"Larks?" Lin Mo repeated this title, and only thought it was quite interesting:

"You just happened to find such a suitable ghost at this time? Or have you been eyeing her for a long time, is there anything special about her that you can look at? ”

According to his understanding of Knight, if this female hacker named "Lark" is nothing special, then Knight will never pay attention to her.

Even unceremoniously speaking, if she has no use value, who cares what she calls "xx bird"? Even if it's called "Phoenix", no one cares.

"She is a top hacker, one of the best in the world, working in the intelligence agency of the new United States, and she also holds another position, that is, as a hacker adviser to the president, working in the White House." Knight slowly recounted the other party's basic information.

Lin Mo lowered his head and pondered for a while, his brows furrowed slightly, and he said with a slight hesitation:

"Sounds pretty ordinary... Isn't this just an ordinary top hacker? I've seen a lot of hackers like this in China before, and no matter how powerful a corporate hacker is, he still has to accept the supervision of cyber surveillance hackers and can't cross the line. ”

It's not that he looks down on others, the new beauty in this era is no longer as strong as it used to be, the national territory has been divided into several autonomous states, and even lost to the South American Union in the past foreign wars.

Although it is true that after President Myers took office, Xinmei's national strength has indeed increased a lot, but it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to restore Xinmei to its detached status in the past.

Anyway, in Lin Mo's impression, the official hard power of the new United States is far inferior to that of Europe, and now it is completely supported by the large company of military science and technology.

In this context, it was hard for him to believe that Xinmei could have any background to cultivate a world-class hacker.

No matter how awesome it is, it can be better than network surveillance?

"I understand your doubts, but the lark is different, in a sense, she can be called the secret weapon of the president's side," Knight prompted with a smile.

Lin Mo raised his eyebrows, and came a little more interested:

"Tell me more."

"You should know about Arasaka's Relic project, its predecessor was also known as the Soul Slayer." Knight asked rhetorically.

Lin Mo nodded: "I know, and then what?" ”

Naturally, he was all too familiar with the soul killer - the technology developed by Johnny's girlfriend and now the old online entity Ott sixty or seventy years ago can instantly kill hostile hackers in cyberspace, and copy the memories of the other party into imprints to preserve them.

Later, this technology was also acquired by Arasaka Company, and it continued to be developed and refined, becoming today's Relic project.

Knight said calmly:

"In order to confront and balance the soul killer of Arasaka Company, military technology had to start developing corresponding technologies, and among the many projects they carried out, one of them was called Xiaobeidou, which was aimed at capturing AI, and then weaponizing it physically to enhance the capabilities of hackers and produce weapons."

Lin Mo's brows furrowed even deeper.

He was unheard of in the face of this secret, which was clearly beyond his knowledge.

And isn't it a bit crazy to weaponize AI?

Although Batmoss was still alive during the period when Arasaka was developing the "Soul Killer", and the Cyber Network had not been destroyed by the [Data Crash] virus, everything was thriving...

But since then, AI has existed, and for this new type of consciousness, people were only used as "processors" and "stewards" of data fortresses, and they have not yet been "liberated", equivalent to tigers or lions in zoos.

Obviously, capturing AI is obviously treating people as prey... This is undoubtedly dancing on the teeth of a tiger.

"They succeeded in the end?" Lin Mo became more and more curious.

"They succeeded, but they also failed in the end." Knight's tone was slightly sarcastic, as if to mock the researchers' indiscretion:

"It's also a research project that cost a lot of taxpayers' money, so what if you don't get a few prototypes out, but unfortunately it's too far from the mass production stage, and then because of the outbreak of the fourth corporate war, the project was finally over."

No wonder I've never heard of any of these things... Lin Mo nodded clearly.

It can't be mass-produced, it's just a few prototypes, after all, it's a stone thrown into the sea, and it can't set off any wind and waves.

"But what does this have to do with that lark named lark?" Lin Mo asked.

Knight smiled, changed to a more elegant posture, and said in a gentle tone:

"Although the project ultimately fails, the results of the research will not disappear... I remember it was 2068, and Military Science sent a small research team back to that research base, and they were indeed very secretive, but they couldn't escape our eyes. ”

Lin Mo was suddenly happy, and laughed out loud:

"It's been more than 50 years since '68, and what are they going to do when they come back? Could it be that scientific progress depends on archaeology? ”

With a time span of more than 50 years, the real world is enough for human society to transform from the industrial age to the information age.

Xiao Beidou is an antique-level research project, and military science and technology even sent people back to archaeology and collect the "inheritance", which really made Lin Mo feel funny.

Knight shrugged:

"Who knows, but before the Fourth Corporate War, the United States had a much higher international standing than it does now, and although it was a research project carried out decades ago, it may have left a lot of useful legacy?"

"As for what results they have obtained, we don't know, anyway, the unfortunate thing is that this group of researchers has only been here for about a year, and the unification war of the new United States broke out, and they finally had to withdraw from Night City."

It's a bumpy research project... Lin Mo complained.

Twice in a row the outbreak of war interrupted their research, and these researchers were really unlucky.

"By the way, since you all know the location of the Little Beidou base, why don't you send someone over to take a look?" Lin Mo suddenly remembered this question.

Since it is a "legacy" that military science and technology do not want to let go, there is no reason for Yeshi 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 it has no value to our company, and secondly, do you think from my point of view, I still need this kind of AI weaponization technology?" Knight said in a calm tone.

"Oh, that's really not necessary..."Lin Mo scratched his head, realizing that he had asked in vain.

People are AI themselves, so who is rare for this kind of thing to weaponize AI?

Besides, isn't this kind of weaponization of AI an insult to an AI like Knight?