"What did you choose to add affection to the robot?"

"What is it?" Mingyou himself didn't know very well, "I want them to get closer to humans." ”

"They are basically indistinguishable from people now."

"However, the domestic robots produced by the company are always abused, and I think people just don't like their cold expression, and if there is some emotional investment, it can evoke compassion in people."

"That's just your thoughts, and that doesn't detract from people who just want to destroy them." Mr. Han sat at his desk and replied, "If they want to abuse a machine, it will make them feel more excited to have an emotional response." ”

Mingyou lowered his head silently, a little heavy.

This is the first time he has suggested to Mr. Han that he wants to add emotional settings to the robot.

"I know you care about the robots we produce, and I'm glad you see them that way, but your idea doesn't lend itself to domestic robots, as it currently is." Mr. Han leaned back in his chair, his gaze never left Mingyou opposite, "Because home is also private, we can't restrain it for the time being." ”

"So...... Mingyou raised his eyes, "what about experiments on service robots?" ”

"Here's an example."

"For example, the LC robots we produce are assets that belong to the hospital, which can avoid injuries, and at the same time, the emotional setting will also make their medical work more humane."

"And then?"

"If we receive a good reputation, we need to expand our production to more social robots, which can have different emotions and be used in different professions."

Speaking of this, Mingyou's eyes lit up.

Mr. Han's gaze temporarily left Mingyou and thought for a moment: "Okay, I'll think about it again." ”

"Thank you, Mr. Han."

When Mingyou turned to leave the office, Kang Keming was waiting for him outside the door.

Although the two of them are a department, they are strangers. Kang Keming has never liked to anthropomorphize robots, and now Mingyou has proposed to add emotional settings to them.

"Mr. Kang." Mingyou would still greet him politely at first.

"If your project will pass, I will transfer to another department, and whatever I do is better than this project of yours." Concom's tone was so direct that it made people think he was a grumpy, "You think you're doing the right thing, but it's not, humans and machines are never comparable." ”

"Mr. Kang......"

"Don't interrupt, I'm telling you now that when humans and machines can't be separated in the future, it's the most terrifying!"

After Concom's words, he turned and left, not wanting to talk to Mingyou too much, just like his designs never needed his help and advice.

Mingyou returned to the office and looked at the secretary working outside the glass, always with a smile, and was kind, warm, and obedient to everyone. In the eyes of outsiders, they look like machines with no interior, no thinking, no feelings, as long as they have energy, they can constantly operate and perform. Every action they do is carefully designed to be accurate, even if they are obsessed with the goals set by the computer.

However, Mingyou didn't want this, he wanted them to be a little different, at least to be different from different models and different numbers. In other words, if each of their emotional values has a different setting, will it have a different effect?

Of course, this was his assumption and did not go into a formal experiment.

He took out the tablet in the drawer, the system he had already designed, and he was eager to find someone, no, a robot to try it out, to test his idea.

So he quietly chose his closest "work partner".

……

It's been almost a year since the whole project was put on the market, and the results are very good, but some people remain skeptical.

Kang Keming did put forward the idea of transferring departments, and finally succeeded in transferring departments after that "meeting violence", and the intersection between the two disappeared after that.

"In the past, I always felt that people are too fragile to have a perfect way for us to keep the people we want to keep."

He looked at LC-07 in front of him, silently saying something he hadn't said to anyone in his heart.

"Until I can finally create the person I want, I feel that all the effort will be worth it."

However, she didn't understand very much, just looked at him, and there was a hint of doubt in her eyes, and that look made him still happy.

"Mr. Ming, do you think that machines can replace people?"

"No, it's not." He shook his head, "I mean, we can let them replace the people we once lost. ”

LC-07 blinked, as if thinking, "Is that the one you often call in your dreams?" ”

Mingyou was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and laughed.

"Mr. Ming, I can feel that you have something on your mind, but I can't guess your heart at will, I can only detect your changes through observation."

"Thank you for caring about me like this." Mingyou looked at her with a smile, "If, I can give you a feeling, what do you want?" ”

"Mr. Ming, I don't really understand." She replied.

"Would you want love?"

"Love?" She seemed to have searched for this definition and replied to Mingyou, "Love is simply understood as the affection that arises from the love of certain things. Love has love emotions, desires, desires, etc. Love Ethics Relationship, Love Commitment Relationship ......"

Mingyou laughed: "Do you know what it's like to love someone? ”

She stopped searching: "I don't know. ”

"yes." Mingyou took a deep breath and smiled lightly, his eyes glanced at the drawer of the cabinet, the tablet was still inside, he hadn't taken it out for a long time to update.

He walked over, took the tablet out, and opened it.

He was hesitating to continue the upgrade when he turned his head to see that she was already sitting upright on the couch, ready to receive the update instructions.

