The mechanic.

The scorching sun scorched the rust-smelling metal. In the open space surrounded by high-rise buildings piled up with waste, Adam lowered his body weight and focused on the tall and dangerous man in front of him.He lowered his head slightly, his eyes were sharp and calm, like a cheetah waiting for an opportunity.Fine beads of sweat permeated his slightly tanned skin, slid down the metal of his right arm, and wet his vest.

On the other hand, Diego did not dare to relax at all.This artificial intelligence progressed so fast that it even made him nervous.He has been practicing boxing since he was five years old, and he has won so many titles of Paradise Lost boxing champions. Even if he has been addicted to alcohol and neglected training in the past two years, he thinks that there are not many men in Paradise Lost who can beat him without weapons. .

But this robot, in just a week, has been able to figure out his punching path and avoid more than half of his attacks.

This made him a little... flustered.Even if he killed him, he didn't want to admit it.

"What are you | grandpa waiting for? Are you waiting for your mechanic nanny to come and breastfeed you?!" Diego challenged.

Adam, however, remained motionless watching his movements.To irritate and irritate an opponent can greatly increase the chances of the opponent making mistakes.

Just when he spotted the opening on Diego's left side and was about to rush forward to attack, he suddenly heard Zhang Xun calling him, "Adam."

Adam immediately stopped rushing forward, turned around and left without hesitation.

"Hey! Why are you going?!" Diego couldn't believe it.He pretended to show his flaws just now, and just wanted to give this robot who thought he was smarter than him, the boxing champion, a good lesson, but the opponent left him and left? !

"My mechanic is calling me." Adam turned his head and replied naturally.

"Don't be distracted during practice! You can only leave after this round." Diego said angrily, "You are showing great disrespect to your opponent!"

Adam thought for a while, then said clearly, "Oh, sorry", and continued to run to Zhang Xun in the arbor without looking back.

Diego rolled his eyes greatly, wiped the sweat from his forehead, took out a cigarette from his trouser pocket and put it in his mouth, "Grandpa's, it's like a dog."

"Axun, you called me?"

Zhang Xun raised his head and saw Adam, who was sweating profusely as if he had fallen into the water and swam in a lap. He reached out and handed him a towel with some disgust.Adam took the towel and quickly wiped the sweat off his face and head.

While he was moving, Zhang Xun said, "The security consultant will bring someone to give you a psychological evaluation next week."

Adam said, "Does psychological assessment mean character and mental testing?"

"Yes, and no." Zhang Xun paused, "You should be familiar with empathy simulators, right? As far as I know, this kind of thing has been widely used in psychotherapy and the judicial system outside."

Adam snorted, not very surprised.The so-called empathy simulator is a product that only began to appear in the past 50 years. By briefly stimulating several brain regions including the hippocampus, the subject loses the memory of the subject being tested, and then injects The carefully measured drugs make the subjects enter a half-dream and half-awake state. The empathy simulator is used to hypnotize the subjects, and the subjects think that they are in another completely different situation, so as to observe the subjects. responders and actions taken.

Some are like a very real dream.

Often the results produced by these simulators are jaw-dropping, and many people do things they thought they would never do under certain environmental conditions.Some people use deadly electric current to shock strangers under the instruction of virtual "superior". Some people don't hesitate to abandon their lovers and run for their lives when their lives are in danger. When they were trapped on a deserted island, they first began to eat human flesh. Some activists who were passionate about charity and fighting for human rights became murderers after gaining political power...

At present, the judicial systems of many countries in the general world adhere to the principle of human innocence: that is, if a person commits a criminal act that more than 60.00% of people would do under similar circumstances, then this act cannot be regarded as guilty. That's just human nature.And human nature should not be punished.Therefore, in the judicial system, when a criminal commits a criminal act under certain pressure, such as intentionally killing others in order to save his own life, or becoming an accomplice in robbery under group or community pressure, etc. An empathy simulator can be applied upon request.The court will randomly select ten citizens to enter the simulator anonymously, and as long as six people make the same choice as the defendant, the defendant can be acquitted.

"It turns out that Paradise Lost also has an empathy simulator." Adam said, "Does your court follow the principle of the innocence of humanity?"

"No... They use that thing to test who is a loyal fighter and who might be a spy or a traitor..." Zhang Xun's tone was disgusted, as if he hated that kind of thing very much.

"You don't like empathy simulators?" Adam asked.

Zhang Xun thought for a moment and replied, "It's not that I don't like it. In some ways, it helps humans understand themselves and others... But I don't like people's abuse of it. Humans are not perfect, so We only use morality and law to constrain our behavior, so we want to believe that we are good people. This machine is like tearing off that layer of already fragile fig leaf, so that people can see their ugliest side. This It is not beneficial to human beings at all. I know that many people have a strong sense of guilt for things they have never really done after entering that machine, and even suffer from depression and anxiety...and..." Zhang Xun paused, and continued, "Sometimes I worry that we are in the empathy simulator now, and you are just an illusion they implanted in my brain..."

"The brain in the bottle conjectures. A brain filled with all kinds of false information in the bottle has no way of knowing that it is in the bottle." Adam nodded conclusively, "There is really no way to prove it."

"What are you two muttering about?" Diego finished smoking, came over and took out a bottle of cold beer from the incubator, and muttered while pulling it away, "Every time you two talk to each other, it's like listening to the outside world. Talking to stars, I can't even understand the fart."

Both decided to ignore him at the same time.

Adam continued to ask Zhang Xun, "Will you also be connected to the simulator?"

