The way he says it makes perfect sense to me from a programmer point of view.
First, type of drink Second, subtype Third, whether its hot or cold
Although technically, you wouldn't have a cold earl grey tea, but still. It makes sense.
Iced earl grey is actually really good
It is very good, the coffee bean and tea leaf can make it for you in a 32 oz cup. Back when I was getting them it was like three dollars and change.
I’ve had an iced earl gray.
'course it's 'ot, what you want in it?
Type/variant/temp
Makes sense to me 🤷♂️
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.
"the same procedure as last year, miss sophie?"
-"the same procedure as every year, james!"
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
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
The Enterprise uses the same drinks machine as the Heart of Gold, I see
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.
So, having seen exactly 0 episodes of Star Trek... Can someone please explain?
Bald guy (captain Picard) always orders his tea in a way that kind of sounds odd given how voice interfaces actually turned out. (Tea, Earl grey, hot)
Another character orders tea how we would do so now, and we learn that he orders it that way because otherwise the ship explodes.
Having seen the the first 639 episodes of Star Trek, I also don't get it.
I'm imagining that the other way is the ship's secret self destruct command.
It's explained in a technical manual.
Be very precise with the replicator.
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.
I've seen all of them, and I'd also like an explanation.
Turns out the replicator is based on Stable Diffusion.
How about just "tea" and the computer figures out the rest
Yup, just tell it that whenever he asks for tea, he wants hot Earl Grey. Maybe he liked saying the whole thing every time.
Like a vocal alias
I think it would just replicate the whole plant.
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.
Jade Citrus Mint, coming right up
I've been perusing the technical schematics of the Enterprise and I noticed something odd.
There's no bathrooms.
When you think about it, the replicators need some kind of material to make food out of.
Put it together...
The tea earl grey is POOPIES!!!!
Oh hey this is the transphobic star trek community. What's this doing in my feed?
