Some AI models get more accurate at maths if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character, ML engineers say::Researchers asking a chatbot to optimize its own prompts found it was best at solving grade-school math when acting like it was on Star Trek.
*Picks up wireless mouse* Hello, computer.
“It might just take a while to get the pitch right” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyV0IVItlM4
Are you sure?!
Thank you Scotty!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride
Ah yes. Star Trek: The One With The Whales.
is this … transparent Aluminium?
They did it. The crazy son’s of bitches did it! Quite awhile ago, it’s commercially available.
There is also This transparent aluminum (linked in that same article) and it’s been used in phone/watch screens also.
Can you explain this reference for me? I do not understand.
It’s a reference to this scene from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
Explanation without video
Scotty, having traveled back in time to the year 1986 as part of a mission to rescue some whales, attempts to use a computer by speaking to it and then mistakenly tries to use the mouse as a microphone when the machine does not respond. He is prompted to use the keyboard instead of verbal commands and gives information on how to manufacture transparent aluminum. This material was not invented until about 150 years later according to the pre-trip history of the Star Trek future but Scotty has given it a head start.
Helping people with their work through teams has taught me that voice control is a disaster to get anything done for anything other than just dictating text.
Oh, thank you for the lengthy explainer.
All I have in return is this fairly interesting video detailing one of the ways we’ve already found transparent metals. Perhaps over the next 150 years we’ll be able to stabilise the material structure.
Thanks again for explaining.
Go watch Star Trek IV first
I’ve seen it, but it was a while ago.
Undiscovered Countries was my favourite TOS movie, because it covered the historically important Khitomer Accords.
Then go watch it second
I will, but only for Spock’s beanie.