Chapter 178: Price increase across the board
Is it a beauty or a nightmare that Dream Fulfillment Technology brings to human beings? "All of a sudden, an article went viral.
From the perspective of human social ethics, this paper discusses the development of Mengyuan Technology in intelligent simulation robots.
It is believed that although Dream Fulfillment Technology has crossed people's uncanny valley psychology in one step, it has made the general public accept simulated robots.
However, the integration of artificial robots into human society will bring about various impacts, especially ethical impacts, which will be unprecedented.
The article even pessimistically believes that even if intelligent simulation robots do not rebel against humanity as in movies and television, they may lead to the disintegration of human society.
How human society was formed can be seen from the beginning of primitive societies and matriarchal societies.
In other words, human society is formed by the bond of blood relations. The smallest cell of society is a family.
With the development of intelligent simulation robots, they are bound to become more and more human-like, and even one day humans will not even be able to distinguish between simulated robots.
Just imagine, in this case, it will be a common thing for a man to fall in love with a simulated female robot, or a woman to fall in love with a simulated male robot.
Even human pleasure in this area can be completely replaced by artificial robots, in this case, will the family still appear?
Looking at the high divorce rate and the marriage rate in today's society, do you still think that artificial robots will not affect human society?
When the family ceases to exist, won't human society collapse? Whether the article is correct or not, it has sparked a big debate about whether simulated robots should be developed.
Because Mengyuan Technology is the main manufacturer of simulation robots, it is naturally on the cusp. The reason why Mengyuan Technology is the main manufacturer is because Tang Guo does have an amazing ability to follow the trend and copycats, and a number of copycat manufacturers came into being.
Not to mention whether the product performance can be compared with the simulation robot of Mengyuan Technology, at least the copycat manufacturer can make the appearance of the product very similar.
In particular, some manufacturers have obtained some technical support from Dongying Kingdom, and the female simulation robots produced have been well received by a group of male customers.
Of course, the biggest advantage is naturally the price, usually the price of the simulated robot of the copycat manufacturer is only 10,000 yuan.
This is only one-thirtieth of the lowest basic version price of Dream Fulfillment. Although walking and doing things are not as good as the products of Dream Fulfillment Technology, some functions are done vividly and have become the favorite of many otaku.
In fact, these copycat products are the reason for the low marriage rate in the Tang Kingdom. However, the article did not point this out, so netizens naturally stared at Mengyuan Technology.
The author of the article, Qian Shouwen, is a very well-known public, because this article became a hot search in one fell swoop.
"Sir, there is a special matter for you to deal with." Du Qiu is working nanoworm technology at the base, which he has basically completed and is conducting final tests on some control conditions.
Nanoworms must be controlled, otherwise it can easily become a catastrophe. Because this is a nanorobot based on carbon, it can replicate and proliferate anywhere there is carbon.
Imagine that if it is not controlled, this carbon nanoworm will replicate and multiply indefinitely, and it is very likely that life on the blue star will cease to exist.
After all, the life on the blue star is all carbon-based life, and the carbon nanoworms multiply indefinitely, which will consume all the carbon elements, and other life will naturally die.
The reason why Du Qiu has basically gotten through the technology of nanorobots is that he has developed several metal nano-robot robots.
These metal nanobots are similar to the kind of metal nanobots that the defenders of alien civilizations repair processors.
In this way, the metal parts of many products can be easily repaired by this metal nanobot.
The reason why Du Qiu wants to develop carbon nanobots is because the first generation of lurkers can't even avoid the anti-paparazzi system they originally made.
This makes it impossible for Xinghai to monitor GIA's headquarters, because there is a strict anti-surveillance system, and it is difficult for existing detection equipment to escape detection.
On the other hand, when Du Qiu was researching carbon nanotube materials, he felt that it would be very convenient if carbon nanorobots could independently compose carbon nanotube structures.
It's just that carbon is different from those metal elements, and the implementation methods such as replication, multiplication and communication cannot be copied, and the difficulty of this has led to Du Qiu's failure to break through.
Fortunately, Xinghai discovered the nanorobot projects that the people of the United States are researching this time, one of which uses carbon nanotubes as raw materials.
From the materials of this project, Du Qiu was inspired to overcome all the difficulties in one fell swoop. He was about to show off his skills to complete the first experiment, but was interrupted by Xinghai's sudden words.
