In the Spotlight of AI: I Relied on Algorithms to Make My First Pot of Gold

In an efficient workplace dominated by the 'Tianheng' algorithm, Lu Chen's monthly performance scores continued to decline, and he received a red alert and an email from his boss Chen Mo asking him to submit an improvement plan. He recalled the past when he defended the cleaning lady who was 'optimized' by the system, and when his cultural and creative projects full of 'handmade warmth' were rejected by the algorithm. In a state of depression and numbness, he rubbed the discontinued pocket watch left by his father and remembered his father's last words, "There are some things that machines cannot do." After get off work, he stood in front of the city night scene, with a faint reluctance in his heart like a spark that refused to be extinguished.