Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 315 [More than ten industries want to use the Flowing Star Language Robot to replace human workers]

In the two or three days following the launch of the "Flowing Star Language" product, business owners from more than a dozen industries held emergency meetings and, remarkably, discussed whether the product could replace human workers.

With a cost of less than 2 yuan and a lifespan of 5 years, this is an incredibly cost-effective means of production in the eyes of many capitalists.

Business owners are discussing whether the humanoid robot "Liuguang Xingyu" can replace ordinary office workers, waiters and waitresses in hotels and restaurants, and receptionists.

The conclusion is that it is absolutely possible!
Although Liuguang Xingyu is defined as a sex doll product, the role she can play is far more than that. It is so advanced that it is connected to Lingjing Technology's most advanced AI intelligent agent. It has no problem communicating with people in a basic way, and its emotions are absolutely super stable.

They are perfectly capable of handling low-level jobs such as clerical work, reception, and waiter.

She does even better than others. Putting aside everything else, her looks and figure alone are pleasing to the eye. That alone is a huge advantage, not to mention any other advantages.

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The following day, Thursday, November 15.

Likang Technology's stock price hit the daily limit again today, marking its third consecutive daily limit since the press conference three days ago, and it's even a 30cm limit on the Beijing Stock Exchange.

The second major upward wave saw an exceptionally high-profile run of 7 limit-up days in 8 trading days, with Likang Technology's stock price officially breaking through 100 yuan and reaching a new historical high of 100.91 yuan, corresponding to a total market capitalization soaring to 469.23 billion yuan.

The second major upward wave that has now begun has accumulated a gain of +677.42%. Calculated from the annual moving average, the closing price on the last trading day of last year was 3.22 yuan, and the annual gain has reached +3033.85%, more than 30 times. If we start from the historical low of 1.07 yuan, the cumulative gain has reached an astonishing +9330.84%, more than 93 times.

The net worth of Zhou Chengyang and his wife also skyrocketed. The couple holds a total of 39.58% of the shares of Likang Technology. This year, the stock price plummeted to 1.07 yuan, and their net worth was once less than 2 million yuan. Now, their nominal net worth has soared to 185 billion yuan, making them members of the billionaire club.

Around 10 a.m., Zhou Chengyang arrived in Linzhou City for the third time and went straight to the headquarters of Lingjing Technology.

He came here to see Xiao Yu.

"Zhou Chengyang is here? He wants to see me?" In the chairman's office, Xiao Yu was holding a landline phone. It was Yun Shu calling. After a moment, he replied, "Okay, I happen to have some free time. I'll bring him to my office."

After Xiao Yu finished speaking, he hung up the phone, got up, walked out of his desk, and sat down on the sofa in the rest area.

After a while, I heard a knock on the door.

"Come in."

Xiao Yu looked towards the doorway, where Yun Shu led Zhou Chengyang into the office. The latter saw Xiao Yu sitting on the sofa in the rest area with his legs crossed.

Zhou Chengyang immediately strode over to greet him, saying, "President Xiao..."

Xiao Yu did not get up, still sitting with his legs crossed in a boss-like posture, calmly pursing his lips and tilting his head: "Sit down."

"Oh, good!"

President Zhou acted like a subordinate of the big boss, and then sat down opposite Xiao Yu.

Yun Shu poured two glasses of water, placed them on the table, and then sat down in the empty seat next to Xiao Yu. Seeing this, President Zhou was momentarily surprised; the two seemed to have a special relationship. However, President Zhou maintained his composure perfectly. At this moment, Xiao Yu said succinctly, "Just say what you need to say."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chengyang immediately replied, "President Xiao, in the past few days, my company has received more than a dozen cross-industry enterprise clients. Including phone inquiries, there have been three or four hundred such clients. Our phone lines have been ringing off the hook. They all want to purchase customized Flowing Star Language lifelike dolls in bulk."

Xiao Yu: "Oh?"

Zhou Chengyang continued, "You've probably guessed it already. These enterprise clients are buying this product to use as cheap labor. Some are asking if Liuguang Xingyu can serve dishes, some are asking if she can handle clerical work, some are asking if she can handle reception work, and so on. There are even many club owners asking if she can be a technician..."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yu suddenly asked, "Have you signed contracts with these enterprise clients yet?"

Zhou Chengyang immediately shook his head and replied, "No, not a single one. To be honest, I really wanted to sign them all, but this is a big deal, and I dare not make a decision rashly. That's why I came to Linzhou specifically to report to you and seek your opinion and suggestions."

Sitting next to Xiao Yu, Yun Shu couldn't help but say, "If those enterprise clients were to purchase large quantities of Flowing Star Language to replace human employees, it would inevitably create massive unemployment, and it would involve a huge number of low-end jobs. These people already have very low risk tolerance, and if even these jobs are replaced by robots, it will definitely have a huge negative impact on society."

As soon as Yun Shu finished speaking, Xiao Yu slowly said, "I had a video conference with the higher-ups yesterday, and we discussed this issue."

At this point, he turned to Zhou Chengyang and added with satisfaction, "It was right that you didn't sign the contract. If you had, you would have been summoned for questioning soon, and Likang Technology would have had to suspend operations for rectification."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chengyang secretly thought it was fortunate that he hadn't signed the contract. Xiao Yu then said in a deep voice, "Under the current level of productivity, especially before the structural problems of production are fully adjusted, we cannot do this. It is true that it is very profitable, but we cannot make money from it."

Clearly, Xiao Yu's words were quite blunt: Liuguang Xingyu cannot be used as cheap labor and means of production for capitalists, because this would result in tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of unemployed people, and currently there is no proper solution to resettle these unemployed people.

Yun Shu pondered for a moment, then looked at Xiao Yu and said, "But the cost of the Liuguang Xingyu lifelike doll is less than 2 yuan. As a means of production, its cost performance is extremely high. Once this product is released and launched, it will definitely be used as a means of production."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yu chuckled and said, "Don't worry, that's impossible. Unless I give the approval here and the higher-ups give the approval, no one can make the robot work."

Xiao Yu continued, "This is where the advantage of the robot's 'rigidity' becomes apparent. Solving this problem is very simple; we just need to add a program that prevents it from doing clerical work, working as a hotel waiter, or serving dishes in a restaurant, etc. As long as this permission is higher than the user's permission, the robot can refuse to perform these tasks if the user requests them to do so, and it will resolutely refuse."

If it were a human being, they would definitely be able to "adapt" and play one game on the surface while doing another behind the scenes.

But AI robots are different. If the program explicitly states that something cannot be done, then it will definitely not do it.

Unless some genius can crack the intelligent program of Flowing Star Language, which is exactly what Xiao Yu is least worried about, he's joking. This is a product of Blue Star technology, and there is no other human on Earth besides Xiao Yu who can do it.

After a moment, Xiao Yu said, "These terms should be written into the user agreement. When purchasing the Flowing Star Language lifelike doll product, users must agree that the nature of the product's use cannot be changed. That is, this is a personal consumer product and its nature cannot be turned into a means of production."

Zhou Chengyang nodded and said, "I understand."

The terms of use should be clearly stated so that you don't later claim that you paid for the service and that it is your right to use and control it as you see fit.

Anything permitted within the scope of the agreement is permissible, but anything explicitly prohibited is prohibited. If the terms of use clearly stipulate this, and the user agrees and signs them, then the agreement is considered accepted and has legal effect.

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(End of this chapter)