184: Chapter 181 The Electronic Information Expert in the Corner

He looked at Zheng Yuanshan.

"To summarize: this pricing System is tiered—inclusive at the low end and elitist at the high end. The Fate Master has clearly considered economic balance. I suggest that the General Administration of Livelihood Security allocate special funds to provide karma points subsidies for the Combat Assistance System for the daily training and Sequence Battles of the Revival Society's combat troops."

Director Lin Su frowned, "What's the subsidy amount?"

"Based on preliminary estimates, covering basic functions for all members of the combat department would cost about 300,000 karma points per day."

"Approved." Zheng Yuanshan made the final decision immediately.

A low murmur rippled through the conference hall. 300,000 karma points was no small amount, but for the current scale of the Revival Society, it was entirely affordable.

A woman who had been a sociology professor before her Transmigration raised her hand, "I'd like to add another perspective. The newly added AI Customer Service module has immense value for the grassroots management of our Revival Society. We currently have over 600,000 members, and daily consultations, rule interpretations, and dispute mediations consume a massive amount of manpower. If the AI Customer Service could take on this work—"

"Manpower liberation." Director Sun Zheng finally spoke, his voice steady, "Freeing up grassroots management personnel from repetitive tasks so they can invest their time in more valuable work. This direction is worth exploring deeply."

The discussion grew increasingly heated. Someone suggested using the data analysis module of the Combat Assistance System to optimize the formation configuration of the Revival Society's sea beast hunting teams. Someone else proposed integrating the AI Customer Service into the Revival Society's internal communication System as an administrative assistant. Others were calculating what kind of overall shift would occur in the individual Sequence Battle rankings if all Yanhuang Survivors used the Combat Assistance System—

"Quiet, everyone, quiet."

Zheng Yuanshan's voice was not loud, but everyone stopped.

The old general's gaze swept across the faces of the excited crowd, and he spoke slowly.

"The benefits have been pretty well covered. Now, let's analyze the potential drawbacks and risks."

The conference hall went silent for three seconds.

Director Sun Zheng was the first to react. He put down his life ring and leaned forward slightly, "Is the Director-General worried about... dependency?"

"It's not a worry," Zheng Yuanshan's voice was calm, bordering on cold, "It's an inevitability."

He stood up and walked to the porthole of the conference hall with his hands behind his back. Outside the window was the dark purple night sky of the Magic Sea, with scattered Houseboat lights in the distance.

"Previously, the Fate Platform functions couldn't be used in the Sequence Battle consciousness space. Because the Yanhuang Survivors were overly dependent on the Fate Platform, their individual combat experience was far inferior to that of Survivors from other civilizations, which caused us to suffer setbacks in the first round of the Sequence Battle."

"And now, the Combat Assistance System is even more addictive than the magic sea compass, the Numerical Panel, and the Life Spring combined." Zheng Yuanshan turned around, "Because it fights for you directly. You don't even need to think; you just need to spend a few karma points."

Director Zhou Ming's excitement dissipated by more than half, and his brows knit together, "But the life ring functions can be used in the Sequence Battle, right? And the Combat Assistance System is embedded in the life ring—"

"It can be used now," Zheng Yuanshan interrupted him, "But what about later?"

This sentence stunned everyone.

"The rules of the Magic Sea are always changing." Zheng Yuanshan's voice was low, "The first beast tide lasted six hours, the second twelve. The Sequence Battle appeared from nothing. Who can guarantee that there won't be a scenario in the future where the life ring fails? A trial that relies purely on individual strength? Or who can guarantee that our future potential conflicts between the Yanhuang Civilization and extraterrestrial civilizations won't have unforeseen accidents?"

"When that time comes—" his gaze swept across the room, "What will 1.3 billion giant babies who only know how to shout 'Combat System, fight for me' use to survive?"

Dead silence.

Fang Zhiyuan was the first to break the silence, "Then... what's the solution?"

The discussion restarted, but the atmosphere was completely different.

Director Lin Su proposed a publicity plan, "The authorities will release analytical posts to clearly explain the pros and cons. At the same time, we will arrange a dual-pronged bombardment of live streams and short videos to make everyone realize the dangers of over-dependency."

Director Sun Zheng added, "Publicity alone is not enough. Human laziness is an instinct. We must design it from an institutional level."

He pulled up a draft document.

"My suggestion is—to implement a 'Naked Combat Training Day.' One fixed day a week, all combat personnel of the Revival Society will disable all auxiliary functions of their life rings and rely purely on their individual strength for Sequence Battle matchmaking. Wins and losses won't count towards evaluations, but participation rates will."

Director Zhou Ming's eyes lit up, "That's good! Usually, we use the System to grind rankings and earn merit, and in our spare time, we train our strength naked. It doesn't hinder either!"

A young man who had been a PhD in sports training before Transmigration raised his hand, "I'll add one more point. We can establish a 'Naked Combat Leaderboard'—tracking the Sequence Battle win rates of Survivors without using any Fate Platform auxiliary functions. This leaderboard will be independent of the official one, but it can serve as a reference indicator for the Revival Society to select elites internally."

"Interesting." Zheng Yuanshan nodded, "Using a sense of honor to drive autonomous training is more effective than mandatory orders."

Chief Prosecutor Chen Tianjiao added a point from an oversight perspective, "There's one more thing. The deep mode of the Combat Assistance System overdraws the body. Long-term use will lead to more extra consumption of karma points for treatment and Numerical Panel aspects; it's a hidden cost. This issue must be written into the official guide, with a bold reminder for everyone."

The discussion lasted for nearly an hour. A resolution was finally formed—

The Revival Society authorities would release a "Combat Assistance System Application Guide," covering: an analysis of the System's pros and cons, tiered usage suggestions, the Naked Combat training plan, and risk warnings for the deep mode. This would be synchronized with live-streamed lectures and short video promotions.

Zheng Yuanshan finalized the decision and looked around the room.

"Meeting adjourned. Each department is to submit a detailed plan within three days."

Everyone stood up.

From beginning to end, in the corner of the conference hall, a middle-aged man with hair as messy as a bird's nest and thick-rimmed glasses perched on his nose had not raised his head even once.

His name was Tao Wei. Forty-three years old. Before Transmigration, he was an associate researcher at the Institute of Electronic Information of the Academy of Sciences.

At this moment, on his life ring projection interface, dense conversation records had already scrolled through hundreds of screens.

He was chatting with the AI Customer Service.

But there wasn't a single line of casual greeting in the chat content.

It was all formulas.

[Tao Wei: If I input a backpropagation gradient formula for a recurrent neural network, can you identify the weight decay term in it?]

[AI Customer Service (Appearance: A holographic projection of a middle-aged man in a white lab coat): Yes. In the formula you input, the λ·W(t-1) term is the weight decay term of L2 regularization. Its function is to prevent model overfitting by adding a penalty of the sum of squares of weights to the loss function—]

Tao Wei's fingers were trembling.

Not from fear.

It was excitement.

He typed another line.

[Tao Wei: Then, if I give you the complete mathematical expression of the attention mechanism of a transformer architecture, can you derive its numerical stability boundary under finite-precision floating-point operations?]

Three seconds later, the AI Customer Service provided a complete derivation process.

Every step was correct.

Tao Wei took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes vigorously.

His lips moved, silently spitting out a few words.

"This is definitely not... an ordinary AI Customer Service."

"If it really is what I think it is, then..."

He put his glasses back on, his fingers hovering above the life ring, hesitating for two seconds.

Then, he typed a new line of content.