I really just want to be a scholar

Now at home, Qin Ke’s assistant is no longer a human being, but a robot “Spark-Intelligent Type VI (Special Edition)” controlled by LV5 artificial intelligence Weiguang.

The "Spark" series of robot research projects was launched as early as five years ago. It was designed by Qin Ke himself, and the team in the "Chief Scientist Building" continuously refined and improved it, and finally it was handed over to the "Intelligent Manufacturing Factory" for manufacturing.

Currently, the "Spark" series has been developed to the sixth generation "Spark-Intelligent VI". There are two main trial locations, one is the "Chief Scientist Building" and the other is Qin Ke's home.

Currently, there are 30 "Spark-Intelligent VI" machines deployed in the "Chief Scientist Building", which have successfully taken over all cleaning and miscellaneous work, as well as routine document sorting, meeting record keeping, security and other tasks. As a result, the "Chief Scientist Building" does not need cleaning ladies or security guards like ordinary buildings, and there is no need to hire interns to do miscellaneous work, eliminating the possibility of using "social engineering" to steal important research data inside.

Unlike the "Spark-Intelligent VI" used in the "Chief Scientist Building", Qin Ke himself uses the "Spark-Intelligent VI (Special Edition)", in which the core OS was written by him and Wei Guang, and is directly connected to the computing power main brain system of "Wei Guang". It is controlled by LV5 Wei Guang through a wireless network, and its activity range will not exceed meters around the garden villa.

But relying on the faint light of LV5, "Spark-Intelligence Type VI (Special Edition)" is two levels better than the ordinary version. Its speech and movements are no different from those of normal people, and it is difficult to distinguish them even if you listen carefully.

Moreover, the appearance of this robot assistant is that of a middle-aged humanoid male, covered with simulated skin and hair. Except for the eyes that have a machine-like luster and the expression that cannot be as vivid as a real person due to the limitations of the material, from the appearance alone, it is just an ordinary, inconspicuous, and serious middle-aged man. When wearing a casual suit, it is almost indistinguishable from the real person.

By the way, Ning Qingjun also has an almost identical robot assistant at home, but it looks like an ordinary-looking middle-aged woman.

The materials used for these two robot assistants are specially customized. Their skin looks similar to that of humans, but they are extremely tough. In addition, their bodies are made of alloy, so even ordinary sniper rifles can hardly penetrate them within a distance of 100 meters. Under the control of Wei Guang, they can block bullets for Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun at any time.

Of course, Qin Ke studies robots not just to have a bodyguard who can block bullets and an assistant who can handle chores, but also for an ideal he set in high school - to allow children in mountainous areas to enjoy an education quality that is no less than that of children in urban areas.

This dream originated from the first trip to the prairie with Ning Qingyun in the second year of high school. After witnessing the difficulties and hardships of children in poor areas going to school, it eventually gave birth to the "Green Lemon Scholarship Foundation" scholarship project.

At present, with the quiet expansion of Qin Ke and his wife's assets, the "Green Lemon Education Fund" has quietly become the largest charity education fund in Xia Country and even in the world, even more abundant than the treasury of some small countries. It's just that it is a private foundation and does not disclose its financial reports to the public, so it didn't cause much sensation.

But in addition to investing money in the "Green Lemon Scholarship Foundation" to donate to education, build mountain village schools, and support poor students to graduate from college, Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun have not given up another higher goal: to solve the problem of educational equity in mountainous areas.

Nowadays, the learning environment for children in mountainous areas is becoming more and more severe. With the improvement of people's living standards and the impact of the declining birth rate, there are fewer and fewer children in mountainous areas, which has also led to the closure and merger of schools in mountainous areas at an increasingly rapid rate. Now, in addition to the "Hope Project" in China, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's "Green Lemon Education Foundation" is still providing education in mountainous areas. A "Green Lemon Primary School" often has only dozens of children.

In order to attract young teachers to teach in mountainous areas, the "Lime Education Foundation" invests astronomical amounts of money every year.

But some things cannot be solved by just throwing money at them. For example, the teaching resources and quality of teaching are far from comparable to those of children in prosperous big cities. Most of those who are willing to teach in mountainous areas are young people without families. They lack teaching experience and there is a limited number of staff. Often a young teacher has to teach two courses. The poor children in mountainous areas also have a poor foundation... Under various restrictions, even though the "Green Lemon Scholarship Foundation" has invested a huge amount of financial resources, the teaching effect can only be described as unsatisfactory.

Compared with the past, the probability of producing college students in mountainous areas, even those from 985 and 211 prestigious universities, has increased by more than ten times, but compared with the "success rate" in big cities, the probability is undoubtedly much lower. The issue of educational equity between the two still cannot be resolved.

This is also the result of the automatic optimization allocation of social resources and the market economy, and it cannot be reversed by Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun just using money.

If we want to solve the problem of educational equity, introducing "village robot teachers" is undoubtedly an effective means.

At present, Weiguang asked the robot assistant to send the "Feasibility Analysis Report on Mass Production and Deployment of Robot Teachers in Mountain Villages" to Qin Ke. This report was generated by Weiguang based on the current research progress of the "Spark" series of robots, the cost of mass production, the maintenance cost of robot teachers, and the optimization status of the human-computer interactive teaching model.

In order to achieve the best results for this project, as early as three years ago, Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun personally wrote letters to more than 200 provincial excellent teachers and experienced primary and secondary school teachers across the country, earnestly requesting that their teaching scenes be recorded for big data analysis and research, and offering generous remuneration.

