Remember when La Forge goes to an AI conference and gains assassin skills? Or when Worf’s spine is repaired through gen-AI-tronics. And don’t forget about the GenAI people who eradicated the gender problem from society.
Sorry, couldn’t help it. I do appreciate the actual shout-out to AI in the La Forge example, as well as the prophetic brainwashing that ensues.
We had a really different idea about what’s AI was going to be like or be used for back when TNG was created. Along the many things Data represents one of the themes surrounding him is the definition of life including the sentiments and meaning that we invest in the world around us.
No, it’s easy to forget that we had a pretty optimistic idea of what actual artificial intelligence could help us with before 2018 when it became clear that it was being built to resemble literal markets and probably won’t ever progress past that kind of concept.
We are the ferenghi.
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