Villain’s Programming - Chapter 267



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Episode 267 SAMSARA

Ma Huateng breathed a sigh of relief as he left the Communist Party building.

‘This time, we somehow managed to get through it, but how on earth did Hwang Do-jun convince MS and Sony?’

Ma Huateng had told Zhong Weijun that there was absolutely no way that ‘Gae Ma Musa’ would be released on PC. However, contrary to his expectations, ‘Gae Ma Musa’ was announced to be released on both PC and console.

Because of that, Ma Huateng was dragged back to the Communist Party and suffered a beating.

‘Hwang Do-jun, it seems like both skill and luck are on your side. Well, I’m just as unbelievably lucky as Hwang Do-jun.’

If things had gone as planned, the company would have been on the verge of bankruptcy, but this time, the ‘lucky letter’ saved Ma Huateng.

‘How did I know that the Epic Games I bought would save me?’

The ‘Real Fantasy Engine 2’ used in Gaemamusa had a huge impact on the global gaming industry.

Equipped with numerous innovative features, including revolutionary graphics, content creation methods that can shorten development periods, and more, ‘Real Fantasy Engine 2’ has quickly become the game engine that all developers want to use.

Of course, it was impossible not to be influenced by Epic Games, the creator of the ‘Unreal 3 Engine’.

– If ‘Real Fantasy Games’ can do it, so can we.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney sent the Unreal 4 prototype he was developing to Baeksent.

We also sent the developers who created the game engine so that it could be applied directly to the game.

‘The results weren’t bad.’

Compared to Real Fantasy Engine 2, the Unreal 4 prototype looked lacking, but compared to Unreal 3, it was much better.

The quality was enough to fool the ‘Communist cadres’ who didn’t know much about games.

“Haa. How did I survive this time? The problem will be after the game is released.”

When the actual game was released, everyone would know the gap between the two games.

‘Did you get a brief reprieve?’

Ma Huateng left the building and returned to Baeksent in Shenzhen. Ma Huateng went into the representative office and sat down on a chair.

“In the end, do I have to just wait for the chain letter this time too?”

Just as the unexpected solution from ‘Epic Games’ came to me, I thought that ‘chain letters’ would definitely provide a solution to this problem.

‘But it’s been too long since I’ve received a chain letter.’

Ma Huateng bit his lips tightly because he knew the reason all too well.

‘I clearly told you to remove the irregulars, but I still haven’t done so.’

In fact, Ma Huateng had planned to eliminate Huang Daojun.

‘But you said his security has gotten a lot stronger lately. Did he notice something?’

It wasn’t easy to kill Hwang Do-jun, who was under increased security, but if Hwang Do-jun was suspicious of his actions, that would be an even bigger problem.

If he killed him and it was revealed that he had killed him, it would likely not end as a personal matter.

‘When that time comes, the Communist Party will definitely abandon me.’

Ma Huateng held his head. He had no idea what to do. No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t come up with a solution, so he spent every day drinking alcohol out of anxiety.

I couldn’t even take care of my work. One day, two days, ten days passed like that, and then a notification icon flashed in the corner of Ma Huateng’s computer. It was a ‘Lucky Letter’.

Ma Huateng, who had been living a life of isolation for a while, only found out about the email three days after it arrived.

‘crazy!’

Ma Huateng opened the email right away.

[Lucky Letter]

[This letter is… … .]

Ma Huateng deciphered the ‘broken letters’ part without even reading the upper part.

[Gain Steve Jobs’ trust.]

[Please forward the attached file to Steve Jobs for verification.]

Ma Huateng swallowed dry saliva without realizing it.

‘I didn’t even remove the irregulars, and I got this email again?’

It was the ‘lucky letter’ he had been waiting for, but Ma Huateng did not feel good about it.

It felt like I was being given one last chance.

That was no good. Ma Huateng knew that everything he was enjoying now was thanks to the ‘lucky letter’.

‘I have to succeed at this somehow. This is my last chance!’

Ma Huateng calmed his mind and thought deeply.

‘Win Steve Jobs’ trust?’

There is no one in this day and age who does not know Steve Jobs in the IT industry.

Steve Jobs’ talent was incomparable to Ma Huateng’s own, and his wealth was enormous. In addition, he was so famous that it was difficult to approach him easily.

‘How do you gain the trust of someone like that? And on top of that, make them check the attachments?’

These days, viruses via email are rampant. Naturally, it has become common not to open strange emails or download attachments.

‘What is this file? Send it to Steve Jobs? Is it the source code?’

Ma Huateng opened the compressed file right away. As expected, there was a ‘source’ inside. However, he didn’t understand the source.

‘What is this? What the heck is the source?’

Ma Huateng also majored in computer science and knew a lot about programming, but he couldn’t even guess what the source code he was looking at was for.

‘CHAT-GPT ProtoType? What is this?’

