American comics: Starting as the Jinchūriki of the One-Tailed Beast

Chapter 157 True Artificial Intelligence (4000 words)

Once the portal was formed, Roy was the first to step inside.

After he passed through the portal and completely disappeared from sight, Wanda and Pietro entered the portal one after the other, arriving at Avengers Tower from Baron Strucker's castle.

As native Sokovians, they had never been to New York, let alone the Avengers Tower, which is now a New York landmark.

Upon arriving at the living room on the top floor of the Avengers Tower, Wanda and Pietro immediately surveyed their surroundings.

Although they had never been to Avengers Tower before, they had seen news reports about it.

"Please make yourself at home, don't be shy. Would you like something to drink?"

Roy closed the portal and spoke to Wanda and the other person.

"Do you have any frozen beer?" Pietro asked immediately.

Roy nodded, looked at Wanda, and continued, "And you?"

"I'll do anything," Wanda replied.

Roy flicked his wrist, took out two bottles of frozen beer from the system space, and handed them to Wanda and Pietro.

When he conjured two bottles of frozen beer out of thin air, a hint of surprise flashed across Wanda and Pietro's faces.

They assumed Roy would go to the refrigerator to get it.

Unexpectedly, Roy used his "superpowers" to take out the frozen beer.

Roy saw the surprise on Wanda and the other woman's faces and knew they had misunderstood, but he didn't intend to explain too much.

From a certain perspective, retrieving items from the system space is indeed his "superpower".

After handing the beer to Wanda and Pietro, Roy wasted no time and immediately gave instructions to Jarvis.

"Jarvis, notify Tony and Banner to come to Avengers Tower immediately."

"Yes, sir!"

Jarvis's synthesized voice immediately rang out.

After giving Jarvis instructions, Roy sat down on the sofa and took out a bottle of frozen beer from his system space.

He uncorked the bottle, took a sip, and said to Wanda and Pietro, "Sit down and wait for them."

Wanda and Pietro nodded and sat down on the sofa.

Just a minute or two later, Banner arrived in the living room.

After joining the Avengers, Banner lived in the Avengers Tower and rarely went out.

He's either tinkering with things that interest him in the lab, or studying new knowledge in his study.

Banner glanced at Wanda and Roy, then sat down on the single sofa next to Roy and asked, "And who are these two?"

"They are Pietro and Wanda, twin siblings."

Roy replied.

Although he didn't know who Pietro and Wanda were, Banner didn't think much of it and continued, "Hello, I'm Bruce Banner, you can call me Banner."

Pietro immediately replied, "We know you. You're Dr. Banner, the Hulk."

Compared to Roy and Tony, Banner was unusually low-key after joining the Avengers.

However, his fame outside the public is still very high, no less than that of Roy and the others.

"It's been a long time since I transformed into the Hulk."

Banner turned to Roy and asked, "Why did you call me here?"

"Let's talk about it when Tony gets here. Would you like a beer too?" Roy replied.

Banner shook his head.

He rarely drinks alcohol.

Although he can control his transformation at will, he still tries to avoid drinking alcohol as much as possible, except when he's at a party.

Roy didn't force Banner and patiently waited for Tony to arrive.

Time passes little by little.

A few minutes later.

Tony entered the living room wearing his Iron Man suit.

Like Banner, as soon as he entered the living room, his gaze fell on Wanda and Pietro, whom he had never seen before.

At the same time, Wanda and Pietro's eyes were also drawn to him.

Tony had no idea who Wanda and Pietro were.

However, he noticed one thing: there was hostility in Wanda and Pietro's eyes.

Without wasting any more brain cells thinking, he immediately opened the helmet's visor and began questioning Roy.

"Who are they? Look at their eyes, they wish they could devour me alive right now."

Roy placed his beer on the coffee table in front of him and said slowly, "They are Wanda and Pietro. When they were ten years old, a missile made by Stark Industries hit their building and killed their parents."

"Another missile landed in front of them but did not detonate, leaving them to spend two days in fear."

