Everyone present was somewhat surprised, but Shen Bing's mention of an artificial intelligence core did not make much of an impression on them.
The reason was that the concept of artificial intelligence had already been hyped to death.
Any company that popped up claimed to be working on artificial intelligence, making it one of the cheapest marketing gimmicks around.
That concept might fool ordinary people or those outside the field—after all, it sounded impressive—but the people from the Internet Information Office were experts. It would take more than that to surprise them.
"So this Intelligent Core of yours can be used in other fields besides cybersecurity?" Director Zhao asked casually.
The corners of Gao Jingchuan's mouth curled upward, as though he were waiting for a good show.
Experience had proved time and again that anything Shen Bing praised so highly was anything but ordinary. The moment it appeared, it was damn well guaranteed to turn its industry upside down.
Anyone who dared underestimate it would eventually prove himself an idiot. Well, Gao Jingchuan had been that idiot once himself, when the Spirit Vision Telescope caught him out.
Shen Bing said bluntly, "Let me put it this way. Our artificial intelligence core has already developed a preliminary capacity for humanlike thought. Give it a body, and it could become the most intelligent robot in the world today. In terms of intelligence, it would even match a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old."
"Are you sure?" Director Zhao's jaw dropped.
Shen Bing had delivered that sentence very casually, but its implications were anything but ordinary.
Most existing so-called artificial intelligence was based on big data.
Take AlphaGo, for instance. It had reached the pinnacle of the Go world only because countless playing patterns had been fed into it, along with rigorous rules. It then relied