Ma Huateng was thinking of sending the source to an expert for analysis, but then stopped.

‘No. My job is not to know what CHAT-GPT is, but to get Steve Jobs to open this file. And to do that, I have to gain his trust.’

Ma Huateng thought about it for a moment.

‘Trust. Trust.’

Surely, if I had just emailed this source to Steve Jobs, he would have deleted it without even looking at it.

Of course, there was a way. If you tell him your identity and ask him to look into it, Steve Jobs would at least look into it.

‘But no. Steve Jobs is close to Hwang Do-jun. Hwang Do-jun might be wary of me, so I must never reveal my identity. I need someone else Steve Jobs can trust.’

Ma Huateng spent the next few days researching Steve Jobs. Thinking about it, he realized that he didn’t know much about Steve Jobs.

After three days, Ma Huateng finally found a way.

‘Buddhism! I like Japanese Buddhism too!’

Ma Huateng got to work right away. He set about sending an email to Jobs by manipulating the VPN to make it look like it was sent from “Japanese Buddhism.”

‘But what do you call me?’

As Ma Huateng was pondering, the ‘doctrine’ advocated by Buddhism suddenly came to mind.

‘Reincarnation. SAMSARA in Sanskrit!’

Ma Huateng immediately started writing an email.

[Hello, Steve Jobs. My name is SAMSARA.]

* * *

[Jobs, nice to meet you.]

Dojun was startled by the voice coming through the speaker.

‘SIRI? Didn’t Jobs say SIRI a little while ago? So, what you just answered was SIRI?’

When Dojun made a surprised expression, Jobs asked with a satisfied expression.

“Why aren’t you following me? I told you to follow me.”

“Follow me… please?”

“Okay, try it. Hey, SIRI.”

Dojun said with a bewildered expression.

“Hey, SIRI.”

[This is the first time I’ve heard your voice. Would you like to register as a new user?]

Jobs nodded as he looked to the side. Do-jun said.

“yes.”

[Please tell me your name.]

“Dojun, Dojun Hwang.”

Dojun said his name and then said a few sentences as Siri instructed him.

[You have registered as a new user. Hello, Dojun.]

Dojun was really surprised.

‘Isn’t it 2011 now? And this is the level of performance? It wasn’t like this in my past life… … .’

SIRI was first introduced to the world in 2011 with the iPhone 4s. Dojun knew this for sure, because the first iPhone he bought in his previous life was a 4s.

“Haha. Dojun, what do you think?”

“It’s awesome.”

“Yeah. Doesn’t it look just like a personal assistant?”

“That’s right. How do you achieve such accurate voice recognition?”

The early version of SIRI in 2011 wasn’t like this. The voice recognition wasn’t this good, and the natural language processing wasn’t this natural.

“Haha. Isn’t it all thanks to you?”

“Me?”

Jobs asked with a smile.

“You said you told Larry Page to buy an AI company called DeepMind in the UK?”

Dojun was surprised. That was something he had told Larry Page in return for attending the ‘Ham PARTY’. Since ‘DeepMind’ was going to be acquired by Google anyway, he had told him to acquire it a little faster.

“How did you know that?”

“Larry was bragging. He said you asked him to acquire an AI company. But when he acquired it, he said it was a really great company.”

Dojun was dumbfounded.

“No way, so?”

“That’s right. You have to be able to endure losing to the likes of Google. We’ve just hired the best AI developers. And this is the result.”

“Wow! I didn’t know that artificial intelligence technology had advanced this much.”

Jobs nodded.

“That’s right. Originally, SIRI wasn’t this good. But thanks to artificial intelligence, its performance has improved to this level. Of course, it cost a lot of money.”

Jobs took Do-jun inside the office. When he opened the door, a loud ‘whuuuu’ noise was heard. It was the sound of the ‘servers’ operating, which was very familiar to Do-jun.

Dojun saw servers that seemed to be at least a few hundred in front of his eyes.

“These servers are terrible. They have to do a lot of calculations, so they have to use a lot of servers. They’re money-eating beasts.”

Dojun opened his mouth while looking at the servers.

‘Well, SIRI was able to achieve that level of performance because it had servers of this level.’

Dojun suddenly remembered his ‘lost memories’ while experiencing SIRI.

‘The SIRI I saw today seems a bit more similar to the CHAT-GPT I saw in my lost memories than the SIRI I saw in my past life. Of course, the performance was incomparably poor.’

Dojun didn’t see CHAT-GPT in his past life because CHAT-GPT became popular in 2023.

So I was surprised to see Dojun coding using ‘CHAT-GPT’ in ‘Lost Memories’.

‘A world where AI codes everything you say!’

Of course, the code that AI produced wasn’t perfect and had to be modified a lot, but that alone saved a lot of effort.

Dojun said to Jobs.

