Night City was a huge city. It took a long time to drive from Santo Domingo to City Center.
This time, Bryce had brought Lier a lot more substantive knowledge, mainly about AI.
There was almost no systematic material on this information on the Net today. Most of what could be found about AI on the Net was rumor and delusion.
That wasn't to say there were no genuine, useful theories and knowledge in there. It was just that looking for something useful in that environment was like searching a cesspit for a €10 bill that had accidentally fallen in-
There really was money in there, but by the time you fished out that small-denomination bill, you'd be covered in shit.
On the one hand, nobody cared about this. On the other, in this era, almost everyone who had come into contact with rogue AI and survived was with Network Watch.
How many rogue AI were still on the Net was unknown. However, the current situation meant that plenty of people had surely lost their lives without understanding why, simply because they knew nothing about AI.
But then again-
The methods for dealing with AI really were varied and surprising.
The first rule was: whenever possible, never engage an AI in direct combat on the Net, especially the first time you encountered one.
Almost every rogue AI could crush its opponent in such a confrontation. Even Dragon Slayers who specialized in fighting AI wouldn't choose to go all out against an AI they'd just encountered on the Net.
A well-prepared encounter could greatly improve a Dragon Slayer's odds in cyberspace.
And when dealing with AI, the best approach was always to blow up the servers where they stored and processed data, rather than trying to burn them out on the