After walking around, seeing that there was no valuable discovery, Jiang Nan simply said to Wu Hao: "I'm here to explore the secret on behalf of the audience this time, you shouldn't let me go home." What about the new technology in that video you posted earlier, aren't you going to show us it? ”

Wu Hao shook his head with a smile and said, "Of course, we are all ready, please here." ”

Saying that, Wu Hao took Jiang Nan and the others to the test center in the middle of the laboratory, then took out a small microphone and handed it to her: "This is our latest intelligent voice assistant, you can try to say hello to it." ”

Jiang Nan nodded and took the microphone, but he didn't say anything for a long time when he held it in his hand, and finally turned his head to Wu Hao and asked, "What should I say?" ”

"Whatever, anything, this is a test for us in disguise." Wu Hao said with a smile.

Jiang Nan smiled when he heard this, thought for a moment and then said to the microphone: "Hello, I'm Jiang Nan, it's nice to meet you." ”

Jiang Nan's words fell, and I saw a young and beautiful female voice coming from the speaker not far away: "Hello, Miss Jiang Nan, welcome to your home." ”

"Huh?" Jiang Nan was a little surprised when he heard this, and then asked Wu Hao: "Can it identify the user's gender?" ”

Wu Hao nodded and said, "Yes, everyone's voice, tone, tone, color, and frequency are different, and the same is true between men and women." This system can collect the user's voice information for analysis, so as to determine the user's gender. We can achieve 99 percent of this accuracy, and one percent of people have special voices, so it's hard to tell. ”

"Can you briefly introduce yourself?" Jiang Nan asked with a smile at the microphone.

Soon, the stereo sounded: "Hello, I am 14 (one four), Mr. Wu Hao's personal assistant, it is a pleasure to meet you." ”

"Is 14 your number?" Jiang Nan asked.

The speaker replied, "No, 14 is my name." Miss Jiang Nan, what can I do for you. ”

"Well, what are you going to do?" Jiang Nan said with more interest.

The stereo sounded: "My job is to provide daily information service work for my master, Mr. Wu Hao, and also to provide relevant services to visitors." Can I adjust the temperature of the air conditioner, the light intensity, put on the bath water, play TV channels, order the news, forecast the weather, etc., what do you need? ”

"No thanks, can I ask you a question?" Jiang Nan glanced at Wu Hao, who was standing beside him, and then said with the corners of his mouth slightly curled.

"Of course, we'll be happy to help you."

Jiang Nan put away his smile and said, "Will you hurt humans?" ”

"Sorry, I didn't understand what you meant."

"I say, will you hurt humans?" Jiang Nan slowed down and repeated.

"Sorry, I can't understand what you mean."

Jiang Nan was a little puzzled when he heard this, then turned his head to look at Wu Hao and said, "Is it avoiding the question or refusing to answer." ”

Wu Hao shook his head with a smile and said: "It's not that we evade and deploy to refuse to answer, but we didn't set up relevant answers for it, and we didn't even include questions in this regard for it." ”

"Well, don't you have the Three Laws of Robotics for it (Note 1)?" Jiang Nan was surprised.

Wu Hao shook his head and said, "Let's talk while we walk." ”

"Good!"

Jiang Nan nodded and walked outside with Wu Hao, and said with some urgency: "Can I understand that you are avoiding this question?" ”

Wu Hao shook his head with a smile and said, "It's not an avoidance, but our current technology can't reach that level, so there's no need for this for the time being." ”

"But I think your technology is already very annoying, and if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have noticed that it was an artificial intelligence voice assistant. Whether it is the logic of thinking is very fast and meticulous, and the language is very natural. Jiang Nan said.

Wu Hao explained with a smile: "In fact, it is an AI voice assistant, but it is slightly more humane than other voice assistants." ”

"Isn't humanization the characteristic of intelligent robots, and from this point of view, it's rare that it's not an intelligent robot?" Jiang Nan threw out another sharp question.

Walking into the recording site that had been arranged, Wu Hao explained with a smile: "Humanization actually has a lot of meanings, and it is not exclusive to intelligent robots. For example, we sometimes say that a dog and a cat behave more humanely, do they have the command mind of a human?

AI, artificial intelligence, it's actually divided into many categories. What we are currently exposed to or using can be called weak artificial intelligence, and what we are looking forward to and what everyone is worried about is strong artificial intelligence. ”

"What's the difference between the two?" The two sat down, and the makeup artist began to help them put on makeup. Despite this, Jiang Nan continued to ask at him.

Wu Hao smiled and said: "Intelligence is different, and the thinking structure and way of thinking are also different.

In my opinion, a strong AI is to have its own independent personality, to be able to think independently, and to have a soul of its own.

Weak artificial intelligence, on the other hand, is nothing more than an imitation of the human way of thinking, and the two are far from the same. ”

"Soul?"

Jiang Nan showed a puzzled expression: "How should this be understood, whether it belongs to the field of science or theology." ”

Wu Hao smiled and waved his hand: "As for the understanding of the soul, in fact, we are still in a very preliminary stage. If you look at the relevant texts, you will find that there is not much difference between the understanding and definition of the soul in science and theology, and the boundaries between the two are blurred.

What I'm talking about here is actually independent consciousness, which is the key to judging that a machine or a program really has human characteristics or human nature. ”

Hearing Wu Hao's introduction, Jiang Nan nodded, and then asked him: "What about your intelligent voice assistant, what stage has it reached, and does it have human consciousness?" ”

Wu Hao shook his head and said, "No, it's just a program. To put it bluntly, it actually responds to what the user says, or what instructions are given.

There are thousands of responses, and the advancement of our technology is to select the response that is most relevant to the actual situation from these thousands of responses, and express it in a way that simulates the voice of a real person. ”

"So it's just a smarter intelligent voice program." Jiang Nan looked at him and said.

Wu Hao nodded and smiled: "Yes, it's just a clever voice program." It's just that everyone's expectations for it are too high, so there will be controversy and fear. ”

"You mean it's people's fear of the unknown." Jiang Nan summed up the meaning of his words.

Wu Hao shook his head with a smile and said, "No, it's people's fear of themselves. ”

[Note 1: The Three Laws of Robotics":

One. Robots must not harm people, nor can they stand by while they are harmed

Two. Robots should obey all human commands, but they must not violate the first law

Three. Robots should protect themselves, but they must not violate the first and second laws

Later, it was added the Robot Zero Law: robots must protect the overall interests of humanity from harm. 】