Artificial Intelligence Prototype

Seeing Felicity like this, Zhang Tianran immediately understood what had happened and quickly explained,

"There are a lot of program packages I wrote myself in there. It's normal that you can't understand them. Let me introduce the modules and functions first."

Over the following hours, Zhang Tianran gave Felicity a detailed explanation of his modules and the problems he had encountered so far.

After taking a look around Zhang Tianran's laboratory, Caitlin left. There was nothing here that particularly delighted her.

She had only come to satisfy her curiosity.

Cisco had originally felt the same way, but he was eventually drawn in by Zhang Tianran's Freeze Bomb and worked hard to help test it.

Gideon's code contained plenty of programming that was far beyond this era. Zhang Tianran hadn't copied it directly, but had instead reprogrammed it himself.

It was only natural that Felicity couldn't understand it. After all, this was a program package created by Zhang Tianran himself. It wasn't even a programming language, so how could she possibly understand it?

Though it was difficult, Felicity still came to understand Zhang Tianran's current progress and the difficulties he had encountered under his explanation.

"Dr. Zhang, you're trying to create a system entirely your own. But wouldn't a supercomputer like this be incompatible with the software on the market? After all, you can't possibly write every piece of software yourself, unless you have a team as well..." Felicity couldn't quite understand Zhang Tianran's approach.

When some hackers were beginners, they often wrote programming languages exclusive to themselves. But when they tried to use them, they ran into problems.

"Felicity, you still don't understand. Once my program is complete, compatibility won't be an issue," Zhang Tianran answered.

So-called artificial intelligence was essentially software capable of learning on its own. The underlying code wasn't important. The true difficulty was giving it the ability to learn and make judgments independently.

Of course, there was also the time needed for it to learn. But Zhang Tianran didn't care about that. To a speedster, time was nothing.

Felicity stayed busy with Zhang Tianran until the early hours of the morning. In the end, she could no longer fight off her exhaustion and fell asleep in the medical room at S.T.A.R. Labs.

In truth, Felicity often stayed up late. She carried out operations with Green Arrow almost every night, then still had to work during the day. Her energy was exceptionally abundant.

But no matter how energetic she was, she was still an ordinary human. Under such intense studying and thinking, she would soon be unable to hold on.

Even a speedster like Zhang Tianran needed to rest his brain from time to time.

The next day, Felicity, yawning with a cup of coffee in hand, went with Barry to see Oliver Queen.

Barry learned the name of the red-eyed metahuman they had encountered not long ago from Oliver Queen.

"Where did you get that name?" Barry suddenly realized something and asked worriedly, "You didn't kill him, did you?"

Oliver Queen glanced at Barry without saying anything. Barry also realized that the other man seemed to have stopped killing people now.

"I'll help you resolve this as soon as possible," Oliver Queen said. He didn't particularly want to get involved in Central City's affairs.

Besides, his identity had been exposed too quickly, and so many uncertain factors had suddenly appeared. Oliver Queen was worried that something might go wrong. He didn't trust unfamiliar people that easily.

Zhang Tianran didn't go to see Oliver Queen. He wasn't interested in heroes like Green Arrow, who relied purely on skill.

What's more, thanks to Felicity's help last night, Zhang Tianran had already gained a clear direction. With super-intelligence and super-speed, he rapidly wrote code at a pace his computer could barely keep up with.

Artificial intelligence program completion:

Seventy percent. Although he was still far from his goal, Zhang Tianran began running the program at that moment.

In an instant, more than half of S.T.A.R. Labs' computer resources were occupied. Even so, they could only barely run Zhang Tianran's program.

"Looks like I'll need some hardware if I want to truly complete the artificial intelligence," Zhang Tianran said to the computer, as though he were talking to it.

"Insufficient resources. Information gathering failed. Recommend replacing with stronger hardware or disabling some functions."

With the electronic voice sounding out, Zhang Tianran's artificial intelligence could now barely be put to use. But it had only reached the point where it could run.

"Optimize yourself. Don't come out unless there's something important. First, learn to judge what you should do and when you should do it!" Zhang Tianran said casually, as if he didn't care at all about the result of his hard work over the past several dozen days.

Entering the Time Vault again, Zhang Tianran opened Gideon's core code. He thought for a long time before finally shaking his head.

"Forget it... Take it slowly, one step at a time. If I'm too impatient, mistakes will be easy to make."

Letting out a long breath, Zhang Tianran shut down Gideon. Replicating a Gideon should not have been a problem, but that wasn't what Zhang Tianran wanted.

However, the technology of this era no longer seemed capable of meeting Zhang Tianran's needs.

"Time travel really is tempting." Zhang Tianran gave a bitter smile and turned to leave.

In another room at S.T.A.R. Labs, Wells watched Zhang Tianran on the surveillance feed, his brow furrowing.

The situation had somewhat exceeded his control.

After leaving the Time Vault, Zhang Tianran happened to run into Cisco and Barry testing the Freeze Bomb.

Barry was currently suspended in the air, completely frozen as though time had stopped. Then he suddenly regained his ability to move, but a layer of white frost instantly formed over his body.

"Dr. Zhang, this thing you made is way too powerful!" Cisco had been about to say something to Barry, but when he noticed Zhang Tianran, he immediately reported excitedly.

Barry used his own vibrations to warm his body back up. But the cold feeling from earlier remained fresh in his memory.

"With this, I'll definitely be able to catch the real culprit who killed my mother." Although this thing restricted his speed, Barry was thinking only of clearing his father's name.

"Barry, you were too careless. Under normal circumstances, with your speed, you wouldn't have run into it. The Particle Activity Inhibitor I made isn't as powerful as you think. It takes too long to activate and can only be used for sneak attacks," Zhang Tianran reminded him.

Did he want to use this thing against Reverse-Flash? Unless he intended to go down with him, who would be stupid enough to run straight into it?