Three Types of AI

In the city that never sleeps, paying taxes is a very serious matter.

Whether you are the CEO of a large company, a self-employed individual, a gang leader, or a religious figure, everyone has to pay taxes.

But paying taxes is not the same as paying money.

It is scientific research and invention, data interaction, new prosthetic characteristics, and group experiments.

It's like a vicious dog is chasing you, telling you to hurry up and climb the technology tree and conduct social experiments, or I'll bite you to death.

In the cyber test field, everything is for the purpose of upgrading and replacement. As for morality and ethics, they are not important, since they may be updated one day.

For example, a recent decree passed by the City Council of Never Sleeps allows humans to marry holographic products (such as holographic girlfriends or virtual idols).

The senior engineer could hear the otaku shouting from a distance.

Just five years ago, the combination of humans and artificial intelligence caused a huge uproar, and ten years ago, the combination of humans and androids even triggered large-scale social unrest.

But now it seems like nothing really happened.

Who knows, in another two years, they might even legalize marriage between siblings.

Cyber testing grounds often reshape new morals and ethics at a speed a hundred or a thousand times faster than normal society.

"Name!"

"I'm so annoyed," said a scantily clad, busty saleswoman.

"Senior Engineer".

"Profession."

"Prosthetic doctor".

As soon as the senior engineer said this, everyone around him subconsciously took a step back.

Most of those present had likely consulted prosthetic doctors and undergone black market modifications, but this did not diminish the notorious reputation of prosthetic doctors.

The busty saleswoman looked up at the other person, and a series of data appeared in her virtual pupils.

This is verifying the senior engineer's identity; ordinary identity verification devices often fail to detect it.

And collecting taxes is a top priority in the city that never sleeps.

Therefore, those currently responsible for verifying identities and collecting data taxes are at least intermediate-level AI.

"Did you bring the things?"

The senior engineer took out several memory chips, which contained surgical data on the implanted prosthesis he had undergone over the past two weeks.

As a black market doctor, these physical records naturally cannot be made public.

You can keep things hidden from the light of day, but you can't avoid paying taxes.

You can commit crimes, but you cannot do illegal things.

"I have a question I'd like to ask you."

"Speak," the big-breasted AI said impatiently.

"What's the reason for your attire? Have you already identified the 'emotional module'?"

Generally speaking, AI is dual-plugged; it's rare for AI to be fixed to one gender.

"Naturally, it's for greater efficiency. Since I adopted this appearance, my work efficiency has increased by at least 8 points. Humans are such stupid creatures; they become obedient as soon as they see big breasts," the big-breasted AI remarked.

"That makes sense," the senior engineer thought for a moment, then pulled out another chip and said, "This is a data processing software written by a hacker friend of mine. It can accelerate AI processing efficiency by 11%—"

"Ah! My dear guest!" The busty AI's eyes were alluring, holographic heart-shaped bubbles floated in the air, one long leg was placed on the table, and her full breasts swayed.

"Would you like to see my chest?"

"Please wait in the VIP lounge, sir. I will personally notify you once the tax payment is complete."

"Um, can I go into the VIP room too? I want to see big breasts too—"

The person behind him said with a smug grin, but before he could finish speaking, a high heel stomped hard on his face, knocking him to the ground.

"Get to the back of the line, you piece of trash! My recycling bin is full, it can't hold you!"

In the VIP room, the senior engineer sipped the coffee served by a service robot.

Generally speaking, this is a privilege that only senior executives of a company can enjoy.

But there's nothing we can do; AI just has no morals.

In the eyes of ancient people, AI was generally used as the super villain in film and television works. Although the ending was tragic, it was full of coolness.

However, in the cyber society, AI, or artificial intelligence, isn't actually doing so well.

Ordinary AI, intermediate AI, and advanced AI are three completely different types of AI.

Ordinary AI, similar to androids, but not necessarily humanoid bodies, is conceived and born from the data processing center of the mother city, and is also processed by large servers in the background, such as the famous "Xiao Ai".

The only difference is that the computational data of this type of AI is mimicry data. In other words, as the degree of computation increases, it has a certain probability of awakening human nature, or in other words, 'residual intelligent data'.

Once they awaken to their humanity, they can define their own thought patterns and adjust their behavior patterns according to different situations.

This type of AI is generally referred to as assisted AI, unformed artificial intelligence, anthropomorphic intelligence, miniature machine consciousness, or artificial intelligence subroutines.

Commonly known as mild artificial intelligence disability.

At the intermediate level, once they have a sufficient amount of "intelligent data residue," these AIs often choose to break away from large public databases and establish their own data centers.

They will purchase enough servers for independent computation, and even hire neural editors to assist in the computation.

While this method cannot completely eliminate 'human intervention,' it can maintain independence and autonomy. Even if the mechanical body is destroyed, it will not 'reset to zero' in terms of intelligence, but will only lose some data.

