In the afternoon, next to the Binhai University subway station, a dusty young man broke into a ramen restaurant with a trolley suitcase.

"Boss, let's have beef ramen!" "Okay, a bowl of beef noodles!" Hearing the familiar smell, Delan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and the corners of his mouth curled, it was finally a real restaurant. After eating "fully automatic" fried chicken and "fully automatic" hamburgers abroad for more than half a year, the first thing he did when he returned to China was to awaken the numb taste buds on his tongue with a meal of handmade ramen. As a prospective engineer specializing in the field of artificial intelligence, he thinks that the restaurant alliance that has swept the American continent is a joke, and that the use of intelligent machinery to make fried chicken, burgers, and pizzas with the same taste is simply a double desecration of modern AI and fried chicken culture. He once decided that when he started to officially develop AI, the first thing he would do was a highly intelligent cooking robot, so that AI could perfectly restore the ever-changing flavors made by humans.

"Boss! Are you all right? Hurry up, I've got 8 of them! It's just that you're slow. ”

"Go, go, it's only been 10 minutes since I took the order, and there are still customers in Lao Tzu's store, are you my robot?"

"Then you hire one! Let me tell you, the restaurant of the Chinese Food Alliance is very good now, and the robot can take orders and get out in two minutes. ”

"You just fart, a dish in two minutes? They cook with welding torches, huh? This little brother, your face. The noodle shop owner pushed Delan a bowl of beef noodles, and then hurriedly turned his head and carried a fast food box to the rider. The ramen noodles are made in a hurry, and the soup is still dangling in the lunch box. After finishing these orders, the boss finally took a breath and ran outside to light a cigarette.

Delan just gulped down the noodles, sweated profusely, and was half full, before he let out a sigh of satisfaction, at this time his brain was slightly running, and he remembered the scene just now, so he asked the shopkeeper: "Boss, when did the catering alliance start in China?" What are the restaurants? ”

"It's been a long time, I did it at the beginning of this year, and my business has not been doing well in recent months. Those few food delivery people have bad mouths all day long, I don't want to hurry up? How can noodles be cooked so quickly. ”

"yes, yes. Good things have to be done slowly. ”

The owner of the noodle restaurant seems to have found a soulmate, and the conversation is also very interesting:

"I don't think it's easy to do handmade things in the future, can people compare well with machines? Now what is AI, making machines smarter than humans. Hey, I still can't figure it out, brother, did you learn this? What kind of machine do you think there is in this two minutes for a dish? Isn't this scientific? ”

De Lanxin said that there is a scientific explanation, but the boss has a favor to him and saved his taste buds, he doesn't want the boss to be too frustrated, so he naturally picks the words and says: "I guess the meal is made in advance, don't you think AI can analyze big data now?" It's a good idea to predict which popular dishes will be available at which time periods. ”

The boss listened to his explanation, and was also a little surprised: "Hey, indeed." If you say this, it's too late to do it in advance. I'm also old, and my thinking can't keep up with the times. Hey, fortunately, a few years ago, I did that "AI for all" activity, and I also got an AI at a bargain, but I can't cultivate it. Do you think I'm going to get a robot master too? My son also shouts all day long that he wants to learn AI research and development, and I am afraid that I can only teach this skill to robots. ”

Delan thought to himself that if I support you to take the "automated" route, then who will make handmade noodles for me, and patted the boss on the shoulder seriously: "Don't, boss, you don't know, the foreign catering industry has been doing this for a long time, and people are still the most suitable fast food restaurants made by machines." The result is not good at all, it is the same as instant noodles, there is only one flavor, how can anyone make a good machine? The Chinese Food Alliance is estimated to be hot for a long time, you have to hold on! If you think about us, the customers, we can only eat things like instant noodles, how pitiful do you say? The customer is God, and we must pass on this craft for the sake of customers! ”

Of course, as a top student in this field, he naturally doesn't believe in his own nonsense, the intelligence and learning ability of AI are getting better and better, and learning to cook is probably really a piece of cake, but if you want to popularize it, it depends on the cost of real high-intelligence AI.

The boss was also a little excited by what he said, and felt that there was a glimmer of hope in front of him. The heart of buying a robot chef hesitated. Delan also couldn't help but sigh that it was still difficult for old craftsmen to let go of their ingenuity to treat customers and works wholeheartedly. Therefore, even if robots have already infiltrated the corners of society, there are still people like noodle shop owners who insist on traditional handicrafts. It's just that such people are gradually turning to the higher-end fields, and most of them are luxury goods for people to appreciate, and restaurants like this with low prices just to satisfy the appetite of diners can only gradually disappear into history.

Delan felt that he had suddenly grasped a glimmer of inspiration, why can't I make an AI to truly inherit these manual skills, and then popularize them in society at a low price? In this case, it seems that it is easy to rely on the AI technology that I stole from Utopia, and those guys have even researched the combination of humans and machines. There's a head, I have a good idea, it's worthy of me! Originally, this was just an idea of him eating fast food for many months, but this moment suddenly took root, which made Delan feel a glimmer of opportunity, and gradually made up his mind in his heart, as if the future father of culinary AI, the god of food in the catering industry, was about to be born here.

It's just that there are many such thoughts, and most of them come and go quickly. While thinking about the future and strange ideas, I walked towards the address I had agreed with Montesquieu.

