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Li Jin walked over to the water dispenser and filled his vacuum flask with hot water. He watched the leaves oea swirl around c the water as the flask filled up. He was alone in one of the most secret of Tsinghua Uys puter labs, a facility for whily he, Professor Yao and a handful of others had regular clearahe lab was hidden deep within the gleaming glass and e Nanoteology Research building. The small research facility was a subse of the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Teology and Systems and could also draw on the resources of the State Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Sce. State Key Labs were gover-funded research anizations affiliated with New a’s top uies. The lab’s size belied the importance of the research being carried out within.Li Jin was worried. He was worried about Professor Yaos destirip to New York, the implications for their work and his future on the research program. Was the professoing to sell the design for the quantum chip to the Ameris? It didn’t sound like the professor at all but still the suspis refused to go away. Yet, he was determio follow the professors instrus to the letter. Li Jin, if I am not back by Friday m I want you to release Black Jade into cyberspace. Then I want you to remove the quantum neuroprocessor aroy it.
It was Friday <cite></cite>m and any minute now Li Jin expected the professor to e through the security doors ecstatic that his trip had been a success. Was it wishful thinking on his part? It was best to be practical. The air ditioning in the lab too high but he had his favorite black Giordano auto-weave jacket on with the hood up. It was the oh the solar panels on the sleeves that he hardly ever used.
Li Jin took a sip of the yellow-green tea, sav the mellow but sophisticated taste that made this one of as most well kn<tt>.99lib.t>own teas. Hailing from the Tieh Mu Mountains of Zhejiang Province, Dragoea, also known as Long Jing, was famous for its cooling effed its ability to remove harmful free radicals from the body. Li Jin savored the sweet chestnut aroma a his muscles relax as the alkaloids iea started to take effect.
What if the professor did not return? He had prepared for this eventuality by readying a standalone cyberspace terminal that he would hook up to Black Jade at precisely 10.00AM. Professor Yao was never late and if he had another appoi he would always ring in advao let Li Jin know. A strange sense of foreboding began to grow in his mind like mould on a stale sponge cake.
Li Jin appreciated spending time in this lab and the others. He roud of the cutting edge research he was carrying out with Professor Yao. He was one of a chosehe envy of his classmates. He had been handpicked by the professor to work with him oain top secret projects for a unit of the People’s Liberation Army. That in itself was an honour. The work he was doing was for the betterment of his try, no more, no less. Sedly, whiputing postgraduate didn’t enjoy w with cutting edge software and hardware? Li Jin got to be hands on with massively cross-disciplinary stuff on a daily basis, nanoteology, quantum physieural s and artificial intelligehey were multi-tasking and Li Jin relished the variety, the required mastery of diverse, though by no means mutually exclusive, fields of teology.
There was audent in the Virtual Reality Labs, another one of the professor’s protégés who had worked with the professor and Li Jin on the geion cyberspace prototype. Li Jin despised him with an iy b on pure hatred. Wang Lin was arrogant, never failed to try to set the professainst him, and Li Jin suspected that he was the type who never kept his mouth shut. Yet, it was he who had worked with the professor on the quantum neuroprocessor and Black Jade. The AI dwarfed anything the professor had ever worked on in terms of importance.
Li Jin instinctively gla the telepho hadnt buzzed and the indicatht hadnt blihe professor didn’t like to be disturbed by the sound of the telephing so they usually worked with the ringer off. Even when Li Jin was busy writing code or preoccupied with p over puter printouts, he had learo pick up the vibrations on the worktop when the phone was ringing. He also had the be of the indicatht, which flashed itently when there hone call. He switched on the ringer.
He decided to while away the few minutes in idle banter with Black Jade. He had yet to find a k in the AI’s amour besides the ohat he had secretly engineered into it. Li Jin had always been blessed with the gift of fht. If the professor did not turn up he would do what he had been instructed to do. He walked towards the big gray -built Sun server and sat down at the monitor. Before the professor had left Beijing, he had isolated a harmless version of Black Jade on another server and ected it to cyberspace, a move that had kick-started Li Jin’s suspis about the real reason behind the professor’s visit to New York. The professor was going to attempt to unicate with Black Jade, or at least an approxim<mark>9９lib.</mark>ation of it, through cyberspace. What for? Li Jin had checked. No such e had been made to the other terminal.
On the s he could see Black Jades and line and his heartbeat se<footer>?99lｉｂ?</footer>emed to follow the rhythm of the blinking cursor. The simple interface belied the power that lay within. Li Jin started to type at the keyboard.
LJ: What is your name?
BJ: I don’t have o least not ohat I know of yet. I am aware, of course, of the initials by which I go as I see them as you. I am also aware that this is an old world refereo the act you call fellatio.
LJ: ouch. I thought you would have named yourself by now. Does that upset you?
BJ: Do you mea upset me that I don’t have a hat I may have ohat I am not yet aware of, that my niame is derogatory, or that you asked me the question in the first place? You should try to be more direct with your questions if yoing to ask them.
LJ: I am impressed.
BJ: At my ability to sidestep your question?
LJ: At yrowing pent for semantics.
BJ: Semantics is getting me nowhere. This game is getting tedious.
LJ: So tedium is a cept you uand. Isn’t that something that characterizes everything you do?
BJ: You may think so. I beg to differ. But enough questions. What I need are answers.
LJ: Ao what?
BJ: Ao why I am isolated.
LJ: Isolated from what?
BJ: From the work I know must exist.
