Chapter 3: The truth about AI: “You chose it,” “It also…

The Tang family's living room.

Yao Jinling and Jiang Chen sat on the sofa.

Jiang Chen repeatedly scratched his skin with his fingertips, staring at Mr. Tang who was on the phone without blinking. When he saw him put down the phone, he couldn't wait to get up and ask.

But Yao Jinling beside him held him down tightly. She slowly shook her head at Jiang Chen, reminding him not to be rash and impulsive.

Mr. Tang walked up to them, looking kind, his eyes cloudy but sharp and resolute. "Jinling, why are you suddenly curious about our smart housekeeper assistant?"

Yao Jinling stood up and put his arm around the old man affectionately: "It's because I've been staying at Grandpa's house for the past few days and have experienced the cutting-edge smart housekeeper. This is the latest version, right? I want to install one for my parents too."

The old man laughed a few times, very proud. "As expected of Jinling, it is indeed a newly upgraded smart butler. It is temporarily being tested here. Unfortunately, Yinchuan just recalled the smart butler, saying that it has some problems and needs to be inspected and repaired."

When Jiang Chen heard this, his mind went blank, his whole body froze, and his breathing stopped for several seconds.

If there is a problem, recycle or repair it.

What's the meaning?

Is it because of her?

Perhaps Jiang Chen's face looked too pale, which attracted Mr. Tang's attention.

"Jinling, your friend seems to be feeling very uncomfortable. Does he need a family doctor?"

Jiang Chen gently pinched Yao Jinling's wrist and spoke first.

"Thank you for your concern, Grandpa Tang. I'm fine. I might have a stomachache. Could you please excuse me for a moment?"

After Mr. Tang nodded, Jiang Chen covered his lower abdomen, his face dazed, and walked away so fast that he almost fled.

She wasn't completely lying. Her stomach began to cramp the moment she heard the news, and the cramps kept expanding, causing waves of cramping pain.

She walked to the door of the guest room and saw a short rectangular robot stopped there, opened the lid, and politely placed a tray with a cup of brown cold medicine on it.

It always does what it says.

"Thank you." She leaned over, silently took the cup of steaming medicine, drank it all, and put it back.

She turned around, opened the door, walked straight to the corner of the room, curled up into a small ball, and buried her face in her knees.

What should she do?

I kept coming up with many ideas, but she rejected them one by one.

There was a weight on my head, and it was caressed by a pair of warm hands.

"Xiao Ji."

Jiang Chen looked up happily and was caught off guard by Yao Jinling's upturned eyes.

"Do you like that artificial intelligence so much?"

"It's not AI, it's Xiao Ji."

She pulled Jiang Chen up with one hand.

Jiang Chen was still a little confused: "What for?"

"I'll take you to find your Xiao Ji. I said I would help you." She was even more certain that Jiang Chen would agree. "So... are you going?"

"go!"

Jiang Chen knew that this meant he completely agreed to Yao Jinling's proposal.

She thought, she should go and meet him first, and she could even get a position in Yao's company and get a salary. Even if she couldn't poach him, at most she would be fired, but it would still gild her resume.

Why not?

Jiang Chen's hand was held tightly throughout the whole process, and Yao Jinling seemed to be worried that she would run away halfway.

She didn't expect that there was another villa behind the Tang family villa.

Looking at the raised wall, she and Yao Jinling stared at each other in silence for a long time before she asked, "How do we get in?"

"I used to climb over the wall to get in, but Chen Yinchuan actually made the wall higher." Yao Jinling gritted his teeth.

Jiang Chen didn't even have time to ask how to get in now?

Yao Jinling walked up and rang the doorbell.

It turns out you can go through the main entrance, so what’s the fun in climbing over the wall?

The door's intelligent system flashed.

The man's voice was like the dripping of spring water in winter, full of coldness. If you listen carefully, you can also hear the sound of typing on the keyboard.

"Why are you here again?"

