Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature
An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature;
Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses,
Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses.

A recurring criticism of Data’s art is that he could masterfully reproduce other works, but his creativity was limited to borrowing elements of other people’s art and recombining them. It’s why he is often told his art lacked soul. The advice his friends repeatedly give him is to try to use art to express himself as an individual, not to feed more works into an algorithm until he produces a better art slurry.

I think Data is too similar to being human to be mistaken for a clanker.

I think the real test will be if LLMs start acting like exocomps. I don’t think this is at all likely but I never would have predicted that LLMs could be as accurate as they are or have so many weird emergent phenomena.

If Soong had designed data with the intent to make his creator rich and powerful beyond any sanity or measure. (Instead of being a chill nerd) there’s no doubt in my mind startrek would be a lot less utopian.

Data was a sentient, living being capable of creativity. The “AI” big tech are showing down our throat these days are just overglorify programs who blends existing image together following some prompt.

“Slop; repetitive, mediocre and generated without criteria, this means you don’t like this piece of art? There is something to change?” Data said.

the fact that data is laying physical paint onto a physical canvas and having to evaluate and create from the point of the medium tells me that he’s not slop.

of course he’s a fictional character. but yeah.

This physically hurt me.