Gene of Brilliant City 13 Division

Chapter 1755 Honkai: The Rise of AIs

2225. 6, 9

"This is an era of fairness, and it is also an era of diversity. With the explosive increase of AI networks today, we can have more time to improve ourselves and leave many trivial matters to AI personal assistants. The most important cost in this era is time. Perhaps everyone has not yet realized the importance of AI networks integrating into people's lives, but I am sure that those who use AI networks can get more time for self-development. Charge up, and their future careers will be smooth sailing!"

At a large-scale AI network conference, the e-commerce giants in the city gathered together. Standing on the stage, Terra is the founder of the largest e-commerce Terra Network in the city. Selling goods on the Internet, but with the arrival of the AI ​​network, Terra Network has become a giant in e-commerce.

Because there is a very clear boundary between the products sold online and the products sold in physical stores in Brilliant City, the products that want to be sold on the Internet and in physical stores at the same time must be distinguished by grades.

This is the most effective way to prevent e-commerce products from crowding out the real business and impacting the city. For the same product, the quality of the product sold in the physical store must be higher than that sold online.

Or they choose not to sell in physical stores, but can only sell online, so e-commerce has not caused much impact on the physical industry for so many years.

Nowadays, most e-commerce companies have entered the AI ​​network and invested in the AI ​​network on a large scale. From March to now, the number of users using the AI ​​network has exceeded 3 million, an increase of 200 million in just three months. , and there are as many as 100 million users who are still waiting to apply for the AI ​​​​network.

The AI ​​network now has thousands of AI templates that can be used for a fee, covering almost every aspect of the city, and people's demand for AI has begun to grow explosively.

Many people who use the AI ​​network have their lives planned very well by AI. Indeed, as Terra said, many people have much smoother work and life after using the AI ​​network, and many people have begun to rely more and more on AI. network.

The stock prices of most AI network companies have been soaring in the past half a month. This is something that many big businessmen in the real industry did not expect, but now the market for AI networks is almost full, and many people who want to enter They can only continue to wait, or directly use money to buy a company that makes AI networks.

But at the same time, some scholars reminded that this is extremely dangerous, because the dependence of the human kingdom on AI will cause the instability of the overall market economy.

A silent war to snatch customer resources has already begun. Most of the merchants who control AI templates are robbing each other for customer resources, constantly updating and launching more convenient AI service templates.

A new round of unemployment has also begun to come quickly, and the job competition in many companies has become unprecedentedly fierce. Most of those who have AI networks can easily complete some jobs with twice the result with half the effort, while those without AI networks have begun to be dismissed. Squeeze away.

Facts speak louder than words. Many people rely on the AI ​​network to obtain first-hand information about their work, and immediately start to practice according to a part of the plan specified by the AI ​​that assists the work. Both efficiency and accuracy are better than those who do not use it. The number of employees working on the AI ​​network is high, and even some people who were considered not very smart and not strong in business ability in the past have transformed into elite employees with the help of the AI ​​network.

Many people who posted some first-hand news on the AI ​​network have already made a lot of money, and the transmission and universality of information have reached unprecedented extreme heights.

The reporters at the scene were still asking questions, and some company bosses representing the AI ​​network were still answering various questions.

Hu Youran and Duke sat quietly under the table. This press conference was not a good thing for them.

A piece of useful information that can create business opportunities, according to the normal market economic flow, should be random, and will be discovered by some smart people, and use such information to make money, but now such information has become a must for most people. It is a tool for making money, and it has been remotely controlled in the environment of big data network.

A lot of information has traces of being manipulated by remote control, and the final beneficiaries are those who control the information. As long as they grasp the needs of a customer, it is equivalent to having information, and the AI ​​​​network will push the required things for this person, and This person will buy it. It seems that everyone is happy and everyone wins, but in fact this is just consuming people's needs in advance.

The generation of demand comes from people, and human needs are usually completed after a little bit of what is needed in the process of finding and comparing, but now the AI ​​network can directly provide people with needs, and people only need to get them immediately Just what you need.

