Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

“You couldn’t do it either?”

Wang Peng was sitting in the driver’s seat smoking. When he saw Yan Yan walk out of the mansion, he blew a cloud of smoke and jokingly said, “I thought Professor Lu would be more welcoming to a pretty girl, so I didn’t warn you. I didn’t expect him to reject you.”

He had a pretty good relationship with Professor Lu, but when it came to spending the night at Professor Lu’s house…

Lu Zhou had never agreed.

To be honest, this did bring a certain degree of difficulty to his job.

However, according to Lu Zhou, he felt uncomfortable when non-family members were at his house.

Especially when he was researching problems, he liked to be alone.

In fact, this was true. According to Wang Peng’s observations, the only people that lived here were Lu Zhou’s parents and his sister, who was studying at Jin Ling University.

Yan Yan ignored Wang Peng’s joke as she opened the back car door, sat down, and sighed.

“You’re just his driver?”

“Yeah, why?” Wang Peng put out the cigarette and lit another one as he asked, “Do you think I wash his clothes and buy him grocery?”

“Letting you guys handle security is the wrong decision.” Yan Yan shook her head and looked at Wang Peng as she said in a serious way, “Is privacy important or is safety important? Professor Lu doesn’t know this, but you should know.”

Wang Peng smiled and tapped the cigarette. He was about to speak when suddenly, Yang Guangbiao, who was sitting shotgun, spoke first.

“Fine, Wang Peng doesn’t have it easy either.”

Finally, someone was agreeing with Wang Peng, so he spoke emotionally, “Yeah… I’m just a bodyguard. Everyone I take care of is a god. No matter how hard I beg, they won’t cooperate with me.”

“Professor Lu is even worse. Forget about the domestic situation, what if foreigners are more ‘concerned’ about him, what can I do then?”

Wang Peng opened the glove box and pointed inside. He said, “The security camera is inside. Are you willing to install it in his mansion without him agreeing? If you are, then let’s cut the crap and let you do it. If anything happens, it’s your fault!”

Yan Yan looked at the security camera inside the glove box, but she didn’t reach for it.

After all, this wasn’t her profession.

It wasn’t like she could operate this professional equipment.

“I still feel like something is wrong. If this place is infiltrated by foreign intelligence…”

Wang Peng was a little annoyed.

“Then go talk with Professor Lu, don’t bring it to me.”

Yan Yan’s eyebrows furrowed. She was about to say something but was stopped by Yang Guangbiao.

“Don’t worry about this too much. It’s safe here… If I’m guessing correctly, you guys are in the same squadron, right?”

Wang Peng flicked his cigarette and smiled as he said, “Finally! Someone that knows what’s going on.”

Yan Yan: “???”

Yang Guangbiao raised his chin and pointed on the sidewalk. “That person patrolling over there. He’s in the army.”

People had already thought this through.

Since Professor Lu wasn’t happy about having security in his own home, they had to install security outside his home.

After all, it was only one small-gated community in the suburbs. It wasn’t too difficult to install outdoor security measures.

Even though the property management security here was reasonable, it was nothing compared to the army.

They were happy to cooperate with the army.

Yang Guangbiao said, “Doctor Yan, just do your job, Mr. Wang will handle the security.”

Yan Yan hesitated for a second and finally sighed.

“I understand.”

At the same time, inside the mansion.

Lu Zhou accidentally spilled the coffee, so he was wiping the keyboard with some tissues.

Thankfully, he didn’t spill too much. He quite liked this keyboard.

Xiao Ai’s text bubble kept flashing on the screen.

[Please, Master, don’t kick me out of my home. :(( ]

The tissues were dyed brown. Lu Zhou threw them into the trash can and focused his attention on the screen. He took a deep breath and tried to calm down.

“Don’t worry, I’m not going to kick you out.”

Xiao Ai: [Really? ._.)]

Lu Zhou: “When have I ever lied to you?”

Xiao Ai: [341 days 5 hours 21 minutes and 4 seconds ago. You said I was going to move into a new home, but you lied. ._. ]

Lu Zhou: “???”

The f*ck?

Did this really happen?

Lu Zhou was muddled. After thinking about it for a while, he finally remembered. It happened last year when he was still moving homes.

But that’s just a joke, why are you still resentful?

You’ve been remembering this the whole time?

Lu Zhou coughed and tried to hide the awkwardness. “You were still level 1 back then, not intelligent enough. I meant a physical home back then, not a server home. You misunderstood! You can’t blame me for this. Also, look, your demands are satisfied now, right?”

Xiao Ai: [(sad.jpg) (sad.jpg) (sad.jpg)]

Lu Zhou continued, “Think about it. Even though that supercomputer is yours, it’s mainly used for stellarator experiments. At most, you’re just borrowing it. If you separate the plasma control scheme algorithm from the main program, then you’ll be set free from the plasma control scheme work! I’ll even give you a new supercomputer or let you have this one. How does that sound?”

Xiao Ai: [Even though Xiao Ai thinks master is being very reasonable, it feels like something is wrong. ._.]

Lu Zhou said, “Tell me, can you do it or not?”

Xiao Ai: [I… I can… :’(]

When Lu Zhou saw the “:’(“, he empathetically lowered his tone and said, “Don’t worry, I won’t ghost you this time.”

Xiao Ai: [Ok… :’(]

Finally, Lu Zhou was able to “convince” Xiao Ai.

Actually, this wasn’t as difficult as he had imagined.

Even though it was called artificial “intelligence”, it was far more primitive than humans.

At the very least, from an algorithm level, Xiao Ai couldn’t betray him.

No matter how much Xiao Ai resisted, Lu Zhou only had to answer some [yes/no] questions. He didn’t even have to explain why. If he ordered Xiao Ai to do something, Xiao Ai had no other choice but to follow the commands.

However, maybe because it was getting too human-like, Lu Zhou didn’t like to treat it harshly.

He wasn’t sure if it could think like humans, or if its “emotion” was only a simulation. He wasn’t even sure if its intelligent behavior were top-down or bottom-up.

If it was the former, then he didn’t have to worry about much. In the “Elephants don’t play chess” thesis by Rodney Brooks, he pointed out that this kind of artificial intelligence would never surpass the framework designed by humans.

But if it was the latter…

He hoped that while teaching this naive artificial intelligence the ability to think, he could also teach it the concept of humanity.

As for whether or not there was any meaning in doing this, Lu Zhou wasn’t sure. After all, he wasn’t an expert in artificial intelligence. For the time being, he didn’t have the energy to dive deep into the topic of artificial intelligence.

However, his intuition told him that he was correct.