America: A Prodigy of Stereotypes

Dr. Otto opened Dr. Banner's envelope during dinner, reading the letter while eating the shepherd's pie his wife Rosie had made.

Otto's expression gradually turned serious. He felt as if the person who wrote him the letter could read his mind, guessing all his inner thoughts, as if they were another version of himself in the world.

As he read line by line, Dr. Otto finally laughed.

The person who wrote the letter shared his research findings with him, showing no interest in personal gain and only wanting to engage in academic exchange.

"Darling, who wrote you that letter?"

"A friend."

Otto smiled, put the letter down, and focused on eating his dinner.

Do I know him?

“We might know each other,” Otto replied to his wife with a smile.

Otto cut the pie with a knife, looking somewhat confused.

How did your students get to know a long-lost scientific luminary?

Bruce Banner is almost seen as a contemporary figure who is a second Einstein.

I need to write back to them.

After finishing his shepherd's pie, Otto went into his study and began writing intensively.

The next day, during class, Dr. Otto placed the letter on Li Qun's desk and handed it to him discreetly. None of the students noticed Dr. Otto's little trick.

"Dr. Banner, Dr. Otto has replied to you."

Li Qun passed through the portal and arrived at the study of the Holy See the next day. The study was filled with crumpled paper and manuscripts with written content.

Bruce Banner was completely captivated by the deep learning and artificial intelligence that Dr. Otto had opened up, as if he wanted to write out an AI model that could think for itself using handwriting.

"Thank you, Liqun."

Five meters away, Dr. Banner made a snapping motion, and the letter in Li Qun's hand floated into Dr. Banner's hand.

"Dr. Banner, what is this huge thing of yours?"

On the bookshelf, Dr. Banner hung a huge curtain, on which he used magic to write messages.

"I'm designing computer magic..."

"Computer magic? These two things can be combined?" Li Qun looked at the contents on Dr. Banner's screen, feeling both puzzled and impressed.

"The principles are all the same."

“Using magic would eliminate the limitations of Earth’s existing hardware,” Dr. Banner said.

"Wouldn't it be too dangerous to create a magical artificial intelligence?" Li Qun asked.

"Don't overestimate the power of this type of artificial intelligence."

"It needs to continuously learn and grow to reach the same level of intelligence as humans," Dr. Banner said.

"It cannot learn all knowledge at a glance; it needs to practice and memorize repeatedly, just like humans."

“It doesn’t sound like we’re creating artificial intelligence anymore, it sounds like we’re creating a magical life form,” Li Qun said.

Banner shifted his gaze from the curtain to Li Qun, and gave him a meaningful smile.

"I knew it!"

“You guessed it,” Banner said.

"How can we not say that creating a digital life is the same as using computers to create artificial intelligence?"

"Banner wants to have a baby?" Hulk said from the side. Hulk was sitting cross-legged in the study, holding a children's book that had been magically enlarged.

“I think I should stop,” Bruce Banner said, looking at Hulk.

"Stop having babies?" Hulk asked.

"Hulk, this is just a design sketch. It's a design sketch that I haven't finished yet."

"A blueprint for a magical life with infinite possibilities. You can cultivate it in the direction you need it to have whatever abilities you desire."

"If I understand correctly, Dr. Banner, the magical life form you designed is essentially a ball of magic?" Li Qun asked.

"Liqun, are you talking nonsense?" Dr. Banner pushed up his glasses at Liqun.

“I think it needs to have a basic model in it. The so-called basic model is to write some underlying logic and rules into it from the beginning, such as the inability to launch a fatal attack on a person,” Li Qun said.

“Inherent design flaws are also an important part of life.”

Banner started thinking and began adding a lot of strange elements to his magical designs.

Chapter 126 My fate is unknown, that means I'm dead.

Daylight saving time is a strange system.

My history teacher, David, told me that daylight saving time is a system established to save energy. It was first widely used by Germany during World War I, with the aim of saving coal.

Li Qun only discussed it with Peter and Gwen at the dinner table for a while before they discovered that daylight saving time was very limited in terms of energy-saving efficiency, and might even increase energy consumption.

In the United States, the time is advanced to 3 a.m. on the first Sunday of April each year to begin Daylight Saving Time.

The first Sunday in April is April 1st, and that year's daylight saving time was like an April Fool's joke that swept across the United States.

On April 2nd, the first day of school in April, Gwen complained to Liqun that an hour of her sleep time had been taken away by America.

Li Qun discovered that many students and teachers at the school were experiencing fatigue and poor mental state similar to "jet lag." These symptoms gradually disappeared after three to five days as daylight saving time began to pass.

In mid-April, Dr. Otto's paper was published, and Peter bought the scientific journal to study Dr. Otto's paper carefully.