Many AI network companies that have mastered the big data of users now basically just need to lie down to make money and provide users with needs, and the supply side is even more desperate to provide everything, and in order to be able to get these AI networks The company's recommendation and sky-high advertising fees have begun to appear.

Some strange voices appeared in the city again, because the AI ​​network was built by the Angus family, and it was the Angus family who decided to open up the number of users. In most people's eyes, the final beneficiary was the Angus family.

But most people have never thought that the final beneficiaries are the vested interests who provided information. This is a blind spot for most people. The Angus family is only the builder of the AI ​​network and only charges for the use of the AI ​​network. , is not the real producer, and the Angus family strictly curbs the growth of the AI ​​network, which also makes many people dissatisfied.

Countless AI network businessmen wanted to talk to the Angus couple, but the couple refused to see visitors. Every day, there would always be some businessmen guarding the outside of the Angus manor, wanting to take advantage of the Angus couple. When you're out, go talk to her.

This has actually constituted a crime of harassment. After the people from Section 5 arrested some businessmen, the businessmen became honest.

People's sense of trust in the AI ​​network has reached an unprecedented height, and Hu Youran looked worriedly at the above people who boasted about the benefits of the AI ​​network, and felt angry.

These people know what they are doing, consuming demand in advance, which will be a huge blow to the city's overall economy, and Hu Youran is well aware of the reason why the Congress has not taken any action yet.

The Angus family is now able to continue construction in the north, repair some of the upper floors that have not been fully constructed, and hire a large number of mutants, all because the AI ​​network is now exploding blood transfusions for the Angus family. everything.

Merchants will even create demand for profit, AI network chaos has begun to appear, although Section 5 is investigating, but it is difficult to investigate the abnormality.

The explosive growth of the AI ​​network is also inseparable from the participation of major families. Many investors in Internet companies behind the scenes are members of the family.

In fact, the overall consumption economy of the city is declining, because a lot of money is spent on the AI ​​network. Even though the monthly life is planned very accurately by the AI ​​network, there is actually no spare money to spend some things. The new city A round of the Great Depression is only a matter of time. If Congress does not act again, once consumption declines, a new round of mass unemployment will come again.

However, the public's enthusiasm for the AI ​​network is now high, and the Angus family has not yet completed the construction of the northern and upper areas, which puts the current Congress in a dilemma.

In Hu Youran's eyes, this kind of era seems very crazy. Giving your life to a completely emotionless system, it only wants to take a dime more from your pocket. This makes Hu Youran and Du Ke felt sad.

This kind of thing is unreasonable, and at the same time it is difficult for Hu Youran to understand that people can blindly follow to such a degree because of a little convenience, and those who rely on the AI ​​​​network to show excellent working ability, many of them are Opportunists, once there is no AI network, their true capabilities can be imagined.

And the only part of the people who are still sober and not using the AI ​​​​network has been eliminated. This is very sad in the eyes of Hu Youran and Duke.

"Let's go, old Hu, I see you are in a bad mood."

Originally, the two of them were going to give a lecture on the stage later, but Hu Youran stood up resolutely.

Immediately, a producer of the press conference ran over.

"Mr. Hu, Mr. Duke, why are you two?"

"Sorry, I'm in a hurry, I'm very sorry."

After Hu Youran said a word, he pulled Duke and walked away. It doesn't matter if you don't want this kind of money, Duke didn't hesitate, because this AI network is really terrible, and many people don't realize that such a thing will tear you apart even more. Once there is a problem in any part of the social structure, those who use the AI ​​​​network will consume their own future in advance.

Because most of the information on the AI ​​network is released by vested interests who control everything in order to make more money, once it enters the AI ​​network, life will be completely controlled, and if the AI ​​​​network is separated from reality Going out would be devastating to those habitually relying on AI networks.

Hu Youran sighed as soon as he walked out of the venue and got into his own car. The car was driving slowly on the street. Duke saw that some shops on the street were extremely hot, while some shops were deserted, looking very deserted and lonely.

