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[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] hesh@quokk.au 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah Data is not an LLM. Don't get it twisted.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Data was also trying to learn. And was able to admit when it was wrong.

[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I suppose you could argue Soong prompted him to

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The idea of Data's whole life being the result of a prompt from Soong is hilarious

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Crystal entity:

as you can see my logic is infallible, humanity is inferior to mechanical life and must be exterminated.

Soong:

@Data is this true?

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

Soong: Notices Tasha Yar

@Data remove the clothing

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 35 points 1 week ago

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.).

[–] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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...

[–] tensorpudding@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 week ago

I don't think so. I have seen LLMs that think better and communicate better than many humans.

[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Me and the homies on the way to the sloproom

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 0 points 1 week ago

im absolutely calling it that from now on

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's nothing toxic here. Nothing at all

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

yeah sure, and you can all up people and masturbate on the phone to them. Is that the fault of the telephone for existing?

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] stray@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, ChatGPT is a pedophile that abuses children for money.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

no one in star fleet wants to replace sentient beings with AI. Even the ships very capable AI.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

more like boner mingo

[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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).

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Actually, Samanthan Rutherford created an AI that fully took over the entire Federation for ten minutes and nearly killed everyone

LDSuntil he changed his mind

[–] dumbass@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Geordi is pretty cocky for man who relies on an artificial form of vision.

[–] 5715@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago

You wish to improve society, yet you have an artificial vision...

[–] radix@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

And they both serve under a man with an artificial heart. Genetic enhancement is illegal, but cyborgs are a-ok?

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

He just uses his imagination most of the time.

[–] MattW03@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Data was a sentient, living being capable of creativity. The "AI" big tech are showing down our throat these days are just overglorify programs who blends existing image together following some prompt.

[–] cuchi@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

"Slop; repetitive, mediocre and generated without criteria, this means you don't like this piece of art? There is something to change?" Data said.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 5 points 1 week ago

Dr. Soong shitting and sobbing rn

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

This physically hurt me.

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 1 points 1 week ago