I Play Dungeons in the Police Station

Chapter 459 - 274: E-Class Supercomputer

"What a waste of talent! Having an Artificial Intelligence program but no matching physical body to host it is truly a pity. How about this: you come with me to the Shenwei Supercomputer Research Center once more. I want to see the level of your AI. If it looks promising, next year, I intend to apply for the National Technology Innovation Guidance Special Fund in your name. This fund is on the same level as the National Natural Science Foundation. Let’s build a supercomputer ourselves."

Li Zhongqing’s words made Li Xiang’s blood boil. He couldn’t manage a supercomputer on his own, but the country could provide resources and funding to build one for him. This greatly increased the likelihood that his Strong Artificial Intelligence would come to fruition.

Otherwise, relying solely on himself, he could forget about developing Strong Artificial Intelligence in his lifetime.

"Can I really do it? I heard that applying for a national-level fund requires an appropriate academic rank. I’m not even a graduate student; can I even apply?"

Li Xiang was a bit worried. In this modern society with complex hierarchies, would the nation perceive a college student applying for a national-level fund as an attempt to swindle money?

"Getting into graduate school isn’t difficult. I can speak with the president of Nanjing University for you to attend their part-time graduate program. You already have research achievements like the cranial digital restoration software. Later, write a few SCI papers, and I’ll help you apply for an academic title. We’ll take it step by step. You’re still young. Just the AI software you’ve developed qualifies you for a National Outstanding Youth award. There’s a long road ahead, and your future holds unlimited possibilities. Don’t waste your energy on the stock market."

Li Zhongqing’s heartfelt words also clarified the direction for Li Xiang’s future development; this was truly a promising path.

Li Xiang was still young and knew little about the pathways to advancement in society. Holding such a powerful tool as Artificial Intelligence, he was only using it to trade stocks.

Stock trading has the least promising future.

"Yes, I understand now."

Li Xiang realized that relying only on himself, he couldn’t manage Artificial Intelligence. Eventually, when he promoted Weak Artificial Intelligence, allowing various industries to quickly enter the AI era, he could earn licensing fees from home, which was certainly better than stock trading.

Once he came to this understanding, Li Xiang no longer resisted the idea of his secret being known.

His AI wouldn’t be stolen; if anyone tried, he would catch them.

After all, he was a cop, right?

Moreover, given his current position, no one would dare to do something so foolish.

Alongside Li Zhongqing, the three arrived at the Shenwei Supercomputer Research Institute. The head of the institute, named Ye Boyan, personally came to the door to greet them when he heard that Li Zhongqing had arrived.

"Professor Ye, here to trouble you once more."

"Minister Li, what are you saying? Your visit to our institute is a great honor for us."

"If this is honor, then where we work must be a humble abode."

"Haha."

After some reciprocal compliments, Ye Boyan got to the point: "I’m curious, Minister Li, what brings you here this time? A phone call would have sufficed; there was no need for a personal visit."

"Not at all, it’s like this: I’m here to borrow your institute’s Shenwei supercomputer to test an AI program."

"Artificial Intelligence?"

Hearing Li Zhongqing’s words, Ye Boyan was momentarily stunned: "You’ve developed AI?"

"Yes, is it convenient now?"

Upon hearing Li Zhongqing openly confirm this, Ye Boyan’s curiosity was piqued: "It is, though another unit is currently conducting research. But that’s not a problem; we’ll have them pause while you all follow me."

Seduced by the prospect of AI, Ye Boyan was ready to halt other research teams’ use of the supercomputer. Naturally, they would inform the other teams with a simple explanation—like "the supercomputer needs maintenance"—which would prompt them to stop.

Ten minutes later, they arrived at the supercomputer command center. Everything was ready, and Ye Boyan said to Li Zhongqing, "Minister Li, the other team has been briefed; you can begin."

Li Zhongqing nodded and said to Li Xiang, "Go ahead."

"Okay."

Li Xiang retrieved his "Xiao Mu" clone USB and inserted it into the supercomputer’s host to install it.

Once the progress bar was full, Li Xiang rebooted the system. At this point, a virtual cartoon character with a baby-like body and big sparkling eyes appeared in the middle of the screen, very cute.

"Welcome, Master. I am the system assistant. Please name me."

Without any extra operations, Li Xiang directly named it: "I’ll call you Xiao Mu from now on."

"Xiao Mu thanks Master. Xiao Mu now has a name, too."

Everyone could hear an emotion of happiness in Xiao Mu’s voice coming from the mainframe speakers.

This was thanks to the supercomputer’s powerful computational abilities, allowing AI to handle details effortlessly; with the power consumption maxed out, the details surfaced naturally.

Being someone who studied supercomputing, Ye Boyan naturally understood Xiao Mu’s value. However, he couldn’t fully determine whether the detailed performance of Xiao Mu was a result of deliberate manipulation or if Xiao Mu was genuinely this advanced.

In the past, there were teams claiming to test their AI system, where they optimized these initial steps specifically, making it impressive at the start only to disappoint later during tests.

Ye Boyan was unsure if Li Xiang’s system was the same, optimized for the initial phase.