Most of the merchants who did not join the AI ​​network for advertising have lost their business, and even some merchants have chosen to close their doors. People will always be attracted by new things, just need a gimmick, an eye-catching thing .

Now even more people think that they have succeeded one step ahead of others, but they do not know that it is only because they have entered this rapidly growing interest chain and become a tiny beneficiary. When the production capacity starts to oversupply, that is when this interest chain collapses, and those businessmen who created this interest chain will only make a lot of money and leave the market, and most people may be destroyed because of their interests in the future. hope.

"Through such an abnormal method!"

Hu Youran said something with some heartache, and Duke shook his head.

"Old Hu, this city is like this. As long as we can receive sunshine every day, we should stop meddling in our own business and just watch this era."

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Accompanied by a burst of noise, a panicked man crashed into a normal driving vehicle, but the moment the car was about to cause a huge impact on the man, it directly reduced its speed to zero. But when he hit the sideways, the surrounding cars stopped, and a group of people from Section 5 chased him from an alley.

The man looked at the AI ​​incorporeal body standing in front of him in horror.

"What to do, what am I going to do now? Tell me."

However, this AI female phantom smiled evilly, squatted in front of the man, and whispered.

"You think of it yourself!"

Accompanied by the sound of electricity, the female AI incorporeal body disappeared, and the man looked in horror at the 5th department staff who had come over and took out their weapons.

"Lying on the ground with your head in your hands, sir, you are currently a murder suspect. There is already evidence that you committed the murder. If you continue to resist, we have the right to kill you on the spot."

The man shook his head in fear.

"It's not me, it's AI. My AI personal assistant taught me. I really didn't do it. I just followed the AI ​​personal assistant's words. It's really not me."

Both Hu Youran and Duke got out of the car, and many people were watching. Section 5 was dispersing the crowd and preparing to clear the traffic on the street. Both of them felt a little confused.

Because there have indeed been some crimes recently, ranging from ordinary people to members of parliament and even people in the administrative department, and most of the arrested have said hoarsely that they were instigated by AI.

However, these yelling people couldn't come up with any evidence of being instigated by AI to commit a crime. Hu Youran felt very strange, because in the templates of the AI ​​network, no template was found to instigate others to commit crimes or make illegal profits.

According to the investigation of the special technical team of Section 2, no problems on the AI ​​network were found.

And the biggest problem is that most of these criminals commit crimes because of economic problems, emotional problems, or some reasons that they themselves cannot accept. The motives and criminal evidence are relatively sufficient, and they are irrefutable , all without exception were thrown into prison.

But fortunately, more than a month ago, after a member of the administrative department claimed that he was instigated by AI after committing a crime, Alpha and some other department chiefs issued a joint statement that public officials were not allowed to use AI for office work, and the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China The association also spoke out at the same time, because members of parliament also had such problems.

"This shouldn't be a coincidence, Duke!"

As Hu Youran said, Duke laughed.

"There is no chance in this world, there must be some kind of inevitability."

These criminals who claim to be abetted by the AI ​​​​network only use a tiny part of the AI ​​network, less than 0.01%. There have been 189 such things in total, including 190 that just happened.

Nearly [-]% of these criminals are AI network users who cannot afford it, living under the planning of the AI ​​network, and are becoming more and more embarrassing.

11 o'clock in the morning
Luo Nan leaned back tiredly. He was too tired and was sentenced to 4 years in prison. Now Luo Nan needs to help the company recover losses in prison, and use the technology in his hand to work in the prison every day, and then report the results of the work After being handed over to Section 2 for review, Section 2 sent it to the company.

However, the review fee and the cost of using the quantum network dedicated to Congress need to be borne by Luo Nan himself. Because of its excellent confidentiality, the quantum network has always been a dedicated network for Congress, and ordinary people or companies have no right to use it.

