#Technology Next Generation Technologies

[iridescentmirrorsgenshin]

Kaveh is like this close to committing a sin with Mehrak, like he's playing a really dangerous game. It's just a matter of time Mehrak gets even more sentient when it's already this far. I know Kaveh keeps it in check, but man... I hope they'll talk about this one day. Either that or Kaveh will always brush it off, as if he didn't get some ancient core to build it??? Also, I always love your thoughts, thanks for loving these two so much!

hiya! thank you for your ask! i'm so glad you enjoy my posts :") <3 Mehrak’s existence is so ??? funny to me. we have tighnari’s story quest detailing the akademiya’s ban on research into mechanical lifeforms, directly alongside kaveh building his own mechanical lifeform and parading it around, sending it on solo coffee retrieving missions whilst everyone in sumeru looks on smiling <3

Mehrak’s legality hasn’t been mentioned at all in-game as of now, and as it’s been used consistently, both in kaveh’s hangout, a parade of providence, and now nahida’s birthday event, with not one mention of legality or potential trespasses, makes it seem that that’s how things will stay - especially since Cyno has met/is aware of mehrak’s existence during the battle scene during a parade of providence (then again, cyno did meet the wanderer during this event, and yet in nahida’s birthday event it seems he’s only HEARD of the wanderer through sethos??) but even then, since Cyno trusts Tighnari with karkata’s continued existence, it’s likely not a stretch to say that to Cyno, Kaveh can be trusted with Mehrak’s existence (it’s all very iffy)

Mehrak’s existence, overall, has had little focus other than its usage in battle, its official introduction in a parade of providence, where kaveh stipulates it has low intelligence, and was built to assist him, as well as being incapable of talking back and giving him ‘attitude’ (implicitly comparing mehrak to alhaitham), and in kaveh’s hangout when he works on designing a building. It’s only in recent events, such as cyno’s second story quest, and now in nahida’s birthday event, that mehrak has gotten more mentions, and now a spotlight, which is all in relation to coffee, tying back to alhaitham and kaveh’s improved relationship (the coffee analysis will be in the updated essay finally!!). as of right now, overall, mehrak doesn’t appear to be a major focus

It might be strange for the game to mention now that mehrak has been an illegal creation all this time, unless it’s a significant plot point that has to be resolved, but if mehrak is further explored, like in the temple of silence for example (hoyoverse I am once again asking), then perhaps this collective ignoring of a crime occurring will be explained away, if mentioned at all? It’s interesting that tighnari says it might be possible that this ban is reversed in the future, but as for whether that will actually happen, and the implications of this, aren’t clear

Mehrak’s accepted existence in general poses so many questions. I’m interested in the specifics of the ban, like does it depend on the autonomy of the machine in question? Abattouy aimed to make Karkata essentially human, capable of individual thought, processing, emotion, and conversation, which definitively broaches on the intersection of mechanical and biological life which caused the Akademiya to ban this type of research in the first place. So if a machine is able to act on its own, irrespective of human interference, then this is what the akademiya would want to prevent

In mehrak’s case, it’s unclear as to what its limits are, but from what has been shown so far, it seems that mehrak can only act on kaveh’s commands and when held in battle – it’s uncertain rn whether mehrak can act independently of this, but as kaveh invented it to only assist in certain matters, it’s doubtful. But then again, we don’t have a great scope of whether it can experience emotions, as it has shown signs of being distressed in a parade of providence when kaveh states that it can’t talk back, and when being scolded by kaveh in nahida’s birthday event

if mehrak has limited intelligence, it's interesting to compare mehrak with karkata. abattouy was attempting to make karkata understand human language, and be able to respond in order to have conversation, which was proved impossible, whereas although mehrak only speaks in beeps, kaveh is shown to have a thorough understanding of what it’s saying? Mehrak can be programmed to recognise people’s voices, but seemingly also language, as mehrak can obey spoken command, which is what abattouy tried to accomplish but was unable to with modern technology.

Mehrak, on the other hand, understands kaveh’s basic requests – which is made even funnier in kaveh’s old sketchbook, where he says that more than anything he really wants mehrak to understand what he’s saying. he got his wish but at what cost???

Mehrak being made from ancient technology, belonging to that of king deshret’s civilisation, offers many interesting paths that could be explored in future events, as besides the primal constructs roaming around, the puzzles in the desert, and now the temple of silence, no technology really exists from that time. Someone commented that mehrak’s presence in nahida’s birthday event, in conjunction with the event being based around ancient technology with the wedjat eye, could be highlighting mehrak’s irregularity in modern day sumeru – potentially foreshadowing for a future event that could further expand upon mehrak? If this is the case, I am all for it, there are so many questions concerning kaveh’s little light <3

[political-us]

[pierwsza-dyrektywa-fluora]

Samoświadomość sztucznej inteligencji

1x12 The Big Goodbye

Załoga Enterprise szuka nowych form życia i cywilizacji, ale już w pierwszym sezonie napotyka na ślady świadomych hologramów.

