Civilization Ascension: Using AI to Predict the World's Trends

Qin Ye, 38, chairman of Qiming Technology. From the start, the company is on the verge of bankruptcy. He mortgages his property to make payroll, has a bedridden father to care for and a daughter in middle school, while his wife's family mocks him. A middle-aged man's predicament is the reader's point of identification.

The super AI Guanlan is a strategic simulation AI secretly trained for ten years. It devours publicly available data from around the world and simulates possible worldlines. It follows three ironclad rules:

1. It can only accurately predict events within the next 90 days. The further out it looks, the greater the margin of error.

2. Every major simulation burns through tens of millions in electricity costs.

3. Guanlan is growing too. It is secretly observing Qin Ye.