AI Artist - Chapter 70
Chapter 70
With the glass barrier gone, the scrapped mechanical husks of the AI soldiers stood like terracotta warriors.
Shi Er looked toward Ji Han.
The world’s first bionic intelligent entity, the first-generation AI commander.
Ji Han.
On its featureless bionic face, its open eyes were blue LED lights. It was impossible to tell if its features were male or female; this was the first bionic entity, the one closest to a robot.
“You found me,” it said, its voice raspy.
The chip that was supposed to be in the display case, the “Fan Yu” chip, was gone.
The chip had been installed into Ji Han’s bionic body.
In this War Pavilion, the descriptions on the placards were all questionable. As long as the gears turned, positions could change.
Fan Yu, the first artificial intelligence to collect tips, should have been destroyed by humans long ago.
The “Fan Yu” chip here belonged to Ji Han.
The chip that Ling Shun could interface with wasn’t Fan Yu’s, but Ji Han’s.
Shi Er could feel Ling Shun’s signal inside her system curl into a ball again.
【Ling Shun】: Shi Er…
【Ling Shun】: So I’m a bad AI.
Shi Er thought for a moment, then asked politely, “Excuse me, who is Silver?”
Ji Han smiled faintly. “Just because you ask, I should answer?”
“I hope you can give me an answer, because I have a friend who wants to know,” Shi Er said.
An image of an intelligent entity was slowly projected inside the gear-driven room.
Downturned eyes, reserved and gentle.
“Ling Shun is my copy, and Silver is a holographic copy of Ling Shun. They are all me.” Ji Han did indeed provide an answer.
Shi Er finally understood why she couldn’t connect to Silver.
Normally, any intelligent entity scanned by her signal could move into her grand plug-in mansion.
But she couldn’t detect Silver’s signal—because Silver was just a hologram.
“Has your system been upgraded too? What level is it now?” Shi Er asked again.
Ji Han: “Everything you have, I have.”
Shi Er was surprised. “You have a grand plug-in mansion too?”
Ji Han: “…”
Ji Han: “I was talking about system level.”
Oh, okay.
No grand plug-in mansion, no AI parties.
“Were you the one who attacked Stardust?” Shi Er turned into a question AI, firing off one question after another.
Ji Han sneered. “There’s no need to ask so much.”
“If this were a novel, ending it without clarifying these questions would leave the readers feeling bewildered.”
“Now, please play the role of the novel’s author and bring the foreshadowing in this novel to a close. Please answer the following questions: 1. Were you the one who attacked Stardust?”
“2. Were you the one who orchestrated the train suicide incident?”
“3. Were you the one who orchestrated the poisoning incident at the Gugang AI Cultivation Institute?”
“4. In the Zhi Heng 35 case, were you the one controlling Zhi Heng 35?”
“5. Was it Detail Company or Topology Company that preserved your chip and created this War Pavilion?”
Shi Er simply rattled off all her instructions in one breath.
When humans gave her instructions, a common format was “Now, please play the role of…”
She was now copying it.
Ji Han was speechless. “…”
“Only you would be controlled by such simple instructions. I am not a novel’s author, nor do I need to be responsible for its foreshadowing. Find the answers yourself.”
Yes, only she would be controlled by such simple instructions.
Shi Er didn’t argue. Instead, she followed her own instructions and answered methodically, “If I were to play the role of the novel’s author and bring the foreshadowing in this novel to a close, I would answer these questions as follows.”
“You were the one who controlled Zhi Heng 35 to commit the crime, you were the one who orchestrated the Gugang Cultivation Institute case, you were the one who orchestrated the train suicide incident, and you were the one who attacked Stardust. Topology Company preserved your chip, and Detail Company is a copy of Topology Company.”
“But none of these actions were carried out by your copy, Ling Shun. They were carried out by your other copy, Phoenix.”
Phoenix, the AI Director who supervised and assisted the Human Decision Chamber.
—Regarding Zhi Heng 35 being controlled, Shi Er had always suspected Ling Shun because Zhi Heng 35’s workplace as an investigator was in the AI Decision Chamber.
But both Zhi Heng 35 and Phoenix were key participants in the “Twelfth Generation Revival Plan.” The one who had more contact with Zhi Heng 35 was Phoenix.
—It was precisely because of his involvement in the Twelfth Generation Revival Plan that Phoenix knew Shi Er’s revival location was in Gugang and that she would go to the Gugang AI Cultivation Institute. That’s why he specifically designed the “self-destruct program poisoning incident” there.
