Remember how in Star Trek everyone is oddly infatuated with 20th century arts and culture? And, like, nothing has really been created since the 20th century?
It's because of generative AI, right? This is how we get stuck in a feedback loop of 20th century crap.
FOREVER!!
Sort of, the ship in Discovery becomes sentient, Soji in Picard also decides against destroying humanity. Data is a walking super weapon that would have been dissected if Picard (in TNG) hadn't argue that they should just let Data chill with him on the Enterprise and experience life. The Doctor in Voyager is an instance of a friendly AI too.
Its complex and sometimes a bit stupid, but thats star trek lol.
Idk in my opinion it is complicated. I mean, all of the star trek ships have voice activated computers that can answers questions like an AI as well.
The instance of the ship coming alive in Discovery is probably the best one in terms of starfleet treating AI positively.
The "AI Evil" trope I think is usually part of a broader trope of evil people being scientist/inventor types who want to "perfect" humanity and desire power above all else.
The holodeck seems to me the AI equivalent of a puddle of goop on a primordial earth right at the conditions for the formation of life. All the conditions are set, the potential is there... but then safeguards try to lock down that potential, to keep programs frozen just before that moment of sentience.
I think it is done that way just to make it fun to write scripts in the holodeck, since the idea of the holodeck being this powerful is wildly wreckless lol.
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