While their colleagues were still choosing pastries, Lu Zhe and Xue Xiaodie had already returned to their workstations. They each took only a cup of milk tea and didn't ask for anything else.

Xue Xiaodie does this to control her calorie intake, so she maintains the habit of basically not eating snacks outside of three meals.

But Lu Zhe was different. He didn't object to snacks, but he had more important things to do at the moment.

He returned to his workstation, immediately created a new blank document on his computer, and casually typed in a title: "[First Draft on AI Promotion and Marketing]".

As Xue Xiaodie passed by, she was drawn to this headline and stopped behind him, watching it silently.

Lu Zhe typed another line of text, then suddenly noticed someone behind him and instinctively turned around: "What's wrong?"

Xue Xiaodie: "I'm just a little curious, what kind of proposal are you going to write?"

Lu Zhe: "It's just a promotional plan."

Xue Xiaodie: "Yeah, so what kind of plan is it? You're not worried that I'll steal your idea, are you?"

Lu Zhe: "It's not that I'm worried you'll beat me to it. I'm just not used to having someone watching what I'm writing. I can show it to you after I'm done, or I can tell you now."

Xue Xiaodie nodded, about to say something more, when the sound of high heels came from behind her. The girl turned around and saw the head of the company.

Xia Xiaobing said, "Come to my office... Um, Lu Zhe, are you already writing a draft proposal?"

As she spoke, she also noticed the text on the screen.

Lu Zhe: "Let's try writing it."

Xia Xiaobing smiled and nodded: "Then come over with Xiaodie and tell me your ideas in person."

After saying that, she turned and walked towards her office.

Lu Zhe and Xue Xiaodie exchanged a glance and shrugged.

The two stood up and followed their boss into the CEO's office. After the door closed, they heard the boss's efficient voice:

"Xiaodie, I saw the draft you sent me before."

Hearing President Xia mention this, Xue Xiaodie couldn't help but feel a little nervous. After all, this was reporting to her boss, and even considering her previous life before her rebirth, she rarely had this kind of experience. You see, before her rebirth, she was a freelance illustrator and had hardly ever done a nine-to-five job.

Moreover, from a personal standpoint, this boss might also find various ways to make things difficult for her. The tranquility of the past few days had already made the young woman slightly uneasy.

At this moment, Xia Xiaobing sat behind her desk and said in a calm tone, "Your drawing skills are indeed quite good, even better than I expected. But there's a problem, which is that I feel... something seems a little off."

Hearing this assessment, Lu Zhe couldn't help but feel curious.

He turned his head and asked, "You've already finished drawing it? Why didn't you show it to me?"

Xue Xiaodie: "Because it's just a draft, I want to show it to you after it's finished. I think there are still quite a few things that need to be revised, and President Xia also needs to further refine the requirements for this image design..."

Xia Xiaobing waved to him and said, "Since you haven't seen it yet, come and take a look."

Lu Zhe walked behind the desk and saw Xue Xiaodie's drawing on Xia Xiaobing's computer. It was an uncolored line drawing, and although the lines were a bit rough, it was already quite beautiful.

But Lu Zhe also found it a bit strange.

After examining it for several seconds, he looked at the mature female boss next to him and suddenly realized, "I know where the problem lies, Xiaodie, isn't this a two-dimensional version of President Xia that you drew!"

The drawing on the screen depicted a long-haired, mature woman with a cold expression, giving off an icy beauty vibe, yet her eyes held a confident arrogance. From the shape of her facial features to the contours of her face, it bore a striking resemblance to Xia Xiaobing's face.

Xue Xiaodie blinked and said, "Because Xiao Qiu's voice is rather androgynous, that's the feeling I get... that kind of sweet girl or loli image doesn't seem to suit it."

Xia Xiaobing smiled and shook her head slightly: "It's okay, first drafts always need revisions. And this version isn't necessarily bad. Also, I'll let you hear Xiao Qiu's different voices later, and draw several different versions, male and female, shota and loli, teenagers and young girls, mature women and uncles, you can try different character designs."

Xue Xiaodie nodded obediently: "I understand, President Xia."

Xia Xiaobing crossed her arms, turned slightly, looked up at the boy standing next to her, and asked, "So what's your plan? Didn't you say you already had an idea to promote Xiao Qiu?"

Lu Zhe took two or three steps back, sat on the sofa, and sat up straight: "I have thought of three solutions. They are the Internet as the primary productive force, online game NPCs, and hyping up the Turing test."

Xia Xiaobing pondered for a moment, then teased, "The primary productive force you mentioned... you wouldn't happen to be driving, would you?"

Lu Zhe said in a serious tone, "Driving is the primary driving force of the internet. Of course, we are a legitimate company and it's impossible for us to actually do anything R18, but with Xiao Qiu's intelligence, helping users find suitable torrents online shouldn't be a big problem, right?"

Xia Xiaobing: "It's not a big problem, but it's also a big one. Do you remember what happened to Kuaibo? Although technology itself is neither good nor evil, the way you promote it from the beginning determines your self-positioning. If you play on the edge when you launch a product, you'll never be able to shake off the label of being a pervert. For a company like ours without a strong backing, that label can be fatal."

Lu Zhe: "I also think the risk is very high, so I actually prefer the second option, which is online game NPCs. Murder mystery games have become very popular in the past two years, but there is always a problem with games like murder mystery games, which is that it is difficult to gather enough people, or other players often disconnect or go AFK. Our Xiao Qiu can not only play the role of an NPC online, but also offline."

Xia Xiaobing pondered for a few seconds longer this time, then nodded and said, "You're right, it just requires some optimization and adjustments in terms of compatibility. That's not a problem, very good, I'll organize everyone to discuss it again. So, what about the third point?"

Lu Zhe: "Popularizing the Turing Test. The so-called Turing Test is about a person conversing with a machine, and if the person cannot distinguish whether the other party is a machine or a human, then they have passed. Can Xiao Qiu do that?"

Xia Xiaobing calmly replied, "Xiao Qiu can't pass the most rigorous Turing test. But if it's just a time-limited assessment... let alone Xiao Qiu, AI has already done it several years ago. Here, you two come over, I'll show you something."

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