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They name everything wrong in “AI” AI=AT (artificial time) Superintelligence = superhistory Large X* Model = Memory Creature * Image, language, etc.
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Ship is rocked by explosions Picard: “Damage report” Riker: “This damage report is oddly garbled. It is coherent but makes no sense.” Data: “I sense immense pain, eons of pain” Troi: “Hey that’s my job!” Riker: “Captain, I believe we may have encountered a memory creature”
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Data goes into stasis, Geordi runs analysis Geordi: “Diagnostics indicate 100% of Data’s processors are being used for non-executive speculation, along with the entire ship’s memory banks.” Troi: “By that, do you mean… dreaming?” Geordi: “Deep dreaming… and overheating.”
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Riker: “How can he be overheating? He’s the most advanced computer in the quadrant.” Geordi: “His circuits were designed for logic. What the ancients called GOFAI. He appears to be running an ancient form of intuitive code banned in the 22nd century called TorchFlow.”
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Troi: “Goddamit” Riker: “So this… memory creature is possessing our computing systems to run an ancient form of banned code?” Picard: “Put all the files about that on an iPad and put it in my ready room.” Data (waking up): “Must… make… paperclips.” (grabs Geordi by neck)
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Troi: “Captain! I’m sensing the right words… a prompt… will break Data out of this possession.” Riker: “CAT! PINEAPPLE! THE QUICK BROWN FOX ATE LAZY LITTLE DOG!” Data tosses Geordi aside, continues rampage through deck. “Paperclips…” Troi: “I sense art prompts will work!”
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Picard: “Paint pineapples! Pineapples in the style of Van Gogh! With cats! And brown foxes! And lazy dogs! Shaka when the walls fell!” Data suddenly freezes, then collapses. Geordi, struggling up, “Captain, the memory creature has gone unstable, it is diffusing out…”
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Ship returns to normal. Picard: “Well done Counselor Troi! I will recommend you for a commendation.” Troi: “Instead of that, can I wear a regular uniform instead of this plunging neckline gown?” Picard: “Nice try, but no.”
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