Upload Intelligent Assistant 1.0

After installation, nothing changed on the phone's desktop. Normal software leaves an icon on the desktop after installation, but Intelligent Assistant didn't—just that willful.

Well, the truth was Li Zhou simply couldn't find any existing software icons, and the system defaults were too ugly, looking low-end at a glance.

Besides, Intelligent Assistant's powerful voice recognition made desktop icons completely unnecessary.

Before Li Zhou could wait any longer, Intelligent Assistant had already activated automatically and entered self-check mode.

On the screen, Intelligent Assistant rapidly scanned the phone's software and hardware, moving incredibly fast.

In about ten seconds, Intelligent Assistant finished its self-check, and a white egg appeared on the phone screen, accompanied by a very mechanical voice from the phone's speaker.

"Master, your Intelligent Assistant's self-check is complete."

"Intelligent Assistant has detected virus website addresses on the phone. Do you want to delete them?"

Li Zhou's eyes widened. Delete them? No way—what would he use to practice his hand speed in the future?

"No need. Isolate them in virtual space."

"Virus URLs have been isolated. Safe to use."

Li Zhou gently touched the white egg on the screen, and it entered customization mode. Every Intelligent Assistant entered this mode after installation, since no one liked a purely mechanical voice with no emotion.

When Li Zhou touched the egg on the screen, the white egg started bouncing up and down.

"Give your Intelligent Assistant a unique name."

"Nai Yi."

"Set your preferred voice."

"System defaults include three voices: Manly, Loli, and Mature. You can also upload a voice clip to use as the default."

Li Zhou played a child's voice saved on his computer, waiting for Nai Yi to recognize it.

"Nai Yi has automatically recognized the custom voice! Come on, give Nai Yi a beautiful appearance—Nai Yi can't wait to meet Master!"

This time, Li Zhou gave an unbelievable command.

"Nai Yi, based on my short video preferences, auto-generate an appearance."

The next second, a cracking sound came from the egg on the screen, and a virtual little girl about six years old crawled out of the egg, without any sense of dissonance.

The lively, cute little girl had a clean oval face, curved eyebrows, and sparkling eyes, just like a real person.

After stretching, the little girl looked up at Li Zhou with her watery eyes and gave a sweet smile.

"Master, I'm your cute little Nai Yi."

Looking at the vivid image before him, Li Zhou's eyes lit up. The little girl looked a bit like his niece.

"Nai Yi, from now on, call me 'Brother,' not 'Master.'"

The word "Master" felt a bit strange to Li Zhou.

"Mm-hmm, Nai Yi understands, Brother."

"Brother, Nai Yi thinks Brother should go to sleep now—it's already five in the morning (＾Ｕ＾)ノ~ＹＯ."

Little Nai Yi blinked adorably. "And Nai Yi checked for Brother—Brother has a high-speed train home this afternoon."

Li Zhou slapped his forehead. If Nai Yi hadn't reminded him, he'd almost forgotten the 3 PM high-speed train.

But before sleeping, there was one thing to do: grab a free enterprise-level server from Aliyun, free for seven days. Gotta say, free stuff is sweet.

After uploading the restricted-feature Intelligent Assistant installation package to the Aliyun server, Li Zhou posted the download link on Coolapk's forum.

"Shocking! Some indie dev created an AI stronger than Xiao Ai—is this a loss of humanity or..."

Li Zhou looked at his post and nodded with satisfaction.

The uploaded Intelligent Assistant had some features restricted, but it was still powerful.

What restrictions? Free for seven days, then pay to continue—isn't that what the big companies do?

Want a custom voice? No problem! Just pay!

Want a custom appearance? So easy! Just pay!

What? You want to give the custom appearance a pretty skin? What are you waiting for? Just pay!

After doing all this, Li Zhou couldn't help yawning and gently rubbed his tired eyes.

"Nai Yi, keep an eye on the post I just made."

"Okay, Brother, Nai Yi will watch it carefully."

As he fumbled into bed, Li Zhou didn't notice the little Nai Yi in his phone tilting her head in confusion.

"Watch? Like, keep the post from sinking?"

Unfortunately, Li Zhou was already asleep, and no one answered Nai Yi.

At this point, the difference between pseudo-AI and true AI showed.

Pseudo-AI only makes logical judgments based on big data, while true AI can self-judge like a human based on existing conditions.

Even though little Nai Yi had interacted vividly with Li Zhou before, it was all data-driven simulation, like a pre-programmed cartoon, not like true AI with real emotions.

While little Nai Yi was asleep, based on big data, she made a different interpretation of the stare.

She directly bypassed the backend and pinned Li Zhou's post to the top.

At first, the suddenly pinned post didn't have much traction—most people had just woken up around this time.

It wasn't until around eight o'clock that comments under the post started to pick up.

"??? When did the Shock Department sneak into Coolapk?"

"Upstairs, is that the point? The point is it's pinned, okay? A freshly posted thread gets pinned—you know what that means."

"The guy on the second floor has the wrong focus, doesn't he! Look at the title—smarter than Xiao Ai! I, Xiao Ai, refuse to accept this!"

"Haha."

"Ahem, well, out of curiosity, This Young Master clicked the link above, and I have to say, it nearly shocked me to death."

"The guy upstairs is no good—speaking only half the truth. It made me click the link too, and I almost thought my phone was infected."

"???"

"So what's behind the link? Isn't there a single good person to explain?"

"Laughing my ass off—bragging without checking the facts. Better than Xiao Ai? OP must be here for the comedy!"

As time passed, more and more people replied to the post, and many, out of curiosity, clicked the download link.

All the increasing comment notifications on the post were "thoughtfully" blocked by Nai Yi, so as not to disturb her brother's sleep.

Zhang Qiang was one of those who clicked the link. Out of curiosity, he installed the Intelligent Assistant. The reaction of his phone after installing it scared him into thinking it was a virus.

But what happened next shocked him so much his heartbeat raced.

Unbelievable!!!

Zhang Qiang wasn't the only one who discovered this. After feeling the power of the Intelligent Assistant, everyone silently recommended it to friends and family.

But there was one thing that really bothered Zhang Qiang and the others—everything required payment.