• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Well they fiddle a bit with it, but full blown AI companions for everyone? Guess it’d be boring as hell to watch…

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      4 days ago

      Full blown AI as in a person, albeit synthetic, well you have Data, and the EMH in Voyager.

      Striking upon the version of a synthetic ‘intelligence’, but just an echo chamber for the person that it is made in service for, yeah, those are there and better as a one shot, at least in a show where the recurring cast shouldn’t be completely dysfunctional. It’s a way to show a character growing and facing the negative consequences of ‘the easy way out’, and not very good if the character has to just stay in the muck for the duration.

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        3 days ago

        Well the ai friend could be “a la Matrix” and thus not the easy way out but like a parenting/concerned friend. But I still imagine it would be not very funny.