“It will cost a lot of money, but this will bring the world closer to innovation. Honestly, it’s amazing that a server of this size can provide functions like SIRI. I think you’ve gathered some really great AI developers.”

Jobs made a strange expression at those words.

“Yeah, it’s great. It’s so great. That’s why it’s a shame. I want to see the end… … .”

“yes?”

Jobs said with a bitter expression.

“Siri is supposed to be in the iPhone 4s. The iPhone 4s is supposed to be released in November. I wonder if I’ll be alive by then… It’ll probably be hard. I really want to see it.”

Dojun clenched his fists because Jobs died in October.

“Jobs, you will see it. You will definitely see it.”

Jobs shook his head helplessly.

“Thank you for your words.”

Jobs tapped Dojun on the shoulder and said.

“Let’s go eat now.”

“Wow. You’re not even going to introduce me to the AI ​​developers?”

Jobs answered with a smile.

“No. If I introduce them to you, I feel like they’ll all follow you.”

“Haha. No way.”

“You don’t know much about yourself. I bet you a dollar that the moment you start thinking about what the future holds, everyone else will go crazy.”

Do-jun smiled brightly at Jobs’ words.

“Haha, okay. I won’t ask you to see it. Instead, please treat those developers well. They seem like really great people.”

Jobs answered with a strange expression.

“Okay. Now… I guess I should do that.”

* * *

After having dinner with Do-jun and parting ways, Jobs returned to his office and sat down in his chair.

– Treat those developers well. They seem like really great people.

Jobs bit his lips as he recalled what Do-jun had said.

“Yes. I saw it with my own eyes and even got a definite answer from Dojun. Now I have to believe it.”

Jobs opened his email. He opened one email from the ‘Important Inbox’.

[Let me tell you about SAMSARA.]

Jobs was introduced to Japanese Buddhism in the 1970s at a Zen temple in Los Altos, California. He was so absorbed in Buddhism that he even entrusted his wedding ceremony to a Buddhist nun named Otogawa Kofun.

To him, the word ‘reincarnation’ was a very welcome word. Especially now that he was on the verge of death, ‘reincarnation’ was the ‘doctrine’ he really wanted to believe in.

‘When I first got this email, I thought it would have a good story about reincarnation. I was hoping it would give me some peace of mind.’

But the content was completely different.

[Hello, Steve Jobs. My name is SAMSARA.]

‘What? Download the attached file and check its value?’

Normally, he would have cursed and deleted it immediately. However, Jobs, who was sincere about Buddhism, thought he was being fooled and opened the ‘attached file’.

‘I’m going to die soon. What are you afraid of? If there’s a virus, let’s say I check Apple’s guard system.’

Jobs downloaded the ‘attachment’ and opened it.

There was a program source in the attached file, but I didn’t quite understand what it contained.

‘Thank goodness it doesn’t seem to be a virus, CHAT-GPT ProtoType? What is this?’

Jobs thought for a moment and then sent the file to Apple’s senior research scientist.

The next day, the senior researcher came to see Jobs. He looked very excited and shouted at Jobs.

“Jobs, what is this? Who the hell made this?”

“What does that mean?”

The senior researcher said, shuddering.

“This… This is nonsense. Who on earth thought of this, or… No, not thought of it, but implemented it? This is a field that is just emerging in artificial intelligence.”

“Artificial…intelligence?”

“Yes. This is an artificial intelligence source. It’s an incredibly advanced source. You’ll need a huge computer to run it.”

“What level of technology is it that has you so excited? Is it something like SIRI?”

“SIRI? This is a technology that is incomparable to the current SIRI. It seems to be several generations, maybe 10 years ahead of the times. Who on earth created this?”

Jobs’ expression became serious when the senior researcher said that it seemed like technology 10 years ahead.

“… That’s the person I was introduced to.”

“We need to bring him in now. To be honest, I only understand about 10% of this source. If we bring in the guy who created this and build the SIRI AI, we can get ahead of our competitors.”

After listening to his senior researcher’s advice, Jobs created a new AI team the next day.

“The person who created this source code cannot participate directly due to personal circumstances, but has decided to provide support from outside. Instead, we will provide the best AI developers in the world.”

That’s how Apple’s SIRI began to change. The results came out in a few months. That’s because there was a source.

Jobs saw SIRI’s capabilities and thought that it would definitely succeed. But just in case, he heard Do-jun’s answer.

‘What’s unfortunate is that I won’t be able to see the end.’

Jobs eventually gave up. This was something he couldn’t do anything about.

“Ha. At this point, I guess I can trust him now.”

Jobs started writing emails to SAMSARA.

[I believe you now.]

[So tell me what you want.]

The answer came in less than an hour.

[We need 100 times more computers than we have now.]

Jobs was astonished. He already had a lot of servers, but he couldn’t even imagine the scale of 100 times that.

[ What on earth are you going to do with that? ]

The reply email came right away.

[Jobs, don’t you want to live forever?]