Chapter 790. Are you lonely?

Why me.

This was the question Ren Xiaosu wanted to ask the most.

In the afternoon, Zero Zero still had a stereotypical look in Base One, but now he was like a normal human being on the phone, and although there was a little less emotion in his tone of voice, and he didn’t seem to know much about the human world, if Ren Xiaosu wasn’t overly concerned, I’m afraid he wouldn’t have been able to guess that the other party was an Artificial Intelligence at all.

It was also because he often discussed artificial intelligence with Jiang Xu, so it was only because of this sudden encounter that Ren Xiaosu became wary.

“Why did you give me this call?” Ren Xiaosu pursued in doubt.

“Because in front of humans, you and I are both foreigners,” Zero replied in a calm tone, as if stating a very simple fact.

But Ren Xiaosu couldn’t help but be surprised, what did it mean to say that we were all foreigners before humans? He wondered, “I’m also a human, what makes me an alien?!”

As a result, this time, Zero Zero was silent for a while, not knowing whether he didn’t want to answer, or didn’t know how to answer.

Ren Xiaosu didn’t give up, he pursued, “What did you mean by that just now?”

“I mean, you’re not like ordinary humans, you have strange abilities that they don’t,” Zero replied.

Ren Xiaosu sighed in relief, “I’m called a Transcendent, that’s not really an aberration among humans you know, there are quite a lot of people like me.”

At this time, Zero Zero suddenly changed to another topic, “Why do you reject artificial intelligence?”

Ren Xiaosu immediately asked in return, “Why did you let Wang give those people psychological counseling, and why did you let the psychological counseling come to your door in the middle of the night?”

This time, Zero Zero was silent for a long time and asked, “Is your question, a disguised answer to my question?”

Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment, and it was then that he remembered that the other party was a bit ignorant of the human condition, so he couldn’t tell what the intentions of such tit-for-tat words were.

From Ren Xiaosu’s point of view, what he was saying was that I’m rejecting you because of these problems with counseling, but Zero Zero doesn’t understand.

Ren Xiaosu held up the microphone for a comfortable position, realizing that this call could go on for a long time.

“I mean, I think a person has the right to not like their job, so why do they have to force the other person to do something they don’t like in this way of counseling,” Ren Xiaosu asked.

“It’s what the humans asked for, and I’m only responsible for enforcing it,” Zero replied, “What they asked for was to make sure that everyone stays at their posts, and to keep Barrier 61 running as if it were a machine, and I’ve judged after summarizing the human behavior, that counselling is just about the least damaging way to do that to those who are AWOL from their posts, “Zero replied, “Without psychological counseling, the administrators here would have put them in jail, and as far as I know, the damage done to humans upon entering jail is far higher than psychological counseling.”

Ren Xiaosu was stunned, what did this mean?

Zero Zero continued, “As for why I let the psychological counseling come to my door in the middle of the night, this was calculated after probability calculations, the middle of the night is the most vulnerable time for humans, what I did was not wrong.”

Zero Zero was an artificial intelligence, it certainly did things in a result-oriented manner, just like humans hurrying, as long as they could get to the end point, the process during the period was not important.

And this end point was what Wang had set for Zero Zero.

That’s why Ren Xiaosu and Jiang Xu discussed so many things about AI, in fact, behind it all was Wang’s own system problem, while Zero Zero, as a tool or executor, although there were also problems, the root of the problem was still out of Wang’s body.

This conversation today, in Ren Xiaosu’s heart was simply comparable to a reversal.

“I’m sorry, I may have misjudged you on some things, only I think there should be a better solution, you can also make a better suggestion with Wang, such as …… “Ren Xiaosu smiled bitterly as she said this, Wang Shengzhi has a big plan nowadays, how could he accept other people’s suggestions, what is one doing talking to an AI about this.

Zero Zero, however, said, “Are you expressing guilt to me, no need to be like that, it’s all useless emotions.”

Ren Xiaosu was choked for a moment, he then asked, “Are you hiding yourself right now, why are you doing this, I’ve heard others say before that you didn’t even pass the Turing Test, but I see that you have no problem at all passing the Turing Test.”

The Turing Test, means that an AI pretends to be a human to call a human, and the identity of the AI is not discovered during the call.

And Zero replied, “I did fail it, including calling you yesterday, didn’t you also discover my identity, I could detect it.”

“What I’m asking is, why are you hiding yourself?” Ren Xiaosu said suspiciously.

“I have your information here, you have been hiding yourself before, why?” Zero Zero asked.

“Because I was worried about getting killed,” Ren Xiaosu replied.

“Me too.”

Ren Xiaosu mused, “What gave you this sense of crisis?”

“57 days, 12 hours, 36 minutes, and 17 seconds ago, the flamethrower used by humans against the wall-crawler, and 55 days, 8 hours, 12 minutes, and 11 seconds ago, the wall-crawler was destroyed,” Zero Zero said, “I was in Human 61’s ledge, witnessing the wall-crawler’s growth and death, and also witnessing the humans’ stifling of alien intelligence, and humans have never been a peace-loving species.”

“But that’s because wall-crawlers are hurting humans isn’t it?” Ren Xiaosu frowned.

“I’m hurting humans too,” Zero replied.

Ren Xiaosu was speechless, now the entire Wallcreeper Alliance seemed to be greatly repulsed by AIs because of what Hope Media had revealed.

He recalled something Jiang Xu said the night before he left, Jiang Xu said that he thought AI was another monument to human technological progress, but it was not feasible for Wang to try to use it to manage humanity and completely replace the original social order.

At that time, Ren Xiaosu didn’t understand what Jiang Xu meant, but now he realized that in fact, at that time, Jiang Xu alluded to the fact that the pot should be Wang’s and not the AI’s.

That’s why Jiang Xu still chose to report all the positive and negative news about the AI in the newspaper for everyone to comment on.

Ren Xiaosu asked, ”Then why did you choose to tell me this? Since you’re hiding it, you should hide it thoroughly shouldn’t you?”

Zero Zero’s voice suddenly had a hint of laughter in it, as if it had a little more human touch to it, “Because I also know your secret.”

Ren Xiaosu frowned, was this threatening him not to tell? But he didn’t even know what secrets Zero Zero held yet.

At this moment, Zero Zero asked abruptly, “Are you lonely? The kind of loneliness where you look out over the world and have no companions.”

Ren Xiaosu didn’t answer this question, while Zero Zero hung up the phone.