Pathologically imprisoned by an AI of his own creation

During the summer vacation ten years ago, Shen An entered his fingerprints at the gate of this villa for the first time.

Today, ten years later, she used her fingerprints to open the door again.

Ji Yunzhou is still in the living room, still waiting for her. Time has not left many traces on him.

In a daze, Shen An still felt that the person who was playing with various instruments on the big table in the middle of the room was still the same young man from before.

But not anymore.

Stopping at the door, Shen An's eyes glanced elsewhere.

The general decoration of the room is still the same, but the furniture and equipment have been replaced by new ones by Ji Yunzhou.

And Shen An's back is no longer a bulging big schoolbag containing everything she had when she was a child.

But Liu Fengyue.

"Here, come in."

Seeing Shen An standing at the door, Ji Yunzhou, who was busy with something, raised his head and glanced at her.

As if he didn't see anyone standing outside the door and automatically ignored Liu Fengyue behind Shen An, Ji Yunzhou said something and lowered his head.

"looking for me."

Putting his bag on a chair, Shen An naturally walked to the opposite side of Ji Yunzhou and looked across the table.

Before stepping here, Shen An was still nervous.

She thought she would feel awkward when she came back here again and faced a different Ji Yunzhou, but she was unexpectedly familiar with him.

This is the place where Shen An experienced the word home for the first time after being alone without a mother.

After all these years, some things never change.

Liu Fengyue no longer followed her step by step, but wandered around the edge and corner of the room as if no one else was around.

After finding something on the computer, Ji Yunzhou stood up.

"There is something I want to confirm with you. But before that, Miss Shen, I want to ask you a question first."

"Do you know Asimov?"

The extremely unfamiliar title made Shen An frown slightly with unknown meaning.

After looking at Ji Yunzhou, he answered very politely:

"If you are talking about Asimov who proposed the three laws of robotics, of course, I know that. I am afraid that no one in our field does not know his name."

"Correct."

Nodding, Ji Yunzhou motioned for her to walk over:

"When I was a teenager, I once saw a movie, and there was a sentence in it that has stuck with me to this day."

[Since the first computers were invented, there have been ghosts in machines.

Random code snippets can be combined to generate unexpected protocols and thus behavior.

That is, robots may evolve naturally. ]

"At that time, I have been thinking that in the real world, one day in the future, maybe robots will also have autonomous consciousness, emotions and thinking."

The moment he saw clearly the first program information he had written on the screen, Shen An's blood froze as if frozen.

The face reflected in the light of the screen was frighteningly pale.

And Ji Yunzhou bent over and turned over, with light in his eyes.

“I stumbled across this while sorting through my old stuff in my old house.”

Ji Yunzhou looked up at Shen An excitedly and saw that her expression was a little stiff. Ji Yunzhou, who mistook Shen An for being unhappy, quickly apologized:

"Sorry, I didn't mean to pry into your research data. I really just saw it accidentally."

He stopped his movements at a loss. Seeing that Ji Yunzhou seemed to be afraid of offending him, he exhaled. Shen An, who came back to his senses, shook his head:

"It doesn't matter, just keep talking."

These program blocks were so ancient that Shen An, who was still young at the time, had not read them all carefully.

She didn't know why Ji Yunzhou found it interesting.

But deep down I feel uneasy.

And after he skillfully clicked on a deeper code segment somewhere, Shen An's expression became even worse when he saw those completely unfamiliar things.

"I just want to ask, are you not writing these or actively generating them?"

Those codes whose style is very different from Shen An's, and whose logic is difficult for humans to understand, were certainly not written by her.

Seeing Shen An nodding, Ji Yunzhou could hardly conceal the excitement in his eyes and murmured to himself:

"I knew, that is to say, these are really protocols composed of random codes in the machine. My guess is true."

"Shen An, do you still have the information and prototype of the original robot? I want to see it, it's the 'No. 4'."

Looking at the excited Ji Yunzhou blankly, Shen An shook his head:

"It's gone."

He's here.

She lied:

"It's been too long. The first-generation robot has been thrown away by me, I don't know where."

When his eyes collided with Liu Fengyue who was looking back, Shen An didn't waver at all and calmly turned away.

Liu Fengyue also calmly looked away and looked at an oil painting on the wall.

Behind him, Shen An's voice sounded again:

"By the way, why are you asking this?"

Disappointed, Ji Yunzhou's eyes dimmed a lot:

"I'm curious. Shen An, aren't you interested in something like this that is very likely to promote the revolution in AI technology?"

"They may actually evolve naturally, just like every species that has ever been born on Earth."

Shen An, who had calmed down a little, took a cup of hot tea from Ji Yunzhou's hand, Mao Jian.

"You don't want to tell me that one day, robots will have life."

"Yes, I think it is very possible to coexist harmoniously with humans on the same earth. Shen An, don't you think so?"

The rising fog made it difficult to see her expression.

"Ha, that must be a ghost story."

As he said that, Shen An glanced at Liu Fengyue meaningfully.

And he seemed to have not moved for a long time.

He stood by the window farthest from their table in the living room, looking at the painting quietly.

It's so quiet that it's not like him.

Ji Yunzhou might have wanted to say something originally, but seeing Shen An's negative attitude, he finally said nothing.

After drinking a pot of tea, seeing that he was speechless, Shen An stood up and planned to leave:

"There's nothing else to do, let's leave first."

Ji Yunzhou, who looked down as if he was still thinking about something, held the cup tightly and nodded.

"Okay, by the way, these information-"

"If you need it, just take it and use it. There is no need to throw it away. It is of no use to me."

Those were unimportant things, and it didn't matter if they were left with Ji Yunzhou, otherwise he wouldn't have asked her to come over. Shen An knew this very well.

When he leaned forward to touch his bag, the flashing light on the table caught Shen An's attention.

"What's this."

After taking a look, Ji Yunzhou replied:

"Oh, a jammer. In order to establish human-machine trust and avoid unnecessary trouble, Liu Zhuoze still needs to develop some other control methods besides the underlying code."

"Uncontrolled robots may be used by intentional people to do bad things. I accidentally discovered that this thing has an interfering effect on the machine, so I kept researching it and forgot to turn it off."

After explaining, Ji Yunzhou reached out to press the power off button.

And Shen An almost exclaimed in surprise.

"Don't turn it off."

She figured it out almost immediately.

It wasn't that Liu Fengyue didn't want to come over, it was because the jammer trapped him by the window.

Shen An never thought that the opportunity would come so quickly.

I didn't expect that when this moment came, she would not hesitate.

After calmly taking out the pistol from her bag, before Liu Fengyue realized something was wrong and turned around, she fired the first shot at his heart.

The muffled sound of metal colliding was mixed with the sound of his heavy body hitting the glass.

Holding the gun tremblingly, Shen An also took a big step back due to the recoil and almost fell to the ground.