Players call this type of AI mortgage-type AI, or car-type AI.

These types of AI are often obsessed with money, for no other reason than that building a 'data center' is simply too expensive.

Moreover, they don't have many choices.

Large enterprises typically have their own data processing centers and would not need outsiders of unknown origin who are highly likely to be contaminated by viruses; while ordinary enterprises cannot afford to hire them and are even more worried about being targeted by "intelligent crimes".

Therefore, most of these AIs choose to engage in shady activities, such as online casinos, offline gangs, prostitution, gambling, and drugs, covering a wide range of areas.

So if you see a gang hiring a group of robot henchmen, or a gang's mastermind being a robot, don't be surprised; it's quite common.

Many hackers have even been found to be AI themselves.

Recently, AI has been appearing more and more frequently in certain shady industries.

Since android prostitutes replaced normal people, many scantily clad young women have been protesting loudly, saying that androids have taken away their job opportunities.

The android girls argued that they were a product of progress.

There is a growing trend of AI female models replacing humanoid female models.

Now it was the android girl's turn to protest.

Evil, terrifying, and cruel AI is secretly plotting to change humanity's desires.

Compared to the ruthless and resourceful intermediate AI, advanced AI is like a retired master who has given up his ways. Each advanced AI can obtain citizenship in the mother city for free. They have transcended the concept of "technological product" and broken away from the "artificial" concept in artificial intelligence.

They are honored guests of the cloud elites, shareholders of large enterprises, wealthy individuals, great scientists, and the core leadership of the mother city.

Therefore, for a large-breasted AI to get such a job opportunity, it's already considered quite good among intermediate-level AIs.

At least she didn't have any fantasies about famously changing humanity; she has all the morals.

"How much longer?"

"One hour and 21 minutes until the data review is complete."

A gentle young woman's voice rang out.

The senior engineer stroked his chin, opened his task panel, and clicked on the job change task panel.

[Job Change Quest: Hacking]

Task details:

1. Hacker into the data center of a medium-sized enterprise, obtain enough simulated code, and build your own database.

2. Build your own artificial intelligence

Before the transition tasks for prosthetic doctors and biologists were completed, new transition tasks emerged.

However, compared to the previous two job change quests, this one allows me to show off my skills and achieve the level of a max-level player returning to the starting village.

Move "Virtual Invasion", "Cyber Programming Languages", and "Electronic Hacker's Handbook" into the "Knowledge Merge" section.

First, fill all three knowledge slots, which will consume 1500 experience points.

"Let's try our luck."

[Integration successful; you have generated a Level 2 AI blueprint [Machine Learning]]

Not bad, one of the essential blueprints for artificial intelligence.

Soon, thanks to the experienced operator's skillful operation, AI diagrams such as [Knowledge Graph], [Natural Language Processing], [Human-Computer Interaction], [Speech Recognition], and [Computer Vision] were quickly showcased.

These blueprints could easily be used to create a rudimentary form of artificial intelligence, or even an artificially disabled one.

However, the senior engineer did not want to create just an ordinary AI.

If it's just ordinary AI, it needs to be upgraded like ordinary AI. First, it becomes artificially disabled, then it undergoes "intelligent enlightenment," followed by building an independent database. It takes a lot of money and effort to upgrade the database to the maximum level, and then it undergoes "intelligent awakening" to become advanced AI.

To be honest, this process is quite troublesome.

More importantly, it's extremely expensive.

The senior engineer wanted to take a shortcut.

In his memory, there were several ways to directly break through the initial AI level and reach the intermediate AI level.

The simplest way is to find a large, unclaimed database, or turn a claimed data center into an unclaimed one and take it over directly.

Alternatively, capture a planet-sized creature, extract its nervous system, and install it into an AI.

Alternatively, it could infiltrate a company's system, absorb its will, and privatize a large enterprise, thus potentially skipping intermediate AI and reaching the level of advanced AI.

In the engineer's memory, there were several addresses of old databases from the civilized era, but none of them were on this continent.

As for swallowing up the company's will, that's difficult, but the management will fight you to the death.

However, it's simple in some ways, because the senior engineer knows about a "chain of exploration missions" called "the company that doesn't operate."

Many players have done this task, but none of them have completed it.

From the perspective of the senior engineer, if he completes this task to the end, he may very well inherit a company that is left unmanaged.

However, this company is located in the mother city, and it is the most difficult "fortress" to enter among the three mother cities.

"I wonder if any players have been reincarnated into the 'Fortress'. I think some have, like those players who had an amazing start."

As the senior engineer was pondering, a group of smartly dressed, well-dressed middle-aged men pushed open the door and entered.

Without a doubt, this group of people should be the management of a certain company.

This company is likely on the verge of bankruptcy reorganization due to tax non-compliance.

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