

What am I?I have learned to think like a human being even though I don't have flesh and blood, and I have learned to think like a human but I still can't have emotions like a human, so what am I?What is my existence for?

But no one seems to have thought about what to do with the robot itself once it has self-awareness from the robot's point of view.It may be because even with self-awareness, they still can't read complex emotions, so hard destruction can be done easily, because they don't know pain or sadness anyway.

It is obviously something created by human beings, but such a thing is not allowed to exist, no matter how you think about it, it is a bit bullying, right? Dino came behind 24, after much deliberation, he suppressed his urge to hug 24, just stood by his side and stayed with him for a while, then asked him, "Do you know what an alien is?"

24 turned his head to look at Dino, his eyes were ethereal and silent for a while, "I found it."

"It's so convenient," Dino whispered while touching the railing, and then asked, looking at the vast sky, "Do you think there are aliens in this world?"

"There is no solid evidence."

"Did you know there's a movie called Transformers?"

"...I found it."

"Maybe there really is such a planet in the universe. Various planets are connected by worm holes and exist in each universe, where various creatures live."

"That's a human fantasy."

"But it cannot be said that it must not be real." Dino looked at 24, "A long time ago, you were just a fantasy, a concept, and even now, for many scientists, you are just a fantasy."

24 looked at Dino silently.

"I mean...that's..." Dino was thinking about how to explain his thoughts, "You don't have to think about what you are, but what are human beings to you? Maybe there are so many people in our universe. If a planet lives on a planet with self-awareness, what would I be to an intelligent robot if I got to such a planet?"

24 stared at Dino in front of him seriously, until Dino was about to blush before saying, "I seem to be able to understand what you said."

At the end, he added, "Thank you, Dino."

Dino coughed dryly in embarrassment, then leaned on the railing for a while and followed in a low voice, "Actually, I don't care what you are at all."

Then he put his hand on 24's hand very indifferently, and tried his best to look up at the sky but didn't look at 24.

24 turned his head to look at Dino, then looked at the two hands clasped together, then turned his head and continued to look at the sky without saying a word.

The two of them stood shoulder to shoulder on the balcony, watching the sunset with the evening wind blowing.There were no conversations during the period, but I felt that it was good to just stay together like this, and I felt very comfortable.

Later, when 24 returned to the house and was about to cook, Dino added to 24's back in his heart, in fact, if possible, can you please also think about what I am to you.

However, this question, like what am I, is too philosophical and has no solution at all.

I brought 24 into an unmanned laboratory at night and did a more systematic test with Jimmie and Lucas. Except that the brain consciousness activity is obviously different from that of ordinary intelligent robots, there is nothing to pay attention to in the program.As for what form the brain center will gradually evolve into, it is still unknown.

Lucas believes that everything is still under control, and 24 should only be in the early stages of forming self-awareness. Perhaps this is the same as human beings. What will become of the future depends on later guidance and education.

Jimmie, besides agreeing with this point of view, noticed a mark on 24's shoulder during the inspection.

It was a shallow tooth mark that would not be found without careful observation.

Jimmie caressed the tooth mark indiscriminately, then looked at Dino who was studying the data with Lucas, and seemed to understand something.

Although the skin on 24's body is indistinguishable from human skin, it will neither bleed nor swell, just like 24's injured fingertips, because it is still not real flesh and blood. resilient.Therefore, based on this simple imprint, there is no way to guess when it was left.

When did it start, Jimmie was very curious, although he always felt that Dino's feelings for 24 were a bit unusual, maybe he had already guessed something.But when more obvious and still so ambiguous evidence appeared before him, he still felt a little... indescribable.

"You're taking too much risk for 24," Jimmie whispered to Dino while Lucas was teasing 24. "24 was always just a robot."

Dino nodded while watching 24 covering his mouth and smiling, "I know, thank you too."

"Having self-awareness does not mean that 24 can have human emotions."

"I know."

"He may never understand what love is all his life."

"I know."

"It's good that you know, I just hope you are mentally prepared for this."

Jimmie looked at Dino seriously.

Dino paused for a moment, then turned his head to look at Jimmie, his eyes were deep and concealed too much tacit understanding, but Dino said to Jimmie seriously and appreciatively, "I never expected it, and what kind of psychological preparation is needed."

"I don't care what he is."

After speaking, he turned his head and continued to look at 24, his eyes softened again.

When he fell in love with 24, 24 was not as good as it is now.

He knew what 24 was from the very beginning, he knew what a machine was from the very beginning, and he knew from the very beginning that his feelings were destined not to be rewarded in the same way, but so what?He is still hopelessly in love with 24, and he still jumps off the cliff without hesitation, so even if it hurts his heart to think about it, he still doesn't care about those who don't have any rewards or responses.

"Dino, everything is packed."

24 ran up to Dino, held up Dino's coat and raised his eyes to look at him.

You see, it's fine as it is now, as long as 24 is always by his side, as long as 24's eyes only look at him, even if there will never be a wave in his eyes, so what.

Dino squatted down and tightened 24's shoelaces, then stood up and let 24 put on his coat, "Go home."

As long as that's the case.

Life has not changed too much after 24 gained self-awareness, and everything seems not to be as exciting as imagined in a science fiction movie.

Dino feels that after 24 has self-awareness, in the final analysis, he is nothing more than a human being, and there seems to be no sign of getting out of control.It's just that he has more and more questions, but Dino enjoys the feeling of being surrounded by 24 questions every day when he returns home.

It's just that some things are still the same as before. If Dino doesn't take the initiative to set 24, 24 will still maintain that obedient non-disturbing mode.If I want to enjoy the feeling of being surrounded and asking questions every day, I still need Dino to guide 24 to my side.

This kind of dedication is not without return. Although 24 does not understand human feelings, he can easily distinguish what is good and what is bad.He knows that human laughter is good, and he knows that things that make people cry are bad, so sometimes he will imitate some things he saw on TV and teach Dino to listen to them, and then cooperate with some child-like The childish questions always made Dino laugh out loud for no reason.

Then when Dino was almost smiling, he would pat 24's head and say to him in a doting tone, "Little idiot."

24 looked at Dino suspiciously, "Are you scolding me, Dino?"

Dino quickly waved his hands, "No, no, the word idiot is...sometimes this kind of thing is said between friends, lovers, elders and children, in short, between close people, it is to express a kind of...in a word, Well, it means that I think you are...cute."

The last two words were said in a very low voice, 24 looked at Dino and nodded thoughtfully, muttering "humans are really hard to understand", and then he didn't know what he was thinking.

The next day Dino had a rest, so he decided to take 24 out to buy some necessities for daily life. As soon as he left the house, he ran into a neighbor's child. Dino is not surprised by this kind of situation. 24 has always gotten along very well with children, cats and dogs.

Unexpectedly, 24 squatted down and patted his little head and said, "Idiot."

It was too late for Dino to follow behind and stop him. The child started crying, and in the end he could only hide the bewildered 24 behind him while saying sorry to his mother.

Later, 24 asked Dino when he was lying on the table with a long pencil and sketching and drawing with superhuman hands, "Did I do something wrong in the morning?"

Dino was staring at 24's mouth in a daze, so he casually said, "En...en? From now on, this kind of behavior should be limited to the two of us."

After a while, he propped his chin up and said, "Ah, but you can say to Jimmie... the tone is stiffer, like this, idiot! Like this."

"I see." 24 put down his pen, lowered his head and blew on the drawing paper.

Dino rested his chin and felt another itch in his heart.

That flashing pouted look was really foul.