Exploring Immortality Cultivation
Chapter 472 - 226: Turing Test [Last Day, Seeking Votes]

A voice saying "It's done," didn't elicit much cheering. Of course, no one had the energy to cheer.

Wang Qi, exhausted, stood up and asked impatiently, "What's done exactly... and how was it done? What were the standards again?"

"It can recognize general commands, be modified with basic assembly language, and its calculation speed has surpassed that of ordinary systems. The speed was tested by path rank, no problem." Wu Chengdao, yawning incessantly, added, "An unexpected gain is that it can iterate and improve on its own—you could just leave it alone, and it would still perfect itself."

"Oh..." Wang Qi staggered over to the calculator and inserted the modifications he held in his hand. The others did similarly. Chen Feng squinted his eyes and issued the command, "…The final test, begin. Trial run..."

"No slip-ups, running smoothly..." Wu Chengdao started to get drowsy too.

Wang Qi called out, "Wait, if it can improve on its own... Senior Brother Shang, I want to add another adjustment!"

Shang Nancheng jumped in surprise. Even he, as a Golden Core Cultivator, was exhausted by such intense work—how could Wang Qi still not be satisfied?

Soon, Wang Qi completed the final adjustments. After seeing the trial run go without errors, Wang Qi breathed a sigh of relief. He felt something inside him snap, and he collapsed on the ground. Right next to his head, Chen Youjia also fell asleep in her chair.

Chen Feng, managing to stand, cast a Calming Spell on the two companions, then said to the others, "Everyone should rest a bit. In about four... no, five two-hour periods, we'll conduct the final test. Please feel free to go."

Having said this, he too found a chair and went to sleep on the spot.

For this kind of technical development, whose principles were not entirely clear, achievable only through trial and error and iterative improvements, with no idea when it might be completed, such reactions had actually become the norm. The research and development process was long and hard, enough to completely drain the energy of any cultivator.

Any celebration would have to wait until after a good rest.

The few projections that had assisted them each dispersed. These days, they too had been exhausted to the limit.

Then, the three of them—Wang Qi, Chen Youjia, and Chen Feng—slept for a whole day. The study was quiet, with only two Immortal Artifacts flickering with Spirit Light.

The next day, Chen Feng found he had overslept and, in his fury, woke up Wang Qi and Chen Youjia, then called the team back together. He apologized, "I'm truly sorry; we missed the agreed-upon time. That really shouldn't have happened."

Su Junyu pointed doubtfully at the still drowsy Wang Qi and Chen Youjia, "We're fine... but Junior Brother Wang and Junior Sister Chen don't look quite right..."

"Why do you still want to sleep... Perk up!"

Wu Chengdao said, "Never mind, although the final test is important, it is quite easy."

Shang Nancheng nodded at Wang Qi and said, "Junior Brother Wang, this Acquired Will is your property, so you should be the one to activate it."

Wang Qi nodded, took the Discrete Mathematics in his hand, put it on, and extended his Spiritual Sense into it: "Activate."

As Wang Qi issued the command, a blue hologram appeared in front of him, with bright yellow text displaying the following message: "Hello, Sir."

Beautiful! Wang Qi couldn't help but admire, then asked, "Is communication possible?"

The text on the hologram disappeared, then was replaced with: "Yes, Sir, but as I have not yet installed a voice system, I can only communicate via text."

"I'll have it installed for you later, but now you must coordinate with the others for testing," instructed Wang Qi. "Project the hologram in front of everyone."

"Understood, Sir."

Everyone looked down at the hologram. Wang Qi looked around and couldn't help but exclaim, "It's hard to believe that this guy, who does as told, is actually a copy of a part of my will."

The service attitude, the degree of replication is very high indeed!

Shang Nancheng said, "What's so strange about that? It only copied a part of your thinking, the most rational part—without any capricious emotions."

Wu Chengdao raised his voice and commanded, "Jarvis, create a projection that all of us can see, then sever your connection with Wang Qi until I give the command, 'Test over.'"

Jarvis didn't act immediately; instead, the text in front of Wang Qi changed to "Execute Mr. Wu Chengdao's command?"

"Yes."

A large hologram appeared in front of everyone. Wu Chengdao moved his fingers over the small hologram in front of him, communicating with Jarvis in assembly language that was cryptic to the rest. Soon, a large hologram in front of the group split into two sections. Wu Chengdao explained, "At Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, it's common to conduct Turing tests. The sect has specially arranged for a few posts to be manned in front of calculators, answering all kinds of strange questions."

"Now, all the questions you ask will also be sent to the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion disciples manning the posts. After the disciples respond, the answer will be transmitted back here, displayed alongside Jarvis's answer."

Concerning this, Chen Feng was skeptical, "If it's only about making conversation indistinguishable to humans, then we just need to build an enormous question bank that covers all daily dialogues as well as circuitous speech patterns, which will make it difficult to distinguish who is human and who is a calculator within a limited time. However, such a simple mechanism is far from being considered an Acquired Will."

"So-called intelligence is not just about answering questions. If needed, creating an answering system with human conversation patterns is easy. Although it will only give programmed responses to certain speech, as long as there are enough scenarios covered, it can masquerade as human during conversation."

"The Turing Test is only the first step, please be patient."

Bao Xiaoya asked the calculator, "Then, compose a poem? Let the title be 'TIPTOP Servant Girl'..."

"Sorry, I can't."

"Apologies, I have not learned this."

Soon, similar responses appeared on both halves of the hologram.

Bao Xiaoya didn't expect this and was taken aback, "Then how about composing a piece of music? As long as it can be heard?"

"Don't you think you're being too demanding?"

"Please don't ask such questions, it's very troubling for me."

Shang Nancheng interrupted, "Alright, Miss, keep your whimsical thoughts to yourself. Not everyone among humans can compose poetry and music—Wang Qi, for example, certainly can't."

Bao Xiaoya nodded, "Right. So... math problems?"

"Comparing with a calculator in solving math problems..." Even Wang Qi found this question endearingly silly.

As long as a problem had a solution, Jarvis would definitely solve it faster than Wang Qi. And for unsolvable problems, it wasn't even certain that Wang Qi could find an answer.

How to conduct the Turing Test had everyone stumped.

"Everyday conversation..." Shang Nancheng, unable to watch any longer, chatted away grandly with the person opposite the Magic Artifact.

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