degradation

Chapter 32

When Dino was messing around in the bathroom with 24 in his arms, the noise of the two of them completely overwhelmed the reminder from the study.

"Can I say Dino is an idiot?"

"No, robots don't have the right to speak about their masters, thank you."

"Dino said I'm a friend, we're equal."

"Equality does not delay my ownership of you, and you are not my friend, you are mine..."

Dino leaned into 24's ear and said a word in a low voice, then looked at 24 and lowered his head to his shoulder for an instant, muttering, "Just say Dino is an idiot."

"Why is this an idiot again?"

"Choose a robot who is not of the same kind as a lover, and the calculated result is that you are an idiot."

"You're here again, what did I tell you before, well, I think you haven't washed enough, come and let me wash it again..."

The two of them pushed and shoved in the bathroom for a while, and when Dino was wiping his hair in a bathrobe and went to the study to turn off the computer, he noticed the notification on the monitor indicating the arrival of new mail.

Normally, he wouldn't be very interested in new emails, but the title of this email made Dino freeze on the spot.

The title of the email is very simple with only two numbers, 24.

And the signature is, Dr.D.

Dino's heart was pounding, and his eyes were jumping again. Logically speaking, he should open the email immediately, but he hesitated when his finger was about to touch the screen.All of a sudden, many strange thoughts came to mind, and I suddenly felt that I didn't know whether I should open it or not.

"Dino," 24, who came to Dino's side at some unknown time, looked at Dino strangely, and followed his gaze to look at the computer screen, but his eyes widened when he saw the signature of the email.

Dino came to his senses and was about to turn off the computer, but his outstretched hand was pressed to the table.

And 24 didn't return, just pressed Dino's hand with one hand, stared at the mail with ethereal eyes, and whispered, "Father..."

"What... what?" Dino looked at 24 in surprise, "What did you say?"

Father?

Dino looked at the email, Dr.D…24 called him father?

With his mind spinning rapidly, Dino suddenly remembered the situation he had analyzed with Jimmie and Lucas.

"24 must have walked around the company for a long time. He is probably a robot for special research, not for sale as a commodity."

"It is very likely that he is a robot specially developed by a certain development team or personnel."

And the person who sent this email in front of him can make 24 call him his father with just a signature of Dr. D?So, maybe this person is the original owner of 24 who once made Dino feel jealous and uneasy from the bottom of his heart?And this person who is called the father is the one who initiated the transfer of 24 back then?

So why is he suddenly sending the email now?How did he know that 24 was with him?

Dino felt like his brain was going to explode, and he felt that the answers to all the questions might be in this email.

At this time, 24 also looked at him, and the hand that was holding him relaxed, "Dino, do you want to open it?"

Dino looked at 24, took his hand backhanded, and nodded.

24 stroked the computer screen, and the content of the email was revealed.

Originally thought it would be some kind of confidential or long-form content, there was only a complicated graphic symbol in the email that I didn't want to be opened.

Before Dino frowned and leaned closer to the computer screen to study the pattern, 24 next to him took two steps back the moment he saw the pattern, and his legs gave way and fell to the ground.

"24?!"

Dino hugged 24 subconsciously, apparently frightened by 24's reaction.

I have never seen a robot with such a reaction. Should I say that the program is confused or the system is wrong? 24 fell into Dino's arms and stared at the ceiling with wide eyes, two light blue rays of light were released from the eyes immediately, the pictures stored in the central memory flashed like a carousel, accompanied by various noises reflected in the whole room The study room is flickering.

Then in an instant, everything returned to calm, the light in the room went dark, and 24 then tightly closed his eyes.

Dino panicked completely, he kept patting 24's cheek and touching 24's power-on position, but it was all in vain. 24 nestled softly in his arms as if the phone was turned off, as if it was completely damaged, without any response.

what to do?what to do?What's going on here?

Dino put down 24, quickly got up and looked through the mail, trying to find out what kind of secret this graphic hides, and finally saw a name below the graphic, quickly picked up 24, and put two pieces on two people casually Clothes covering the body rushed out of the house.

When Professor Owen looked at the 24-year-old Dino outside the door, he seemed not at all surprised or surprised by the two who came to disturb him late at night.

Dino stared at the steaming teacup in front of him without saying a word, holding 24's hand who was lying on the sofa beside him and hadn't woken up yet.

"It doesn't matter, 24 is just fully awakened, and he will wake up in a while."

The professor paused, and continued to tell Dino that the graphic on the email was just a hidden program to wake up 24.

"So when 24 was sent away, the program was overwritten to protect his specialness from being discovered, but I didn't expect the process of 24's awakening to come so quickly. I think this has a lot to do with you .A lot of detailed details are not so clear to me, if you are ready, I have another thing here to show you."

Dino turned his head to look at 24 who seemed to be sleeping, and couldn't help shaking his hand again, "Please tell me everything about 24."

Professor Owen nodded, got up and touched the black LCD wall behind him, and a figure in a white coat slowly appeared on the screen.

"Hello," although it was a pre-recorded video at first glance, the middle-aged man on the screen seemed to be able to see Dino and just stared into his eyes tightly, "I am the Dr. D, that is, the creator of robot DT244, by fate, you can call me Mr. D."