The more than 200 teachers were greatly surprised and somewhat flattered to receive the handwritten letters from Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun. After all, with the current reputation of these two academicians in the world, there are not many people worthy of writing personal letters from them - this letter alone can make their reputation in the local education circle rise to a higher level.

Some veteran teachers were moved by the earnest words and aspirations of the Qin Ke couple in the letter, and even expressed their willingness to cooperate without any compensation and to provide their years of teaching experience.

The other teachers were either moved by the generous remuneration or wanted to make friends with the two top academicians, so naturally not many people refused. However, this matter still needed the school's approval, and the teachers who received the letter reported the situation to the school. The school leaders of various universities held a meeting to analyze and compare, and felt that the benefits of this matter outweighed the disadvantages, so they responded with formal legal authorization documents one after another, agreeing to Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun's request.

Soon, there were staff members of the Green Lemon Education Foundation standing in the back of classrooms at prestigious schools across the country, recording teaching videos during class...

Of course, Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun finally insisted on following the conditions in the previous letter, and gave all the teachers who participated in the recording and the schools that cooperated very generous rewards. They also used the story of "Zi Gong Redeeming People" to convince those noble old teachers who originally did not want to take a penny...

This incident also caused a huge sensation across the country and on the Internet. In addition to admiration, people once again started a trend of caring for poor students and donating money to support their studies. However, the "Lime Scholarship Foundation" does not accept donations from any outside individuals or organizations, so the "Hope Project", Penguin Charity Scholarship, Ant Charity Scholarship, etc. have benefited extra... These are minor details and there is no need to elaborate.

Qin Ke was sitting in the living room. Not far away, two children were surrounding Ning Qingjun and their aunt Qin Xiaoke who had come downstairs, excitedly talking about what they had seen and heard today. The noisy background noise did not affect Qin Ke's concentration as he flipped through the report in his hand.

According to Weiguang’s analysis, the time is ripe to implement the “Mountain Area Robot Teacher Program” and a pilot project can be carried out.

Of the six "intelligent manufacturing factories" originally built to deal with the "super-giant solar storm", five have been handed over to state management, but one remains in Qin Ke's hands. This is what Xia State specially left for Qin Ke to use for scientific research.

All the "Spark" series robots are fully automatically produced in this large precision manufacturing factory renamed "Lime Technology Intelligent Manufacturing Factory", including the "Spark-Teacher Edition" robot that was finalized just a few days ago.

The "Spark-Teacher Edition" robot, as the name suggests, is a mountain robot teacher. It is installed with an operating system written by Weiguang and optimized by Qin Ke himself. It has intelligence close to LV4 Weiguang, can fully understand dialects from all over the world, understand the thinking of children and even teenagers, and communicate in a friendly and patient manner. It even knows how to resolve conflicts between students and how to take care of special children without making a fuss.

The teaching videos of more than 200 excellent teachers have also become excellent materials for big data analysis and artificial intelligence teaching model training. The "Spark-Teacher Edition" robot is also good at teaching all subjects in all primary and secondary schools, and the demonstrated teaching results are quite satisfactory.

Apart from cost and maintenance considerations, the mass-produced "Spark-Teacher Edition" robot is inferior in appearance to Qin Ke's assistant "Spark-Intelligent Type VI (Special Edition)" and looks more like a robot. In other aspects, it can meet the teaching needs of teachers in mountainous areas and the needs of caring for children.

By then, any mountain primary school equipped with the "Spark-Teacher Edition" robot will only need two to three local caregivers from the local village to take care of the children's daily lives, and the need for human teachers will basically be eliminated.

Of course, there is still a long way to go before all mountain primary schools across the country are equipped with such "Spark-Teacher Edition" robots, but this firm first step will open up a new era! A new era in which children in mountainous areas and urban areas have equal teaching resources and teaching quality!

Qin Ke believes that as long as the "Spark-Teacher Edition" plan is fully implemented, more and more children from mountainous areas will be able to leave the mountains and add more brilliant colors to this society and this world!
Qin Ke closed the report with satisfaction and handed it back to the robot assistant: "Weiguang, make arrangements. The day after tomorrow I will bring two 'Spark-Teacher Edition' robots to the elementary school where Xiaoxiao and Zhengzheng are studying to conduct on-site teaching experiments."

Wei Guang answered readily, "Received, Master Qin Ke."

As for how to arrange these later, Weiguang will hand over to Qin Ke’s work assistant at Qingmu University, and Qin Ke does not need to worry about it anymore. This is also one of the roles that LV5 Weiguang can play.

Ning Qingjun who was standing next to him looked over curiously when he heard the voice.

Qin Ke laughed, went over to pick up Ning Qingyun, and gently turned around twice: "Haha, Yun'er, the dream of becoming a robot teacher in the mountainous area that we set in high school is finally going to come true!"

Ning Qingjun exclaimed and hugged him tightly. When Qin Ke put her down, she nervously touched her pregnant belly and said with a slight frown, "Really? It's so big now. Be careful not to hurt the baby." But then she also showed a happy smile, "So, the day after tomorrow, I can see the real teaching demonstration of the 'Spark-Teacher Edition' robot in Xiaoxiao and Zhengzheng's school?"

Qin Ke nodded slightly, feeling deeply moved.

More than ten years have passed in the blink of an eye. How many people have forgotten their dreams when they were young? Fortunately, he has not, and Ning Qingjun has not either. After years of hard work, this dream is about to bear sweet fruit! (End of this chapter)