You know, I don’t remember them trying to talk to the Enterprise’s computer in any of the TOS films. They downplayed that a lot, I think for enhanced realism. It stayed canon that you could talk to computers, but they only did to set the self destruct sequence.
Either way, by TNG they were back at it, and they got in the habit of “Computer: create a holodeck program simulating the appearance and personality of the engineer who designed the Enterprise. Run it in Holodeck 2.” We’re getting pretty close to that capability now, minus the room full of VR.
The problem? LLMs will tell you to add elmer’s glue to pizza sauce to hold the cheese in place, because someone joked about that on Reddit once. They have no sense of reality.
In fact, it’s kind of amazing how well the writers of TNG did with that episode and it’s follow-up. The simulated Leah started showing romantic behavior, and Geordi formed a parasocial relationship with Leah Brahms…a married woman who didn’t know Geordi personally, and so there was this uncomfortable moment where Geordi was uncomfortably familiar with a complete stranger. The Enterprise’s computer hallucinated a Leah Brahms who was single and ready to mingle.
They’re working on making that problem into a consumer product.
You know, I don’t remember them trying to talk to the Enterprise’s computer in any of the TOS films. They downplayed that a lot, I think for enhanced realism. It stayed canon that you could talk to computers, but they only did to set the self destruct sequence.
Either way, by TNG they were back at it, and they got in the habit of “Computer: create a holodeck program simulating the appearance and personality of the engineer who designed the Enterprise. Run it in Holodeck 2.” We’re getting pretty close to that capability now, minus the room full of VR.
The problem? LLMs will tell you to add elmer’s glue to pizza sauce to hold the cheese in place, because someone joked about that on Reddit once. They have no sense of reality.
In fact, it’s kind of amazing how well the writers of TNG did with that episode and it’s follow-up. The simulated Leah started showing romantic behavior, and Geordi formed a parasocial relationship with Leah Brahms…a married woman who didn’t know Geordi personally, and so there was this uncomfortable moment where Geordi was uncomfortably familiar with a complete stranger. The Enterprise’s computer hallucinated a Leah Brahms who was single and ready to mingle.
They’re working on making that problem into a consumer product.