Clown Game
Chapter 400 - 378 AI

Chapter 400: Chapter 378 AI

Splitters’ Headquarters, a door opened, and Chen Xiao staggered in.

When he left last time, Qiu Mujin gave him a key, and despite many objections, in order to keep the postman from running back and forth too often, Chen Xiao ended up getting the permission to come and go as he pleased... As someone described by others as a "companion," Chen Xiao definitely had it tough.

But he didn’t care about that stuff.

He walked towards the center of the huge square outside the door.

"Hey hey hey, wait a minute, there’s nothing to see here."

"Can’t you just not summon like that? You look so unsophisticated, it’s embarrassing for me to be seen with you."

"Stop vibrating, my groin is getting numb.... Ah, good good..."

As he walked, Chen Xiao muttered nonsensically to himself, and finally, seemingly reluctantly, reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. Then, he posed as if to take a "selfie," holding up the phone, except the screen was facing outward.

"See? I told you there’s nothing interesting here. Oh, you mean that computer? That pile poking through the roof is it... Ah, I’m not calling it junk, but just look at it, it really seems like it’s made of scrap..."

Chen Xiao complained with a helpless look, while on his phone screen, a bunch of emojis filled with curiosity kept changing as they observed the scene in front of them.

ヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ: "Wow, so many doors here, they all look just like the one we came through, right?"

"Ho-ho, the flow of these currents is so neat,"

✧*｡٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و✧*｡: "Ola, I can feel a strong data stream, Eniak, Eniak."

Television-kun just kept talking to himself, looking unusually excited.

⁽⁽٩(๑˃̶͈̀ᗨ˂̶͈́)۶⁾⁾: "Ah hey hey hey, what am I thinking about, hahaha, stop it already."

Chen Xiao held his phone, a look of annoyance on his face, "Hey hey, although I don’t quite understand your AI aesthetic, that tone clearly sounds like you are thinking about something naughty."

∑(￣□￣;): "Of course not, um... how could I think about such things, it’s just admiration, just admiration..."

Chen Xiao curled his lip, "Whatever, even if you were thinking about it, in my eyes, it’s nothing more than some data cables being plugged into a USB port, then being pulled out, and plugged in again—just a boring image."

After this sentence, Television-kun suddenly went silent. Chen Xiao curiously glanced at his phone screen...

(´///☁///`)

"Damn—it, with that silent demeanor and then this expression, could it be that I guessed right?" Chen Xiao looked surprised, then added, "Hey, by the way, how old are you? Hmm... I know you are a generation cursing match, but you must have some age, right?"

The expression on the other party finally returned to normal

"Oh, if you count the manufacture date, I have been around for nearly 50 years, but since my personality isn’t affected by the outside world or time, my mental age should stay around human’s 17 years." As he said this, he even gestured to Chen Xiao, (・∀・)つ⑰

"...Uh." Chen Xiao grunted, temporarily unsure what to say.

Soon, they arrived underneath Eniak, its massive size resembled a giant iron tower, and on the ground beside it, Amin was still sitting quietly with his eyes closed, um... recalling, it seemed Amin had never been separated from this computer.

"Hi~" Chen Xiao greeted Amin from quite a distance.

Amin looked up, but he didn’t look at Chen Xiao, instead, his gaze fell on the phone in his hand.

After a few seconds of silence

"About 50 years ago, in a studio apartment in Missouri, a 35-year-old unemployed man was arrested by local police for hacking into a bank’s database and stealing a sum of money that was not very large." Amin said out of the blue, "The fate of this bachelor is self-evident, he broke the law and was punished, but comparatively, a self-running program in his computer seemed to attract more attention... Ironically, if cybercrime hadn’t been so tricky at that time, and there hadn’t been an ’expert’ among the accompanying officers, this program might have slipped through the net.

Subsequently, the computer’s hard drive was taken back to the police station, and then, for some reason, it was urgently sent to a government experimental base that was outside official records... The reason being, the program was perceived to have its own will... However, it’s unfortunate that after extensive experiments, people deduced that this program was just more complicated than normal."

Speaking of which, Amin suddenly added, "What do you think about the Turing Test?"

"Ah?" Chen Xiao said, puzzled.

His voice was soft though, as he already knew that this was a conversation between Amin and the adorable data in his phone.

Television-kun didn’t answer the question.

Amin, unfazed, continued, "Honestly, I think the Turing Test is quite a self-deceiving thing because our human understanding of intelligence always revolves within a self-justifying circle. If there’s a real AI in this world, it would definitely intentionally fail the test to hide itself, of course, this is based on the premise that the AI is already smart enough, right—Cerebrum plagiarist, Mr. Cebrum."

Chen Xiao was taken aback.

"I don’t like that name," Television-kun said flatly.

"Truth be told, although I have simulated the scenario of meeting you, I am still feeling shocked right now, a program that can match a human brain without any hardware limitations... You are the only thing in this world that could be called an AI."

(☉д⊙)

"What?" Television-kun, eyes wide, obviously shocked, "The only one? What about... Eniak?"

Amin glanced back at the massive computer behind him and shook his head, "Unfortunately, it indeed is very fast, and the memory capacity and the number of logic units are impressive. Eniak’s peculiarity lies in its ability to evolve without limit, it has the capability to simulate calculating the entire world, but... it does not know what it is doing... It is dead.

...

However, it just lacks that little bit of a trigger, from one to billions is nothing more than a simple task for it, if you could help, maybe I could make it take that step from zero to one."