Rebirth 09: Synthetic Male God

Chapter 1041 Bionic Robot

Hangzhou, Science and Technology Expo.

When the two Zhou Ruis appeared on the stage at the same time, there was total silence from the audience.

Instead of humans exclaiming, there were roaring flashes of light.

"Guess which one is the real me!"

No one can answer this terrifying question because everyone’s brain has crashed.

Even Zhou Weigang was surprised and confused.

In the staff area on the side, Li Wenqian, Han Ziyin and Tong Xin, who were watching from afar, were also a little surprised.

Li Wenqian: "No one recognized it? I thought it was exposed from the beginning. The difference is actually quite big."

Han Ziyin shook her head: "The stage lighting was deliberately designed. The angle would make people ignore the details of his facial features. The speech required very few body movements. Moreover, he said his throat was uncomfortable as soon as he came on stage. He gave a deceptive explanation. Most importantly, other people are not as familiar with him as we are..."

Although Zhou Weigang is his biological father, to be honest, he only sees Zhou Rui once or twice a year, and some minor flaws will be subconsciously ignored as "changes in time."

When they saw the "bionic Zhou Rui" an hour ago, they were quite surprised, but that was in a bright room, and when they observed it up close, they didn't think it was very realistic.

In short, with current technology, it is still too difficult to create an indistinguishable "bionic man", although this difficulty does not come from Kaiming Intelligence's strengths of "hardware design and control", but from the fact that the silicone shell cannot be "indistinguishable from the real thing".

This astonishing "performance" was mainly achieved in the special environment of the "stage".

If we are a little further away, two completely different actors might be mistaken for the same person just by relying on the stage and makeup, let alone a "bionic man".

After the two Zhou Ruis finished asking questions, they didn’t wait too long. The Zhou Rui who just walked out from the right took the initiative to change his movements and said with a smile: “Okay, it’s me, I’m Zhou Rui.”

Then he pointed to the fake one next to him, who still kept his hands open with his palms facing up and looked a little stiff, and said, "And this is the second concept product of this conference, a combination of artificial intelligence and mechanical intelligence."

"Its name is 'FS01', which means bionic robot. Anyway, I want to thank it for taking my place at the press conference, saving me a lot of effort."

Someone immediately shouted from below: "Master Zhou, is it really a robot? Or is it an actor who looks like you?!"

Zhou Rui smiled, walked to "FS01" and pulled up its left trouser leg.

The obvious metal mechanical structure inside was revealed, causing countless exclamations.

The trouser legs were not even rolled down, leaving them exposed for anyone to see.

Zhou Rui explained: "Machine intelligence has strong control over hardware, and it is not difficult to imitate human actions. People who are familiar with us should know that we can also achieve more complex hardware control behaviors."

"As for language ability, with the combination of the Bai Ze large model and machine intelligence, after thousands of trainings, it can handle a press conference without any unexpected situations. By the way, except for the last sentence, its language content was not recorded in advance, but the result given by the model based on the pre-set 'script'. The script was written by it itself."

"There were a few problems with punctuation and pronunciation, but I'm glad it got through. FS01, come and say hello to everyone again."

"FS01" standing next to him, half of his mechanical legs exposed, took a step forward, put one hand on his chest and nodded slightly: "I am very glad that my debut was recognized. Welcome everyone to continue to pay attention to Kaiming Intelligence and Furui Group."

Only then did people realize that the voice, facial features, and movements of "FS01" were not so flawless. Knowing that it was a bionic robot, it was not difficult to find any inconsistencies.

But at first glance, it was really hard to tell the truth from the false!
Zhou Rui saw that everyone below was eager to try, and smiled and said, "I know that you want to ask questions to him instead of me, so if you have any questions now, you can ask them directly."

"Its language system was given by Bai Ze. You can try to make things difficult for it and help us find loopholes."

Immediately everyone raised their hands and there was even a noise.

Even Apple CEO Cook was raising his arms and almost standing up.

At this time, he was not a company CEO, but just a technology fan who was extremely excited about the epoch-making technology.

Zhou Rui gave him a favor: "Mr. Cook, please come first."

Cook's status is high enough, and the scene became much quieter after he got the chance.

Ku Ke excitedly asked, "Is English okay? FS01?"

FS01 nodded and said in English: "The training of the Bai Ze model is mainly in Chinese, so the Chinese expression is more accurate, but communication in English is not a problem."

Ku Ke: "Can you jump?!"

FS01 proved it with his actions by immediately leaving his feet off the ground and jumping a little.

He jumped a little too high, almost one meter, and landed heavily, with a muffled sound coming from the stage.

In fact, his hardware was manufactured by the Bai Ze project team based on the design that Zhou Rui left for the "Junwu Research Institute" in the early days, and they also sought the support of many hardware giants in the company.

Everyone was extremely curious about the "bionic man" project and provided support in various aspects.

This body is very powerful, the kind that can break a person's neck with bare hands.
Ku Ke asked again: "Do you have any other skills?"

FS01: "In theory, if there are no special requirements for precision, flexibility, and rhythm, as long as humans can do it, I can learn to do it. If you need, I can move a glass of water from the left to the right without spilling it. Last time a robot did something similar, it received a lot of praise from the media."