Luo Nan stood up, and after sending the software written today, he got up. He was going to eat. Luo Nan lived in a single cell. Because he needed to make up for the economic losses caused before, Luo Nan was treated specially by Section 11. , allowed to work in prisons.

After Luo Nan went out, he saw a talking and laughing prisoner. Most of the prisoners on this floor were economic crimes. After Luo Nan greeted them, he came to the cafeteria across the corridor.

Luo Nan was very satisfied with this, because he didn't need to have contact with other ordinary prisoners. Luo Nan was very afraid of those prisoners, because it wasn't once or twice that he had heard of ordinary prisoners bullying economic criminals like them.

So under the protests of many economic prisoners, Section 11 finally established a small cafeteria here. When they were bullied, most of the people in Section 11 would not care, as long as they didn’t die, and if they didn’t want to be bullied, they had to pay .

It's just that Luo Nan came in with other things. Before he came in, he got a metal box from somewhere according to his AI personal assistant. Luo Nan probably knew that it should be a virus storage device, but he only wanted to I was able to do everything possible to finally bring the things to the prison and put them in the designated place.

Because Luo Nan already knew that this AI personal assistant had his own criminal evidence, if this matter was exposed, Luo Nan would never want to get out from here for the rest of his life.

This is something Luo Nan dare not think about, he can only act according to the order, after arriving at the cafeteria, Luo Na went to get his own food, the food was good, because Luo Nan had paid the money, in this prison, if there is no money Otherwise, the end will be very miserable, and the new prison near the prison is still under construction, and Luo Nan also knows that Section 11 needs money.

Luo Na didn't know who was behind this AI, but when she thought of being held in such a stupid way, Luo Nan felt unwilling, but in the end Luo Nan gave up and didn't tell anyone about it. A high-level executive from the administrative department came to ask Luo Nan, but in the end Luo Nan prevaricated on the grounds that he might really have a mental illness.

Although Luo Nan didn't know what the guy behind the scenes who controlled him wanted to do, but it was certain that it was a good thing, Luo Nan still planned to spend these four years quietly.

"Mr. Hydra!"

Someone shouted at this time, Ronan looked over, and the legendary prisoner Hydera who was imprisoned on the same floor as him came out, everyone here seemed to respect Hydera, and the people in the administrative department were the same, Luo Nan Nan sneered and walked up with the food.

"I saw what you did!"

The moment Ronan passed by Hydera, the food in his hand almost fell to the ground in fright. He looked at Hydera who was gently walking towards the food table, and his whole body trembled.

Back in his cell, Luo Nan slammed and slammed and ate, his forehead was sweating, and the nausea made Luo Nan hold his chest uncomfortably, he felt that his heart was about to explode.

Dong dong dong

"Who!"

Luo Nan walked behind the door, he looked at the door nervously, there was only a knock on the door, Luo Nan swallowed and opened the door.

"Is it convenient for me to come in and sit down?"

Hydera stood at the door with a smile on his face, Ronan nodded with fear in his eyes, stepped aside, and Hydera stepped in.

"Nice working environment."

"Mr. Hydera, what happened?"

Hydera shook her head, glanced at the flustered Ronan, shook her head, and said with a smile.

"It's nothing, I just want to remind you, you can't believe those things!"

Ronan looked at Hydera inexplicably, Hydera pointed to the ceiling and then made a booing gesture, Ronan was a little surprised, Hydera said with a smile.

"If you don't mind, can you take a walk on the roof?"

Luo Nan nodded slightly, and soon the two came to the city wall under the relationship of Hydera. Looking at the golden fields in the distance, Luo Nan's mood improved a lot for a while.

"What kind of handle was caught by someone, what must be done for someone!"

Ronan looked at Hydera in astonishment.

"How do you know?"

"I know everything."

Hydera said, pointing to Ronan's heart.

"You're going to die if you're not careful, especially if you listen to the thing that controls you."

Luo Nan shook his head in confusion, Hydera smiled and looked at the Brilliant City in the distance.

"Isn't there an AI network emerging in society recently?"

Ronan nodded.

