It's ironic that in a lot of old school sci-fi the robots couldn't talk properly yet where completely sentient. Even Data couldn't do contractions.
Yet it seems we reached the opposite, a fully eloquent idiot.
Yet it seems we reached the opposite, a fully eloquent idiot.
I'm pretty sure the plot point (and the ban on Data using contractions) doesn't even get a mention again in the rest of the series.
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I'm never a fan of the "AI" hype, but GPT-3 decidedly changed my mind. If I can be attracted to read, for hours, the meaningless stories generated by a mindless language model in an experimental stage - still, with a quality arguably outperforms many unskilled humans, I'd say I'm convinced that there are lots of promising applications of machine learning (for better or worse), even if it's only capable of feeding low-quality content to the people. 1984 got it right.
"Politicians" come to mind first, of all stripes and types. Quite literally, speech + the ability to communicate seems to have little bearing on logic, deep thought, reasoning.
Even artists. Music, painting, these are things which communicate greatly. Yet some of these are devoid of all intelligent, capable thought.
Note that not all politicians, musicians, or artists fall into this category. It is merely that good artists, or politicians, need to communicate something, and well, else they cannot be effective at their primary profession.
So it is a good source of "can communicate well", where some of the sample is in the "but spews gibberish" category.
Neither did my father (although English wasn't his first language, but still). I did find it very odd.