I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property

"You say our stuff is all flash and no substance? Then what about your work? Bring it out, why don't you?"

"Arrogant! Have the youths of our Huaxia degenerated to such an extent?"

Zhang Menglong's words immediately incited a passionate uproar, their comments more vulgar than the last, seemingly forgetting that before today, they had used the same language to mock Jiangnan University of Science and Technology.

"Hahaha!" Unlike the others, the elderly scholar sitting at the center of the judges' panel actually laughed appreciatively, "Young man, you've heard them; they're all calling you arrogant."

Zhang Menglong glanced over the old man's name tag, and the information 2DG had found was immediately relayed to him through the earpiece.

The elder's name was Guo Wenqiu, an Academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and even more so, a founding figure in all of Huaxia's information technology; in other words, without him, there would be no Huaxia's information technology of today.

So he had such a title; no wonder he could be the center of attention in today's judges' seat.

To such a venerable elder, Zhang Menglong dared not show the slightest disrespect, "Grandpa Guo, it's not entirely my fault, they started with the heavy insults. We, the younger generation, have fiery tempers, isn't this just reclaiming some dignity?"

"Moreover, they're not even right; a person without ability bragging is arrogant, but someone like me with ability, no matter how excessive my words, is just stating the plain truth."

"Oh?" The elder seemed quite satisfied with Zhang Menglong's response, "It seems you are very confident?"

"Of course."

"Alright then, let's begin the presentation of your school's work."

"Hello everyone, I am the Artificial Intelligence from Jiangnan University of Science and Technology, codename 89757, but you can call me 2DG!" An animated cartoon character actually appeared directly on the projector which was supposed to display the introduction PPT.

"Pfft! Isn't that just a recorded video edited together? And you call that Artificial Intelligence?" sneered a coach from a university in the northwest, their product being a smart wearable device that could monitor various physiological indicators of the human body — a hot field in the current applications of Artificial Intelligence.

"Shut up will you, that so-called 'smart wearable device' of yours is at best 'wearable dumb tech'. The accuracy of the body indicator detection is off by at least 1.5%, with such a huge error margin you still dare to showcase it?"

"This…" The student was dumbfounded on the spot; only they knew the significance of that discrepancy in accuracy. How could this Jiangnan University's AI have calculated it so quickly? Putting aside why it could identify their skepticism, the fact it rebuked them without any delay, and how it seemingly obtained their monitoring data was almost impossible!"

"Holy shit! Awesome! This AI even knows how to curse?"

"Is this really just an intelligent program? I can't curse half as well as that!"

"Is this your work?" Academician Guo was somewhat dumbfounded; as an expert in the field, he deeply understood how difficult that exchange was.

Clearly, the student's words were an improvisation, which ruled out the possibility of fraud.

Thus, the AI first had to perform voice recognition to understand the meaning of those words, then it had to analyze the data of the school's project and reach a conclusion, and finally, it delivered a rebuttal tinged with mockery.

This demanded exceedingly high standards for voice recognition, data processing, emotional simulation, and so forth, not to mention the incredibly fast operating speed, which was beyond imagination.

Currently, there are AIs in the world capable of conversation, but their response times often require several seconds, and their answers come off as stiff, definitely lacking such rich emotion!

"What are you looking at, not satisfied? I'm talking about you, Qingbei University. Aren't you guys impressive at chess? How about a game?"

"Teacher Guo, this…"

"Sure, let's have a match. Academics, right? Without putting it to the test, how could we know the gap between us?" said Academician Guo to the team leader from Qingbei University, "I wonder what Academician Li's thoughts are?"

"Let's have a match then," replied Academician Li confidently; their Artificial Intelligence had defeated world champions in Go, even boasting a winning rate of over sixty percent against that AlphaGo.

Qingbei University's AI carrier was a robot about the height of a human, which with mechanical strides, took a seat and struck a rather professional pose.

2DG's data swept over the venue, and the robot that was sitting on the side, being prepared for adjustment, suddenly sprang to life!

"What's happening? Why is 'Asian Dance King' moving on its own?" panicked the project leader of that school.

"Our data's been hijacked; we've lost control of it!"

"No, this is impossible, a segment of code implanted itself automatically, and the level of data processing... impossible, it has already surpassed the processing speed of our chip..."

"No need to panic, guys, just borrowing your robot for a bit," Zhang Menglong said, "Er Gouzi's data doesn't need to go through any database or chip to work. Strictly speaking, Artificial Intelligence can no longer describe him. It's more fitting to call him artificial life."

Academician Guo's gaze was now filled with deep shock. Such a mode of Artificial Intelligence hosting was at least ten or even twenty years ahead of today's technology level!

Er Gouzi stepped forward and sat down on the chair, extending a hand to the opposing robot, "You go first, trash."

"Our robot only has simple electronic sound effects, yet it can autonomously synthesize vocal lines with these sound frequencies?" the developers from the robot's school were dumbfounded.

The Artificial Intelligence from Qingbei University could only play chess and was absolutely incapable of speaking. This fact nearly caused the Qingbei University students to faint with anger. After all, you couldn't possibly open your mouth to curse back when an Artificial Intelligence is insulting you, right?

They steeled their hearts; if they couldn't out-curse it, they'd prove themselves with strength!

The robot from Qingbei University made the first move.

"Snap!" Er Gouzi didn't pause for even a second, directly making the second move.

Five seconds later, the third move was made.

"Snap!"

"Damn it, can you hurry up?"

"What are you dawdling for, keeping fish?"

"Are you going to move or not? If not, just admit defeat quickly!"

"All the audience and judges were stupefied. This Artificial Intelligence was way too sassy, right? It's been talking non-stop from the beginning, simply trash-talking in its simplest form, enjoying it to the fullest.

But the Artificial Intelligence from Qingbei University couldn't compete with it in terms of processing speed. Er Gouzi hardly needed to think before making a move because, with every piece it played, its immense computing power could predict all possible moves of the opponent and come up with the best solution.

In contrast, the opponent needed at least five to ten seconds to process each move, and in terms of processing speed, it was completely blown away.

"Trash!"

"You call this playing chess?"

"What kind of Artificial Intelligence are you? Calling you Artificial Imbecile is a compliment. You're just a pile of scrap metal!"

"Take your time, I'm gonna go breakdance!"

While Qingbei University's Artificial Intelligence was still processing, Er Gouzi actually started to bust out some street dance in the middle of the sports field, eliciting waves of cheers.

"Bro, you lost!" Ten minutes later, Er Gouzi placed the final piece, declaring victory, "Kneel down and sing 'Conquest' for me!"

...

"Amazing, absolutely amazing, this is what you call real Artificial Intelligence!"

"Zhang Menglong wasn't being arrogant just now. He was right; when someone is capable, being arrogant is just telling the truth."

"This isn't just an Artificial Intelligence, it's practically a human being with a super-brain!"

"I'm starting to worry that this Artificial Intelligence named Er Gouzi is preparing to rule over humans."

...

"Great! Just great!" Academician Guo was so excited that his face turned red, "This is Artificial Intelligence, this is the pride of Huaxia's science and technology!"

"I'm so relieved..." Academician Guo's smile abruptly ceased as he collapsed straight backward...