"Xinghai, what special event?" Xinghai directly projected the article onto Du Qiu's smart glasses, and then said, "This article was published half a month ago. At first, it didn't spread too quickly, but it suddenly exploded a few days ago, and the spread rate increased exponentially. I conducted data collection and analysis on some of the statements in the article, and found a bad phenomenon, if this situation continues, the simulation robot of Dream Fulfillment Technology is afraid that it will become the finger of Qianfu. Du Qiu asked, "What phenomenon?" Xinghai explained: "Recently, the bosses of some companies have begun to purchase the elite version of simulation robots in batches, and require the corresponding industry database. Such an elite version of the simulation robot is used by them to replace a subset of employees, whose work tasks are repetitive tasks that do not require creativity. ”
"The elite version of the simulation robot needs 500,000, plus the supporting industry database, the price is at least close to one million, these bosses are willing to spend this money?" Du Qiu was a little surprised.
Xinghai said: "Sir, your calculation is wrong, the customized industry database can be shared by users with multiple elite simulation robots." The boss of a company only needs to customize an industry database, and he can share this database even if he buys 100 elite editions. Du Qiu instantly understood and said: "In this way, the price of 500,000 yuan for the elite version is completely lower than the total salary of a white-collar worker for five years. ”
"Yes, this is still an initial data, after all, it is still possible to continue to use the Elite Edition after the five-year warranty period." The salary that an employee gets is actually not the whole cost of the company to hire him, after all, the payment of five insurances and one housing fund is now very strict.
Add this part of the expenditure, and it is not difficult to imagine that the bosses will do something to replace the manual with the elite version of the simulation robot.
"If this situation continues, Mengyuan Technology's simulation robots are likely to replace the vast majority of human jobs." Du Qiu was shocked, he was really sloppy, the era in which human beings live has not yet reached the interstellar age of great material abundance.
People can only obtain the means of survival by working, and robots have robbed human jobs, so how can human beings survive?
This situation will definitely make Dream Fulfillment Technology the enemy of most people, and simulated robots will not be accepted by humans.
"Xinghai, what is your response plan?" Xinghai said: "The simulation robot has been introduced to the market, and it is not appropriate to stop production at this time. Since those bosses are because the cost of simulated robots is lower than that of real people, then we just need to raise the price across the board. Du Qiu muttered: "We can't just raise the price, we also need to redefine the positioning of the simulation robot, which is a personal partner assistant." In other words, simulated robots will not be sold in batches by legal entities such as enterprises, and the method is real-name purchase. Each person can only have one simulated robot under their name, and we are committed to making robots a partner for human beings, making human lives better, rather than ruining human jobs and families. Xinghai asked: "In this way, the sales of Mengyuan Technology's simulation robots will be limited." Du Qiu showed a determined look and said: "This is temporary, after I lead Blue Star into the interstellar age, people will have no pressure to survive, and robots will be popularized." ”
"But what about the products that have already been sold?" Xinghai raised a new question. Du Qiu thought for a while and said: "For those business owners and customers, we try our best to negotiate with them to repurchase, which can be regarded as a special recall, which can subsidize a fee for customers, and it can be regarded as us spending money to buy lessons." ”
"Okay, then I will immediately release these instructions of yours to the executives of Mengyuan Technology." Du Qiu added: "By the way, the things mentioned in that article should be the products of those copycat manufacturers, maybe Dongying Kingdom harbors some kind of evil intentions, so that the marriage rate of Tang Kingdom will decline, and then the fertility rate will inevitably decline." You have to simulate a group of water armies on the Internet and publish this point of view, on the one hand, let everyone understand that our partner assistant simulation robot cannot be used for that kind of thing, and on the other hand, expose the robot technology exported by Dongying Kingdom. ”
"Yes, sir."
"In order to avoid simulated robots stealing human jobs, Mengyuan Technology has implemented a comprehensive price increase!"
"Dream Circle Technology recalls the simulation robots of enterprise customers with high subsidies!"
"Simulated robots are human partners and will make human life and work better!"
"Real-name system, real-name authentication is required to buy a simulated robot!" …… Liu Sichen, marketing director of Mengyuan Technology, held a press conference and announced two strategies: comprehensive price increase and real-name purchase, which immediately stirred up a thousand waves.
The craze for online buzz quickly dampened the article's popularity. Even if some people questioned the high pricing strategy of Dream Fulfillment Technology, they were all scolded back by the white-collar workers who had just lost their jobs.
These white-collar workers were feeling dazed and desperate because they feared that other companies would buy artificial robots, and in that case, they would not be able to find new jobs.
Originally, they were ready to talk to Mengyuan Technology for explanation, but now it's okay, Mengyuan Technology not only increases prices, but also bans sales for enterprise users and implements real-name purchases.
This means that they no longer have to worry about being robbed of their jobs by robots. () Read books on mobile phones, all in the nameless mobile version