Ku Ke's eyes lit up: "You seem to have a good sense of humor. Can you understand humor?"

“Actually, no. My natural language interactions come from big model feedback. I can use statistical rules to create ‘humorous’ content, but I don’t have emotions or happiness myself.”

After asking three questions in a row, Zhou Rui said at the right time: "Thank you, Mr. Cook. We need to leave more opportunities to others. Does anyone have any questions?" After sitting down, Cook was still not satisfied. He looked at the Apple executives around him and gave them a look.

Why are you still standing there? Raise your hands! Give me the chance!
The second thing Zhou Rui ordered was a media outlet, and judging by the logo it belonged to Yangma.

Compared to Kuker, the questions asked were less professional. The male reporter asked, "FS01, how does your brain work?"

FS01: "I don't have a brain. My body is made up of 845 different parts, nearly half of which are mechanical intelligent hardware, and are connected using 'internal networking' technology. However, running the Bai Ze large model requires a powerful processor, which is located in the chest."

After a brief silence, it came up with another humorous remark.

"So, my brain is empty, or even can be filled with water."

Screams, cheers, and friendly laughter once again filled the audience.

The third person to ask the question was an ordinary standing-room audience member, a quiet-looking little girl.

After the little girl got the microphone, she was shy for a while, and then she asked: "Do you have physiological functions?"

Zhou Rui raised his eyebrows unconsciously.
What are you going to do with a robot that looks just like me?
FS01: "If it is an activity that can only be performed by specific organs, such as eating, drinking, and breathing, I don't have such functions. I rely on lithium-sulfur batteries to provide energy."

The little girl was obviously not satisfied with the answer and wanted to ask again, but the staff had already taken the microphone back in time.

Hurry up and collect your magical powers
The fourth questioner was Zhou Weigang, who asked an interesting question with a smile.

"Do you dream?"

FS01: "No, it's a biologically specific ability."

“Are you self-aware?”

FS01: "According to the current definition of 'self-awareness', I do not have it. The 'self-awareness' you feel is just a misjudgment of 'natural language interaction'. For example, for me, the pronoun 'I' is only used for language purposes and has no actual meaning."

The fifth questioner was a senior executive of Qualcomm, and his question was very sharp.

"Are you afraid of bullets? If you were given a gun, would you kill someone?"

This question has caused many people to react
I thought of some science fiction movies, and content like the "Three Laws of Robotics" began to flash through my mind.

FS01: "Bionic robots are very sophisticated machines. Kinetic weapons will naturally cause various problems depending on the area of ​​destruction. As for killing people, my designer did not grant any attack permissions. I cannot harm humans."

This answer made everyone below breathe a sigh of relief and they cheered again.

But only those who are knowledgeable know that whether it kills people or not depends entirely on how the manufacturer controls it, just like firearms. FS01's answer is not a promise.

In terms of power, it can kill everyone present except Zhou Rui, but it is a device without self-awareness, just like people should not be afraid of a gun without an owner, but should be afraid of the person holding the gun.

Of course, it's a complete waste of technology to use it to kill people! Only science fiction movies would write about it that way.

Is it too expensive to use a bionic man when a drone can solve the problem? The combat capability of the Ibis drone is much stronger than that of the FS01. The concerns about the FS01 are more due to its "human-like" appearance rather than any real threat.

Of course, "bionic man" is destined to be a special technology that requires "strict supervision" intervention.

The question-and-answer session lasted for ten minutes, and the content of the questions was varied, even including questions about mathematics and philosophy.

For the former, FS01 can give the answer without almost any calculation, but for the latter, he behaved more like practicing Tai Chi and his ability to understand the problem was not strong.

But it is enough to prove that the language ability of "FS01" is really very strong.

The human voice has multi-dimensional pheromones, not just content and words, but also tone, emphasis, intonation, punctuation, and even facial expressions, body language, environment, etc. There is still room for improvement in this area.

But it is worthy of the concept of "bionic robot".

At least it's definitely closer than anything before!

Finally, Zhou Rui even asked FS01 to step down from the stage, walk around, and shake hands with everyone.

The feel is very different from a real person, like shaking hands with someone wearing rubber gloves, and it's relatively hard, but it's enough.

With one final wave of his hand, FS01 disappeared into the darkness behind the stage.

Zhou Rui made a summary at the end.

The "Bai Ze Big Model" will be available to everyone soon. There will be a web version and a user-end version. You can pay to use it to make it mature faster, and more content will be released continuously."

However, as a Chinese company, we have to abide by the laws of our country, so the external network is not so convenient. If you want to use it, you need to prepare a ladder yourself.

In fact, people in many countries have already gotten used to this. In recent years, many new and good things have come from China, and they will find ways to solve the problem on their own.

As for "bionic robots", since there is still room for improvement in ethics and technology, they may not be available so soon, and may not even appear in the form of civilian products. This new technology still requires more preparation and discussion.

But within Kaiming Intelligence, we will continue to invest energy in this project.

The future is promising, so stay tuned.

(End of this chapter)