Since the introduction of the housekeeping robot, the entire internet was once again buzzing with the name "Future."
AI-00, nicknamed Xiao Lin, symbolized the first generation of Future Heavy Industries' "artificial intelligence + service robot" concept. Future Heavy Industries ultimately rejected Dr. Amos' rough design for the robot's appearance and had a professional art team repackage Xiao Lin.
The cone-shaped head was replaced with a human face.
The uncanny valley effect in the beginning made the art team feel distressed. The more the machine resembled a human, the stronger the sense of rejection that came from the physiology. Even if they continued to import expression data to enrich the robot's facial expressions. But the emptiness in the eyes and the rigidity in the details still made people feel fear similar to looking at the dead. But the problem that Dr. Amos couldn't come up with a solution was solved by an undergraduate student majoring in art from Hua.
"If looking too much like a human makes people uncomfortable, then why not just not be a human?!"
Who said you have to look like a human to create beauty?
For example, the popular virtual idols, Hatsune Miku, Luo Tianyi … Didn't they also have a large number of fans on the internet?
The problem was easily solved.
The art team immediately redid the original design of the face and used a 2.5 dimensional character style (referencing Final Fantasy) to bring the characters that existed in the fantasy world into the third dimension.
Six types of basic expressions and 36 types of evolved expressions that were adjusted according to emotional parameters. The expression of emotions completely surpassed the original complicated 142 types of expression design.
Xiao Lin's official image was set as an 18-year-old girl with "long black hair" in a maid dress and a blonde youth in a manager's uniform. Gender, hair color, eye color, chest size, personality, and clothing could all be customized according to the user's preference. Of course, custom-designed robots cost more.
If you want your girlfriend to look different from others, most people are willing to pay the price.
[What? You asked me if the word "girlfriend" was used in the wrong place?]
Needless to say, a lot of people actually treated Xiao Lin as their girlfriend after they bought her home. Future Technology's AI was powerful beyond its name. Just like how many people still treated Little White as their pet, many people fell in love with the goddess from the fantasy world at first sight. Although the price of ten thousand USD wasn't very affordable, it was beyond Dr. Amos' expectations. It created a sales miracle in the Asian market!
In particular, the sales of the adult version of Xiao Lin completely surpassed the sales of the full-age version designed for families. Although it was only a "special inversion" and a special "emotion sensor", as well as 18 special movements and expressions specially designed for certain things, it was sold at a sky-high price of 20,000 USD on the black market!
Jiang Chen didn't expect this to happen.
If you can afford 20,000 USD, why don't you go find a girlfriend? Even picking up a girl wouldn't cost more than twenty thousand!
It wasn't until later that he found out that it wasn't just single dogs who couldn't afford to get married who were buying this thing. Some people who didn't lack money but had special hobbies were also buying this thing. Some of them wanted their height to be as short as possible, some wanted their breasts to be G, and some even bought ten of them in one go, creating a harem.
A robot would never be jealous, unless the program was programmed to make her jealous at this time.
"Time" magazine once again put Jiang Chen on the cover and used humorous English below his profile picture with a line of words:
When Jiang Chen saw this title, he was furious.
If it weren't for the fact that the content was relatively accurate, he almost sent out Ghost Agents to do the work.
Currently, 200,000 units of Xiao Lin left the Ange Island factory every month, 50,000 of which were the household model and 150,000 of which were the adult model. Originally, each would produce 100,000 units, but the sales of the adult model were too good. Future Heavy Industries didn't hesitate to cut the production line for the household model and allocated production to the adult model.
Amos didn't stop complaining to Jiang Chen.
His epoch-making masterpiece was treated as a sex toy, it was an insult to knowledge!
However, he didn't complain for a month before he stopped complaining and started to study the improved version of "Xiao Lin." The 50 million USD dividend almost scared him to death. Although he was renowned in the international robotics academic community, he had never been this rich.
However, unlike Time, the Washington Post maintained a cautious attitude toward the "Xiao Lin" launched by Future Heavy Industries. On the page reporting on "Xiao Lin", there was an image of the "Terminator" holding a heavy machine gun. "The White House will be happy. I'm afraid it won't be long before our soldiers in Iraq can go home."
But the Capital was not happy.
When Xiao Lin first entered the market, the Capital analyzed the possibility of using this "high intelligence" robot on the battlefield. Although Xiao Lin couldn't recognize firearms and the program prohibited it from doing things that might harm humans, it didn't mean she didn't have the potential to weaponize.
The conclusions of the relevant analysts were also shocking.
If this robot was used on the battlefield, the UA military's ground combat capability would increase by at least 10%. Most importantly, the soldiers didn't need to be paid, and if they died, there was no need for pensions or funerals.
But the troublesome part was that the robot's main control chip was equipped with protective measures similar to the Phantom helmet. Forceful disassembly would trigger the high energy capacitor in the protective circuit to instantly discharge and burn the key parts of the chip. And the more critical AI program, the technical personnel of various countries didn't even have a clue about it. Reverse engineering was slow, and the Capital could only send an email to Future Group's mailbox.
"Raytheon wants to cooperate with us in the field of military robotics. They offered a price of 1 billion USD, hoping to purchase the technology related to 'Xiao Lin' in our hands. Hua Heavy Industries also made a similar proposal to us, hoping to secure a robot cooperation project with us before Raytheon, "Xia Shiyu reported to Jiang Chen in the president's office.
Jiang Chen glanced at the documents on the table and didn't respond. He just sighed.
"Artificial intelligence, robots … Why is it that every time I offer a technology, there are always people trying to turn it into a weapon?"
Yesterday, Natasha came to see him. The Kremlin had the same idea and hoped to cooperate with Future Heavy Industries. The girl even lowered her voice and threw out the bait of "nuclear." Russia could send nuclear experts to Xin to help Xin build a nuclear power plant …
"Do you reject it?" Xia Shiyu asked.
"Reject it, and once again reaffirm Future Group's neutrality in international affairs. Any attempt to steal or seize Future Group's technology through improper means, Future Group will immediately initiate patent applications in other countries. "
Xia Shiyu nodded.
"I'll write your words into a diplomatic response. In addition, the Saudis also called and mentioned something related to robots. "
"Saudi?" Jiang Chen looked at Xia Shiyu, confused. "They're also interested in our technology?"
"Rather than saying they're interested in technology, it's better to say …" Xia Shiyu hesitated for a moment before she looked away awkwardly. "The royal family on their side made a special request."
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