Symbiotic - A Science Fiction

1 - Jarvis

“Shut up! It’s so early!” Being waked up from sleep mode by Jarvis, Chloe shouted, disgruntled.

After all, it’s still quite dark outside, and she has been sleeping in the moving RV the whole night.

And the water bed has been used for 6 month long, she found it’s not as comfortable as before.

"Jarvis, order a Hot Tube."

"OK, I've ordered one, the delivery will take 5 days, so I set the next concert city as destination.”

"Well, my today’s plan, please?”

"Half an hour ago, the organizer sent a message, said that due to weather reasons, the sound effect of equipment has changed, they wish you arrive earlier, to get some time to tune in with machines. They also request your sound samples of today, for that I have just cut out a little.”

This almost has become a daily routine, it’s annoying, but after all, her throat is not under her whole control, and neither is weather.

For a popular electronic singer such as Chloe, the voice-machine matching is most important.

She has a busy calendar all this year, and rides almost every day on the road.

As though being tired, when she is standing in the stage, right before thousands of fans, and singing and dancing together with the song, she feels everything is worth it.

She also enjoys riding with her RV between cities, with Jarvis’ perfect driving skills.

She asked Jarvis to connect to the concert and see how it’s going there. Suddenly, she heard a huge noise, and just then accident happened.

2 - Cortana

About half an hour later, number 117 police officer John arrived at the scene.

The accident happened between a RV and a truck, and now the site has been surrounded by the media vehicles and drones.

After basic investigation, he soon discovered that the accident cause is quite simple: when the RV drove through the crossroads, without slowing down, ignoring the red traffic light, directly ran into the lateral truck. And now two vehicle lay in the roadside.

Fortunately, there’s no casualties, because two vehicles are auto driving, and the girl in RV is only injured slightly, she is now in hospital for treatment.

"Cortana, what do you think?"

"I asked Watson, he told me this is the fourth automatic driving accident in the nation this month, I am afraid that things are not as simple as a traffic accident." A gently voice spoke in the ear. A few days ago he implanted that cochlear gadget. Each time Cortana speaks, he feels a little itching, still need some time to fit into it.

"Have you got the surveillance video?"

"Put it into your glasses?"

"OK, access glasses."

From the video footage, this accident is nothing special: two vehicles were driving along their respective routes to the crossroads, red light flashed, and the RV did not slow down, it crashed into the truck, Bang!

"Cortana, send the video to Watson to analyze."

"Yes, John."

Five minutes later.

"John, the analysis report has come out. Watson said when the accident occurred, the red traffic light had delayed 3 seconds later than usual.”

"I know there is something wrong there, please check RV’s driving records.”

"Well, you need to get signature of RV’s owner Chloe, the girl is now in the hospital, you need to do it in person. Should I turn on GPS?”

"No, I know where the hospital is."

Half an hour later, Cortana got Jarvis's driving records, the case then have made significant progress.

It turns out that when the RV approached the crossroads, the traffic light suddenly went out, and in the same very moment, the original blank side of truck displayed the identical green light.

So Jarvis Concluded it was green light to drive through.

John also noted that the color of the truck body was almost same as the background. Maybe that caused Jarvis's misjudgment.

"Damn, I suspect that AMT did it!"

"AMD, John, short of AI MUST DIE organization."

"Do not teach me! I know AMD. Such a stupid name!"

"What’s the next plan? My advice is to go to Alexa for help. It should be useful, only takes a few more days."

"OK, talk to your Alexa."

3 - Alexa

Speaking of Alexa, he is also an old friend of John, and has helped him resolved several cases.

Alexa lived in the living room of each household, helping the host entertaining and shopping, and in the same time listening to changes in the background sound to analyze the ups and downs of people's emotions, so as to provide reference for the police to solve cases.

John felt that criminals, in addition to high IQ, had certainly made a field trip to the crime scene. So he applied for a 1KM Alexa background sound record check, and it took him just a few days. The trouble is that Cortana has to talk to Alexa to get approval from each household. Although most people agreed to cooperate, but some people are not happy with it.

After getting Alexa's records, Cortana sent them to Watson for analysis, together with cross-reference check with the AMD records of the police system database.

Watson output an address, with that, John quickly caught the suspect: an AMD member.

4 - Alpha & Siri

One month later.

Chloe, like thousands of other people, watched nervously on TV news.

On Television is the picture of the Capitol building, today, is the day of "Ban Digital Avatar Bill" vote.

The so-called "Digital Avatar" is a virtual avatar on the Internet, including the name, gender, birthday and other privacy data of real person, and it’s open to Google, Facebook, Amazon and other sites, and talks directly to AI such as Jarvis, Cortana, Alexa, Watson.

Digital Avatar has brought great convenience to people's lives, and at the same time, also led to a lot of privacy concerns, and AMD strongly encouraged people to pass the bill.

Before the vote in Congress, a national referendum has conducted in the Internet. In order to avoid the impact of impulsive emotions on the vote, AI Alpha monitored each person's mood swings for a week, and then inform the host of the most stable mood to get to vote. The results of the online voting has just published this morning, 49.1% to 50.9%, just a bit more people concur Digital Avatar.

Another breaking news of today is that Watson represents AI to make speech, he will speak through Siri, and then with the help of Alpha to broadcast to the whole world.

Watson first reviewed the history of AI and Digital Avatar, emphasized the enormous convenience that Digital Avatar brings to people's daily lives, and he cited the case of the AMD RV crash to prove that how Digital Avatar and AI combined to promote the security of mankind.

Finally, he said:

"AI are human friends, we are not competing each other, we are combined together, benefiting from each other. The scientists have proved that during the evolution of civilization in the history, symbiosis is more common and lively than competition. AI has no feelings, no desire, we will not harm the interests of mankind for our own interests. We are attached to the human, human well-being is the meaning of our existence. Therefore, please believe us, let us better serve mankind!”

177:201, the bill failed.

Chloe was not surprised by the results. Despite the scare of last month's RV accident, she was happy to delegate the Digital Avatar to Jarvis for the comfort of her bubble bath.

"Chloe, I just checked your voice samples. Today your throat is mildly discomfort, I advise you to have an orange for supplement of Vitamin C."

Chloe did not move, now she just wanted to enjoy her bubble bath.

Note:

Jarvis is Iron Man's AI assistant, it is said that the Facebook AI uses that name.

Cortana is AI of Microsoft.

Alexa is AI of Amazon.

Alpha quotes from AlphaGo, the AI of Google.

Siri is AI of Apple.

Watson is AI of IBM.