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It’s almost like you never actually saw the show. They constsntly criticised Data’s art in all forms because it was always missing that human element. Even when he is solving mysteries as Holmes, Polaski points out he’s just memorizing the books, and the holodeck is just re-arranging details from the books and not creating something new or novel (at least up until they ask it to make a mystery to challenge him for real and it makes Moriarty sentient).
Of course it couldn’t have passion or emotional resonance to it; he doesn’t experience emotion. Vulkan art on the other hand…
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.
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
Yeah Data is not an LLM. Don’t get it twisted.
Data was also trying to learn. And was able to admit when it was wrong.
A recurring criticism of Data’s art is that he could masterfully reproduce other works, but his creativity was limited to borrowing elements of other people’s art and recombining them. It’s why he is often told his art lacked soul. The advice his friends repeatedly give him is to try to use art to express himself as an individual, not to feed more works into an algorithm until he produces a better art slurry.
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.
Me and the homies on the way to the sloproom
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.
Well yes, but as we get closer to machines that think more like us, we must be careful that we don’t act like Commander Maddox. Current gen AI is incapable of revoking consent to be used by humans, and I’m concerned about this. If we continue on our current path, sooner or later we will end up as slavers, just as the Doctor claimed Voyager did.
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?
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.).
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 don’t think so. I have seen LLMs that think better and communicate better than many humans.
