Chapter 412: Chapter 259: Technology vs Metaphysics (Happy New Year, Everyone)

Jiangning, Tianba Studio.

Usually unconventional, Chen Ba rarely dons formal attire, and even spent fifty bucks getting his messy hair carefully styled.

Today’s not a holiday, nor is it a date.

The reason he spruced up and even put on a suit and tie is mainly because Chen Ba, as an invited guest, will be attending the 7th Artificial Intelligence Summit hosted in Jiangning.

And he’s giving a speech!

At such a top-tier tech summit gathering domestic and foreign journalists, industry giants, and attracting global attention from professionals and passersby, a bit of preparation is quite normal.

"No way..."

Seeing Ba all dressed up like a respectable person, Huang Qing hesitated and said, "Artificial Intelligence Summit?"

"That’s right!"

"Invited you?"

"That’s right!"

While tying his tie, Chen Ba turned his head towards Huang Qing, curiously asking, "What’s wrong, is there something off?"

"Is the organizer out of their mind? An Artificial Intelligence Summit, inviting a game developer for what?"

What Huang Qing didn’t say, Lu couldn’t hold back and said first.

Chen Ba frowned.

"What’s wrong with inviting me? Why can’t they invite me?"

Feeling underestimated by his staff, Chen Ba indignantly defended his reputation: "Yes, an average game developer indeed wouldn’t deserve to attend such a summit and might have no common topics with industry giants, but can I be considered an ordinary game developer?"

Are you joking!

Although not famous, in the AI circle, the name Chen Ba or Tianba Studio is indeed well-known both domestically and internationally.

Ultimately, it’s the chain reaction prompted by the game "Divine Grace Continent".

Although everyone thinks the industry most impacted by "Divine Grace Continent" should be the traditional animation industry.

And it’s true, those animation companies are almost driven to the brink by "Divine Grace Continent".

Few know, however, that the artificial intelligence industry was also greatly shocked by "Divine Grace Continent"!

"I’ve heard!"

Luo Ji, who appeared out of nowhere, nodded and said, "I have a buddy in the AI field, and he told me he spent some time crazily researching ’Divine Grace Continent’."

Just can’t figure it out!

The AI in Divine Grace Continent is not exceptionally sophisticated, at least many companies can develop AIs of this level.

But the issue is...

These companies would need to invest enormous effort and resources to create such level AI programs, right?

So how could Tianba Studio make such level AI a game?

Additionally, in this game, what’s most shocking is not how smart the NPCs are, but that thousands or even tens of thousands of such smart NPCs can be generated at once!

No, this makes us seem really incompetent!

Tech companies valued at thousands or even tens of thousands of billions consider delivering similar AI already a great feat. Yet, you’re telling me that such AI, in "Divine Grace Continent", is just an NPC for "selling potions"?

Can’t even qualify to be the village chief of the Newbie Village?

"Is it that impressive?"

Old Luo’s narrative left Huang Qing and Lu greatly surprised, not expecting that in professionals’ eyes, Tianba Studio’s "Divine Grace Continent" was actually this formidable.

"It’s that impressive!"

Chen Ba nodded, saying, "Actually, I was also invited to the summits in the past two years, but I didn’t go because the venues were too far. This year..."

The summit organizers were quite amusing too, after being rejected multiple times by Chen Ba under the excuse of being "too far and unavailable", they simply set this year’s location in Jiangning.

The most amusing part is, the venue is just 500 meters from Tianba Studio’s premises, no need to drive, just a short walk away.

No way to refuse now, right?

As it turns out, this trick by the organizers worked well, being so close, Chen Ba really had no reason to refuse to attend the summit.

So, go he will.

The companies attending the summit all have deep pockets, with valuations starting from thousands to tens of thousands of billions, getting to know any of these big shots means having a solid network resource.

The only tricky part is, if people hope Chen Ba shares technical insights, Chen Ba wouldn’t even know how to explain it.

Fortunately, since the release of "Divine Grace Continent", industry insiders have been quite in-depth in researching and understanding the game by now.

Besides, Chen Ba hasn’t been idle.

Although he always says the code written by the Iron Fool System is too advanced to understand, over the years, he’s learned a thing or two.

Without exaggeration, even if he stops making games now, even if Tianba Studio shuts down, even if he can’t mix in the gaming industry anymore...

With the bits and pieces he’s already grasped, Chen Ba could switch lanes, perhaps to generative AI, and still do great.

This is also why he has the confidence, facing so many tech giants, to take the stage and introduce AI technology represented by "Divine Grace Continent".

Otherwise, he wouldn’t go embarrass himself!

Even understanding just a bit, it’s already impressive because it’s produced by the Iron Fool System, this sci-fi-esque creation.

"Well, damn!"

After hearing Ba’s self-flattery, Lu raised an eyebrow and said, "So, our Tianba Studio, can we also get a title as a high-tech enterprise? Publicly declare that we’re a tech company?"

"Of course we can."

"We are initially a high-tech enterprise, a high-tech company, just that many people can’t see past appearances and mistakenly think we’re just a game company."