Comment by mhogers
2 days ago
How close are we to building our own digital Commander Data with the current iteration of voice based agents? "In progress" according to the website - mind blowing that this is current reality.
Cool website. Would love to subscribe to status changes via email.
Extremely far. Not very far from the ship computer. It doesn’t seem sentient but it has a voice interface to all operational data/stats plus a snapshot of all known knowledge at the time of departure from space port.
When dealing with LLMs and prompt engineering to get CAI to do what I needed to do, I am reminded of the scene from TNG where Geordi is continuously rephrasing and readjusting his requests for the computer in the holodeck (especially around 3:30 timestamp):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vaUuE582vq8
That episode is almost uncanny. So accurate seeming and foresighted.
I had not considered the ship computer, indeed feels more close to current progress. Having said that, I started rewatching TNG recently and it is quite fascinating to compare Data to the current voice models.
It's hinted at that Data has a voice model as subsystem. :) He allegedly can't use contractions IIRC. (Then of course he does eventually, because what actor could keep track of that, but anyhow.)