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> Computer, show me a table.

> There are 5047 classifications of tables on file. Specify design parameters.

Interestingly enough, it seems existing AI models are already better than the Star Trek computer at dealing with ambiguity. Stable Diffusion would just generate a "normal" table and let you go from there.




Yes, they seem to handle emotion, humor and ambiguity better than Data or any computer ever on the shows. 24th century technology, today.


OTOH Data is sentient.


So he says, but LLMs will tell you that too.


"The Commander is a physical representation of a dream; an idea, conceived of by the mind of a man. Its purpose: to serve human needs and interests. It's a collection of neural nets and heuristic algorithms; its responses dictated by an elaborate software written by a man, its hardware built by a man. And now -- and now a man will shut it off."


He was in love once too




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