Or try again? While the Internet is still your own?

Mingyou affirmed himself, and made a try, just take it as the last time.

So, he clicked the update button, and LC-07's eyes changed at that moment, and the update had already begun.

He returned to her, sat down, and watched as the progress bar began to move, his heart beating faster, ready for this change, one he hadn't foreseen yet.

Quiet house, undisturbed environment. The effect of the drug made him a little sleepy, and it was close to the early hours of the morning.

While he was dozing, the system was finally updated, and LC-07 woke up one step ahead of him. She turned her head and saw Mingyou, who was already breathing evenly, and her eyes moved to the tablet.

"The update has been completed, the current version is seven, do you want to continue with the next version update?"

She glanced at Mingyou, who was sleeping quietly, and silently pressed the "OK" button.

Update Start

She continued to sit upright, accepting the next change.

……

The middle of the night passed quickly, and when Mingyou woke up from the sofa, he was still covered with a soft quilt, and the smell of food wafted from the kitchen.

Mingyou quickly glanced at the tablet on the coffee table, which had automatically turned off due to low power.

He quickly got off the couch and ran to the kitchen, where he saw LC-07 preparing breakfast.

"Good morning, Mr. Ming." She greeted him with a smile.

Mingyou was surprised: "What are you doing?" ”

"I'm making breakfast for you." She replied, "I can feel that you are in a deep sleep, about to wake up, so I started to do it for you......"

"Nope." Mingyou interrupted her, "You don't have to do this. ”

She was a little puzzled: "Is this not to your liking?" ”

"No, it's not." Mingyou was a little nervous, "You are a medical worker, and your job is to take care of patients, not me." ”

But she smiled, and that smile was especially beautiful in the early morning light.

"Don't do it, I'll take you back to the hospital." Mingyou said uneasily, turning around to grab his clothes and prepare to go out.

"Mr. Ming." Her gentle voice stopped him, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Mingyou stood at the door in a daze and asked himself: What's wrong with me?

It doesn't seem like anything.

He looked back at her, and now he saw her differently from last night. Each renewal brings a different feeling to the senses, and she seems to be really getting closer and closer to the person, more and more similar to the person in his heart.

His hands suddenly dropped everything, and he stepped forward with one step, holding her deep in his arms—

He sniffed vigorously at the smell of her hair, which was not the roughness of plastic at all, but a faint fragrance, the same as the smell of her clothes. And she was in his arms, soft, without a feeling of stiffness, and she did not become restrained because of this hug.

Why is that?

He couldn't believe it, and he didn't dare to think, who was she at this moment?

All right...... He had never hugged He Qing, and this was the first time he had been looking forward to it for a long time.

He slowly let go of his hand and looked at her in front of him, under the long eyelashes, with smart eyes, who would believe that she was a robot. He gently stroked her face, the touch was natural and delicate, it was such a perfect face, he carefully copied it.

At this moment, he couldn't help but want to fall once.

And she didn't refuse.

He approached her, slowly, gently...... But as his lips slowly moved down from her forehead, trying to cross the tip of his nose and touch her soft lips, suddenly, he stopped exploring.

He could clearly feel the soft temperature under her skin, but she didn't have a snort.

It felt like it really shattered his illusion that he was still dealing with a robot instead of a real person he had loved so much.

"I'm sorry......" he muttered, "I'm sorry ......"

She looked at him like this, puzzled with a hint of pity.

No, Myeongwoo reminded herself that she shouldn't behave like this, it's not normal, it's so abnormal.

He hurried away from her side and let himself think calmly. The tablet on the coffee table was still charging, so he immediately ran over and opened it to see if it could still be operated.

"Mr. Ming, what's wrong with you?" She asked, watching his haste move.

Mingyou's whole person was still in a trance, and he didn't have time to think about what he should do now and what he should do next. He took a deep breath and adjusted himself. Then she opened the monitoring settings and found all the recordings from this morning in her information record, and did a clear.

"OK to delete – yes/no"

"Yes"

He pressed it without hesitation, and after the LC-07 beside him froze for a second, he returned to his state, and she smiled and asked, "Mr. Ming, are you awake, I am preparing your breakfast......"

"No, no." Mingyou stood up and turned his back to her, "I'll take you back to the hospital." ”

He walked to the door, picked up the clothes on the ground and opened the door: "Come with me." ”

LC-07 doesn't understand what happened to him, but she leaves with him.

Along the way, the two men did not say a word. She could sense his uneasiness and anxiety, but he showed reluctance to tell, and she didn't ask anymore.

This silence made Mingyou constantly think about his behavior, and these questions returned to the original point - "What is the purpose of your choice to add affection to the robot?" ”