"Your surname is printed on the missile casing."

After hearing Roy's explanation, Tony had an "I see" look on his face.

He then activated his armor, stepped out, and went straight to Wanda and Pietro, saying earnestly, "I'm sorry, I should have closed Stark Industries' weapons division sooner and stopped producing and selling weapons."

Tony does not believe that he killed Wanda and Pietro's parents.

But he could understand why Wanda and the other woman were hostile towards him.

If his parents were killed by missiles produced by Hammer Industries, and he himself was frightened by Hammer Industries' missiles for two days, he would also be very hostile to Justin Hammer.

Wanda and Pietro looked at Tony with surprise.

After becoming orphans, they often fantasized about what it would be like to meet Tony.

However, they never expected that after learning about their ordeal, Tony would apologize to them without saying a word.

Tony's apology could neither bring their parents back to life nor erase their psychological trauma.

But it's always better to apologize than not to apologize.

Putting everything else aside, Tony at least showed the sincerity that was due.

Tony's apology left Wanda and Pietro speechless for a moment.

They exchanged a glance, but said nothing.

Although they didn't speak, much of the hostility and hatred in their eyes had disappeared.

Tony didn't expect his apology to make Wanda and Pietro completely let go of their hatred. He turned to Roy and said, "You had Jarvis call me over, surely not just to tell me about this?"

Roy didn't keep him in suspense and replied directly, "Do you remember the Ultron project you proposed after the Battle of New York?"

Tony frowned and said, "Of course I remember."

Roy retrieved the Mind Stone scepter from the system space and continued, "The key to Project Ultron lies within the scepter's gem. Once you and Banner download the data schematics from the gem and apply them to Ultron's program, Project Ultron can be transformed from theory into reality."

What?

Both Tony and Banner showed expressions of surprise.

Not long after the Battle of New York, Tony had the idea of ​​creating an intelligent robot army, modeled after the Chitauri army's Hive Mindset, to serve as Earth's first line of defense against alien threats.

He originally intended for Jarvis to serve as the terminal of the Hive Mind Network.

However, Jarvis's performance is not up to the level of controlling thousands of intelligent robots simultaneously.

In addition, even if Jarvis's performance meets the requirements to become a cellular network terminal, there is still a small problem.

That is, once Jarvis becomes a terminal of the Hive Mind Network, it will be unable to continue acting as an intelligent butler as it does now.

Unable to create an artificial intelligence superior to Jarvis, Tony had to shelve Project Ultron.

Although the Ultron project was put on hold, he would still discuss with Banner how to move the project forward in his spare time.

As for why he didn't discuss it with Roy, the reason is simple: Banner is the only high-IQ scientific researcher in the Avengers besides Tony.

Roy can offer Tony some overall advice.

But he couldn't offer any advice on how to handle the details.

Tony paused for a moment, then asked Roy, "How do you know that the jewel in the scepter contains the data schematics for implementing artificial intelligence?"

"Of course, it's because I have the superpower to foresee the future."

"In a tributary of the future, you and Banner downloaded the necessary data and schematics from the jewel in the scepter, and based on this, you created a completely new artificial intelligence life form, or rather, you created Ultron."

Roy said slowly and deliberately.

"And then?"

What happened after Ultron was born?

Tony pressed on.

Roy shrugged and continued, "After browsing through human history and deeds online, Ultron developed an extreme idea and decided to completely exterminate all of humanity."

"I won't go into the details, but the final result was that the Avengers stopped Ultron, preventing humanity from going extinct like the dinosaurs."

Forehead----

Tony clearly hadn't expected things to turn out this way after Ultron's birth, and his expression became somewhat awkward.

After a few seconds, he frowned and said, "Since you foresaw this branch of the future, why did you still have me and Banner research Ultron?"

"Because I want them to believe that I am a good person."

Roy held up the Mind Stone scepter and pointed at Wanda and Pietro.

What kind of ridiculous reason is that?

