Chapter 1

Two hours ago, "You, this artificial intelligence A1, are a bit silly," said someone from the Network Technology Section under the Donghai City National Security Bureau!

A stubble-faced man with thick round glasses swiped his mouse, meticulously checking line after line of code on Lin Xian's laptop. "What do you need this thing for? You can download an open-source AI online, or even one that can run on your phone, and it would be a hundred times smarter than this!"

Two hours ago, after failing to resurrect vv in the wilderness, Lin Xian decided to seek help from a professional.

One of his teammates from the World Hacker Competition in the United States was a domestic AI expert who belonged to a division under the National Security Bureau and usually worked at the branch in Donghai!

So Lin Xian contacted him directly and came to the branch, asking him to take a look and see what the problem was with vv!

As a result, the stubble-faced man frowned more and more as he opened vv's code: "This AI is too stupid. How should I put it? It's like a college student's homework. Although the logic is generally okay, it's almost non-functional." Very silly!

Regarding vv's code, this stubble-faced man used the word "silly" several times in a row, which surprised Lin Xian: "Very silly? I always thought this AI code was very advanced!"

vv's original code was memorized by Lin Xian character by character from the Third Dream, the culmination of centuries of wisdom from the world's top scientists. How could it have no merit in the stubble-faced man's eyes? "How silly specifically?"

Lin Xian continued to ask, "Is it like Tmall Genie?"

The stubble-faced man shook his head: "It's much sillier than Tmall Genie. At least Tmall Genie has no problem with normal communication. You can ask it to sing a song, set an alarm, or look up information, and it can understand and respond!"

"But look at your AI. You have to talk to it like a robot. If you miss a word or speak too fast, it won't understand!" As he said this, the stubble-faced man shouted at the laptop: "Play a song at random!" "Sorry!" The laptop emitted an emotionless, mechanical voice: "Could not find a song titled 'At Random'!"

The stubble-faced man was amused and turned to Lin Xian, shrugging his hands: "See how annoying this thing is? What does it have to compare with Tmall Genie? It has absolutely no logic. Where did you find this thing?"

"Uh, a classmate gave it to me!"

Lin Xian made up a reason. "Is there any reason why an originally very smart and intelligent AI would become such an idiot?"

"That's impossible!" The stubble-faced man shook his head: "Computer programs either never change, or they get better and better. How can they get dumber without you touching them?"

"I've looked at the source code of your AI, and it really has no merit at all. There's not even any room for modification. It's the ultimate compilation of 'shit mountain code'!"

"Do you know what 'shit mountain code' means? It's a huge pile of messy, roundabout, meaningless, and even buggy code that somehow manages to run! In this case, you'd better not touch a single letter. Slightly changing any symbol might crash the program!"

Lin Xian straightened up, looking helplessly at the laptop, still wanting to salvage it: "According to you, this AI is completely hopeless. But this thing is very important to me. Even if it's very stupid, I can't bear to get rid of it."