"Lark?" Lin Mo repeated the title and thought it was quite interesting:
"It's just a coincidence that you found such a suitable mole at this time? Or is it that you have been eyeing her for a long time. Is there anything special about her that attracts your attention?"
According to his understanding of Knight, if there was nothing special about this female hacker named "Lark", then it would be absolutely impossible for Knight to pay attention to her.
To put it bluntly, if she has no use value at all, who would care what she is called "XX Bird"? Even if she is called "Phoenix" no one will care.
"She is a top hacker, one of the best in the world. She serves in the Intelligence Agency of the New US Federal Government. She also holds another position, that is, as a hacker advisor to the president and works in the White House.
Live." Knight slowly told the other party's basic information.
Lin Mo lowered his head and thought for a while, frowned slightly, and said hesitantly:
"It sounds very ordinary... Isn't this just an ordinary top hacker? I have seen a lot of hackers like this in China before, and no matter how powerful the corporate hacker is, he still has to accept the network
Supervise the supervision of hackers and cannot cross the line."
This is not because he is too arrogant and looks down on others. In this era, Xinmei is no longer as strong as it used to be. The national territory has been divided into several autonomous prefectures. In the past foreign wars, it even lost to
South American Union.
Although New America's national strength has indeed increased a lot since President Miles took office, it is undoubtedly a foolish dream to restore New America to its past transcendent status.
Anyway, in Lin Mo's impression, the official hard power of New America and the United States is far inferior to that of Europe. Now it relies entirely on the support of a large company called Military Technology to have some foundation.
Under this background, it was really hard for him to believe that Xinmei had the foundation to train a world-class hacker.
No matter how awesome it is, can it be better than network surveillance?
"I understand your doubts, but Lark is different. In a sense, she can be called the president's secret weapon..." Knight reminded with a smile.
Lin Mo raised his eyebrows and became a little more interested:
"Tell me more about it."
"You should know about Arasaka Company's Relic project. Its predecessor was also called Soul Killer." Knight asked rhetorically.
Lin Mo nodded: "I know, what next?"
Naturally, he is very familiar with the Soul Killer - the technology developed sixty or seventy years ago by Johnny's girlfriend and now the Old Network entity Ultra, which can instantly kill enemy hackers in cyberspace.
And copy the other party's memory into an imprint, thereby retaining it.
Later, this technology was also acquired by Arasaka Company, and it was continuously developed and improved to become today's Relic project.
Knight said calmly:
"In order to counter and balance the soul killers of Arasaka Company, Military Technology had to develop corresponding technologies. Among the many projects they carried out, there was a project called Little Beidou, which was designed to capture AI and then physically
Weaponization, used to enhance hackers’ capabilities and produce weapons.”
Lin Mo's frown deepened.
Faced with this secret that was obviously beyond the scope of his cognition, he had never heard of it.
And weaponizing AI is a bit too crazy, right?
Although during the period when Arasaka Corporation was developing the "Soul Killer", Buttermos was still alive, the cyber network had not yet been destroyed by the [Data Crash] virus, and everything was prosperous...
But since then, AI has existed. For this new type of consciousness, people were only using it as the "processor" and "housekeeper" of the data fortress. They had not yet been "liberated" and were equivalent to the animals in the zoo.
tiger or lion.
Obviously, capturing AI means treating people as prey... This is undoubtedly dancing on the tiger's teeth.
"Did they succeed in the end?" Lin Mo became increasingly curious.
"They succeeded, but in the end they failed." Knight's tone was slightly sarcastic, seeming to be mocking the researchers' overestimation:
"After all, it was a research project that cost a lot of taxpayers' money. How could it be done without producing a few prototypes? Unfortunately, it was too far away from the mass production stage. Later, due to the outbreak of the Fourth Corporate War, this project was
It’s finally over.”
No wonder I've never heard of these things... Lin Mo nodded clearly.
It cannot be mass-produced. It is just a few prototypes. After all, it is just a stone thrown into the sea and cannot stir up any waves.
"But what does this have to do with the hacker named Lark?" Lin Mo asked.
Knight smiled, changed his posture to a more elegant one, and said in a gentle tone:
"Although the project ultimately failed, those research results will not disappear... I remember that in 2068, Military Technology sent a small group of research teams back to the research and development base. They were indeed very secretive, but they could not escape.
Our eyes."
Lin Mo suddenly became happy and laughed out loud:
"More than fifty years have passed since 1968. What are they still doing here? Is it possible that scientific progress depends on archeology?"
A span of more than fifty years, in the real world, is enough for human society to transform from the industrial age to the information age.
For an antique-level research project like Little Beidou, the military technology actually sent people back to do archeology and collect the "legacy", which really made Lin Mo laugh.
Knight shrugged:
"Who knows, but before the Fourth Corporate War, Xinmei's international status was much higher than it is now. Although it was a research project carried out decades ago, it may have left a lot of useful legacy.
?”
"As for what results they achieved, we don't know. Anyway, what was unfortunate was that this group of researchers had only been here for about a year before the unification war between New America and the United States broke out, and they finally had to withdraw from Night City.
"
This is really a bumpy research project... Lin Mo complained.
These researchers were really unlucky when their research was interrupted twice due to the outbreak of war.
"By the way, since you know the location of the Little Beidou Base, why don't you send someone over to have a look?" Lin Mo suddenly thought of this question.
Since it is a "legacy" that even military technology does not want to let go, there is no reason for Ye's Company to give up these precious research results.
"First of all, as you just said, this is an antique from more than fifty years ago and has no value to our company. Secondly, do you think that from my perspective, I still need this kind of AI weaponization?
Technology?" Knight said calmly.
"Oh, that's really not necessary..." Lin Mo scratched his head and realized that his question was in vain.
You are already an AI, so who cares about this kind of thing that weaponizes AI?
Besides, isn’t this kind of technology that weaponizes AI an insult to AI like Knight?