Timeline for Did computers in Star Trek ever rival the typical humanoid brain in sophistication?
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| Nov 1, 2015 at 0:10 | vote | accept | Lightness Races in Orbit | ||
| Oct 25, 2015 at 2:19 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/658105553848291328 | ||
| Oct 25, 2015 at 2:13 | comment | added | Eric McCormick | @LightnessRacesinOrbit Definitely. | |
| Oct 25, 2015 at 2:06 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @EricMcCormick: Me too. In that light, I personally preferred the sort of "consciousness" that the Destiny was (and wasn't) developing after hundreds of thousands of years steaming endlessly into the void, in SGU. It seemed like a far more consistent and believable portrayal of how a sophisticated computer system might reasonably evolve over a great deal of time. | |
| Oct 25, 2015 at 2:05 | comment | added | Eric McCormick | @LightnessRacesinOrbit it certainly didn't seem to come up again, though I always thought it was a great episode; but I'm an Asimov (robot series!) fan and software developer 😉. It's something I wish they had explored more, but I'm guessing the AI and AI-adjacent thoughts went almost exclusively into the holodeck Moriarty story arc; both revolving around the potential for that computational ability. | |
| Oct 25, 2015 at 1:59 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @EricMcCormick: Refreshing my memory of that episode, I always had a bit of a problem with it, in that it seemed unlikely that this emergent intelligence would just spontaneously form from the ship's systems and then die after reproducing, with such an occurrence never again taking place even on more advanced starships. I concede that this is not a million miles from how life on Earth started: by chance. Still, I always liked to think that something at the ship's original destination provided the spark; certainly, at the conclusion of the episode, its increased "will" seemed to be gone. | |
| Oct 25, 2015 at 1:57 | comment | added | Eric McCormick | @LightnessRacesinOrbit I thought so too, as it was so seemingly an unlikely source. I recall some vague references in other TNG episodes that the bio-neural gel packs mimicked conventional neural activity enough to generate similar behaviors (my interpretation) to humanoid-like processing, provided enough networking and throughout. Then again, having seen Minuet's behavior early TNG series, the literal capability shouldn't be entirely surprising. | |
| Oct 25, 2015 at 1:53 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @EricMcCormick: That's a very interesting example. | |
| Oct 25, 2015 at 1:48 | comment | added | Eric McCormick | I would argue that the Enterprise D's independent (not commanded/instructed) use of the holodeck to amass enough connections (which Data tried disconnecting, holding up a taxi by the bumper, if I recall correctly) in order to seek out a pulsar to acquire sufficient energy to reproduce, I would say yes. Memory alpha link to TNG ep. "Emergence". | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 23:48 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | Admittedly I'd managed to forget all about androids and whatnot. I'm tempted to clarify that I'm interested in computers that manage stuff, like ship computers (as that was the real crux of my question) but I'm not sure there's much point. | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 23:06 | answer | added | Often Right | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 22:35 | answer | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | timeline score: 12 | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 21:47 | answer | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | timeline score: 17 | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 21:46 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | Um, Data, Lore, Tainer, Moriarty, Exocomps, EMH | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 21:43 | history | asked | Lightness Races in Orbit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |