American comics: Becoming the god of technology from Osborn

Chapter 22 The World's First Intelligent Personal Assistant

Click!Click!
When Harry's car stopped at the entrance of Stark Expo, reporters who had been waiting for a long time suddenly swarmed in and the sound of shutter clicks continued.

"Mr. Osborne, today is your first time attending a public event since you inherited the group. It is said that you took back all the shares of the Osborne Group a few days ago. Can we assume that the Osborne Group is experiencing a turbulent struggle among the top executives?"

"Regarding the Professor Lizard incident that happened half a year ago, people are saying that Professor Connors was forced by Osborn to conduct illegal human experiments. Is this true? Have the many drugs produced by the Osborn Group ever been secretly tested on humans?"

"And the Green Goblin who mysteriously appeared a few months ago. The flying machine and armor he used were experimental products stolen from the Osborn Corporation. The high-tech equipment that should have been carefully protected was stolen so easily. Is the security capability of the Osborn Corporation really so weak? Is it possible that the Green Goblin robbed the company? It is also very suspicious that the Green Goblin disappeared later."

"Regarding the fact that your father, Norman Osborn, was most likely killed by Spider-Man, what do you think?"

"Mr. Osborne, you took over a large enterprise with a market value of tens of billions of dollars when you were nearly 18 years old, and you changed the group's main business project on the first day of taking office. Many people are questioning your decision-making ability. How would you respond to such remarks?"

A barrage of chattering words poured into Harry's ears.

As expected, journalists are creatures that are hard to be liked in any world.

"Good evening, fellow journalists, welcome to the exhibition of the latest product of the Osborne Group. I promise you that this product will completely overturn the world's perception of the Osborne Group."

Harry announced to countless cameras with a smile on his face. His expression was full of confidence, but the words he said were a little... irrelevant to what the reporters had just asked.

Moreover, after a simple greeting, Harry simply ignored them and walked towards the exhibition door with Chloe.

Some people saw that Harry was young and did not have bodyguards when attending public events, and thought that he was young and ignorant, so they intentionally or unintentionally blocked the way of Harry and his companions.

As a result, when Harry and Chloe passed by, the two of them just walked forward on their own as if they were unaware of anything, and the people in front of them suddenly retreated to both sides uncontrollably as if swept away by the tide.

Harry sneered in his heart. He was a strengthened man injected with serum, and next to him was a bionic man whose bones were made of super alloy. These weak little reporters wanted to stop them and interrogate them?

By the way, Harry also glanced at the name tags of these short-sighted reporters. As expected, they were all from some small media outlets who would do anything to get hot news and increase their value.

Harry silently memorized the names of these media outlets and decided to let them taste the power of capital tomorrow.

He knew that any response to these conspiracy theories accusing the Osborne Group would fall into the self-proving trap, and the best way was not to respond.

The current predicament of the Osborne Group has never been due to simple business failure. There have been basically no major problems with their products. The reason why they have fallen to the brink of bankruptcy is purely because of the various puzzling operations after Norman's breakdown.

Norman didn't care about all the negative public opinions. Sometimes he even made inappropriate remarks publicly under the control of his second personality. By the time it fell into Harry's hands, public opinion had been fermenting for quite a long time. It was not so easy to reverse public opinion. At least it was meaningless to just make clarifications verbally.

Even if it is clarified, it will be useless because people have already formed a stereotype unless there is a completely new impression to replace the old one.

What Osborn needed was a super breaking point that would attract the whole world's attention and completely divert people's attention, similar to how Tony's announcement that he was Iron Man caused Stark Industries' plummeting stock price to soar overnight.

Unfortunately, the Green Goblin's identity is the opposite of Iron Man's, so Harry cannot reveal the Green Goblin's identity.

The biggest highlight that Harry brought out was naturally the bionic human technology, which was also the reason why he had been trying every possible means these days, even working overtime all night, to make a complete Chloe as soon as possible, rather than simply disassembling the parts to make the product.

If we just make the limbs of the bionic man into prosthetic limbs, or transform the blue blood into new energy batteries, or just take out the smart chip to provide AI services, in the technologically advanced Marvel world, these are far from shocking the world. Moreover, Osborne Group already has these things in its product line. Even if they are not as advanced as the technology used by the bionic man, they are just normal iterative upgrades in the eyes of the outside world.

Only a complete android that looks, speaks and behaves like a human being can achieve the effect Harry needs.

As for breaking down bionic human technology into new product lines, that is something that should be considered later.

After a while, Harry and Chloe came to the preparation room behind the open-air booth, where the receptionist arranged by Pepper was waiting for them.

This is a red-haired beauty with a hot body.

"Hello, Mr. Osborn. I am Natalie, Stark's new assistant. Miss Potts has asked me to hand over the exhibition work to you and give you some precautions."

Natalie?
When Harry heard the name, he felt a vague sense of familiarity. He then took a closer look at Natalie's iconic red hair and roughly understood her identity.

However, he had no intention of pointing it out explicitly, and "Natalie's" undercover work in Stark Industries was none of Harry's business.

"Thank you very much, Miss Natalie."

Harry smiled.

At this moment, outside the open-air booth, thousands of tourists gathered, looking forward to the most grand exhibition of the day.

The Osborne Group has been secretly researching an "intelligent personal assistant" recently, which was not officially announced for the first time until today.

"Hey, how come Osborne, a chemical company, suddenly started working on an intelligent personal assistant?"

A viewer in the crowd asked his friend next to him.

"Who knows? I heard that Harry, the young boss of the Osborne Group, was determined to develop this intelligent personal assistant. He stopped all other research and development projects in order to develop this one."

"Ah! Really? Are you so willful? With such a new boss, the Osborne Group is probably doomed."

"By the way, does anyone know what an intelligent personal assistant is?"

"Who should I ask if you ask me? But judging by the name, it should be an AI assistant of some kind, probably similar to Apple's Siri."

At this moment, Harry walked up to the booth and announced loudly to the dark audience below the stage.

"Hello everyone, I'm Harry Osborn. You may be curious about why the Osborn Group is entering a completely unfamiliar field. Some people may also think that the person who made this decision is a brainless idiot."

"But after seeing our next demonstration, I believe you will get the answers to these questions. Now, please be prepared, because soon, you will witness the arrival of a brand new era!"

(End of this chapter)