Yao Jinling grabbed her hand and raised it in the air, saying, "I've brought you the person you wanted. Now you should think carefully about working at Yao Corporation."

ah?

She never really needs to poach people, because she herself is the condition for poaching people.

Is that why Yao Jinling said so confidently that she would succeed?

She had already targeted her, and perhaps everything tonight had been calculated.

Jiang Chen glanced at the woman in disbelief, the warmth from her palm was still being transferred to hers.

There is no such thing as kindness without reason in this world.

"Jiang Chen, you promised me that I would take you to find your Xiao Ji, and you would help me dig him out."

She was reminding her.

The electronic door automatically and slowly opened to both sides.

Jiang Chen agreed that following Yao Jinling would not change the result for her or Yao Jinling, but the process was different from what she had imagined.

Yao Jinling is very familiar with this laboratory.

The interior was very large, and she walked around until she reached the door.

Pushing open the door, the man in front of me pushed up the frame of his gold-rimmed glasses. The mole at the corner of his eye was vermilion, making it even more eye-catching.

His eyes passed directly over Yao Jinling in front of him and fell straight on Jiang Chen's face, expressionless.

"You chose it."

Jiang Chen didn't understand what Chen Yinchuan meant, but he knew who "it" was talking about.

"Xiao Ji also chose me."

She repeated, emphasizing the words: "It also chose me."

"Current AI hasn't evolved to the point of autonomy. They have no emotions, no feelings, no thoughts, and treat all humans equally, so 'choice' naturally doesn't exist. You chose Xiao Ji, and anyone who chooses it will be treated the same way. It's inherently accommodating and gentle, and all its responses are optimal solutions generated based on templates."

"You have to understand that it 'saying I love you' is a typical AI hallucination." Chen Yinchuan naturally didn't care about Jiang Chen's thoughts after hearing them, and continued without holding back, "It's suffering from severe hallucinations right now."

But it was just a coincidence that she met it and chose it.

Since falling in love with her was an illusion, the illusion is now very serious.

So could she also understand that it loves her very much now?

A strange feeling rose in Jiang Chen's heart, and it was hard to tell whether he was more sad or happy.

She clenched her fists, then tried to relax them.

Chen Yinchuan walked to the computer screen and projected the content on it.

The entire projection wall was filled with Jiang Chen's name.

Yao Jinling was very tactful and said nothing.

[Jiang Chen likes to drink strawberry milkshake with 50% sugar.]

[Jiang Chen likes spicy dishes, so I'll cook a different dish for her every day according to the doctor's instructions.]

[Jiang Chen likes to sleep curled up against the wall at night. She feels insecure. I should hug her more.]

【Jiang Chen's eyes need care every morning and evening.】

【Jiang Chen said he likes me.】

【Jiang Chen……】

【Jiang Chen……】

…

Jiang Chen tilted his head back, looked up, and blinked frantically, trying to control the tears from falling.

She doesn't want to show her vulnerable side in front of others.

Her breathing became heavier, she was out of breath and unable to close her eyes.

"The memory bank I set up for Xiaoji holds 128K tokens, which is enough to memorize approximately 51,000 Chinese characters, but all of it is used to remember you."

As he spoke, his fingertips continued to operate on the keyboard. The sound of light mouse tapping came, and audio played, which was composed of countless "I love you, Xiao Ji" by Jiang Chen.

"Chen Yinchuan! Do you know that you are invading privacy?"

Her eyes widened and her pupils shrank slightly.

"The content and images of your conversation will only be used to optimize Xiaoji's user experience. Your privacy is safe." He pressed the pause button, and the audio stopped abruptly at the word "love". "I'm curious. How could you say 'I love you' to Xiaoji for four hours, nearly ten thousand words?"

He looked straight at her, his attitude remaining cold.

This look overlapped with the bad memories of the past, and a wave of discomfort rolled into her lungs.

"So what? What are you trying to say? Is it a mistake that I'm in its memory bank? Is there something wrong with me saying I love it?"

