Chapter 145 - 141: Qingfeng Intelligent Assistant
Chapter 145: Chapter 141: Qingfeng Intelligent Assistant
Lu Feng knew what was happening the moment he saw it.
A smart assistant for mobile phones.
’The software is already live. Wang Kai and Wang Xin sure work fast,’ he thought.
He knew what was going on, so he remained calm. After all, he had seen true artificial intelligence and holographic virtualization.
But online, the netizens who saw this were anything but calm.
It wasn’t as if they hadn’t seen other AIs before, but those were all rather lackluster.
But this was different. The voice was truly pleasant, it actually understood what people were saying, and most importantly, what did they see on their phone screens?
The "Yucai" waifu was actually that actress from the Plaster Country’s adult films.
Apparently, the voice was hers, too.
This made the blood pound in the veins of many men.
Some otaku, in particular, couldn’t help but stand up, click the download button, and then rub their hands together in eager anticipation.
Then came the dialogue between the man and his "Yucai" waifu.
"Dearest husband, should I activate the Qingfeng Intelligent Assistant while you play Honor of Kings?"
"Of course. Using the Qingfeng Intelligent Assistant will make your phone incredibly fast, boosting its performance by more than three times..."
The rest of the dialogue went on to list all the uses and functions of the Qingfeng software.
Needless to say, people were stunned.
People had thought a video with so many likes would be big news or something incredibly interesting. Who would have guessed it was an advertisement?
As everyone knows, most people hate ads when scrolling through videos, and advertisements rarely get many likes.
But this one had millions of likes and hundreds of thousands of comments. It was clearly something special.
Opening the comment section revealed a dense, overwhelming wall of text.
"This Qingfeng Intelligent Assistant is insane! I just wanted to give it a try, but who knew it’d make my old clunker run even smoother than the latest iPhone!"
"Yeah, and the battery drain is crazy low now. The benchmark scores are unbelievably high."
"Is that all you guys are focused on? Haven’t you noticed the intelligent avatar-customization feature? Now *that’s* what a real man needs."
"Haha, for real. With the Qingfeng Intelligent Assistant, who needs a girlfriend? The assistant and my left hand are all I need. What could be better?"
"I got a Yucai girlfriend too. A new skin for her only costs 10 yuan. A new outfit for a real girlfriend and 1,000 yuan is gone just like that."
"..."
The comments were truly a sight to behold.
But it also meant one thing: the Qingfeng Intelligent Assistant was popular. In fact, it had gone viral.
And it was true. After the ad campaign launched, many people found that when they logged onto various websites, ads and download links for the software would inexplicably pop up.
Someone was always bound to try it after seeing the ad, and once they did, they were hooked.
Everyone was captivated by the features advertised.
From there, it snowballed. People started showing it off to their friends, family, and colleagues, telling them they were behind the times and then recommending the software.
This was what’s known as organic, word-of-mouth marketing.
The term "artificial intelligence" was hardly a foreign concept to most people.
In fact, it was a common trope in many science fiction films.
Furthermore, humanity’s quest to develop AI had never ceased, leading to products like Baidu’s Xiaodu assistant.
The concept of artificial intelligence itself originated in the 1950s with the publication of Alan Turing’s "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," which laid out his vision for it.
But even now, the functionality of such products was limited and rigid. Many people found them more trouble than they were worth, using them for little more than turning lights on and off. For those who didn’t speak clearly or had non-standard accents, it was pure agony.
Therefore, most people believed that developing a truly satisfactory artificial intelligence was still at least twenty or thirty years away.
It would definitely be achieved in another two or three decades.
But now, many people across the country were claiming they didn’t have to wait that long. They had already experienced a truly satisfactory smart assistant.
This software, the Qingfeng Intelligent Assistant, erupted onto the internet like a flash flood. Its download numbers skyrocketed, and it shot to number one on the weekly download charts across all major app stores.
Its user base grew at an almost terrifying rate.
It had only 30,000 downloads on its first day. On the second, that number jumped to 300,000. By the third day, it was hitting one million downloads in a single day, shattering all kinds of download records.
From the fourth day to the tenth, it consistently maintained over a million downloads daily.
It was the stuff of horror stories.
When other internet companies noticed, they were dumbfounded. Even the giants with the most web traffic, like Douyin and Penguin, were stunned by these download numbers.
In other words, in just ten days, the Qingfeng Intelligent Assistant had amassed tens of millions of users.
Logically, even the best products need to follow a growth curve. No matter how amazing a product is, there should be a period for users to discover it, to get familiar with it... right?
But for the Qingfeng Intelligent Assistant to perform like this, it could only mean one thing: its features were absolutely mind-blowing, terrifyingly good.
And that was indeed the case.
Anyone who used the Qingfeng Intelligent Assistant had one universal reaction: "Holy shit..."
It was just that damn good.
This was followed by a flood of positive reviews and organic recommendations, happening at a speed that gave the monolithic internet corporations no time to react.
By the time they did react, the news had already shot straight to the top echelons of their corporate structures.
At Penguin, the man at the very top, a certain Mr. Ma, learned about the Qingfeng Intelligent Assistant and immediately headed back to headquarters to call a meeting.