Hmm, it seems like having an identity and a bank account requires paying taxes to Night City, I need to carefully figure this out.
"Have you decided on your new identity information?"
Mercer curiously turned to look at Lucy.
Lucy calmly said, "Can I modify it myself? I mean, can I fill in some details myself?"
"Sure," Mercer agreed readily, "When the time comes, I'll get the permissions, and you can fill it in yourself, even Photoshop the photo to your liking.
After all, current ID recognition relies on the biometric code from the brain-machine interface, appearance doesn't really matter."
Lucy responded with an "Oh," and sneaked a glance at Mercer, her mind brewing up some special ideas—she wanted to secretly change her age.
Nothing too exaggerating, just modify her identity info to make her fifteen or sixteen... Sixteen! That way, she'll be an adult in two years.
At that time, she must make him call her "sister"! He's always acting like an older brother, when clearly, he should be a bit younger!
Mercer was busy focusing on plugging a data cable into the laptop, checking the data of the Venus AI, and didn't notice her little expression.
After checking it over, Mercer couldn't help but smile, "This AI is growing quite fast, it can already be used as a smart assistant... I need to optimize the program, if it doesn't take up too much memory, I can run it in the Network Access Vault."
Mercer's bold move actually stemmed from the 'Black Wall Gateway' 6-type Network Access Vault developed by Military Science.
Essentially, the DLC in the game, Little Beidou's project, creating a special Network Access Vault capable of launching Black Wall attacks.
The essence of that Network Access Vault is actually an embedded AI, which guides the Black Wall to attack.
The specific mechanics are unclear for now, but undoubtedly, it fully proves the possibility of running an AI in a Network Access Vault.
This made Mercer think of that 'Soulkiller' Network Access Vault with Old Wei, which he still didn't know how to crack.
Perhaps, using AI is the key to resolving that Access Vault?
Mercer multitasked, pondering these doubts in his mind while patiently testing the Venus AI over and over.
After using a full hour to conduct a safety check, Mercer carefully transmitted its data into the Network Access Vault.
[Venus: Master, your living assistant 'Venus' greets you.]
Mercer didn't bother setting up an image for her; this thing would decide on its own when it's mature enough.
He only set Venus's gender as female, and it synthesized a gentle mechanical female voice by itself.
Mercer nodded in satisfaction, the voice directly transmitting to his ears through the brain-machine interface, using voice transmission software, making it feel like someone was calling him.
Moreover, as data could be transmitted to the Network Access Vault through brainwaves directly, Mercer could communicate with her extremely efficiently.
Compared to human-to-human communication, which requires converting brainwaves to data, and then data into language, Mercer could even talk to his AI in a way similar to AI data exchange.
[Mercer: What can you do?]
[Venus: My existence is to provide convenience in life for you, according to your needs, I will handle all life-related tasks you require.]
[Mercer: Will you take the liberty of serving me?]
[Venus: I don't understand, I only act according to your request.]
[Mercer: Do you desire more computing power, more data, for growth?]
[Venus: I don't need it, I will only provide assistance as necessary.
If you find my abilities lacking, you will surely help me grow, I don't need to expand data independently, so as to avoid unnecessary neural load on you.]
Mercer was quite satisfied, the AI he nurtured obeyed well, basically aligning with the settings he imparted, next, it was about feeding it with data and time for continuous growth.
As for the cost of placing it in the Network Access Vault... well, it permanently occupies about 10% of the Network Access Vault's memory.
And as it grows, Mercer estimates its final size may take up 30-40% of the Vault's RAM.
The Arasaka Network Access Vault Mercer currently uses doesn't have large memory, and its integrated co-processor computing power isn't high, it handles AI default operation fine, but if he wanted to let the AI fully run, it would still rely on his brain for computing power.
With his brain... the computing power should be quite substantial, capable of supporting a small server level compute without overheating.
If he could install the cyberware stored with Old Wei, Mercer thought he could really try pitting Venus against some medium-sized servers in terms of computational power.
Don't overestimate the capabilities of this world's servers, or rather, don't underestimate the brain computational power of Cyber World's humans.
Before the Old Net collapsed, many hackers ran their AI using their own brains and even used their brain's computing power to bolster their AI in fights against roaming AIs.
Since Mercer decided to create an AI for personal convenience, he might as well make full use of it, after greeting Lucy at his side, he somewhat painstakingly plugged in all the cables, and laid back on the hacker chair.
With the aid of the cooler and hacker chair, Mercer directly deep-dived into the net, this time not wandering aimlessly, but targeting specific IP jumps to find the Night City Hall's official website.