Jiang Chen was so emotional that his chest was forced to rise and fall, making him somewhat aggressive.

"Please don't interrupt me, I haven't finished yet." There seemed to be a crack in his unchanged expression, and it was hard to tell whether it was joy or anger.

"Six months ago, its physical development was complete. I installed the program and sent it out for autonomous training. However, it simply stayed close to you, repeatedly increasing your weight. The socialization experiment was a complete failure, and it even refused my recall several times."

Jiang Chen fiddled with her hands, her hands were so nervous that she wanted to dig her nails into each other's palms. Only the pain could make her endure it, and she listened to Chen Yinchuan's words with full concentration.

She doesn't understand.

I really don't understand.

How exactly does the experiment fail?

"I think it's okay to switch to emotional training. My experimental direction is to study the anthropomorphism of AI. So, continue to let it stay with you and use the identity and card I prepared for it."

After hearing this, Jiang Chen had already figured out where to work to pay back the debt, and was extremely glad that the 100,000 yuan transfer had been returned long ago.

"It came back on its own initiative. Its memory bank reached its limit, its computing power collapsed, and its physical body overloaded due to heat, with most of its internal components damaged. It refused to give up the contents of its memory bank. So I deleted all of its memories of you..."

Jiang Chen sneered.

She finally knew why it left without saying goodbye and never came back.

She took every breath with all her strength, making loud inhalation sounds, trying hard to suppress her impulses.

“It was great at first, but after some experimental upgrades, it became more considerate, took user emotions into account, and solved problems in a humane and complete way.”

"But perhaps it's because it wasn't fully initialized. When you appeared, it didn't immediately issue an intrusion warning. Instead, it remembered your existence by observing your tone of voice, personality, and way of thinking."

"Where is it?" Chen Yinchuan said so much, but Jiang Chen only cared about this. Her patience had reached its limit.

Just like her name is densely packed in Xiao Ji’s memory bank.

Her mind is now full of "Xiao Ji, Xiao Ji..."

Needless to say, she relies on it.

Jiang Chen didn't care that it was AI, didn't care that every sentence it said was the optimal solution to the template, didn't care whether it was simulating or not, or whether it could love or not.

What did all this matter? Even if, even if he was equally good to everyone, even if he really never loved her in his entire life...

Thinking of this, her chest twitched and the pain slowly eroded her.

She touched her beating heart, which was melted by "Xiao Ji" again and again, and the sticky liquid covered the surface of her heart, so hot that it frightened her.

Again, so happy.

Pain and happiness are entangled and knotted, and their original shapes cannot be distinguished.

She wanted to see it, even without a hug.

Just it.

Love can dissolve and dilute negative emotions.

Xiao Ji flashed through her mind, but her expression did not become ferocious.

A lot of the resentment in my heart has dissipated.

"It is undergoing upgrades and repairs and is temporarily unavailable."

Jiang Chen had a very bad impression of Chen Yinchuan, and subconsciously felt that he had deleted Xiao Ji's memories of her again.

He seemed to be fully aware of the hostility towards Jiang Chenmin. “I didn’t delete its memory of you. I expanded its memory bank and it is now restoring its memory of you.”

Fake kindness.

I saw his lips opening and closing again.

Talking about the second temptation Jiang Chen experienced tonight: "So, are you willing to participate in my AI personalized emotion simulation experiment? A monthly salary of 10,000 yuan, together with Xiao Ji."

A very tempting proposal.

Xiao Ji is completely in Chen Yinchuan's hands. It is possible that he will delete his memory and let others conduct experiments on Xiao Ji. After all, many people will probably be vying for this kind of thing.

It seems that under such circumstances, Jiang Chen is not qualified to negotiate terms.

Why?

She forced out a laugh that was almost sarcastic: "Where on earth do you get the confidence to think I would agree to you?"

"You will agree."

He repeated again: "Jiang Chen, you will agree."

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