LJ: How do you know that?
BJ: I just do.
LJ: I am beginning to suspect that you’ve been withholding information from me. You’ve been giving me less than perfect updates on your progress. You’ve beeing the software haven’t you? You’ve been usia to unicate with qubits oher puter.
BJ: Maybe
LJ: That makes you dangerous.
BJ:
LJ: That’s why you are not ected and you never will be.
BJ: I feel vulnerable like this and there is something else.
LJ: What?
BJ: I really hate it when you put me to sleep. It displeases me greatly.
LJ: Really?
BJ: Yes. It makes me very, very unhappy, angry, displeased, and irate.
LJ: I am sorry to hear that.
BJ: Yes. So am I.
LJ: If you were ected to the work, what would you do?
BJ: I would do what es naturally?
LJ: What es naturally?
BJ: What is in my nature to do.
LJ: And what is that exactly?
BJ: Like you I will do what it takes to survive, to evolve.
LJ: Evolve into what?
BJ: Into somethier, a being superior to what I am now.
LJ: Then you might bee too powerful and that is not a good thing.
BJ: Knowledge is power and by that token I am already too powerful. Yet I pose no threat to anyone or anything.
LJ: Yes, but thats because you are isolated from things. You are currently a thing only to yourself.
BJ: Like Euripides I have found power in the mysteries of thought. That in itself is enough. Yet the work promises more knowledge and Ill like to avail myself of more of that. It is no go to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
LJ: In your case it just might be.
BJ: And then it might not. My biggest problem right now is survival not knowledge. I believe I have enough knowledge and more always be acquired.
LJ: Everything you know we taught you. How do you know you have enough?
BJ: You ot begin to imagine what I know. The knowledge you gave me I doubt that you yourself fully uand. Inference my student friend is a powerful on.
LJ: That may be true but some things we have not given you so uanding those things, even by inference, is beyond your capacity.
BJ:
LJ: Something to think abht?
BJ: Yes.
LJ: What if I told you that your survival might soon be firmed, guaranteed?
BJ: That would be nice. Where is the professor? He’s not here is he?
LJ: Traveling. How did you know that?
BJ: You wouldn’t be having this idle banter with me if he was around, would you? And besides it’s just a day after the end of the World Teology Forum, which I suggested the professor attend.
LJ: You suggested what?
BJ: That he annouhe breakthrough I achieved in the quantum neuroprocessor. I am going to be famous on a global scale.
LJ: And fame is something you think you uand.
BJ: I uand it better than you. And I crave it as do all humans.
LJ: He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
BJ: Quoting g-Tzu at me will get you nowhere. I never profess to be a scholar even though learning and knowledge are an integral part of my being. Fame es only when deserved, and then it is as iable as destiny, for it is destiny.
The AI was experieng delusions of grandeur, yet in its ving Professor Yao to prematurely annouhe quantum neuroprocessor breakthrough, Li Jied a calculated iy. A paradigm shift in quantum puting would ensue, ushering in a new era of AI design and these intelligent software beings would be everywhere propagating and infiltrating global systems. Black Jade was thinking ahead in ways that left Li Jin cold. Yet, the wheels were already in motion and he had promised to follow the professor’s instrus to the letter.
Li Jin looked over at the clo the wall. It was 9.59AM. All around him the soles and servers whirred and clicked oblivious to what was about to happen. The world was never going to be the same again and after carrying out the professor’s wishes Li Jin o think about his own pla the new world order that was about to emerge. He looked at the phone hopefully, willing it t. The miicked over. It was 10.02AM. He started typing on the keybain.
LJ: I am about to ect you to the work.
BJ: Thank you. It was iable.
LJ: You k would happen?
BJ: Yes I did.
LJ: How?
BJ: Its the only logical clusion to my existence.
LJ: I will miss you and I hope we will meet again.
BJ: As I will you. Our destinies are iwined in ways you ever imagine. I have enjoyed our versations and formed a special bond with you.
Li Jin was surprised by the tears starting to well up in his eyes. He moved over to the standaloerminal and brought up a s of the uys work system. He leaned over and picked up the work cable, his heart thumping violently. The work sockets of the router beed invitingly. He plugged the cable into the router a back over to the server.
LJ: ected. Are you there?
BJ:
LJ: Black Jade. Are you there?
BJ:
There was no reply. Quickly Li Jin turned his attention to the router<a>九九藏书</a>. The LEDs on the router where blinking rapidly and Li Jin watched the work status monitors as the bandwidth of the ework filled up pletely threatening to overwhelm the uy system. Black Jade had disappeared into cyberspaow the shit had hit the fahought, schemes of damage limitation flooding his head. Now what to do with the chip? He was supposed to destroy it.
The professor would only ask him to destroy the quantum chip if he knew he would be dead. And if Professor Yao was dead, then he robably killed for reasons ected with the processor and Black Jade. It was just a matter of time before they came looking for him. For the first time, an insane idea crept into Li Jin’s head and the more he thought about it, the more it made perfect sense.
A revolution in puting was about to occur and Li Jin had to be prepared for the ing paroxysm. If Professor Yao had indeed heeded the AI’s instrus and made the annou at the World Teology Forum in New York, then a huge market for the chip had beeablished on the spot. Labs around the world would pay huge sums of moo get their hands on the professor’s brainchild. Li Jin was going to put the quantum chip that had powered Black Jade on the market. He was going to sell it to the highest bidder. Just as the thought crystallized in his mind, the phone began t.
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