Could’ve sworn Data was built specifically to be that way because the prior model unnerved people, and also conspired to kill an entire camp of federation colonists.
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Correct. Lore was too human in some ways, but he lacked empathy.
You can't have empathy if you don't have emotions.
Lore had anger, hatred, jealousy, etc... plenty of emotions.
Didn't he only get those later after he stole the emotion chip from Data?
He stole it to get access to more emotions and to try and fix his defective ones iirc
Ah okay. It has been a few years since I last watched it.
He also learned more social skills with experience during the show, but retained some level of awkwardness from his early experiences. This is in line with how people work.
Or he's awkward because they trained his AI off Reddit comments.
Had they done it with Xitter, the result would have been a total racist.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist
"this"
Home schooled. Socially awkward. Hmm. /s
Not wrong.
Also, I was alot older than when I first watched the series.....that the entire Data vs Lore monkier went right over my head....
.....Even when ST:TNG S1E13 is litterly titled "Datalore".
Took season 3 of Picard for me to get it finally. 🤔🤯
I don't get it, what's the special meaning?
Data is just information, while lore is storytelling. It's why Data's character is more clinical in behavior while his brother Lore is more chaotic and "human"
Oh, right - good call!
Nice, never caught that
Took season 3 of Picard for me to get it finally. 🤔🤯
For those of us who don't watch the Nu Trek stuff, could you elaborate?
ST:P S308 "Surrender".
Data/B4/Lore were all partitioned in the same positronic brain that was in a "new" Data body.
And Lore and Data had an internal fight over the body.
Also you really should give Strange New Worlds a try at least.
IMO S1/2 of Picard is retconned dumpster fire for the most part. 3 was a bit redeemed/its own story Arc.
Thanks for the reply.
Data/B4/Lore were all partitioned in the same positronic brain that was in a “new” Data body.
And Lore and Data had an internal fight over the body.
That seems unusual, that one positronic brain can handle all three of those at once, but it sounds like a potentially interesting episode.
I feel bad for B4, sounds like he'd be way out classed by the other two.
Also you really should give Strange New Worlds a try at least.
I might if it ever comes to a service that I have a sub to where I can see it.
But fundamentally, I'm kind of a 'substance over style' type of person, and all the new Nu Trek stuff seems like all style and all amateurish storytelling retcon, no world building/lore substance.
I kind of feel like that if the writers can't respect the lore and the world building in the Star Trek shows that came before them, and only doing them lip service later on when they're desperate and pandering for viewership, then they're not respectful of me or my viewing time, and hence not worth my effort to 'engage' (pardon the pun).
But I will keep an eye out for Strange New Worlds, and if I see an episode on cable/streaming service, I'll check it out. I've seen some shorts on YouTube, and it peaked my interest a little bit.
no world building/lore substance.
I like Picard and Discovery because they do better at this. At least they have a story arc over a season, and both seem to fit with canon well enough for me. The first season of Discovery is the best Star Trek ever
Strange New World is also good, but it took a lot longer for me to get into because it is more “story of the week”, similar to older series. Plus the previews/ads did not appeal to me at all. Eventually I did get over it and enjoyed the show for what it is
You consider TNG to be Nu Trek? I typically consider TOS, TNG, and DS9 to be the OGs.
They are referring to Star Trek: Picard as 'nu trek', not TNG
Ah, I got mixed up because the original point was about TNG. I guess I somehow missed that he said Picard, meaning the show. My bad. Picard is definitely Nu Trek.
He lacks emotions. He can't understand what others are feeling because he doesn't feel things. He was built and developed with the human colonists where Soong worked. He lived with them, and their input shaped his programming; he was not kept in isolation apart from the society around them (though he did have those memories wiped when Soong implanted the memories of the colonists when the Crystalline Entity attacked). The only thing he lacks is an emotional understanding, since he has no emotions.
He also attended Starfleet Academy. You'd think he'd have done some socializing there. Maybe taken a couple psych classes.
That was one of my thoughts, the amount of social data he could get from Starfleet Academy would be huge. Its not like he needed to study the material. I guess there's an argument that Data was only as social as he was because of the academy. Or maybe the computation needed to make the officer decisions are much more intensive than we think, contrary to what Lower Decks shows heh,kidding I love that show.
You make another good point. He would have started as an Ensign, not an officer. Should have been a few more years os socializing there before being promoted.
Yeah, but Data is actually intelligent and brilliant. ChatGPT is often just giving best averaged answers based on what's most likely - and still hallucinates even in the latest version.
I haven't used it, but it happens even in the demo they showed.
Oh honey, let me tell you, he is NOT lacking any training data.