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It’s just a way of collecting more darter (emphasis on pronouncing the proper British way rather than the American way so many folk do) it is not intelligent is it?
Exactly. Almost everything done by computers these days seems to be getting described as "AI" but I have yet to be convinced that any of it satisfies what I would regard as a reasonable definition of "intelligence" (and, as I've also said, we first need to decide what we mean by "intelligence", even in humans or other biological animals).

As we've both said. these computers are merely doing what tney have been programmed to do (by humans) which, as we've also both said, in the context of Chat GPT and the like is just a matter of collecting and processing data - the only (admittedly dramatic) difference from what humans could achieve being that of speed.

Kind Regards, John
 
You have that back to front!

In Star Trek: The Next Generation, the character Mr. Data's name is pronounced "Day-ta" (with a long "a" sound), and he corrects others who use a different pronunciation.
A well-known scene from the show addresses this directly:

Dr. Katherine Pulaski: "Dah-ta, look at this."
Lt. Commander Data: "My name. It is pronounced 'Day-ta'."
Dr. Pulaski: "Oh? What's the difference?"
Lt. Commander Data: "One is my name. The other is not."

The in-show explanation for the specific pronunciation is that it is simply how he prefers his name to be said. The real-world reason is that actor Patrick Stewart used the British pronunciation "Day-ta" during the first script read-through, and that version stuck for the series, overriding the original production guide which called for the American "Dah-ta" pronunciation. This influence is thought to have even changed the common pronunciation of the word "data" in American English.
No you got it wrong way around.

Thing is with any name it is up to the named person to decide how their own name be spelt and how it be pronounced too so I an American chooses to do one particular way it is up to them, anyone is allowed to choose what their own name is in many countries including the uk and may change as it as often as they decide ( unless for fraudulent reasons of course) but quite understandably a bank etc might want some approved manner like marriage or deed poll etc etc otherwise absolute might reign down upon us.

“Hello Mr Luxury Yacht! ?” , “ well actually yes it is spelt Luxury Yacht but it is pronounced Throat-Warbler-Mangrove-Grebe!”
 

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