"Wait a mont, wait a mont, let catch my breath..." Xiang Shan temporarily cut off his vision, and said: "What did you call ?"
"Father." The individual replied.
Xiang Shan was a bit stunned: "What’s going on here? Is this a case of sudden fatherhood or sothing? Why?"
"Do you need to explain it from the beginning, father?" The individual answered: "In 2031, the Rama Project launched the ’Ant Hill’ plan, aiming to confuse the public by packaging certain leaks as a symbol decoding ga, promoting it to the masses."
"This plan may explain to a small portion of the technically skilled public that segnt of code that doesn’t conform to Earth’s general computer norms. At the sa ti, this was your first attempt to leverage others’ brains to explore human learning ability for ’non-human symbol systems’."
"You took that large portion of leaked code and turned it into a decoding ga..."
"Stop, stop, stop." Xiang Shan waved his hand: "I rember now, there was such a thing."
He even brought in an "anonymous tycoon" in the early ’80s to provide a reward valued at five million US dollars for this decoding ga.
In 1982, the legendary ga company Atari released a ga on the Atari 2600 called "Sword Quest" sequentially. The ga designer proposed the concept of "combining the ga with reality." Therefore, "Sword Quest" was not only a video ga but also initiated a series of treasure hunts based on this series of gas.
In this activity, players needed to solve puzzles in the RPG series of "Sword Quest," and then mail their discovered clues to Atari’s headquarters—this was an era without a "ga server." The company would select those players who solved the puzzles the fastest and best for a finals at the company.
The winner of the RPG Chapter "Earth World" would receive an "Amulet," made of 18K pure gold embedded with 12 diamonds, surrounded by golden carved Zodiac signs. The winner of the second Chapter "Fire World" would receive a Holy Grail, made of Platinum, adorned with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, pearls, and jades. The prize for the third Chapter, "Water World," was a crown made of pure gold, decorated with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and aquamarine. Finally, the prize for "Air World" was a "Philosopher’s Stone," the main body being a large pure white jade, wrapped with a layer of 18K gold, embedded with yellow sapphires, rubies, and diamonds.
The cost of each treasure was 25,000 US dollars.
And at the very end, the winners of the four worlds had one final challenge: finding the ultimate treasure, a treasured sword. Its hilt was made of 18K gold, the blade crafted from pure silver, adorned with diamonds, yellow sapphires, sapphires, and rubies, valued at up to 50,000 US dollars—which was why this event was called "Sword Quest."
However, because Atari’s reputation drastically fell due to other projects, this event was ultimately unfinished. "Air World" was stillborn, and the final "Sword Quest" could only beco legend,
Yet this event once stirred up waves worldwide.
Then...
This data was severely breached by the "anonymous tycoon."
Even considering the factors of "value inflation"... ahem, "inflation," the reward provided by the "anonymous tycoon" still crushed the rewards offered by the "Sword Quest" event.
Indeed, so popular esports projects have prize pools higher than this. The championship team’s prize is also higher, but that is often the inco of a team.
Yet this is "the decoder directly receiving five million US dollars."
Moreover, the "tycoon" also provided a complete plan. If the final decoder’s decoding process borrowed from the interim achievents of other decoders, then each discoverer of those interim achievents could receive an additional reward.
The "tycoon" even set up a player community specifically for players to publish decoding strategies and mark the publication ti.
Finally, the "tycoon" happily stated he had a reclusive close friend who had hidden his soul, his gift for humanity, in this ga. He hoped humanity could successfully interpret the achievent painstakingly made by an autistic genius.
Such a story with buzzwords naturally facilitated its spread.
The ga once beca one of the most famous gas in human history.
And in the following years, a group of players, with a "gaming" attitude towards unfamiliar symbol systems, provided countless inspirations to professional researchers.
So researchers unrelated to the Rama Project indirectly completed studies on alien languages by studying the behavior of those player groups.
In the following years, Ingrid also completed several aningful projects one after another.
However, this project has never been abandoned.
In fact, that "five million US dollars" was only a blank check. What Xiang Shan actually did was persuade the big country officials behind the Rama Project to grant him the authority to write "blank checks."
This was not easy, of course, but at least simpler than directly asking for five million US dollars.
And as more and more professionals joined, players also began to believe there truly was an autistic genius who, in the depths of his incomprehensible mind, crafted such a well-structured ga world—at least the main gaplay as a decoding system, symbol system, was quite "hardcore" and "professional."
Then...
The ti ca to the fifties.
As Superman Enterprise was thriving, this ga experienced another resurgence.
Everyone realized that the "challenging puzzles" in this ga actually originated from aliens.
And capitalizing on this trend, Xiang Shan continued to hype it. He announced that all consurs of the ga companies he held shares in could obtain the latest version of the decoding ga for free with their purchase receipts. While playing this ga, they would contribute computational power to train specialized AI for understanding alien languages.
This was essentially a project where the hype outweighed the actual impact. AI still couldn’t perfectly process human’s natural language, let alone alien languages. However, "generative adversarial networks" were a very addictive toy. Even soone like Xiang Shan, who to so extent had risen above mundane tastes, couldn’t help but be attracted by them, and upon thinking up a good topic, couldn’t resist trying to GAN it.
Then...
In locations unknown to Xiang Shan, this project surprisingly continued to operate until just before the Sublimation War. The final batch of Superman Enterprise programrs completely opened up this project online. On the eve of Earth’s old internet destruction, this ga, once a significant part of popular culture, was packaged into data and escaped to the Solar System New Internet, led by Yawgmoth.
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