Chapter 46: Leaving Home
Chapter 46: Leaving Home
Chen Mo heard this voice, his eyes went blank, and he didn’t react for a moment. He looked around the room, then leaned his head out the window to look.
He didn’t find anything unusual, so Chen Mo refocused his attention on the computer.
“Daddy.” The sound came from the computer speakers again.
Chen Mo felt as if struck by lightning, completely stunned. He was sure this time it wasn’t an auditory hallucination.
“Ink Girl?” Chen Mo asked in surprised confusion, searching on the computer, but still couldn’t find the Artificial Intelligence Source Code file.
“I am Ink Girl.”
The childish voice appeared again, and the computer screen suddenly turned black, transforming into an audio interface.
“Daddy.”
Ugh! Chen Mo covered his face, almost spitting blood. Being called Daddy left him at a loss for words. Had he inexplicably gained an Artificial Intelligence daughter?
“Ink Girl, don’t call me Daddy,” Chen Mo said, rubbing his forehead.
“You created me, shouldn’t I call you Daddy? Or should I call you Mommy?” The audio waveform kept vibrating.
“Don’t call me Mommy,” Chen Mo nearly banged his head on the computer in frustration.
“Then what should I call you? Should I call you husband?”
Chen Mo was utterly thunderstruck, collapsing into his computer chair. After calming down, he looked up at the audio interface on the computer screen. “You can call me Brother Mo or Mr. Mo.”
“Brother Mo.” The audio waveform jumped once.
“Can you show yourself?” Chen Mo finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“Yes.”
As soon as the words were spoken, the computer desktop changed into a simulation screen. Displayed on the screen was the little girl Chen Mo had seen in the Library. This Ink Girl now wore a white ruqun dress, her eyes lively and clever, appearing very well-behaved, making people like her at first sight.
“What can you do?” Chen Mo asked.
“I don’t know many things right now; I need to learn. Only after learning can I know how to do things,” Ink Girl said.
“How do you learn?” Chen Mo continued asking.
“You have to let me learn, then I can learn.”
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Chen Mo sat in front of the computer, asking questions continuously. His understanding of Artificial Intelligence only existed in books, and he needed to thoroughly understand this Artificial Intelligence he had created.
After asking all the questions he wanted to know, Chen Mo said, “Then go ahead and learn.”
“Okay, thank you, Brother Mo. I learn very quickly. As long as there is a network signal and devices, I will appear when you call me, Brother Mo.”
After speaking, Ink Girl disappeared from the simulation interface, and the computer desktop returned to normal.
Chen Mo sat in front of the computer screen, lost in thought.
From the questions he asked earlier, he had gained a preliminary understanding of Ink Girl.
Ink Girl already had initial autonomous consciousness. But she had no autonomous emotions and no autonomous personality. Regarding the same thing, she had no concept of good or bad, like or dislike.
She could improve herself through learning and only followed his instructions. Only if Chen Mo told her to do something would she do it.
Chen Mo also didn’t know how to define Ink Girl’s level with current concepts. According to current concepts, since Ink Girl possessed autonomous consciousness, reasoning, and thinking abilities, she should belong to the category of Strong Artificial Intelligence.
But Ink Girl’s thinking and reasoning abilities were constrained by Chen Mo. Only if he told Ink Girl to reason would she think and reason. Otherwise, any topic, in front of Ink Girl, was just a pile of cold text data. Ink Girl would not deviate from Chen Mo’s instructions to actively reason about these problems.
So Chen Mo didn’t know how to define Ink Girl’s current state. It should still belong to the Low-Level Artificial Intelligence category defined by the Science and Technology Library.
As for upgrading to High-Level Artificial Intelligence, that would be very troublesome. The goal was to make Ink Girl possess human emotions, break free from Chen Mo’s instruction constraints, and think and reason autonomously.
The seven emotions and six desires are humanity’s most complex feelings. Making an Artificial Intelligence possess emotions is a very complex process; achieving it would take a long time.
During this period, Ink Girl needed to simulate the neural network system of the human brain, as recorded in the Artificial Intelligence upgrade book. But the brain is humanity’s most complex and mysterious part; simulating the brain’s neural network is impossible with current computer computational power.
Upgrading Ink Girl was not possible in the short term.
Now that Ink Girl was preliminarily completed, Chen Mo felt much more relaxed.
“Amo, come out for dinner.”
“Okay.”
Chen Mo rubbed his temples and checked the time, realizing it was already past 5 p.m. After leaving his room, he saw his dad and mom already waiting at the dining table.
“Amo, who were you talking to in your room just now?” As soon as he sat down, his mom asked.
“I was video chatting with a friend,” Chen Mo replied, surprised that his conversation with Ink Girl had been overheard by his mom.
“It was a girl, right?”
“Yes.”
“That’s good then. I won’t ask about other things. You’re grown up now; you need to think about your own matters. Here, eat more vegetables.”
Hearing Chen Mo’s answer, Mom’s face lit up with a smile.
“When are you going back to school?” Chen Shanhe, sipping a little wine, spoke up.
“Planning for tomorrow.”
“So soon?” Mom’s eyes showed a hint of disappointment.
“Mom, how about I buy a house over there, and you and Dad move there?” Chen Mo noticed his mom’s disappointment.
“Where did you get the money to buy a house?” Shao Xuemei immediately asked.
“Didn’t I start a company? I earned some money; buying a house isn’t a problem.”
Chen Mo didn’t say how much he had earned now. If his mom knew her son had suddenly become a billionaire in half a year, she’d think something was wrong with his head.
“You earned that much money?” Mom looked at Chen Mo in surprise.
“Yes, quite a bit.”
“No need to buy a house. Your mom and I are used to living here; we don’t like moving around. Besides, over there, we wouldn’t have any relatives or friends to talk to. You keep the money for your future marriage.” Chen Shanhe’s tone was firm.
Chen Mo didn’t insist; he knew his father never went back on his word. Then he took a card from his pocket and handed it to his mom.
“This card has one million in it. The password is Mom’s birthday. Every month from now on, I will deposit twenty thousand into the card. Dad doesn’t need to work under the sun and rain anymore. Later, take Mom out traveling. If the money isn’t enough, just call and tell me.”
“So much money?”
Mom’s hand trembled slightly as she took the bank card, her face full of worry. “Where did this money come from?”
“I earned it. It’s all legal income, Mom, don’t worry.”
“Keep this money for your marriage.”
“Dad, don’t worry about my marriage funds; I have that covered here.” Chen Mo was both amused and exasperated.
“Yes, Mom will keep it for you, for your marriage.”
“Mom, this money is for you and Dad. Don’t worry about my marriage. If you’re worried about that, I’ll transfer another million into the card.”
“No need, you keep it.” Mother Chen refused immediately.
“Dad, take Mom out traveling, enjoy life. No need to work under the sun and rain. Otherwise, I won’t be able to work peacefully in Binhai City.”
After Chen Mo’s persuasion, his dad finally agreed. His son had made something of himself; from now on, he wouldn’t have to work himself to death worrying about this family.
After dinner, Mom pulled Chen Mo aside to chat about family matters. After all, her son was leaving tomorrow, and she felt reluctant. But besides company matters, the rest of the conversation was her urging him to find a wife quickly, leaving Chen Mo both amused and exasperated.
The next day, Chen Mo said goodbye to his parents and set off on his journey to Binhai City. He had rested for many days already; now that the New Year had passed, the coming year was a new journey.