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The date of the founding launch event for Prism Sciences' two major research centers soon got out.
It was set for a week later, falling right on the first of November.
This news quickly drew the attention of the entire tech circle.
Tech circles at home and abroad were closely watching the related developments, all guessing which direction Prism's artificial intelligence would develop in.
Unfortunately, after releasing the news, Prism Sciences fell into silence and stopped putting out any further information.
But beneath this silence lay a major operation.
Out of many people's sight, the majority of the elite researchers in the brain-machine field set off for Mech Town.
And in the artificial intelligence field, a portion of people quietly broke away as well, leaving the various big cities and likewise setting off for Mech Town.
Mech Town was the small town where the research centers were located.
No one remembered the town's original name, because after the mech base's location was published, this town had been crowned with the nickname for being the closest to it.
Quite a few people had once wanted to come to this town to see the mech, only to discover that from the town's highest point, even with binoculars, they could make out just a single pointed corner of the mech base, and couldn't see it clearly at all.
So in the end, the town's heat had cooled back down, leaving only the nickname of Mech Town.
But from today on, it returned to the public eye once again.
Countless elites rushed here from all over the country, getting off the high-speed rail at the nearest city, then traveling on by bus or taxi.
A rural-urban bus heading to Mech Town might well have seven or eight top-tier brain-machine engineers or programmers sitting on it.
Everyone was dressed presentably, looking entirely out of keeping with the town's style. One glance was enough to know they were all employees of the Prism research centers.
The arrival of these people even forced the local authorities to put the construction of a high-speed rail station and the route application onto the agenda, while also adding a large batch of new buses to provide convenience for these moneyed patrons.
Every one of these people had an annual salary starting at three hundred thousand. To the town, they were practically made of gold.
And on the outskirts of the Prism tech park, infrastructure like schools and hospitals had already begun going up for bid.
Anyone with discerning eyes could see that the future center of the town was bound to be the Prism tech park.
Once the employees reached the town and got settled, they soon began their preliminary work.
Both research center heads were experienced industry heavyweights, and project after project took shape rapidly in their hands.
The brain-machine research center's projects with various companies in particular. To date, ten research projects had already been negotiated, deeply trusted by the industry.
The artificial intelligence research center, by contrast, hadn't had a single company come knocking to discuss cooperation so far.
So Hargrove simply led the entire team in a charge at the image domain.
His extensive network of connections and rich experience within the industry provided enormous help for the AI's training, and the quality of the training improved greatly compared to before.
What's more, he used his network of connections to purchase data sets from other companies in the industry, and both the quantity and quality made an enormous leap.
Combined with the upgrade in compute power, after only a few days of training, the entire AI had undergone a transformation-level evolution.
He had the AI run a test, using the data set from the world-famous image recognition competition WebVision.
This data set contained sixteen million images, and required the AI to recognize and classify these photos into five thousand categories based on the objects appearing in them.
The best competition record in 2021 was a recognition accuracy of 89.24 percent, set by the domestic e-commerce conglomerate Apex Commerce. But after using the AI Ryan had written to run the entire competition, the whole team was dumbstruck.
Ninety-eight percent.
A full ninety-eight percent accuracy.
It was like a thunderclap striking down on the entire team.
Although everyone knew the AI in the center was powerful, before any real test had been run, no one could have guessed it was actually this powerful.
It had actually left the top-tier artificial intelligences, both domestic and international, an entire tier behind.
It had to be understood that this AI's training time and training data volume fell far short of Apex Commerce's.
The other side was the most top-tier e-commerce conglomerate in the country, with images stored on its website numbering in the hundreds of billions. The training volume was absolutely terrifying.
Hargrove was even more astonished, because earlier he'd merely thought this AI had the potential to be used in self-driving cars. But looking at it now, how was this mere potential?
Tune this terrifying precision a little and it could go straight onto a car.
And he also knew that this AI wasn't only powerful in image recognition. Even its capabilities in natural language processing were equally extraordinary.
This AI's algorithm programming was downright frightening.
Could it be that a new era of AI was about to be born under his own hands?
At this thought, he hurriedly called Ryan to tell him the good news.
When Ryan, on the other end of the line, learned of this news, he was a little surprised too, because it genuinely had exceeded his expectations.
Even he hadn't expected this algorithm to turn out this excellent.
After all, AI research was confidential at every company. He had no understanding of other companies' research progress, so he'd inevitably overestimated them.
And a thing like AI only exposed its own flaws under the scouring of big-data testing. The small tests he'd run earlier meant nothing at all to an AI. Even getting everything right could only show that its accuracy was high, but exactly how high was impossible to say.
On the other end of the line, Hargrove was extremely excited. "If this AI just keeps training, I estimate our first product can be ready after the launch event."
"At that point, we can announce this news while we're at it, enter the various big competitions in the industry, and people will come knocking to cooperate before long."
Hargrove was extremely worked up now.
The moment their AI's image recognition precision was published, it would immediately cause a worldwide sensation, and at that point, who would still fail to be bullish on them?
The more he talked, the more excited he got, until Ryan started to worry about whether he might have a heart attack.
"Alright, alright, no need to get too excited. You'll get used to this sort of thing."
A single sentence from Ryan calmed Hargrove's emotions.
You'll get used to it.
For a moment, Hargrove didn't even know how to gripe. An AI this powerful was enough to push artificial intelligence research into a new era, and Ryan had actually calmed down this fast.
He shook his head. "Oh, right, Chief Designer. This AI of ours still doesn't have a name. Why don't you give it one?"
"A name?" Ryan thought it over.
"Let's call it Argus."
"Argus?"
"Right. From the old myths, the giant Argus had a hundred eyes. He saw all things in the world, and nothing could escape his watch."
"Ha. That name used on an artificial intelligence is just perfect."
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