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Chapter 33_2: 33_2

A month later, in the outskirts of Shangdu next to the coast, a warehouse off the beaten track .

Chen Chen hit the final key . A progress bar flashed and a compressed package appeared on the computer desktop .

Chen Chen started up the Android emulator, then installed and ran the compressed package .

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After that, the interface of the emulator flashed and a transparent layer unfurled swiftly, covering the entire screen .

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Having done that, Chen Chen pulled up an English webpage on the emulator . The webpage flickered and dense rows of red Chinese characters appeared between the lines of English .

It was a translation of the English sentences into Chinese .

Moreover, the translated text did not contain logical flaws . It simply lacked craft and thus, appeared rather stiff .

Nonetheless, compared to most translation software, this was much more convenient .

Then, Chen Chen switched over to the interface of the translation software and went to the options of translation modes . Currently, the default mode was “embedded translation” .

Below this option, there were two other modes of “replacement translation” and “contrastive translation . ”

In addition, one could adjust the font and color of the translated text .

After some thought, Chen Chen selected the replacement translation option, then returned to the English webpage .

This time, there were no red translated words that appeared between the original lines . Instead, all the English words of the entire webpage had been directly replaced with Chinese characters .

The astonishing thing was that this change did not disrupt the structure of the webpage at all . It appeared as if this webpage was a Chinese website in the first place .

After making sure that this software had no problems, Chen Chen sighed in relief . He suddenly spoke to the screen before him, “X, help me add a layer of dynamic protection to the program and convert it into three formats: Android, IOS, and PC . I’ll leave the rest to you . ”

“Yes, Father . ”

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Suddenly, a childish voice piped up from the speaker . Without any human control, the computer automatically opened up various software and the liquid cooling case of the main computer started to buzz and revolve!

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If a stranger was watching, they would have yelled in alarm . The four computers linked up with each other, forming a computing cluster . The screen of each computer flashed rapidly as if someone with an incredible reaction time was using the four computers at the same time .

In no time at all, the computers had quickly finished off a workload that would have taken days or weeks for humans . At the moment, Chen Chen had not even finished washing his face .

X was a piece of program code that Chen Chen had stripped from the game Oasis .

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Besides its graphics, Oasis also had a large number of NPCs . These NPCs were still considered to be weak artificial intelligence that had no real consciousness . Still, their level of intelligence undoubtedly surpassed all current AI .

The program derived from this group of NPCs was the main code of this X .

Through an algorithm similar to, but more complex than, the artificial fish swarm algorithm, the program simulated the neural fluctuations of the human brain . This program could simulate up to eighty percent of human thinking and was even capable of logic .

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In the past, the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, Turing, once defined a concept:

Let a human and an intelligent machine conduct random questions and exchanges without knowing each other’s identity . If more than thirty percent of the human testers did not realize that they were communicating with a computer, this meant that the computer possessed “human intelligence” .

This was called the “Turing Test” .

Obviously, X’s intelligence had reached the point where it could easily pass the Turing Test . It was even close to Jarvis from Iron Man .

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Even so, this did not mean that X was an intelligent lifeform because it was essentially still a product of endless programming . It did not have self-awareness or the ability to think like humans .

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To prevent the plot of The Terminator from happening, Chen Chen had placed several restrictions on X .

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These included rules implanted in the core program such as: Any command of Chen Chen’s would become the highest order, self-replication was forbidden, no online information was to be received before Chen Chen’s authorization, and so on .

After all, Chen Chen had learned from the mistake of his predecessors . Previously, an artificial intelligence named Tay, released by Microsoft, spent only one day on the internet and it became a racist, Nazi-supporting “bad girl” .

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Nevertheless, X and Tay were poles apart . The exchange between Chen Chen and X alone would stun many engineers who had studied computational semantics .

In general, a voice assistant could complete certain tasks within its capability through the user’s voice . For instance, a user could access their cellphone’s voice assistant and casually command, “Call XXX . ” The voice assistant would be able to help the user carry out the task of making the phone call .

However, who had ever seen a user say a magical command like “You’re already a mature voice assistant and should learn how to do things yourself . Help me finish off the rest of the work, okay?”

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If the voice assistant truly finished the work, that user would wet his pants in fright .

By the time Chen Chen had finished washing up, X had completed the work Chen Chen asked of it . Three brand-new compressed packages had been fully encapsulated and were waiting tidily on the desktop .

“X, what kind of name should I give this software?” Chen Chen suddenly wanted to test X’s intelligence once again .

“Father, as my creator, you should know that I’m not equipped with any creative modules . ” X sounded a little aggrieved .

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“Alright, in that case, this translation software shall be named Little X Translation Assistant . After all, it’s mined from your core intelligence,” Chen Chen said after a moment of pondering .

“Very well, Father . ” On the computer screen, the three fully encapsulated, compressed packages were automatically renamed to [Little X Translation Assistant] .

“Have they been tested for bugs?” Chen Chen dried his hair while asking .

“Not at the moment, Father . ”

X’s childlike voice replied again, “If you wish to perform a new round of improvement, it’ll take around 325 hours of testing . Do you want to carry out the testing?”

“Nah, just send the compressed packages to the mailboxes I’ve specified . ”

Chen Chen thought about it . In any case, the software had its user error window . After it was officially released, many users would naturally send over bug reports . There was no need for him to waste more time on testing .

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“Understood, Father . ”

X answered in its innocent voice and opened up a few mailboxes in a multi-line operation . After that, the recently packaged software was sent out .

Along with the delivered software, a short introduction was attached .

“This product is equipped with powerful language processing technology . Unlike other translation software, it tries its best to recapture the meaning of the original text . Moreover, it has seamless intelligent pattern-processing capabilities and is able to process foreign languages into the user’s language without affecting the layout of the webpage . ”

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