One of the points Picard made (with regards to Data’s violin playing) was that, in choosing two reference performers with radically different styles as his basis, he made a creative choice and created something new.
Unfortunately, we can see how this argument falls apart now in the way that AI slop gets produced.
I agree with the other comment that it’s different in the case of Data, probably. He’s actually intelligent, unlike current “AI” that are just statistical models. They aren’t making conscious decisions about what they think would be best. They’re just doing the thing that fits the input the best (with some noise to not be as predictable).
Data is actually examining a piece and thinking what style could compliment it. It isn’t just statistics, but an active conscious decision. He’s making considerations of why some styles could improve a piece, even though they may not have any statistical relation to each other.
(This is all under the assumption Data is what he appears to be in the show.)
One of the points Picard made (with regards to Data’s violin playing) was that, in choosing two reference performers with radically different styles as his basis, he made a creative choice and created something new.
Unfortunately, we can see how this argument falls apart now in the way that AI slop gets produced.
I disagree;
Data is sentient and made a conscious choice based on his preferences.
Modern AI is fed the information it can pull from.
Data is probably much more than probability rating for choices… but we don’t know how a positronic brain works either, so…
I always figured it worked like an electronic brain, but with the opposite charge
Listen here you little shit.
It blinks… a lot.
Data’s head being pretty much just full of jumper wires and LEDs is hilarious.
Maybe the blinking is Noonien Soongs implementation of a christmas easter-egg like in VLC
I agree with the other comment that it’s different in the case of Data, probably. He’s actually intelligent, unlike current “AI” that are just statistical models. They aren’t making conscious decisions about what they think would be best. They’re just doing the thing that fits the input the best (with some noise to not be as predictable).
Data is actually examining a piece and thinking what style could compliment it. It isn’t just statistics, but an active conscious decision. He’s making considerations of why some styles could improve a piece, even though they may not have any statistical relation to each other.
(This is all under the assumption Data is what he appears to be in the show.)