After Mercer finished speaking, he touched the steering wheel and said, "But I believe in Venus's character. The sub-AI she creates shouldn't have any problems either."
"Yes, you can always count on me!" The voice from the car was still full of energy and confidence: "I will never let you and Venus down."
Mercer neither confirmed nor denied this, but Rebecca enthusiastically said, "So why don't we give you a name?"
"Absolutely! It would be wonderful if I had a name of my own!" The car's voice even sounded a bit surprised.
Mercer raised an eyebrow, deep in thought.
Meanwhile, Rebecca was already happily thinking about a new name for this in-car AI: "Let me think... Mercer, what do you think would be a good name?"
"Polaris? This star hardly moves in the northern hemisphere; I hope it can be a good omen, allowing it to stay around."
Mercer suggested.
Rebecca quite liked this name too, or rather... it sounded better than the names 'Bella' and 'Lily' that she had just thought of.
Polaris immediately played an extremely exciting background music on the radio: "Amazing! I love this name! Thank you, Master, and Miss Rebecca! From today, I will be called Polaris!"
Rebecca looked left and right: "Can you see us?"
"Of course, as long as the dash cam is on, I can see what's going on inside the car at any time. If you don't want me to intrude on your private space, just remind me to turn off the recorder."
Polaris said.
Rebecca only found it very magical—this was her first time riding in an AI-driven vehicle; inside the car, she felt a bit nervous about the car's driving, yet she was very curious about how far AI driving could go.
Mercer said, "Because this car doesn't come standard with intelligent driving, Polaris can't fully control the car's details. Later, if we confirm that the basic driving is fine, we still need to modify the car to better match the AI's driving style."
Mercer and Rebecca chatted for a while about autonomous driving, and Polaris was driving his sports car, strictly adhering to the maximum speed limit, weaving through traffic.
After connecting to the NCPD's traffic system through the server, it encountered only a short red light along the way.
When the car arrived at the River Valley District, it slightly slowed down and took the initiative to report.
"Arrived in the River Valley District controlled by the Sixth Street Gang. According to NCPD records, at least one shooting incident occurs on average every day in this area. Please refrain from opening the car window casually."
After Polaris finished, Mercer ordered, "Scan the people and bases of the Sixth Street Gang and highlight them in my Prosthetic Eye."
"Marking dangerous targets for you through the camera." After Polaris finished, it began to share the footage captured by the cameras in real-time with the server, then conducted image analysis on the server.
"Cooperate with Venus on this task. Analyze all scanned targets comprehensively and mark them on the map; Venus knows what I want to do."
After Mercer finished speaking, Polaris immediately responded, "No problem."
Rebecca only felt a slight blur in front of her eyes, and then outside the window, many buildings and figures suddenly appeared highlighted in red.
She marveled, looking left and right: "If this trend continues, we won't even need to conduct reconnaissance ourselves in the future; just dispatch a few drones and weapon-equipped vehicles, and we can see the target's situation clearly!"
"Not only that, the operation of vehicle-mounted weapons like machine guns can actually be controlled by AI as well. In other words, if Polaris performs well, I can prepare a dedicated control room for it, focusing exclusively on unmanned technology."
Mercer exclaimed, "The autonomous learning capability of AI is incredibly fast. Do you know how long it took for Venus to split off an AI like Polaris?"
"How long?" Rebecca turned to look at him.
"Ten minutes. In just ten minutes, it created an AI with an intelligence slightly lower than itself but fully equipped with autonomous driving technology."
After Mercer finished speaking, he added, "This is because Venus repeatedly tested its stability and started learning and driving-related techniques from scratch.
After accumulating substantial experience in autonomous driving, Polaris can quickly begin fully unmanned autonomous driving tests, as long as it is equipped with a more advanced anti-interference Network Access Vault."
"The three million you spent on the server was well worth it," Rebecca commented.
"Wasn't it?" Mercer smirked and said, "Before the old network collapsed, even things like weapon design and development were handed over to intelligent AI.
Can you imagine? Even scientific advancement was entrusted to AI—if the old network hadn't collapsed, perhaps in the past few decades, human technology would have broken through low Earth orbit and ventured into the wider universe."
After Mercer finished speaking, Rebecca just curled her lips and said, "In my opinion, as long as companies still exist, no matter how many new technologies AI develops, ordinary people's lives won't improve.
Humans can now develop the Moon, yet look—we can't even have a bite of real meat in our daily lives."
"Things will get better," Mercer said firmly.
Rebecca chuckled softly twice: "Although it seems unlikely... I believe in you."