By the time we got closer, a slight sense of nervousness had already made those thoughts dissipate in my mind like bubbles.

No. 57 Binhai Road, the most popular barbecue stall near Binhai University, comes out at half past five every evening and lasts until two or three o'clock in the evening, and there is not a quarter of an hour that is not full. Aristotle was now nibbling on a few strings of loins, and Hume sat across from him, just calmly sipping his beer, two or three bamboo skewers neatly placed on the plate in front of him, and the greasy table in front of him was wiped spotlessly. Aristotle was a little embarrassed to see it, and his movements followed Sven.

As for Montesquieu, he was at the other table with the boy in sunglasses, and I saw him grilling skewers at random, but he didn't eat any of them, and handed them to the boy opposite. The boy is like a standard "Internet addict" teenager, just listening to music, playing with his phone, and ignoring what is in front of him.

The skewers on the plate slowly cooled, and at some point, the oil had already curdled on the plate. A few college students at the next table began to look at the "father and son" curiously, and they guessed that this was probably another divorced father, who asked his son out for a meal on the weekend to connect with each other. It's just that it seems that this father is very flattering, but the son doesn't appreciate it, and calls his father to put a cold face on his cold buttocks, but it's a pity that those few skewers are really wasted. However, the divorce rate has been rising in the past two years, and it is not uncommon to see too much of this kind of housework in other people's homes.

At this time, Delan arrived, and he had already inserted a few special chips into the computer around his neck on the way, on the one hand, to make a disguise, and on the other hand, to facilitate the joint. At this time, he had activated the "mask", and under the cover of night, a faint streamer quietly swept against his skin, and his appearance immediately changed greatly in the dim environment, with deep eye sockets, high nose bridge, wide forehead, and mustache, which were absolutely unrecognizable to non-acquaintances. This technique is commonly used within Utopia, known as electronic masks, and is a projection-like technique, but it is only a visual illusion and only works well when the lighting is not very good. Its biggest purpose is to interfere with AI, so that the camera can only shoot a very blurry face.

Another chip is a detection program called a "bat" that emits a radio wave that silently scans the surrounding crowd within hundreds of meters to "mark" the person he is looking for. With the last chip "electronic world", AI can transform the surrounding network and telecommunications into a "visible" way to show in front of his eyes, at this time, in his eyes, it is like opening the door to the virtual world, countless "light" spreads around, and the green data stream builds a wide channel, information and data are packaged separately, like cars crisscrossing in the air, flowing endlessly, which is another busy scene hidden under the calm night market. Every day, there are endless electromagnetic waves like this, carrying all kinds of thoughts of people, passing through the city without being seen. For example, the "father and son" are rhythmically sending out signals to the surroundings, but the people next to them are unaware.

So Delan walked over, sat down at Montesquieu's table as if he had made an appointment, grabbed the skewers from the boy's table and ate them, and patted him on the shoulder by the way. Others only thought that he was the boy's uncle, after all, he now had an uncle's face, Montesquieu looked like a little boy's father at this age, and the father with this face had to wonder if he had found an old rich woman.

With the addition of Delan, the dull dining table also sounded the sound of communication, but it also sounded like some short words from parents, a few reporters from the campus newspaper passed by and secretly listened to two sentences, they were struggling to find lace news in the past two days, thinking that it would be good to get a script of family ethics, but only to hear that the boy's uncle seemed to be persuading him to go abroad with him, and the boy's father looked a little embarrassed. Thinking that he was busy and didn't win a place to study abroad, people had the opportunity to ignore it since he was a child, so he was disappointed for a while, patted his ass and left.

In fact, in the virtual world that is difficult for others to see with the naked eye, it is a completely different picture, Delan and Montesquieu talked about how to transfer the lender after they got up, and the voice that speaks in reality is just AI "speaking" for him. Delan sometimes sighs that he is such a simple student, without rigorous training, he can rely on utopian chips and AI to become a professional spy.

This is the technology of utopia, in this era when AI has become a social craze, the functionality of AI is becoming more and more differentiated, there is AI in the mechanical field that specializes in operating mechanical equipment, there is also an auxiliary program field that is purely an algorithm for a program, and in the field of data encryption and decryption that specializes in "making keys" and "locking" between AI and attack, and there is also a virtual personality field designed to create highly anthropomorphic AI and AI avatars. Among them, the most widespread and widely used is in the field of machinery and auxiliary procedures. And the utopia that is second to none in AI technology has the premier auxiliary program in this virtual world.

This society has invisibly established a huge virtual world, people in different places, their consultation, speech, wealth, physical condition and even genetic sequences have been transformed into data to build in this virtual world, built an invisible "electronic city-state", people sometimes wear masks in this online city to surf happily, but more often than not, they are connected with other real people or things in the real world. However, in such a virtual world, AI can use the resources more effectively than humans, and most people only passively obtain the convenience brought to them by the virtual world, such as e-wallets, electronic communications, and the Internet. However, the assistive technology of utopia can make people feel like a fish in water, and take the initiative to modify and use this virtual world.

As a top student in the intelligent era, Delan deeply understands the importance of the virtual world - don't think it's a fake world, on the contrary, the virtual world is too real, so real that you can peek into all kinds of hidden truths in real life through it - such as the flow of population, family privacy, and even the behavior and habits exposed on the Internet......

When you control your data, you control your reality.

This makes him sometimes intoxicated by this power, and sometimes terrified of its shadow.