I could see saving presets, but having the computer assume would be like when you search for something online and it returns a bunch of results that are ALMOST what you want.
Maybe if you just say “Tea” the most common result is a T-shirt or a T pipe. It feels a lot like adding “buy” to a search to clarify you want to purchase something instead of researching it.
Having the computer intuitively know what you want when you request something would require a perfect understanding of your mind and how it operates. Now do that for every single person who may use the device. Yikes!
Lately, I have to add “Wikipedia” in order to research something, because otherwise Google throws seller ads and seo optimised totally-articles-and-not-ads my way.
This should so have been a plot point in an actual episode… saying “hot Earl grey tea” sends an encrypted distress signal on all federation frequencies
I mean, yeah. It’s just like selecting from a menu. And it’s disambiguating for the parser, which after using gpts is helpful. I mean he could have bound tegh to any thing I guess, so maybe it just makes the most sense to his logical mind
I would think a computer that can make a living person on the holodeck just by telling it to beat Data can handle “tea, Earl Grey, hot” or “Earl Grey tea, hot” or “hot Earl Grey tea.”
Edit: Really, it should just know what Picard means when he says “tea” after he’s done it multiple times.
It’s also a show from the early 90s, when talking to the computer was a fantasy. Remember how they walk around delivering tablets to people for the mail?
Little details about how technology would actually develop stand out super bad when they get close but just miss how things actually went.
It’s also a show from the early 90s, when talking to the computer was a fantasy.
Yeah TNG pilot literally has a character go “Oh you’ve never been on one of these Galaxy class ships” to Riker, after which she shows that you can ask directions from the computer. And then helpful arrows start blinking to direct Riker to the holodeck. (I don’t know if those guiding lights are ever seen again in the canon. Might be, I’m too lazy to find out rn.)
Majel Barrett sounded so young, I just watched that episode a couple of days ago.
One episode of Voyager made me giggle a bit. It’s a ship with “bio-neural circuitry”. One cold open, there’s some phenomena they want to look at, so Chakotay tells Seven who then assigns an ensign to take a pad to B’elanna in engineering with the turbolift, and then B’elanna sends a “power requisition” through another person, via a pad, to the theoretical physicist somewhere in the bowels of the ship, who then has a bit of a chat with the person delivering the pad and then enters the changes into his work station.
I get that with ships that complex, you might have people at different points verifying the commands, so that it’s not just automated, but since they’re all connected, what’s the point of physically walking the pads there?
In what I suspect was an unintentional callback, there’s an episode of Strange New Worlds where the computer guides someone as well. No arrows this time, it just blinks the hall lights in a pattern.
Aliases are not the same as natural language processing, so saying that it already existed for a decade is kinda missing the point, because what they were describing didn’t.
They were very clearly imitating how people would find the beverage via a menu driven interface, but using voice. It’s similar to how real world initial attempts at touch driven computer interfaces had an otherwise unmodified interference mounted on a wall with a touchscreen, and immediately ran into issues with arm fatigue. They didn’t show the arm fatigue in Star Trek either because it’s a TV show and they didn’t predict the future perfectly.
It wasn’t a loaded question. I meant literally how often do you speak to the bash prompt via a voice interface.
The tools and technologies that are used for a textual medium don’t port to voice interfaces, so it makes about as much sense to invoke shell scripting in this context as it does to invoke algebraic variable substitution from the 1500s.
Yeah but a problem with having too many things aliased is that you eventually forget the underlying commands and when you’re on a terminal that doesn’t have your alias you can’t do anything anymore.
Picard is a guy that gets around the galaxy and probably learned the menu on replicators when he was young. And it’s possible that there’s some weird alien food that sounds like hot earl grey tea. Some older replicators are probably still in operation on some planets, and he’s found that the order of “Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” is the most reliable command that works on nearly all replicators. Given how much gets around he got used to always saying it that way so even when he’s in his ready room, he still says it that way without even thinking about it.
I just assumed that he’s in the habit of doing it this way after the time he said “Hot Earl…” and suddenly there was a ripped British nobleman sitting on his replicator.
Yeah but the subverted expectation actually has to make sense with some double meaning or unintended logical resul. If it doesn’t then nothing was subverted and no such joke occurred.
OK. So, let’s just assume, just theoretically, someone in your future let’s you know you don’t have a great sense of humor, feel free to come back and read those comments again.
I never said I don’t get it, just implied it isn’t funny. And it obviously isn’t to many people here judging by the votes.
By using fancy terms and feeling the need to link an explanation (the link is broken, by the way) you now give it a self-opinionated flair. Maybe you’re the weird one.
I’m sorry that I explained a joke to someone who said they didn’t get it.
I suppose the logical thing to do if you don’t think a joke is funny is to complain about it in the comments though, particularly at people who didn’t make the joke who just explained it to someone else.
Your confusion is justified because using the explanations given, it’s not a good joke.
There was an earlier similar joke posted that made much more sense. In a different episode of Star Trek, Beverly tells the computer to define hot as 1.9million Kelvin. This was shown in a panel of the earlier joke. So the Picard Earl Gray Hot joke becomes when Beverly asks for Hot Tea, the computer generates 1.9M Kelvin temperature tea causing the Enterprise to explode.
Unless the joke is you already have to know that whenever Beverly says “hot”, the Enterprise explodes. In which case it is a very good subtle joke.
Captain Picard always orders tea from the computer this way (Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.) The meme makes fun of why he might do that by imagining that saying it a more “natural” way is some kind of self-destruct cue.
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