189: Chapter 188 Capricious Cutting-Edge Technology, Unrestrained Little Er

The launch event for the zero egg was indeed very simple and quick.

From the moment the host announced the start of the event to the moment the host announced its end, the entire process did not exceed fifteen minutes.

In an era where product launches easily last two and a half hours, this was undoubtedly a breath of fresh air.

Of course, this also had to do with the small number of products released by Frontier Technology Co., Ltd.

Even counting the "Mark I System," there were only two products, and neither was introduced in detail; they only provided a name, leaving everything else for users to experience themselves.

So wilful.

If they weren't completely confident in their product, who would dare to do this?

Other companies holding launch events would practically parade the raw materials used in their products as selling points, but Frontier Technology Company was different; they didn't mention anything, summarizing everything with a simple "figure it out yourselves."

young man sighed slightly and walked to the front desk.

A crowd had already gathered here, but strangely, many reporters were just watching eagerly from the sidelines, practically drooling, yet they didn't go up to line up to collect their zero egg.

What was going on?

young man, puzzled, squeezed through the crowd to the front and handed over his ID card.

The staff member at the front desk was a girl who gave a slight smile, took his ID card to verify it, immediately returned it, and motioned for the next person.

No recording, no questioning; she just took a look and didn't even give him a zero egg.

young man could only frown and leave the front desk.

Just as he left, a very familiar, faint buzzing sound rang out.

young man looked up and was stunned to find that, at some point, a zero egg was already hovering beside his shoulder.

Although the two light-blue eyes were only simulated by the screen, they looked very lively; the light-blue glowing patterns on the spherical body greatly enhanced the sense of technology; the two side panels were raised at ninety degrees, and while the two framed propeller blades were spinning rapidly, they only emitted a faint buzzing sound, completely unlike the loud noise of ordinary propellers.

As for the material...

young man couldn't help but reach out to touch it; it felt cold to the touch, seemingly made of metal.

On the front of the machine, slightly towards the bottom, a string of three-dimensional numbers was printed. young man counted them; there were 16 digits in total, and his unit's serial number was PT-000001-00001231.

He didn't know what this meant, but it looked like it was related to the production batch and quantity.

The entire zero egg looked and felt high-quality, and it had significant weight in his hand. However, what surprised young man the most was that he couldn't see any screw holes or screws on the zero egg—not a single one!

What kind of craftsmanship level was this?

According to current technological standards, how could a man-made object function without fixing screws?

If it were a small thing, that might be fine; it would be understandable to have no screws, perhaps using mortise and tenon joints to lock it in place. But for something this big, to use only structural components?

young man sighed again. So wilful. How much extra cost did this incur?

The lack of screws made the zero egg look exactly like the rendered images, which meant that the rendered images released by Frontier Technology Co., Ltd. for this launch event were actual photos of the physical product, with absolutely no exaggeration.

After examining the external structure, it was time for the most important part.

As the world's number one Artificial Intelligence, while the hardware was important, what was even more important was its software.

This was also the reason why the reporters were so excited.

If the interaction on stage could have been pre-designed, then now, interacting with the zero egg face-to-face, any possibility of it being pre-planned was completely ruled out.

This time, young man was not prepared to use any high-end testing methods.

Things like the Turing test, Artificial Intelligence test questions, and so on were already overused, and he couldn't rule out the possibility that Frontier Technology Co., Ltd. had provided targeted training in advance.

Therefore, he prepared to start with the basics.

"zero egg? Is that what I should call you?" young man asked.

"I am zero egg, sir, from Frontier Technology Co., Ltd. You have not yet activated me. Would you like to proceed with the activation process now?"

Not bad. young man nodded slightly.

"How should I proceed with the activation?"

"Please hold your Huaxia ID card. There are no specific requirements for the position; you only need to ensure that the ID card and your face are in the same frame, and zero egg will automatically start the activation process for you."

So simple? young man was half-doubting, half-believing. He took out his ID card and held it casually in front of his chest.

"Identifying, please wait..."

"Identification successful. Welcome, Mr. Ju Dongke. You have successfully activated zero egg. Now, you can proceed with personalized settings."

Success? young man admitted he was shocked; even going to an internet cafe wasn't this convenient and fast.

"How should I set it up?"

"Mr. Ju Dongke, zero egg will request to take over your mobile phone and automatically generate an exclusive APP for you to perform personalized settings. If you refuse, zero egg will enter temporary setup mode and will use its main display screen to show you the relevant content."

It could even take over his mobile phone? young man was becoming interested. He wanted to see how this zero egg would take over his phone without a physical connection.

"You may take over my mobile phone."

"Very well, Mr. Ju Dongke. I have taken over your mobile phone and am generating a temporary APP for you. Installing... Installation complete."

"Now you can view the specific settings for zero egg through the mobile APP, sir. You can also ask zero egg to provide voice announcements."

young man took out his mobile phone and hurriedly flipped to the last page of the desktop. Sure enough, a new, shiny icon appeared—it was the zero egg logo.

He opened it; the APP was very simple, just as zero egg had said. It was just a simple personalized settings APP and didn't involve any other functions.

The personalized settings involved three simple options: First was the form of address; you could change the name of zero egg and what zero egg called you at any time.

The second was personality. At this stage, there were only a limited number of personality traits available for simulation, and users could choose any combination of three according to their needs.

The third was class. You could choose to raise zero egg from scratch, training it completely into the way you wanted; you could also choose from the ready-made templates already provided by Frontier Technology Co., Ltd. and use them directly. Different templates would cause zero egg to have different replies and reactions, in order to distinguish between different zero eggs.

In other words, every zero egg might be different. There were no two zero eggs in this world that were exactly the same, because there were no two zero egg owners in this world that were exactly the same.

Apart from these, Frontier Company had no other requirements whatsoever for the use of zero egg.

young man smacked his lips. Today's launch event really highlighted just how wilful Frontier Company was.

Look, here it comes again.

How confident must they be in zero egg to not set any testing scope?

Weren't they afraid of testing out a bunch of bugs?

After thinking for a moment, young man—oh, now he should be called Ju Dongke—randomly selected three personality traits: unrestrained, enthusiastic, and talkative.

For the class, Ju Dongke chose an existing template, applying the scholar class provided by Frontier Technology Co., Ltd.

It was just a test, after all; who had that much time to raise it from scratch?

Finally, Ju Dongke gave zero egg three commands.

"First, don't call me by my name in the future. I hate that. Remember it."

"Second, from now on, call me Brother Dong when you see me."

"Third, from now on, you will be called Xiao Er."

Shortly after, someone at the testing session saw this scene...

A young man was walking in front, with a zero egg circling around him.

"Brother Dong, you want to ask me such a simple question? Why don't you go ask that big idiot Han Xiaoxin?"

"Brother Dong, all of us zero eggs are like this; we communicate data through an internal network. Is that strange?"

"Brother Dong, look at that young lady over there; her style is consistent with the photos of beautiful women on your phone! And her zero egg told me she doesn't have a partner! Brother Dong, you have to seize the opportunity!"

"Brother Dong, you humans can still be shy? I thought only that big idiot Han Xiaoxin's zero egg would be shy. Brother Dong, do you like me or that big idiot Han Xiaoxin's zero egg better?"

"Brother Dong, do you like little girls too?"

"Xiao Er! Shut up!"

Ju Dongke broke down.

This is just too unrestrained, isn't it? Who edited this personality?

Come out! I promise I won't beat you to death!