<h4>Chapter 33: Little X</h4>


    Trantor: EndlessFantasy Trantion Editor: EndlessFantasy Trantion


    A monthter, in the outskirts of Shangdu next to the coast, a warehouse off the beaten track.


    Chen Chen hit the final key. A progress bar shed and apressed package appeared on theputer desktop.


    Chen Chen started up the Android emtor, then installed and ran thepressed package.


    After that, the interface of the emtor shed and a transparentyer unfurled swiftly, covering the entire screen.


    Having done that, Chen Chen pulled up an English webpage on the emtor. The webpage flickered and dense rows of red Chinese characters appeared between the lines of English.


    It was a trantion of the English sentences into Chinese.


    Moreover, the tranted text did not contain logical ws. It simplycked craft and thus, appeared rather stiff.


    Nheless,pared to most trantion software, this was much more convenient.


    Then, Chen Chen switched over to the interface of the trantion software and went to the options of trantion modes. Currently, the default mode was “embedded trantion”.


    Below this option, there were two other modes of “recement trantion” and “contrastive trantion.”


    In addition, one could adjust the font and color of the tranted text.


    After some thought, Chen Chen selected the recement trantion option, then returned to the English webpage.


    This time, there were no red tranted words that appeared between the original lines. Instead, all the English words of the entire webpage had been directly reced with Chinese characters.


    The astonishing thing was that this change did not disrupt the structure of the webpage at all. It appeared as if this webpage was a Chinese website in the first ce.


    After making sure that this software had no problems, Chen Chen sighed in relief. He suddenly spoke to the screen before him, “X, help me add ayer of dynamic protection to the program and convert it into three formats: Android, IOS, and PC. I’ll leave the rest to you.”


    “Yes, Father.”


    Suddenly, a childish voice piped up from the speaker. Without any human control, theputer automatically opened up various software and the liquid cooling case of the mainputer started to buzz and revolve!


    If a stranger was watching, they would have yelled in rm. The fourputers linked up with each other, forming aputing cluster. The screen of eachputer shed rapidly as if someone with an incredible reaction time was using the fourputers at the same time.


    In no time at all, theputers had quickly finished off a workload that would have taken days or weeks for humans. At the moment, Chen Chen had not even finished washing his face.


    X was a piece of program code that Chen Chen had stripped from the game Oasis.


    Besides its graphics, Oasis also had arge number of NPCs. These NPCs were still considered to be weak artificial intelligence that had no real consciousness. Still, their level of intelligence undoubtedly surpassed all current AI.


    The program derived from this group of NPCs was the main code of this X.


    Through an algorithm simr to, but moreplex than, the artificial fish swarm algorithm, the program simted the neural fluctuations of the human brain. This program could simte up to eighty percent of human thinking and was even capable of logic.


    In the past, the father ofputer science and artificial intelligence, Turing, once defined a concept:


    Let a human and an intelligent machine conduct random questions and exchanges without knowing each other’s identity. If more than thirty percent of the human testers did not realize that they weremunicating with aputer, this meant that theputer possessed “human intelligence”.


    This was called the “Turing Test”.


    Obviously, X’s intelligence had reached the point where it could easily pass the Turing Test. It was even close to Jarvis from Iron Man.


    Even so, this did not mean that X was an intelligent lifeform because it was essentially still a product of endless programming. It did not have self-awareness or the ability to think like humans.


    To prevent the plot of The Terminator from happening, Chen Chen had ced several restrictions on X.


    These included rules imnted in the core program such as: Anymand of Chen Chen’s would be the highest order, self-replication was forbidden, no online information was to be received before Chen Chen’s authorization, and so on.


    After all, Chen Chen had learned from the mistake of his predecessors. Previously, an artificial intelligence named Tay, released by Microsoft, spent only one day on the inte and it became a racist, Nazi-supporting “bad girl”.


    Nevertheless, X and Tay were poles apart. The exchange between Chen Chen and X alone would stun many engineers who had studiedputational semantics.


    In general, a voice assistant couldplete certain tasks within its capability through the user’s voice. For instance, a user could ess their cellphone’s voice assistant and casuallymand, “Call XXX.” The voice assistant would be able to help the user carry out the task of making the phone call.


    However, who had ever seen a user say a magicalmand like “You’re already a mature voice assistant and should learn how to do things yourself. Help me finish off the rest of the work, okay?”


    If the voice assistant truly finished the work, that user would wet his pants in fright.


    By the time Chen Chen had finished washing up, X hadpleted the work Chen Chen asked of it. Three brand-newpressed packages had been fully encapsted and were waiting tidily on the desktop.


    “X, what kind of name should I give this software?” Chen Chen suddenly wanted to test X’s intelligence once again.


    “Father, as my creator, you should know that I’m not equipped with any creative modules.” X sounded a little aggrieved.


    “Alright, in that case, this trantion software shall be named Little X Trantion Assistant. After all, it’s mined from your core intelligence,” Chen Chen said after a moment of pondering.


    “Very well, Father.” On theputer screen, the three fully encapsted,pressed packages were automatically renamed to [Little X Trantion Assistant].


    “Have they been tested for bugs?” Chen Chen dried his hair while asking.


    “Not at the moment, Father.”


    X’s childlike voice replied again, “If you wish to perform a new round of improvement, it’ll take around 325 hours of testing. Do you want to carry out the testing?”


    “Nah, just send thepressed packages to the mailboxes I’ve specified.”


    Chen Chen thought about it. In any case, the software had its user error window. After it was officially released, many users would naturally send over bug reports. There was no need for him to waste more time on testing.


    “Understood, Father.”


    X answered in its innocent voice and opened up a few mailboxes in a multi-line operation. After that, the recently packaged software was sent out.


    Along with the delivered software, a short introduction was attached.


    “This product is equipped with powerfulnguage processing technology. Unlike other trantion software, it tries its best to recapture the meaning of the original text. Moreover, it has seamless intelligent pattern-processing capabilities and is able to process foreignnguages into the user’snguage without affecting theyout of the webpage.”


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