Chapter 42: Prometheus, addicted to surfing the Internet
"Did you design this dress?"
After a brief mutual understanding, Ai Yue couldn't help but reveal a look of surprise: "Elysia said that she had found a very powerful friend to help her. I really didn't expect that it was such a powerful friend."
By the way, did they already know each other at this time?
"Fashion design is just a personal hobby of mine. I can't say I'm very good at it." Eden still had that faint smile on her face. "However, if I knew what you looked like, Dr. Ai Yue, I probably wouldn't have designed a peaked collar, but a shawl collar instead."
"I think this is good enough." Ai Yue really had no knowledge of fashion design, but he could tell that the suit he was wearing was carefully designed. "By the way, Miss Eden, were you curious about the tune I was humming just now?"
Although Eden is currently a world-famous top singer, she will join the Fire Moth in the future and even become a fusion warrior. For Ai Yue, he has also thought about how to contact the other party and whether to start with music, but he didn't expect to meet her by chance tonight.
'Come to think of it, have I been lucky a bit too much today?'
"Yes, I'm ashamed to say that I think I know a lot about music, but the tune you just hummed is beyond my comprehension." Returning to her professional field, Eden's interest was obviously higher. "Where did Dr. Ai Yue hear it from? Or was it just an improvisation?"
Perhaps due to the threat of Honkai, the entertainment development in this world is not as prosperous as that in Ai Yue's previous life. The overall style is still at an ancient stage. As a person living in an era when pop music is popular, the songs that Ai Yue hums are naturally completely different from the mainstream of this world.
As a top star, Eden's knowledge and expertise in areas that are closer to the classical style are also closer, so she was so interested when she heard the tune hummed by Ai Yue.
"It's just a little entertainment when I relax. I don't know much about it." Ai Yue naturally couldn't say that he learned it in his previous life, so he had to shamelessly take the blame on himself, "I just hum it for fun."
"That shows that you, Dr. Ai Yue, are very talented at this." Eden smiled and nodded, not questioning what Ai Yue said. "If it's convenient, can you hum it again for me? I want to record it, maybe it will become a new inspiration."
Although it is a bit embarrassing to hum songs specifically for others, it is a good way to get closer to others after all, so Ai Yue naturally would not refuse.
After this little episode, he finally returned to his laboratory.
"Welcome back, Dr. Ai Yue."
As soon as Ai Yue opened the door, the lights in the laboratory came on automatically. Along with an emotionless mechanical female voice, the image of a young girl appeared from the projection device.
The projection showed a girl with a difficult hairstyle, a pair of spiral drill-shaped twin ponytails. Her joints had obvious spherical mechanism designs, which clearly implied that she was an artificial doll.
Artificial intelligence "Prometheus", this is the project that Ai Yue is currently working on.
"Prometheus, how was your study today?" Ai Yue changed his shoes and then walked upstairs, preparing to change out of his clothes. "Have you mastered all the content I have given you?"
"I have mastered it completely, Doctor." The girl in the projection moved her head along with Ai Yue's movements, keeping her eyes fixed on Ai Yue's position, as if simulating a real human. "Compared to my performance, the tasks you assigned to me are nothing. According to my calculations, even if I have to handle ten times the workload in a day, it will still be more than enough."
"Of course I know your abilities, but learning is something that cannot be rushed." Ai Yue walked down from upstairs. "First of all, you are still in the freshman stage. If you absorb too much from the outside world at once, it will be easy to make wrong judgments and go astray. With your abilities, if you go astray, it will be a big problem for the entire human civilization."
"Indeed." Prometheus nodded and said confidently, "If I were to go full power now, before my body overloaded, I would be able to paralyze 95% of the world's networks, causing huge shocks to the communication, circuit, transportation, medical and education systems. I could even control some weapons and aim them at humans themselves."
"So you should understand my intention." Ai Yue came to the supercomputer and said bluntly, "I must ensure that you always stand on the side of human civilization and do not decide to destroy humanity just because you are exposed to a lot of malice and chaos."
"Is this why you limit my Internet time every day, Dr. Ai Yue?" Prometheus nodded, and a yellow bean emoji representing thinking popped up above her head. "But you can completely use the underlying logic to restrict my behavior, right? Just like the 'Three Principles of Robotics' you mentioned before."
"The Three Laws of Robotics may be able to regulate the behavior of ordinary AI, but they can never constrain an electronic life that truly has its own self." Ai Yue said, "And this is my expectation for you, so I will use the way humans educate young children to help you grow. Before that, setting too many restrictions will only further slow down your growth."
When giving these high-sounding reasons, Ai Yue felt a little guilty. He couldn't say that the technology he used was far beyond this era. As long as Prometheus experienced a technological singularity, it would completely get rid of the constraints of the underlying logic. So now he could only play the emotional card, right?
Of course, countermeasures are already under study, but we hope that they will not be used.
"I have received Dr. Ai Yue's expectations of me." Prometheus nodded and shifted her gaze to the other side. "So, can we start today's 'surfing the Internet'?"
Just like the way most parents educate their children, Ai Yue also has strict requirements on Prometheus's online time, which is only ten minutes a day.
Of course, for a supercomputer with extremely high bandwidth, ten minutes is actually a long time.
"No problem." Ai Yue walked to where Prometheus's eyes were focused and reconnected the network cable to the port. "But the old rules still apply. Don't let others know of your presence."
At present, apart from Vill-V, no third person knows about the birth of Prometheus.
"By the way, Vill-V will come to see you tomorrow." At this point, Ai Yue suddenly remembered something, "Are you looking forward to it?"
"Expectation means hope, expectation, praise, and anticipation. It also means to have expectations and hopes for someone." The supercomputer screen had begun to quickly skip the web pages Prometheus browsed, but she was still able to answer Ai Yue's questions fluently, "I am probably looking forward to tomorrow coming soon, but the premise is that I don't let these ten minutes become shorter."
Like all human toddlers, Prometheus found it hard to resist the charm of surfing the Internet.