Super Copy of Great Power Technology

It was a weekend, and Qiao Ruida, who rarely gets a day off, was shopping at the mall with his wife and children when his phone rang in his pocket. He took it out and saw that it was Xiao Jingsheng, the director of Ruida Research Institute, calling.

"Who is it calling you on the weekend?" Du Qingqing complained, but still took their son from Qiao Ruida and held him in her arms so he could answer the phone. As the two little ones grew older, their arms and legs became stronger, and their energy was particularly boundless. If the two little ones were put together, they would easily start fighting. Therefore, when they were shopping earlier, Qiao Ruida put his daughter in the shopping cart and held his son in his arms to prevent the two little ones from fighting.

"It's Lao Xiao from the research institute. Perhaps the research institute has made some outstanding research results, which is why he called me despite me being on vacation."

As he spoke, Qiao Ruida had already connected the phone, and Xiao Jingsheng's slightly excited voice came through the receiver, "President Qiao, the text-to-animation software you asked us to develop has been completed. After preliminary testing, the effect is excellent. The quality of the converted animation videos is no worse than the carefully produced animated films by those well-known animation studios."

Currently, Jorid's cloning system can only replicate high-tech items from science fiction works and acquire the science and technology contained within them. This includes movies, TV series, short and long videos, and even science fiction animated films, but excludes science fiction novels and comics. Due to limitations in special effects technology and production costs, science fiction works constitute a very small proportion of movies and TV series, with only a handful produced annually both domestically and internationally. As for science fiction animated films, their numbers are even fewer. This situation severely hinders the cloning system's effectiveness; many things Jorid wants to replicate and develop cannot be found in existing science fiction movies and TV series, leaving him helpless.

It wasn't until the rapid development of artificial intelligence and the emergence of large-scale text-to-image models that Qiao Ruida saw the dawn of widespread application for copying systems. If a few sentences of text can be transformed into a vivid picture, could longer texts, descriptions of scenes and plots, be converted into animations? Or even further, could a full-length science fiction novel be transformed into a feature-length animated film using AI programs? There are countless science fiction novels online, each with wildly imaginative plots. If they could all be converted into animations, the range of material that the copying system could draw upon would expand exponentially. Based on this idea, Qiao Ruida assigned a new research and development task to the Ruida Research Institute: to develop software for converting text into animation, capable of producing long videos with a realistic style, natural character movements, detailed and realistic scene construction, and smooth, seamless plots. This was an extremely demanding requirement; if fully achieved, it could essentially replace humans in the entire process of animation production.

"It's only been two weeks since I gave you the task of developing this software, and it's already finished? You're not going to give me a half-finished product, are you?" This software has already touched on some creative areas, which is currently a weakness of artificial intelligence and various large models. It's perfectly reasonable for Qiao Ruida to have this suspicion.

"How could that be? Even if you gave me ten lives, I wouldn't dare to slack off like that, boss! To complete the R&D task, I assembled a special R&D team of 300 senior programmers, invited Jarvis to participate throughout the process, and spent three days building the program framework and dividing it into tens of thousands of functional modules. The core artificial intelligence module was completed jointly by Jarvis and our own R&D personnel, while the other functional modules were placed on our program development platform for external orders, and we applied for computing power support from the supercomputing center. According to post-event statistics, a total of more than 13,000 programmers or teams participated in taking orders and writing code, and it took a week to complete the writing of all functional modules. After receiving all the functional modules, our R&D team and Jarvis conducted three days of comprehensive debugging and fixed some bugs, which allowed us to complete the text-to-animation program within two weeks and complete the task."

After hearing Xiao Jingsheng's explanation, Qiao Ruida finally understood. Ruida Group already possessed the world's only quantum supercomputing cluster, with near-limitless computing power. Combined with Jarvis, a true artificial intelligence, the foundation for developing this text-to-animation software couldn't be stronger. To complete the task as quickly as possible, Xiao Jingsheng not only organized a dedicated R&D team of 300 programmers but also mobilized tens of thousands of programmers through a software development platform to collaboratively write code and complete functional modules. It's no wonder that the text-to-animation software could be developed in just two weeks.

"Well done. Wait until this afternoon, I'll come over and see your research results." Qiao Ruida hung up the phone and continued pushing the shopping cart forward.

"Honey, is this important? Should we head over right away?" Du Qingqing picked up a stack of diapers from the shelf next to her, put them in her shopping cart, and asked with concern.

"Daddy, hug me!" The daughter, who had been playing alone in the shopping cart, immediately stretched out her two chubby little arms, asking for a hug, when she saw that her father's hands were free.

"It's not too important. I can manage shopping with you three this morning. It's just that I have to go to the research institute this afternoon, so we'll have to go to the amusement park tomorrow." Qiao Ruida bent down to pick up his daughter, looking at Du Qingqing with some apology. Since their son and daughter were born, Du Qingqing had shifted her focus from work and studies to her family, even temporarily putting aside her unfinished graduate studies. Qiao Ruida, on the other hand, was completely absorbed in his career, either handling company affairs in the office or conducting research in the lab, spending very little time with his wife and children. He had finally gotten two days off this weekend, promising to spend time with them, but now he had to break his promise due to this unexpected event, which made Qiao Ruida feel truly guilty.

“You men should prioritize your careers. Since there’s something at the research institute that needs your attention, then go ahead. It’s the weekend today, and Xiaoshuang is off work too. I can contact her this afternoon, and we can take the kids to the amusement park together. There’s a bodyguard team here, so you don’t need to worry about safety.”

An hour later, Qiao Ruida and Du Qingqing walked out of the mall with their son and daughter in their arms. Behind them, two bodyguards pushed two shopping carts full of goods, the spoils of their morning's shopping spree.

After having lunch at a long-established Sichuan restaurant, the two parted ways. Du Qingqing drove her flying car to pick up Li Xiaoshuang and her daughter, and they went to the amusement park together. Qiao Ruida rode in a flying car driven by his bodyguard to the Ruida Research Institute. (End of Chapter)