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"Testing doesn't start until noon, and it's only ten now. The wait's making me so anxious."
"For this test I've already downloaded the installer ahead of time. I'll absolutely download and register the very second the software drops!"
"Isn't it just a translation software? What's there to look forward to? Aside from doing English homework, it's a thing you'd use most of the time for nothing. Way less interesting than that software from before that could auto-edit photos."
"I've got a feeling. After the colorists, this time it's the translators who are going to be in for it."
In the comments beneath Prism AI's announcement teasing Argus Translate's test launch, tens of thousands of comments had already piled up, all of them discussions about Argus Translate.
Some anticipating, some indifferent, a lively scene all around.
After Argus Image had caused its sensation, Prism AI was no longer the little nobody it had once been online. Its follower count had now reached the level of millions.
Online, it was already one of the most influential AI companies there was.
At the research center, testing proceeded according to plan, set to begin at noon today, everyone keeping watch at their workstations in orderly fashion.
The installer had long since been uploaded to all the major app platforms, with multiple download channels, and could be installed before the open test.
Everyone was brimming with confidence for this test.
Time slowly reached noon.
"New account registrations have topped a hundred thousand!"
"Account registrations have topped two hundred thousand!"
"Word count translated has now broken a million, with no errors."
The monitoring personnel in the backend kept relaying good news, letting Castellano, keeping watch here, set his heart completely at ease.
A certain university dorm.
"It's almost noon, Danny-son." A roommate's reminder brought Danny Price back to himself.
He'd been scrolling through the video site, and immediately exited, opening the Argus Translate already installed on his phone.
"Damn it. Last time I didn't snag an account for Argus Image. This time I can't fail to get one again!"
After a stretch of initialization, the software entered the login and registration page just as he'd wished.
If you'd already registered in Argus Image, you could log in directly with that account. If you didn't have an Argus Image account, you needed to register a separate one.
"Isn't it just a translation software? You don't even use it normally, so what are you being so earnest about?" his roommate Trey shook his head, not understanding his behavior.
"Heh heh!" Danny Price rapidly filled in his own phone number on the registration info. "What do you know? This is Prism's latest product. As long as I snag an account, not only can I rent it out to others, I can also make a review video, and set foot on the road of becoming an uploader from here on."
What he was referring to was exactly the situation with Argus Image earlier.
After some people snagged an Argus Image test account, they didn't use it themselves and instead rented it out to others to experience or use, and could actually earn a bit of pocket money doing it.
And there were also people who posted experience videos and impressions of Argus Image, garnering enormous attention.
Even the originally frigid pastime of art-drawing livestreams had become popular because of Argus Image, with many viewers extremely curious just watching an uploader use AI to assist with drawing and coloring.
Danny Price quickly filled in all the information and submitted it.
His luck was good. This time he really did snag an account.
"Nice! Heaven really does love me after all, letting me snag an account!" Danny Price was greatly encouraged.
However...
"Danny-son, it seems like this test never had an account limit in the first place." Trey said from his own bed.
"I looked at the announcement Prism released earlier, and I couldn't find anywhere saying there'd be a limit on test accounts. Plus I registered successfully with no trouble too."
Um...
Danny Price was instantly petrified.
So this time he'd gotten worked up over nothing?
Danny Price shot Trey a glare. You've really got a talent for stirring things up.
Would it kill you to say less?
He turned his gaze back to his phone and quickly familiarized himself with the software's basic functions.
Nothing more than text translation, image translation, and voice translation.
He casually snapped a photo of his own bedsheet, wanting to see what words it could recognize.
"No valid words found."
A line of prompt appeared on the screen at once.
"Oh, pretty clever!"
Danny Price looked left and right, and finally dug out his English exam vocabulary review book from the desk by the bed.
He opened to one page, the words on it written in a wild, flying scrawl, crooked and slanting, looking for all the world like a horrific car crash had taken place.
Click.
Photo taken and uploaded.
In under a second, the result had already come back to his phone.
The words he'd written in the vocabulary book had all been recognized, and the meanings were marked in their original positions on the picture.
Of course, some of these words were written too unrestrainedly. A few even a human couldn't make out, so the AI could do nothing with those either.
For these recognition results in doubt, Argus gave multiple answers based on likelihood, along with the words for comparison.
If these words had appeared within a sentence, Argus could even directly guess their meaning based on the logical relationships in the sentence.
"This translation software feels so powerful!"
After one simple round of testing, this was Danny Price's most direct impression.
He didn't understand the technical principles, hadn't compared it with other translation software, and couldn't articulate exactly where it was powerful.
But he just felt this translation software was strong, stronger than any he'd used before.
"But just like this, it still feels a bit lacking for making a popular video..."
Danny Price looked at the software interface on his phone and sank into deep thought.
He'd already experienced the software's image translation function now, and text translation was an old function with nothing novel about it, so that left only voice translation.
At this point, his roommate Trey had already lost interest in the Argus Translate on his own phone. He felt there was nothing fun about this software, and turned instead to the video site to scroll through the remix meme videos he was interested in.
Listening to the sounds of the remix videos, a good idea suddenly popped into Danny Price's head.
It seemed the voice translation function was something he could work with?
What would happen if AI translation ran into a famous remix song from the video site?
Speaking of famous remix songs on the video site, there was one hurdle no one could get past.
The moment its intro sounded, everyone who'd heard it would automatically fill in the rest of it in their heads.
And this song just so happened to be in English.
The instant this thought struck, Danny Price immediately opened the video site and searched for that song.
The next moment, the remix sounds came through.
Hello.
Thank you.
Broken English, remix lyrics, a demonic rhythm.
No good, no good, the flavor was too overpowering.
But Danny Price only grew more excited the more he watched.
"This idea is definitely going to blow up."
"Trey-son, you really are my lucky star!"
Trey: "??? You're out of your mind."
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