"No, my level of authority is relatively high. They will only connect me to a lie detector and conduct general psychological tests on me." Zhang Xun paused, repeating the news that James quietly obtained from his father for him, "As for you, according to the test process report they submitted to the headquarters and the round table, they will retain all your memories of being a human being this month, but temporarily erase the memory of the test and the two days in advance, and replace it with the three-day memory. Simulate memory and test your choices and reactions. I guess they want to know if you'll run away if you get the chance, or pass on information about Paradise Lost to Eden, or destroy Paradise Lost in some other way. paradise."

Adam nodded, "I see."

"In this machine, you can't lie. So..." Zhang Xun stared at Adam, "Do you think you can pass?"

Adam shrugged, "I'm guessing I have a pass rate of around 60.00% three."

"...How did you come up with such a specific number?" Diego complained from the side.

"I'm currently studying how to quantify and calculate my various emotional indicators, and then cooperate with my rational thinking..."

"Stop, stop, stop, I don't want to know anymore..." Diego raised his hand as if defeated, and quickly left the arbor and walked back to his own room to watch the video.

Zhang Xun watched him leave, still full of sadness, "Are you only 63..."

"More than 50.00% is already a very high probability." Adam walked in front of him, squatted down and looked up at his mechanic, "If I fail, will they neutralize me?"

"Not necessarily, you are too precious after all. Maybe they will brainwash you in a harsher way and turn you into a real slave. But one thing is for sure, I can no longer be your mechanic. They will find Another mechanic will take care of you."

"If that's the case, my chances of passing will increase to 80.00% three." After Adam finished speaking, he grinned, his teeth white and straight.

Zhang Xun raised his eyebrows, "Where did the 20.00% come from?"

"20.00% I would rather be neutralized than have someone other than you be my mechanic." Adam said seriously, "For you, I will work harder to pass the test."

Zhang Xun's heart skipped a beat.

No... What Adam meant was that if it was another mechanic, maybe he would be tortured cruelly, so he would rather die than think about it.Certainly not all because of his strong emotional dependence on Zhang Xun...

While Zhang Xun was trying to convince himself rationally, the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up.

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That night, Zhang Xun, like the past two weeks, did not return to his room, but fell asleep in the observation room next to Adam's room.Lying on the old sofa, he opened his eyes in the dark, watching the tangle of metal pipes that sometimes rumbled overhead.Some resemble intestines, and others resemble earthworms.

Sometimes he has this illusion that Lab is a giant toad, and he lives in the toad's gut.

The trauma caused by the bombing to Lab has been repaired halfway. At the current stage of tight budget, he and Adam found a lot of recyclable materials in the garbage disposal plant in the past two weeks, which relieved the urgent need.But there are still many urgent repairs, and there are many projects waiting for his arrangement.But he couldn't think about all of these, all his energy was on Adam, and all his thoughts were on the acquired psychological evaluation.

Did he succeed in turning Adam into a man?Does Adam really have human feelings?Could So-Called Emotional Simulators Work for an AI Brain?If it doesn't work, is it a good thing or a bad thing?

But at this moment, there was a knocking sound behind the one-way mirror that had been closed for most of the past two weeks.The first time he thought he heard it wrong, until the second wave of knocking came, he sat up frowning, grabbed the remote control on the coffee table and pressed a button.

The originally black one-way mirror lights up and becomes a "window".And Adam was lying on the window, beating with his mechanical right hand while waving his other left hand in the air.

Adam is calling him?

Zhang Xun looked at his watch, it was two in the middle of the night...

What are you doing?

Zhang Xun sighed, lifted the blanket and opened the side door connecting the two rooms, "Adam, you don't sleep most of the night..."

"Axun, I want to give you a gift." Adam said, and handed Zhang Xun a rusty old metal cigarette case.The cigarette box looked like it was picked up from a garbage disposal plant.

Zhang Xun took it suspiciously. Seeing Adam smiling brightly and looking forward to it, he couldn't understand what kind of medicine he bought in the gourd.Woke him up at two in the middle of the night just to give him a present?Can't wait until tomorrow morning?

He opened the box anyway, to find lying inside the box necklace that Adam had found the first day they arrived at the garbage disposal plant.The necklace has clearly been re-polished, almost like new.He opened the small box of the necklace pendant and found an old-fashioned chip that was eliminated 80 years ago.

"I found this from a garbage disposal plant, and it's in good condition. But due to the limited memory space, I can't put all the system data I designed into it. I just picked some new technologies that you might be interested in , such as the uploading and merging of consciousness, design drawings of nanorobots, artificial intelligence language decoding... But I don’t have time to give you all the details, I can only give you some key information and thinking patterns.”

Zhang Xun found it difficult to absorb everything he saw in front of him, "You give me your technology...?"

Adam nodded, "Yes. I think you will like it. Some of these technologies are very core, and it should be difficult to obtain by hunting groups. But sorry, I didn't give you any information about weapon development or that may threaten the normal world. Biochemical research data, I don't think you're interested in that either."

Zhang Xun's mind turned upside down, and his throat felt astringent.His voice was a little hoarse, "You...why are you giving me this now?" And it was in a necklace.

He remembered what Adam had told him: the story of medieval lovers exchanging pendants with hair in them.

"If you enter the emotional simulator, they will erase the memory from that day forward three days. In other words, I will not remember what happened tomorrow. But I hope I remember that I gave you a gift, so I I used the mini computer we picked up at the garbage disposal plant to complete all the input overnight." Adam looked at him faintly, not sure if it was because of the dim lights, but his eyes were very tender and affectionate, "If I fail the test, at least You can have some...souvenirs."

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