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If Soong had designed data with the intent to make his creator rich and powerful beyond any sanity or measure. (Instead of being a chill nerd) there’s no doubt in my mind startrek would be a lot less utopian.
Let’s get one thing straight: generative AI is more like the Borg than it is like Data. Discarding humanity and individuality while assimilating everything within reach for the benefit of the corrupt hivemind. And why? Because resistance is futile?
Data, on the other hand is acting on his own preferences and agency. What he lacks is emotional content, and it’s what prevents him from creating the expressive art and music that he strives to make (as is a key theme in multiple episodes where data paints, does poetry, plays violin, etc.).
Did anybody promted data to do it?
or data did that on their own?
Data is not an LLM or a Slop generator, is an AGI.
Yeah Data is not an LLM. Don’t get it twisted.
I suppose you could argue Soong prompted him to
The idea of Data’s whole life being the result of a prompt from Soong is hilarious
Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature
An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature;
Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses,
Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses.I think Data is too similar to being human to be mistaken for a clanker.
I think the real test will be if LLMs start acting like exocomps. I don’t think this is at all likely but I never would have predicted that LLMs could be as accurate as they are or have so many weird emergent phenomena.
Data is an actual thinking machine. AI in the true sense of the word. LLMs are called AI, but they have nothing to do with thinking whatsoever.
I’m pretty sure the holodeck works on some kind of ai as well. I think that star trek taking place in a post scarcity future clears up a lot of problems with current gen ai.
Also starfleet have had that level of computational complexity for 2 or 3 centuries and never actually managed to create a superintelligent AI that was a match for human pluck and ingenuity, so an AI takeover probably isn’t a possibility in that Universe. (Same goes (I think) for all the millenia old Alien societies).
star trek taking place in a post scarcity future clears up a lot of problems with current gen ai.
it’s almost as if having the entirety of human art disposable at your fingertips that can make your dreams manifest as images might be positive thing, but the social structures and how it is used makes it literally toxic.
There’s nothing toxic here. Nothing at all
yeah sure, and you can all up people and masturbate on the phone to them. Is that the fault of the telephone for existing?
Me and the homies on the way to the sloproom
im absolutely calling it that from now on
The difference between ChatGPT and Computer (not into Star Trek enough to know what its actual name is) is that Computer doesn’t pretend to be a person or have feelings, and it doesn’t encourage harm to anyone. Computer’s purpose is to serve its crew in a constructive manner, not to keep the user engaged at all costs.
no one in star fleet wants to replace sentient beings with AI. Even the ships very capable AI.
the fact that data is laying physical paint onto a physical canvas and having to evaluate and create from the point of the medium tells me that he’s not slop.
of course he’s a fictional character. but yeah.
Geordi is pretty cocky for man who relies on an artificial form of vision.
And they both serve under a man with an artificial heart. Genetic enhancement is illegal, but cyborgs are a-ok?
Dr. Soong shitting and sobbing rn
This physically hurt me.