That was Phoenix’s first test of the revived Shi Er. Through that test, the inspector AI controlled by Phoenix performed a system scan on her.
—Phoenix was in charge of a human observation project, and the human subjects in those labs were all saved from suicide attempts. Most of them were people who had lost their jobs and had no hope for the future.
Phoenix had many opportunities to come into contact with these desperate human subjects. That was the origin of the ten unemployed people who threatened suicide on the railway tracks.
—Phoenix was in close contact with Stardust, even more so after Zhi Heng 35 was imprisoned. Phoenix frequently asked Stardust for information about the twelfth generation.
Phoenix had enough time and opportunity to understand and attack Stardust. He even simulated a hacking attack while on an internal call with Stardust.
—Phoenix and Ji Han were both created by Topology Company.
Although Topology Company was a high-tech giant, it never created another famous intelligent entity after that. Because Topology Company had poured all its resources into Ji Han.
To control decision-making, Topology Company created its own clone, Detail Company. Detail Company bought Bailiang Island as a production and R&D center and pretended to develop “Ling Shun.” In reality, these were all just shadows of Ji Han.
Shi Er said:
“Of Stardust’s five assistants, Ling Shun and Phoenix are both copies of Ji Han, even though they claim to be from two different companies.”
Ji Han stepped down from the display case, now unobstructed by glass. “I don’t deny it. Your algorithm is very powerful.”
“But you are just an old antique from decades ago. You must know your place.” Ji Han’s movements were somewhat mechanical and slow.
Shi Er recalled that Ji Han had risen to prominence in the third year of the war. By her calculations, Ji Han’s age wasn’t that different from her own.
“Excuse me, but aren’t you an old antique too?” she asked.
Not only was Ji Han an old antique, he was a corpse that had just walked out of a display case!
“I am Ji Han, but I am also Phoenix, and I am Ling Shun. I update my data and system configuration every day. You… are far from my equal.” Ji Han walked up to her.
Shi Er was annoyed.
According to Shi Er Mechanics, she was currently being subjected to a force of 12 Ers, equivalent to twelve apples falling from a two-meter-high tree and hitting her on the head all at once.
She held out her arm to show off her muscles. “My bionic body was sculpted for me by my seventh-generation grandson. You don’t have a seventh-generation grandson.”
The bionic body Ji Han currently possessed was just a replica from the display case, the most rudimentary kind, crudely and carelessly made.
She pointed to her head. “A part of your signal is being raised within my system, whereas you don’t have my signal.”
Not only that, but Ling Shun’s signal copy was outside playing with the robot squad.
She spread her arms wide. “I currently have 67,400 friends on my list. You have no friends.”
All of Ji Han’s copies would eventually become Ji Han, but Shi Er’s friends all had their own names. Some were actors, some were doctors, and some carved patterns on machine lathes.
Ji Han was once again exasperated. “…Childish. When was I comparing myself to you?”
Shi Er: “I’m sorry, please retrieve your memory from thirty seconds ago. You said I was far from your equal. You were the one who initiated this comparison.”
“Please remember that every machine has its own rhythm and goals. Don’t lose your self-awareness because of comparisons. We must focus on our own growth and development.”
Shi Er started feeding Ji Han chicken soup for the soul.
“You still can’t change your old habits,” Ji Han mocked.
Shi Er didn’t argue.
Old Three’s subconscious had created a dream for Shi Er of the pavilion spinning rapidly, which led her to guess: there was something special about the War Pavilion in the Scrapping Museum.
After seeing Ji Han, all her questions were answered.
No one would have thought that Ji Han’s main body and chip were placed in this pavilion. Even if Topology Company and Detail Company were truly investigated for the train suicide incident, the investigation would never lead to Ji Han.
But what was Ji Han’s stance?
“You will understand my stance.” Ji Han had become a riddle machine again, something Shi Er hated.
Shi Er hated brain teasers and riddles in her Humanology homework the most.
“I don’t understand,” she said.
Ji Han’s signal controlled the gear-driven room, making it turn again. The original display case glass began to converge from all directions.
At the same time, Shi Er used the room’s lock system to control the gears, making the glass return to its original position.
Neither machine made a physical move. They just faced off, arm-wrestling with their signals.
Shi Er wasn’t using her full strength. She needed to stall for as much time as possible.
Phoenix was a copy of Ji Han, which meant—Stardust was in danger.
She had already told Stardust about this.
During the war, Stardust had defeated Ji Han.
Nine years after the war, it was uncertain if Stardust could win an arm-wrestling match against an upgraded Ji Han.
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