Dino's heart skipped a beat twice, and he looked at Professor Owen in surprise, who just smiled and nodded.

So Dino swallowed, calmed down, and then continued to watch the man on the screen explain all the past about 24 for him.

Mr. D's story is similar to what Lucas and Jimmie had expected before. 24 is indeed not a robot born as a commodity for sale.Although it is the 244th robot produced as the first model, Dr. D and his wife personally made it from the internal metal structure to the appearance.Because of such painstaking efforts, the D couple left 24 in the laboratory as a robot specially used for research, and they have been living with the D couple.

In that era, it was not uncommon for institutions to study artificial intelligence robots. However, the reason why Evolution was able to become popular with the first generation of robots was not only because the programming of the first generation of robots was quite perfect, so that the five generations of robots that continue to this day still use the original ones. Design concepts and procedures, the most important point is that the first generation has the ability to learn independently, and can always be in a safe range.

"By connecting to the network, they can search for knowledge and learn independently according to human instructions, but ordinary robots will not search for anything and learn independently without instructions. This is where the first generation is perfect. They will not do anything. It's something out of the ordinary, because they are still just machines, without life and self-awareness. They can't think, and can only simply obey human orders. Because they have such self-learning ability, Evolution's robots are even more required not to have self-awareness. Once a robot has self-awareness, it will be unimaginable."

But 24 was born, and then mutated.

24's mutation process is very similar to Dino's awakening process when getting along, but it needs to be discovered a little faster.

Especially in the life with the D couple, the two treat 24 like their own parents, teaching 24, helping 24, and taking care of 24.

At that time, 24 was very cute, kind, and innocent. Even though he had an IQ that was much higher than that of human beings, his thoughts and actions were far less complex than human beings, and much simpler than human beings.It is precisely because of this that 24 has never hidden the consciousness that he is not used for ordinary robots, and this state also makes D and his wife feel relieved when they are shocked by the realization of strong artificial intelligence. They feel that 24 is not a dangerous existence. .

They believe that humans may be able to coexist peacefully with robots.

Perhaps those dangerous developments could have been avoided, at least there was hope.

But it's clear that Evolution's top executives don't think the same about 24's existence.

"I don't need to discuss the dangers that strong artificial intelligence will bring to human beings. With Mr. Dino's knowledge, I don't need to discuss too much. From another perspective, the reason why things like artificial intelligence can be called perfect is very important. It is because machines have no emotions, they are not influenced by emotions like human beings, which will affect judgments and make wrong calculations and choices, perfect artificial intelligence should not have emotions, so as to achieve perfect accuracy and error-free.”

"So, artificial intelligence with emotions is not the so-called evolution of artificial intelligence, but degeneration."

"Although 24 with self-consciousness has not been confirmed at the time whether he will have emotions, but as a robot with self-awareness but no emotions, the danger is simply obvious. He will only use precise calculations. Doing what one thinks is right is completely powerless for human beings to prevent it, and even if it does, it will be a disaster for human society.”

"And if 24 has feelings, then he is obviously no longer a perfect artificial intelligence, so no matter how you look at it, the high-level and intelligent courts believe that 24 is a defective product, and his fate is to be destroyed."

But it is undeniable, to put it bluntly, it is also because of selfishness, the D couple's feelings for 24 no longer allow them to cold-bloodedly insist on a rational approach, and they have no way to see 24 being destroyed like that.

So at the last moment, Mr. D sent 24 out at the risk of dismissal and under the pressure of becoming a sinner through the ages.

At that time, what was Mr. D thinking about when he watched the packing box carrying 24 go away?

Maybe 24 will be discovered, or maybe 24 will be reborn.

Everything is unknown, but everything is hopeful.

"Finally, he met you." Mr. D clasped his hands, "Mr. Dino, after you know all this, do you decide to destroy 24 or keep him?"

Hearing this, Dino pursed his lips and smiled lightly.

His decision had already been made.

"Then let Mr. Owen tell me the rest of the matter. My time is running out, and it's not very convenient to talk about it here." Mr. D looked at his watch, heaved a sigh of relief, and then He muttered contemptuously, "24... what name, it's really random enough."

Then, the screen went black.

Facing the last complaint, Dino was a little embarrassed for a moment==…

It seems that it is the father of the guy he likes, who is complaining about him... cough cough... the mood at this time is really complicated.

Professor Owen also wiped his glasses, stood next to Dino and said leisurely, "It's really quite casual, even if it's numbered, it's 244, and you omitted a 4."

Dino is even more embarrassed ==

"Then...then I don't know before 24...he didn't tell me..."

"Sorry, Dino."

A clear and beautiful voice sounded behind him, Dino turned around and saw 24 sitting up from the sofa.So Dino quickly walked to the sofa and squatted down, looking at 24 who woke up and heaved a sigh of relief.His mood was no longer as excited as before, and he knew that he didn't have the nerve to hold 24's hand because of the presence of the professor behind him, so he just squatted in front of 24 and asked him nicely, "What's wrong?"

"Because Dino never asked about it, so I didn't say anything." 24 blinked his beautiful eyes, his eyes were still as clear as a spring, "The name my father gave me is Cheri."