18 Chapter 18: Reaction of the outside world

And its main objective is, naturally, to solve the mystery of Baymax's artificial intelligence.

Although Pioneer Corporation continues to claim that Baymax has not yet reached the level of artificial intelligence, for them, if it's a robot that can speak freely, how could it not be a robot?

They've only been developing it for a year and this robot has just been born; if the robot were given a few more years, wouldn't it be a real robot?

They saw Baymax as a threat to their industry.

That's right, all their companies have a unified feature, which is that they specialize in the export of large-scale medical equipment.

Such as CT scanners, MRI machines, angiography machines, echocardiograms, etc., which are common in major hospitals.

It can be said that 90% of the high-end medical equipment in hospitals is imported from them.

Every year, each company earns tens of billions of dollars or more in revenue just from equipment and licensing rights.

But now that a medical robot has taken over the scanning exams they relied on to make a living, how could they not be angry?

Since then, after discussions, several companies, now led by Modis, began to secretly try to solve the mystery of this so-called medical robot.

And it would be even better if they could produce it themselves by reverse engineering.

To this end, they have spent a lot of money to hire many of the best scientists in the industry, in addition to the high-tech talents from their own company, all gathered here.

Everything is to obtain Baymax's medical scanning technology.

Only those who have undergone medical treatment know how powerful Baymax's technology can be for detecting physical illnesses with a single scan.

For them, artificial intelligence is incidental, but it would be better if this could be resolved.

But what disappoints them is that every time Baymax's outer layer is broken, once it detects a brute force attack, it starts to activate the self-destruction program.

Even if they open the outer shell, all that's left is just a pile of burnt screws and a bunch of scrap.

"What should we do now?! Given this progress, I think it will be impossible to solve it in ten or eight years."

On the other side, a woman with long blonde hair couldn't help but ask when she saw the researchers in front of her who had made no progress and had destroyed several samples.

"Give them some time to try to solve it."

"If it really doesn't work, we can only talk to Pioneer Technology."

Regarding the woman's words, the middle-aged man Alex also spoke immediately.

It's the only way, if they don't want to cooperate, sooner or later Baymax will replace all their current medical equipment.

And that means they will all lose hundreds of billions, or even trillions, of dollars every year.

The loss is absolutely unacceptable to them.

"What if they don't agree?" At that moment, Modise also approached, took a glass of red wine, and said with a playful expression.

"Eh, they won't agree? Just offer tens of billions or hundreds of billions, I don't think they can disagree with so much money. Plus, considering the size of our companies, they wouldn't dare to refuse us!"

"Even if it were me, I would accept our investment and control, and then use hundreds of billions to continue developing technology or live a rich life in advance, wouldn't that be good?"

The blonde woman spoke immediately.

"There's no problem in making money, but if someone wants to earn it all alone, then my suggestion is that it would be better to turn to Satan for development."

After the woman finished speaking, another man with a large belly also came out and said with a malicious smile.

As soon as the man finished speaking, everyone present had a tacit understanding; after looking at each other for a moment, they laughed.

At this moment, scenes like those of the representatives of the pharmaceutical companies are unfolding in different parts of the world.

The only difference is the attitude towards pioneering technology.

...

Time passes quickly, a few hours later.

Killian had already left New York's airport and ran straight to his destination, Gebon College.

Soon, Killian arrived at the school's gate.

At that moment, he had learned that the CEO of Pioneer Technology, who had been in the spotlight these last two days, wanted to meet him, and Samuel had already brought Lisa's classmate, waiting at the school's gate.

"Hello, Dr. Samuel Stern, I apologize for this unexpected visit."

After seeing him, Killian also stepped forward, then extended his right hand to shake it and said.

"No, no, I should thank Mr. Killian for his visit, by the way, this isn't the place to talk, please come with me to the café next door to talk."

After seeing how talkative Killian was in front of him, Samuel immediately spoke humbly.

To be honest, his current situation at the school is a bit awkward.

Besides having

some knowledge that he is proud to teach students relevant knowledge, many of his researches are too unconventional for investors to understand or he doesn't have the business knowledge and no one is willing to invest money in his research.

And this also leads to the fact that if he wants to continue with his research, in many cases, besides the weak university subsidies, he has to invest his own money.

But he is just a researcher, to put it bluntly, from when he was born until he graduated and until he works now, he has been in school, and this means he has no other source of income.

Basically, he doesn't even have a house, but lives directly on campus and even lives directly in the laboratory many times.

Today, after learning through his students that the creator of Baymax the Medical Robot, head of the pioneering technology that caused a stir in New York yesterday, wanted to meet him, he changed his look that hadn't changed in half a month.

Just to welcome the opportunities that come his way.

Yes, although he has little contact with society, that doesn't mean he is a fool.

Before this, he could be very sure that the two had no relationship, not even in terms of money.

But now he found him simply because of his professional skills.

So... he had prepared all his research topics long before this, just so he could give him enough explanations and information when he asked.

Of course, Killian knew nothing of this and was still thinking about how to convince him to join on his plan.