Impact

Want a beautiful voice? Easy—pay up!

Want to change your appearance? Easy—pay up!

Fortunately, all of this could be used for free within seven days. After seven days, if you did not pay, everything would revert to the default settings.

In response, netizens all said the developer was too shameless.

After experiencing VIP treatment, having it suddenly taken away—how many people could stand that?

But some netizens commented, "Pay? It's impossible for me to pay!"

As the post grew increasingly popular and everyone began heading to work, Coolapk's officials finally discovered this strange pinned post.

In a conference room in an office building, Coolapk's chief executive officer sat with a grim expression, silently listening to the technical staff's report.

"This strange pinned post was discovered and reported by an internal employee when work started this morning. At first, our technical department thought some bored hacker had posted it for fun. But strangely, we discovered that the post was not published through an account. We could not even find any related data for it in the database."

"And... we tested that Intelligent Assistant as well. It can only be described as terrifying. Compared with current Artificial Intelligence like Xiao Ai and Sire, it is on an entirely different level."

After the technician finished speaking, no one spoke for a while. What did Artificial Intelligence represent? Who among those present did not understand?

People said the two keys to opening the next era were Artificial Intelligence and genetic engineering.

Genetic engineering was still somewhat beyond reach, while humanity had in fact only scratched the surface of Artificial Intelligence.

Yet an even more powerful Artificial Intelligence had appeared in a post under their company's platform. It was both an opportunity and a disaster.

How powerful did the computer technology of a team capable of developing Artificial Intelligence have to be? Everyone present could tell simply from the fact that they could not delete the post online.

After a long silence in the conference room, the chief executive officer seated at the head of the table finally spoke.

"Has the technical department tried cracking Intelligent Assistant's installation package?"

Although he knew the chances of cracking it were low, what if?

The moment everyone considered that possibility, they instinctively sat up straighter, their hearts tightening slightly.

"We tried as soon as we obtained Intelligent Assistant. The decompiled results were nothing but gibberish. We also tried attacking Intelligent Assistant's backend, but it uses a completely new encryption method that we have never heard of. We could not find a single vulnerability to exploit. Even more incredible, whenever we attempted to attack Intelligent Assistant, it would issue a voice alert that it was under attack and initiate a series of automatic defensive measures."

"Furthermore, our technical department unanimously suspects that Intelligent Assistant itself has counterattack capabilities, though they appear to have been restricted by its developer."

After hearing the technician's explanation, no one looked pleased. Their company might not compare to the major corporations, but for the entire technical department to gather so little information was truly disappointing.

In fact, they were far from the only company to discover Intelligent Assistant. After Huawei, Xiaomi, and OV learned the news, those major companies all conducted a series of tests on Intelligent Assistant and naturally attempted to crack it during the process.

Huawei office building, President Ren's office.

Yu Chengbei, wearing a grave expression, handed President Ren the report on Intelligent Assistant.

After reading the report, President Ren tiredly rubbed his temples.

Only then did Yu Chengbei speak. "It's truly unbelievable. If our Xiao Yi has the intelligence of a three-year-old, then this Intelligent Assistant has the intelligence of an eighteen-year-old, perhaps even higher."

"Such a powerful Artificial Intelligence does not even need support from an online remote server to make intelligent judgments in most situations. What is more, it takes up extremely little memory."

The elderly man before Yu Chengbei tapped rhythmically on his desk with his fingers, saying nothing.

Then, the elderly man smiled faintly.

"I see from the report that Intelligent Assistant only has an Android Chinese version, correct?"

Yu Chengbei paused. "That's right. There is indeed only an Android Chinese version, and the download link is hosted on Aliyun's free servers."

The elderly man smiled at Yu Chengbei. "Then what are we worried about? Although we do not yet know who the developer is, I believe the company that developed this Intelligent Assistant will emerge before long."

"All we need to do is seek cooperation at the first opportunity and preload Intelligent Assistant onto our phones immediately!"

Yu Chengbei understood the elderly man's meaning at once. Indeed, as long as it had not been developed by foreigners, what was there to worry about?

As for why he was so certain that the company behind Intelligent Assistant would quickly emerge, one could see it from the way Intelligent Assistant charged money for this and that.

"I'll have people keep watch at all times. The moment there is any news, we'll act immediately."

After the elderly man nodded with a smile, Yu Chengbei instantly felt much more at ease and left the elderly man's office.

After Yu Chengbei left, the elderly man pondered for a while, then took out his personal phone and made a call. No one knew whom he called or what he said.

"Yes, that's how it is."

After ending the call, the elderly man walked to the window and looked at the scenery below, unable to stop himself from sighing.

"Our people are striving every moment. Xia Country's rise is just around the corner."

Deep underground in an unknown mountain range in Xia Country lay one of Xia Country's secret research institutes. If outsiders entered this place, they would discover that although the institute was built underground, its interior was brightly lit and filled with a sense of advanced technology.

Within this highly classified research institute, more than a dozen elderly men regarded the Intelligent Assistant displayed on the large screen as a priceless treasure. These elderly men were among Xia Country's foremost computer researchers, and ever since obtaining Intelligent Assistant, they had been exclaiming in amazement nonstop.

Yuan Jingsong looked at the elderly men before him with a bitter smile, afraid that someone might become too excited and suffer an accident. If anything happened to any one of these elderly men, it was not something Yuan Jingsong could bear. To prevent any mishap, Yuan Jingsong had directly ordered the institute's medical staff to stand by behind them at all times.

If an emergency arose, they could begin treatment immediately.

While Yuan Jingsong was lost in thought for that brief moment, someone suddenly patted him on the shoulder.

"Little Yuan, what are you thinking about? Are you getting senile already? You're not even as sharp as this old man. I have a copy of Fundamentals of Computer Science here. Do you want to take a look? I guarantee you won't space out after reading it. Look at me—how spirited I am!"

Yuan Jingsong turned back and looked helplessly at Elder Zhang. He had no idea how many people in the institute Elder Zhang had already given this computer science book, which Elder Zhang had written himself.

"Elder Zhang, please spare me."

Zhang Aiguo adjusted the glasses on his nose and said with a grin, "That's easy. Tell me who developed this Intelligent Assistant, and I'll spare you."

Yuan Jingsong spread his hands. "Elder Zhang, I really don't know that."