127: Chapter 127 The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence

Chu Qianlan paused slightly, his thoughts instantly pulling away from the code of the AI System. "The Art and Literature Club, they managed to get sponsorship again?"

At this time last year, he had faced obstacles when trying to withdraw from the Art and Literature Club, and had exposed the club's management for using events to extort money, causing the Art and Literature Club's reputation to plummet.

Because of Lin Qingxue, the Art and Literature Club received sponsorship from Tianhai Entertainment last year and held a singing competition. However, they didn't hold any events as per tradition last semester.

This semester, the Art and Literature Club wanted to hold an event again. It would either be funded by the members like before, or they had found a benefactor and secured sponsorship.

But these matters had nothing to do with Chu Qianlan; he just didn't know why Liu Daocheng was telling him about this.

Liu Daocheng grinned. "I'm not sure about the specific reason, I just heard the competition starts next month! I heard the champion of this competition can get a five-thousand-yuan prize, and this time it's cash, not those messy gifts."

Chu Qianlan's fingertips paused on the keyboard; the code on the monitor was still compiling. Remembering his time in the club, when most of the activity fees paid by regular members were embezzled by the club management, a mocking curve appeared on his lips.

"A five-thousand-yuan prize? Where would the club get that kind of money? They aren't making the regular members fund it again, are they!"

"This time, it's really not." Zhang Lei, who was nearby, chimed in. "I heard from the Entrepreneurship Club that Tao Yuansheng, a freshman from the School of Arts, is planning to use this opportunity to enter the entertainment industry. Tao Yuansheng's father is a director at Tianhai Entertainment, so naturally, he can get Tianhai Entertainment to sponsor the Art and Literature Club."

Chu Qianlan's hands, which were typing code, paused. "It seems the first place for this competition has already been booked!"

He shook his head. In the last competition, Lin Qingxue had booked first place. At that time, Lin Qingxue was already somewhat famous and had been signed by Tianhai Entertainment; naturally, no one had any objections to her winning first place.

But for this competition, Tao Yuansheng had booked first place again. He didn't have the fame Lin Qingxue had last year, so to come out on top, he would inevitably have to rely on the behind-the-scenes manipulation of the Art and Literature Club.

This kind of competition had already become a tool for the Art and Literature Club's management to extort money, and it would eventually cause problems sooner or later.

Seeing Chu Qianlan's indifferent expression, Zhang Lei continued, "Speaking of this Tao Yuansheng, he actually has a bit of a connection to you; he is currently a suitor of Lin Qingxue."

"Lin Qingxue?" Chu Qianlan sneered. "I have absolutely no relationship with her now. Who knows, she might even hate me to the bone!"

Last year, to protect the reputation of a top artist from Tianhai Entertainment, Lin Qingxue had smeared Chu Qianlan during the Art and Literature Club's competition. As a result, Chu Qianlan had retaliated by calling the police, which caused their relationship to completely collapse, and they had had no contact since.

"Third Brother! You might think there's no relationship, but that Tao Yuansheng doesn't think so. As far as I know, Tao Yuansheng believes it was because of you that Lin Qingxue had to give up singing and turn to acting in TV dramas." Zhang Lei laughed.

"These people are truly unreasonable; they only care about calculating their own losses while turning a blind eye to the suffering of others.

Regarding last year's matter, Tianhai Entertainment was at fault first. If they hadn't instructed Lin Qingxue to splash dirty water on me first, I wouldn't have called the police to retaliate.

But it doesn't matter anyway. I'm not in the entertainment industry, so as long as they don't come to provoke me, I can't be bothered to care."

As for Lin Qingxue, Chu Qianlan had long since given up on her, and as for Tianhai Entertainment, it was not enough to make him fear them. If last year's incident happened again, he wouldn't mind calling the police again.

After chatting with Zhang Lei and the others for a while, Chu Qianlan continued to replicate the AI System.

As for this person Tao Yuansheng, he didn't take him to heart at all. Although Tianhai Entertainment was not small in scale, Xinghai Technology was not bad either. If the conflict between the two sides intensified, he wouldn't be the one losing out.

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was May 17th. Chu Qianlan had already completed the replication of the AI System a few days ago.

However, Wang Jian and Li Na had not yet finished setting up the new Supercomputer, so he could only wait patiently.

It wasn't until last night that Wang Jian sent an email saying that the new Supercomputer had finished debugging, so he only came to the Supercomputer server room this afternoon.

When Chu Qianlan stepped into the Supercomputer server room, the newly completed small Supercomputer, "Planet No. 2", was emitting a low hum.

Wang Jian was squatting in front of the server array debugging cables, while Li Na was typing at the main console, the scrolling data stream on the screen illuminating her focused profile.

"CEO Chu," Wang Jian stood up and brushed the dust off his hands. "The peak computing power of Planet No. 2 is 3 trillion operations per second, with power consumption controlled within 220KW, fully meeting your requirements."

Li Na pulled up the performance test report: "Various software for the Supercomputer has been installed, and we can now conduct stress testing."

"Hmm, not bad. Have you conducted stress tests before?" Chu Qianlan looked at the two of them.

"After completing the debugging, we simulated the operation of the 'Tiandao' operating system, and only then did we confirm that the new Supercomputer's performance met the standards," Li Na explained.

Hearing this, Chu Qianlan nodded, took out a hard drive, and handed it to Li Na. "Help me copy the files inside into the Supercomputer."

Subsequently, he turned his head and instructed Wang Jian, "Except for you two, everyone else can leave work early today. The night shift employees will work as normal."

The AI System that Chu Qianlan had replicated was far beyond the current era. Now that it was about to officially run, the fewer people who knew, the better. Even for his own company's employees, he was a bit uneasy.

Wang Jian and Li Na exchanged glances and tacitly began to execute the instructions.

Li Na took the hard drive and inserted it into the main console, her fingertips operating quickly on the keyboard. A file transfer progress bar quickly popped up on the screen, and 10GB of core code poured into the storage array of Planet No. 2 like a black torrent.

Wang Jian gathered all the employees in the server room and announced that they could leave early today. A dozen minutes later, only the humming of the air conditioning and server cabinets echoed in the entire server room.

"CEO Chu, the files have been copied." Li Na returned the hard drive to Chu Qianlan.

"Hmm, I can handle the rest myself!" After saying this, Chu Qianlan sat down in front of the control computer.

As his fingertips flew across the keyboard, lines of complex commands poured into the "Planet No. 2" Supercomputer like flowing water.

On the main control screen, thousands of lines of code twisted and reorganized like living things, eventually condensing into a floating three-dimensional matrix; this was the core interface of the AI System that Chu Qianlan had replicated.

"System initialization." As Chu Qianlan entered the command, "Planet No. 2" operated rapidly, and the cabinets emitted bursts of low humming.

Li Na stared at the computing power monitoring screen, her pupils slightly contracting in shock. "The computing power utilization rate instantly soared to 65%! The system is autonomously optimizing its underlying logic; this is truly incredible!"

Wang Jian noticed the temperature sensor reading on the side of the cabinet. "The core temperature is stable at 42°C; the liquid cooling system can fully handle the peak load."

Before he could finish his sentence, the main control screen interface suddenly rippled, and a line of iridescent text appeared: "Initialization complete, please enter the verification password."