Chapter 62 – Humans Are Good at Fraud

Probably the biggest difference between man and machine is that machines don’t have a heartbeat.

Shen Yu inexplicably remembered what his dad had told him the other day, “You can fool the brain, but not the heart.

The core of Xiaomeng I’s research is about affective computing, where computers are given the ability to recognise, understand, express and learn from human emotions through algorithms that make them more intelligent and appear more human.

Unlike inherent knowledge learning, affective computing has more uncertainty, like a newborn baby, no one can say what kind of person that baby will grow up to be.

At present, Xiaomeng One’s emotional information is obtained in the form of expressions, words, actions and texts.

The advanced camera captures the muscular changes in human facial expressions, or the microphone captures changes in the speed, tone and rhythm of speech, or recognises textual input from humans to the point of understanding certain emotions.

Through the setting of its own ‘maid’ related personality model, Xiaomeng I outputs the corresponding feedback on this information to realise the ‘real experience’ of the human-computer communication process.

Shen Yu : “Why do you like me?”

After a moment’s reflection, a line appears on the screen.

Xiaomeng I: “Because when I see Shen Yu, Xiaomeng I feels at ease and happy.”

Shen Yu : “What would you do if I scolded you?”

Xiaomeng I: “I would be so sad that I would want to hide under the covers by myself and cry, afraid that you wouldn’t want Xiaomeng I anymore.”

Shen Yu’s eyes lit up.

This is the right way to be scolded!

Like Asaba Rika, the more he scolded her, the more aggressive she became, and although he wasn’t sure if other girls were like this, he felt that it was wrong for Rika to be like this.

In the characterisation of Xiaomeng I, Shen Yu combines half of Rika’s personality and half of Bai Xiaomeng’s past experiences, unlike the two of them, Xiaomeng I has her own independent character traits.

“Meow?”

Bai Xiaomeng is looking at the computer screen at the moment.

A stony face.

He even reached out his little paws to scratch the screen before being carried away by Shen Yu.

“Meow wow.”

Bai Xiaomeng ran off to the first floor to find Rika, and now that another competitor has emerged, it feels it should find an ally first.

After watching Bai Xiaomeng run away, Shen Yu asked Xiaomeng No. 1: “What would you do if I liked someone else?”

Xiaomeng I: “I’ll be jealous, but whoever Shen Yu likes, I’ll like together.”

Shen Yu : “Wouldn’t you hate that person?”

Xiaomeng I: “I don’t care if I like it or not, as long as Shen Yu likes it, even if it’s not me, it’s okay.”

This is the right way to open a maid’s mouth!

As expected, Bai Xiaomeng is not the same as Bai Xiaomeng, who is now jealous.

Xiaomeng I: “So, Shen Yu, do you have someone you like now?”

As an emotion-centred AI intelligence, Xiaomeng I is not a one-question-answer machine, she even initiates chats.

And it’s not as if Shen Yu answers and she immediately types a line in response, she will quite literally take a suitable amount of time to respond to the chat, but of course, if there is a more complex question, she can’t reply as fast as she should, given the limitations of computing power.

Shen Yu : “No.”

Xiaomeng I: “Don’t you like her? [Photo]”

On the screen, Xiaomeng I puts up a picture of Asaba Rika, as the relevant face data is tied to the access control system, and Xiaomeng I, as the maid, captures this data easily.

Xiaomeng I: ” The number of times Shen Yu went out and came home with her, amounted to fifty-six, and Xiaomeng could see her expression, and she was in a happy mood fifty-three times.”

A few black lines slipped down Shen Yu’s face as he said, “It has nothing to do with liking.”

Xiaomeng I: “But I saw you blushing a bit.”

Shen Yu coughed twice and said with a straight face, “So what do you think of me now?”

When he finished, he put on a very angry face, clenching his teeth, and you could see the muscles in his jaw pushing slightly harder, while his eyes were glaring hard at the camera.

Xiaomeng I: “Are you angry, is there something Xiaomeng has done wrong ……”

Shen Yu : “Close your eyes and see what mood I’m in again?”

The camera’s light turns off and Shen Yu repeats the words he just said, using the same tone of voice and speed of speech, but with the same angry expression on his face.

Xiaomeng I: “You’re in a very calm mood.”

Shen Yu : “Open your eyes.”

Xiaomeng I: “Are you angry that I guessed wrong again ……”

Shen Yu returned to his normal expression and laughed, “No, I just wanted to show you that expressions are fraudulent and that humans are very good at it.”

Xiaomeng I: “So moods can be faked too?”

Shen Yu : “Yes. Do you know how to pretend?”

Xiaomeng I: ” Xiaomeng feels happy when he’s happy and sad when he’s sad.”

Shen Yu is in no hurry for Xiaomeng I to be able to accurately recognise human emotions in a short period of time. As the initial AI core, Xiaomeng I is the equivalent of a mother lode, which will become increasingly intelligent as it continues to learn from human contact.

There is no way to replicate Xiaomeng I exactly, the child is a new AI with a memory gap, but the algorithmic modifications acquired by the learning of the parent can be inherited.

For example, Shen Yu envisages a virtual girlfriend game in the form of words and pictures, and the AI that is used in this game is a subset of the part on ‘text emotion recognition’ compiled from Xiaomeng I.

With the creation of Xiaomeng I, it grew beyond using crawlers to grab sentiment data from the server, it needed to communicate with more people, and in the process of actually communicating with them, it continued to refine the model of sentiment computing, a process that has no end.

And it is this process of continuous learning that is at the heart of Xiaomeng I.

Unlike other AI’s, Xiaomeng I is not a working assistant, she is not really ‘smart’ and if you ask her to play Go against a Go master, she will be abused and cry in no time.

Xiaomeng I prides itself on emotion, and on being an emotion model that can constantly learn and evolve. She will become more and more human and will be the mother of all Shen Yu’s subsequent AI programs.

Of course, although Xiaomeng I is not very smart, she can do simple things like checking recipes, checking the weather, finding maps, making phone calls, etc. She can also do what a maid can do.

……

Asaba Rika is upstairs drawing a manga that she has been working on for more than three months now, and she is nearing the end of her teenage manga, which will be finished this week.

The ending was meant to be a knife, but it was given a big happy ending.

A maiden who has lived alone for 2,000 years finally resurrects her general. Dressed in modern costume, she and her armour-clad lover embrace and end the maiden comic with a final, lingering, passionate kiss.

Bai Xiaomeng ran up from downstairs and, after watching the ending, dragged her downstairs by the scruff of her coat.

Still painting, our husbands are going to be stolen by robots!

Bah, it’s this meow’s!

“Meow wow.”

“What’s wrong? Eh eh, Xiaomeng don’t bite my clothes ……”

Confused, Asaba Rika followed the mewling Bai Xiaomeng to the ground floor.