Peter wasn't the only one who bought this issue of the scientific journal; most of the students did too. They placed the journal on their desks during Dr. Otto's classes to show that they valued Dr. Otto's research.

"I have some bad news for you."

"I can probably only teach you until June. I won't be at Midtown High School anymore in September."

“Many universities have sent me invitations, wanting me to participate in their artificial intelligence research projects.”

As Dr. Otto spoke, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl upwards, and his eyes secretly glanced at Li Qun.

Li Qun now acts as a messenger for Dr. Otto and Dr. Banner, and the two have become secret pen pals, exchanging at least two letters a week.

"Dr. Otto, have you decided which university's invitation you'll accept?" a student asked.

"I'm quite reluctant to leave New York, and I won't go too far away from Rosie," Dr. Otto blatantly hinted, suggesting that the answer could be found simply by using the process of elimination.

"Ugh!" Gwen lowered her head.

Every time Dr. Otto mentions his wife Rosie during class, Gwen can't help but make a mushy face.

Ms. Rosie was known as "Mom" by many students at school. However, before Dr. Otto Octavius ​​appeared, the students all fantasized that Ms. Rosie's husband was a handsome, gentlemanly old man. They never imagined that he would be a short-legged, old-fashioned, humorless, and unattractive fat old man like Dr. Otto.

While Li Qun was in class, Bruce Banner, wearing a hooded coat, walked out of the New York Sanctuary and onto the New York City Public Library. He bought Dr. Otto's dissertation and printed it out completely using the library's printer.

After exchanging letters for several days, this was the first time Bruce Banner had read Dr. Ott's paper in its entirety. It was similar to what he had expected, with only minor differences in the details.

In his study at the Sanctuary of the Dead, Bruce Banner suddenly had an idea: should he also send some of his new papers to European scientific journals to announce to the world that he was not dead?

After going missing, their fate remains unknown, and in some people's eyes, they are simply dead.

Banner needs to let some people know that he is still alive.

Dr. Banner got right to work, and the paper he was preparing to publish was part of the follow-up work on the super-soldier project he was working on for the U.S. military, based on new findings he had made over the years while working alone in his Kamar-Taj laboratory on his own mutation problem.

After Li Qun got home from school and had dinner, he was dragged by Banner into the study of the Holy See.

Banner claimed he wanted to teach Li Qun how to write papers, but in reality, he just wanted to find free labor.

"Don't use my name, Dr. Banner."

"Others would be overjoyed and crying tears of joy at this opportunity, and you don't even want me to take you along!"

“I just don’t want to be targeted by the U.S. military before I even graduate high school,” Li Qun said.

Dr. Banner and Li Qun completed his new paper in three days. Li Qun did very little hands-on work and mostly observed Banner. Dr. Banner himself also sent the paper, directly opening a portal and delivering it to the scientific journal reviewer's home in the middle of the night.

Normally, the review process takes several months after submission. However, when the reviewers saw that it was a submission from Bruce Banner, they immediately raised the level of attention to the highest level and convened multiple reviewers for joint review.

When Dr. Banner's paper was officially published, it was already early June.

……

……

Because no mailing address was left, a sample copy was not sent to Dr. Banner when the new journal was published.

"Liqun, could you please go to the bookstore and buy a few books for me?" Banner said to Liqun.

"How many books exactly?" Li Qun asked, taking his wallet out of his pocket and showing Dr. Banner his meager allowance.

“Alright, I see you can only buy three books. Three books are enough,” Banner said.

"Dr. Banner, I'd like to keep a copy for myself."

"alright."

Half an hour later, Li Qun returned from the bookstore.

The bookstore Liqun visited only had a handful of professional scientific journals in stock. If Peter hadn't mentioned which bookstore he could find them at last time, Liqun probably wouldn't have been able to find any this time. Scientific journals are usually subscribed to by schools and libraries; very few people actually buy them from bookstores.

"Open it and take a look quickly."

Dr. Banner put away his two copies, but urged Li Qun to open the plastic wrapping of his journal.

"Dr. Banner, don't you know best what's written in your paper? Why are you still so expectant?"

“I wanted to see what people were saying about me, and what new opinions they had about me,” Dr. Banner replied with a smile.

"Here..."

Li Qun spread the journal out on the long table, and Bruce Banner looked at it with great interest.

“Dr. Banner, you have once again revolutionized the scientific community,” Li Qun said.

"It's the same old stuff again. It's getting a bit boring," Banner said.

In the secret research facility in the Osborne Industrial Park, Norman Osborne and Dr. Storm paused their current project and turned to study Bruce Banner's newly published paper.

“Bruce Banner is a genius. His new research results came at just the right time…” Norman Osborn murmured.