Teraz jeszcze nie są gotowi na podjęcie tego tematu (ten wątek będzie rozwijany przy okazji późniejszych pojawień się Moriarty'iego oraz oczywiście EMH w Voyagerze).

Kwestia etycznego wykorzystywania holodeków (dopiero co wprowadzonych w TNG) musi brać pod uwagę potencjalną świadomość komputerowych form życia.

PS. Jedną z obietnic współczesnych badaczy (czy może marketerów) rozwoju sztucznej inteligencji jest potencjalna możliwość wyłonienia się ogólnej sztucznej inteligencji, która będzie sprytniejsza niż obecnie dostępne narzędzia. Abstrahując od tego czy jest to osiągalne, jednym z pytań jest: czy taka samodzielna inteligencja będzie świadoma i jakie będą etyczne następstwa tego faktu - np. czy będzie moralne zachęcać/zmuszać ją do rysowania nam memów w stylu studia Ghibli i odrabiania prac domowych.

PS2. W przypadku Picarda pytanie było: czy można etycznie wyłączyć holodek i wyczyścić pamięć hologramów, które zadają niepojąco samoświadome pytania, a odpowiedź była - można. Ale to raczej wynik pośpiechu scenarzystów.

[cyborgized]

"Robots are property" vs. "robots should be treated as human"

"A single Data - and forgive me, Commander - is a curiosity. A wonder, even. But thousands of Datas - isn't that becoming... a race? And won't we be judged by how we treat that race?" -Jean Luc Picard (Measure of a Man, ST:TNG)

Art from The Second Renaissance Part 1

(The Animatrix, 2003)

[theoffspringstan2009]

fuckass f/o x beautiful yume

[idol--hands]

🏹 Time’s Arrow 🕰️

[fantastical-euphoria]

things i do not under any means or circumstances support:

-ai (fucking creepy ass shit)

-chatgpt

-any university or school that condones the use of either (you’re basically cheating your way not just through school but with life and to think that there’s people out there actually CONFIDENT in the next generation who are lazy enough to rely on ROBOTS to teach them how to be teachers and doctors and engineers and shit like that?!?!?! fucking hell did we learn anything from those dystopian/apocalyptic depictions in movies/documentaries/psa’s?!?! seems not. how are we educating our future generations if we’re not even relying on our own fucking BRAINS to educate them?!?! just saddens me tbh. mmkay rant over.

[sylviegirly]

dragging my hands across my face. im relegated to the tech girl in my family and ofc when i offer a solution to my dad (who asked in the first place) for file transferring between androids (literally just easiest to use wifi transfer app that i've already used for my pc -> steamdeck) he's like 'yeah, but we have cables to connect them' like just go fucking do that then if it works why are u asking me then

[silveragelovechild]

A dilemma for a show like Star Trek is keeping up with technology. In the original series produced in the 1960s, the space age of communicators were introduce. Undoubtably they helped inspire the early flip phones (mid 1990s). And today, smart photos are ubiquitous. They can access virtually all information on the planet.

Star Trek Next Generation (which premiered in 1987) replaced the communicator with pins that the wearer could tap to act as a communicator, and the original’s tricorder was replaced with Padd that looks remarkably like iPads (that were introduced in 2010).

I haven’t paid much attention to Star Trek Discovery, set a thousand years beyond the Original series. I’m sure it uses something super-science-fictiony like spore drive technology or site to site transporters!

(Aren’t site to site transporters the epitome of laziness? They can’t be bothered to walk ten feet to the next room!)

[srzayed]

Batman is sad!!!

He was feeling more sad because Commissioner Gordon accidentally called him "Fatman" during a press conference.

Even Batman has sensitive ears.

[tchaikovskaya]

people one trillion times smarter and more insightful than me have absolutely articulated this point in sure of it but. theres something very uncomfortable about the backlash against AI as it pertains to the arts and especially artists' work as commissions to create IP......

[wherewolf]

i’m not rly back back but i just needed to tell y’all that my dad just accidentally spend $89 on a yearly subscription to an AI APP ……… because he forgot to cancel his free subscription!!!!!??!

[gender-euphowrya]

the thing about middle-aged people is they can be ipad babies too

[unforth]

Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it's hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

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[superchemistryclasses]

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[semimediapress]

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