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   Anne Deschaine (aehdeschaine@zirk.us)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 17:45:44 JST Anne Deschaine

   • Erin Kissane

   @kissane I often think these days of all the Star Trek episodes I've seen involving AI beings, and how I completely accepted, even empathized with and rooted for, them. But when I read something like this, it gives me a totally different feeling, and I argue myself into a corner trying to articulate why. But then, I suppose most of the novel things I used to like in Trek have a darker underbelly in real life 😕

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     valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 17:45:42 JST valhalla

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     • Erin Kissane

     @aehdeschaine @kissane TBF, in Star Trek the AI beings were actually sentient people, and proving that sentience was often the point of the episode.

     The current “AI” things are just text (or image, or video) generators based on randomness and probabilistic analysis of existing works, and we know that there isn't any hint of sentience in that.

     I'd blame the abuse of the term AI for marketing purposes.

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     Anne Deschaine (aehdeschaine@zirk.us)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 03:06:26 JST Anne Deschaine

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     • Erin Kissane

     @valhalla @kissane True, but it wouldn't be hard to find the same sorts of points to argue now just reading that article! 😏 Even in those episodes, the ultimate conclusion often relied on one person's willingness to take the next step. AI aside, we're still questioning what/who is sentient.

     But anyway, mostly it makes me think about the AIs in Trek and wonder how started. Every Trek-like thing introduced today seems to have the most horrifying origin/growth story, and that is damn depressing.

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