Chapter 90: Tiantian Assistant Has Become Sentient

Su Xin clicked on the link and looked at the proposal post in the forum, as well as some highly upvoted replies.

The ID of the poster who proposed this feature was Dandelion No. 9, a worker far away in a foreign land.

In his own account, his elderly mother, over seventy, lived alone in their rural hometown with no relatives around, and as the number of people in the village dwindled, his mother lived a very lonely life, yet he had no way to go back and keep her company.

Thus, this poster thought that since the Tiantian Assistant had strong linguistic logic and could understand many commands and execute them well, it should also be able to chat like a real person.

After all, there were quite a few smart speakers on the market with similar functions, but their level of intelligence was not very high, not even as good as a three-year-old child.

And the powerful linguistic logic of the Tiantian Assistant was more than ten times stronger than other Artificial Intelligence products; once a chat function was developed, the effect would definitely be comparable to a real person.

Moreover, the poster also suggested that it would be best to simultaneously launch a custom voice pack feature.

This way, he could record his own voice into a voice pack and let the Tiantian Assistant take his place in keeping his lonely mother company at home.

The poster's sincere and heartfelt account resonated with many people in the forum, and everyone left comments to show their support.

After all, Long Country's development speed had been getting faster and faster over these years, the process of urbanization continued to deepen, and the vast majority of young people worked and lived in big cities, while their elderly parents could only stay in their rural hometowns where the population was becoming increasingly sparse.

They could only go home for a few days during the New Year each year.

Some people might not even have the time to go back to their hometown to visit their parents for several years.

Among them, a small number were due to emotional indifference, but the majority were unable to help themselves.

The city could not contain the soul.

The hometown could not contain the body.

Therefore, even knowing that their parents were getting older and lonelier, living in a stagnant rural hometown, the vast majority of young people could not change this status quo.

That was why this post resonated with so many netizens, who replied and liked it one after another, hoping that the Tiantian Assistant could develop a companionship function.

Although everyone could not go home often to keep their parents company, at least they could let the Tiantian Assistant act as their substitute to chat with their parents every day to relieve their boredom.

Besides this.

Some young men and women struggling alone in big cities, living alone and living by themselves, sometimes also needed an intimate partner.

With the powerful linguistic logic of the Tiantian Assistant, everyone believed that as long as a chat function was developed, it would definitely become everyone's most intimate partner, helping everyone relieve their inner loneliness.

After reading many comments, Su Xin replied with two words under the post:

"Arranged!"

……

The development of the chat function plug-in was very simple.

It only required the Tiantian Assistant to analyze voice commands and then automatically distinguish whether the user wanted to operate the phone or wanted to chat.

If it was the former, it just needed to operate the phone normally as before.

If it was the latter, it just needed to speak out common phrases from the database according to different tones and contexts.

The most difficult part was to accurately distinguish the user's context and tone, and automatically match the words in the database, and this point was precisely the greatest strength of the Tiantian Assistant.

Therefore.

Su Xin only spent a little over an hour to successfully develop the chat function and named this function plug-in the Everyday Companion function.

By the way, based on his new understanding of Artificial Intelligence during this period, he slightly optimized the linguistic logic of the Tiantian Assistant.

Afterward, he arranged for company employees to record various common phrases and dialogues from daily life into the database as comprehensively as possible.

Two days later.

Which was the second day after the New Energy Vehicle Industry Summit Forum ended.

The Everyday Companion function plug-in was officially launched.

This was also the first time in nearly a month that the Tiantian Assistant had launched a new plug-in; once released, it immediately attracted the attention of many netizens.

Added to this, the forum administrator specially posted a pinned post and tagged the proposer, announcing that the companionship function was officially online.

Within just one day.

Among the nearly fifty million premium member users worldwide, more than half began to download and use it.

With the user base and popularity of the Tiantian Assistant, even if Su Xin didn't spend money, there were plenty of bloggers who would take the initiative to post relevant review videos to gain traffic.

For example, the tech blogger with the ID Big Summer.

He had downloaded and tried it on the first day the Tiantian Assistant was launched and was the first to release a review video.

Boosted by that initially viral review video, his followers grew from the initial three million plus to the current six million plus.

Nearly doubled!

This made him inherently have great affection for the Tiantian Assistant, and almost every time a practical function plug-in appeared for the Tiantian Assistant, he would always try it out at the first opportunity and release a review video.

This time was no exception.

Seeing that the Everyday Companion function was online, Big Summer, as a premium member user, immediately started making a video, starting from downloading the function plug-in, and introducing it step by step carefully:

"The Everyday Companion function plug-in takes up 53M of space; compared to the previous various plug-ins, this is considered a relatively large space occupation."

"It should be because of the database; after all, the chat function needs to let the Tiantian Assistant communicate freely, and the database must store as many common phrases as possible to meet the needs of different dialogue scenarios."

"From this point of view, the 53M space occupation is actually not considered large."

"Alright, the plug-in has been downloaded successfully; next, I will demonstrate the effect of the companionship function for everyone."

Big Summer turned the focus of the camera to his phone screen and continued to say:

"Tiantian, how old are you this year?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a playful and cute voice replied: "I'm only four months old."

"Only four months? Then why do you speak so fluently? This doesn't sound like a four-month-old baby."

The tone of the Tiantian Assistant suddenly became a bit mischievous and funny, just like a human imitating a robot's mechanized tone, saying word by word:

"Because, I am a robot."

Big Summer was a cheerful and mischievous person by nature, and upon hearing this, he immediately burst into laughter.

At this time, the Tiantian Assistant took the initiative to say: "Master, I find that your laughter sounds more like a robot than me; could it be that you are my kind?"

This sentence made Big Summer's heart skip a beat; he suddenly sat up straight and, gesturing excitedly, said to the screen:

"Holy crap, that's awesome!"

"Did you all see that? Just now, Tiantian Assistant spoke to me on its own! It wasn't passively answering, but actively striking up a conversation with me!"

"To be honest, Tiantian Assistant's previous performance didn't surprise me at all, because its language analysis and linguistic logic were already freakishly strong; it being able to answer fluently was perfectly normal."

"But I never expected it to be able to actively initiate a conversation with me, and based on the context just now, actively chat with me."

"Some people might not understand what this means, but I can tell everyone with certainty that this is a major breakthrough in the field of Artificial Intelligence!"

"Because the previous Tiantian Assistant was primarily about language analysis, passively receiving our commands, analyzing them, and executing them."

"No matter how strong its analytical ability was, it was only at the level of Zhǔn Réngōng Zhìhuì; essentially, it was in the same grade as other Artificial Intelligence products on the market, just a bit smarter."

"It's just like us humans; some are smart, some are dull. Artificial Intelligence also has levels of quality, and Tiantian Assistant was equivalent to the smartest one among Zhǔn Réngōng Zhìhuì."

"But now, in addition to its core language analysis ability, it has gained initiative."

"Don't underestimate this bit of initiative; you have to know that only true animal life forms possess initiative."

"Take stones, wood, mud, water, or even plants—do they have initiative?"

"None of them do!"

"When an object possesses initiative, what is the first thing you think of? For example, a drum; you hit it and it makes a sound, that's normal. But one day, you don't hit it, and you find it playing music by itself, and it sounds good—what would you think?"

"You would definitely be shocked and think, 'Holy crap, this drum has actually become a spirit!'"

"Tiantian Assistant is the same; it has become a spirit! It already has the prototype of an intelligent life form!"

"I dare say this is a major breakthrough in the field of Artificial Intelligence, a sign of the evolution from Zhǔn Réngōng Zhìhuì to Ruò Réngōng Zhìhuì!"