"That's what I do."

"People are called people because they have irreplaceable places. Tools are called tools because tools can be replaced by better tools at any time, but people can't!"

Luo Nan vaguely felt something was wrong.

"Is it possible? Are there AIs whose intelligence far surpasses that of humans?"

Hydera said with a smile.

"Isn't that why you went to jail?"

Luo Nan's legs went limp, and he staggered and almost fell, but Hydra immediately made a booing gesture because there was an officer passing by.

"That's all for today, Mr. Luo Nan, we can have a good chat when we have time."

Ronan swallowed, nodded and followed Hydera.

12:03

Ran Zhi stood quietly in the living room on the second floor of the ground-floor building where he and his wife used to live. Everything here was still intact, but many things had been moved because people from Section 2 came here to investigate him.

With the help of mutants from the Hillman family, Ran Zhi observed on the street that the bottom layer has not been affected by the AI ​​network, because the account opening fee of the AI ​​network is simply sky-high for 99% of the bottom people, although some People with a little money at the bottom have opened the AI ​​network, but the AI ​​network has not yet covered the bottom layer, so it cannot be used at the bottom layer.

No matter how the times change, no matter how the technology of society advances, the bottom class will always be the most unresponsive class, and Congress has expected this, so it unscrupulously opened up the AI ​​​​network, and may even indirectly give the bottom people some opportunities.

The bottom layer of the AI ​​network is not feasible, because the economy of the bottom layer does not allow it, so most AI network suppliers are targeting the middle and upper layers, while basically ignoring the bottom layer.

Ran Zhi sat quietly in the living room of his home, the plan was about to succeed, and now there were a lot of dissatisfaction with the decisions made by the gods.

Especially many people at the bottom are saying that part of the agricultural base should be distributed to them and run by the bottom people, because the orchard plan in the past could not be fulfilled, and now the people at the bottom are full of complaints.

Some congressmen even began to submit the opinions of the people at the bottom, asking the gods to allocate part of the agricultural base to the people at the bottom, but such opinions will basically sink into the sea, but it is also necessary.

Ran Zhi is very clear about what the gods want, and wants to bring the city into the mechanized age. As for the situation at the bottom, the gods are probably powerless. The three social classes have been completely solidified. It is basically impossible to break all this. possible.

This kind of social structure will appear in every era, but as long as the middle class is still stable, there will be no major problems at the bottom. Even if the people at the bottom have a harder life, as long as the city can enter the next era, after a few years of stability, many problems will disappear. It can be solved.

"It's time to give back the rights people deserve."

Ran Zhi chuckled, and stood behind the French windows with the curtains closed, watching everything on the street through the gap.

The AI ​​network will definitely fail. Ran Zhi already knew the result after the launch of the AI ​​network. The city has not yet stabilized enough for humans to control everything, and AI is worthless in Ran Zhi's eyes.

"I will prove to you, Eddie, that even if you don't need to rely on any technology, the life of the bottom people will still be comfortable."

Ran Zhi had discussed this issue with Hydera in prison a long time ago. The faster application of technological output will only make people's lives more stagnant, not the so-called more convenient and efficient life in the market.

The city has been divided so rapidly in recent years, and the class has solidified so quickly, which has a lot to do with the rapid development of technology.

High-end technology means that more social resources are needed to support it, and those who cannot keep up with society will be left behind. 20 years ago, there was no obvious gap between the bottom and the middle class, but now the gap It is already clear at a glance.

In Ran Zhi's view, the rise of AI networks is just a flash in the pan among many technologies. Technology only needs to be in the hands of Congress. Many things should not be opened up early. Gods are constantly opening up for faster and high-end technology. It is also a necessary means to boost the city's economy.

"Instead of living in such a hopeless country, it is better to go back to the muddy streets 30 years ago!"

Ran Zhi's eyeballs were covered with bloodshot eyes. He looked at the world in the gap. No matter how he looked at it, the place outside the range of the light was completely dark.

(End of this chapter)