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.
"Ship computers are just search engines, and not really good ones, we often see officers paging thru a bunch of results and trying to figure out what matched. "
I don't really agree with this, the ship computers are definitely not fully aware sentient beings but they can make small leaps in logic and answer questions in a way that is a bit beyond a simple search engine. Not too far off from what we would call "AI" right now with chatbots in my opinion.
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