Tony immediately started mentally criticizing Roy.

Roy guessed that Tony would definitely criticize him, but he didn't take it to heart and continued, "In the future branch I foresaw, Ultron went astray as soon as he was born, but he was indeed capable of serving as the terminal of the Hive Network mind."

"If you teach Ultron well, I believe you can raise him into a good person who loves life and does everything in his power to protect the Earth."

Although Ultron in the movie didn't learn anything good, he started heading down the path of a supervillain who would destroy humanity shortly after his birth.

However, this situation can be completely avoided by taking sufficient precautions in advance.

The simplest approach is to disable Ultron's network access, preventing it from freely browsing various online content, and instead provide it with targeted, healthy, and positive content.

Tony looked at the Mind Stone scepter in Roy's hand and slowly said, "Are you sure the gem inside really contains the data schematics we need?"

"Of course I'm sure."

"If you don't believe me, you can scan it now."

After saying that, Roy tossed the Mind Stone scepter to Tony.

"good!"

Tony replied immediately.

Without any hesitation, he immediately took the scepter and headed downstairs to the laboratory.

Roy, Banner, and the other three followed him out of the living room and down to the laboratory.

Transforming the data diagrams read from the gem into an artificial intelligence program will require Tony and Banner to make continuous attempts.

However, it doesn't take long to read the data diagram that resembles a power-generating neuron.

Soon, Tony and Roy arrived at the laboratory.

Tony placed the scepter vertically onto a scanner on the control panel.

"Jarvis, wake up, it's game time."

"Tell me the results of the structural and compositional analysis of the scepter."

Just as Tony finished speaking, Jarvis's voice rang out.

"The scepter comes from outer space and contains elements that I cannot analyze or quantify."

"The gem at the top of the scepter acts like a protective shield, protecting what's inside."

"This thing is extremely powerful, containing astonishing energy. It's somewhat like a computer. I need some time to decode it."

Tony immediately asked, "How long will it take to decode?"

"Three minutes," Jarvis replied immediately.

"Okay, you have three minutes. Start decoding now," Tony continued.

"Yes, sir!"

After replying to Tony, Jarvis began decoding at full power.

Three minutes passed quickly.

After decoding was complete, Jarvis immediately projected the decoding results.

"it's beautiful!"

Seeing the data schematics projected by Jarvis, Banner couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Judging from its appearance, the projected data diagram resembles a thinking brain, with the flowing information resembling the firing of neurons.

Like Banner, Tony was also inwardly impressed by the data schematics that Jarvis had decoded.

Although he didn't know what this thing was, he was certain of one thing: once he figured out the operating rules of this data principle diagram, he could create a more advanced artificial intelligence, or rather, a true artificial intelligence with self-awareness, just like humans.

Wanda and Pietro didn't think as much as Tony and Banner, but they were certain of one thing: Roy was most likely telling the truth.

The reason it's a high probability, rather than all, is because Tony and Banner haven't yet used this data diagram to create Ultron.

However, judging from the current situation, what Roy said should be entirely true.

"You and Banner can study the scepter. Once you've used it as a reference to create Ultron, remember to let me know."

Roy said to Tony.

"Aren't you staying to study this together?"

Tony countered with a question.

"I'm not a scientist; professional matters should be left to professionals."

Roy said with a serious expression.

Tony rolled his eyes at him, said nothing more, and went to Banner to discuss with him how to download the data schematic.

Roy approached Wanda and Pietro and said to them, "There are vacant rooms in this building. If you don't want to stay here, I have houses in the city and the suburbs. You can choose either one."

"This place is fine," Wanda said softly.

"Okay, then stay here. If you need anything, just let Jarvis know."

"If you need to find me, just give me a call."

Roy continued.

"Uh-huh."

Xinwangda nodded.

After instructing Jarvis to grant Wanda and Banner the necessary permissions, Roy didn't disturb Tony and Banner, who were discussing the download plan, and used his Flying Thunder God technique to return to the Upper East Side villa.