{"id":170391,"date":"2023-08-24T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T18:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/william-shatner-star-treks-captain-kirk-takes-on-an-ai-chatbot"},"modified":"2023-08-24T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T18:22:59","slug":"william-shatner-star-treks-captain-kirk-takes-on-an-ai-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/william-shatner-star-treks-captain-kirk-takes-on-an-ai-chatbot","title":{"rendered":"William Shatner, Star Trek\u2019s Captain Kirk, takes on an AI chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/william-shatner-star-treks-captain-kirk-takes-on-an-ai-chatbot2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES, Aug 24 (Reuters) \u2014 Legendary \u201cStar Trek\u201d actor William Shatner has been spending time exploring the new frontier of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The actor best known for playing Captain Kirk on \u201cStar Trek\u201d talked with ProtoBot, a device that combines holographic visuals with conversational AI, and grappled with philosophical and ethical questions about the technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m asking ProtoBot questions that ordinarily a computer doesn\u2019t answer,\u201d Shatner told Reuters. \u201cA computer answers two plus two, but does ProtoBot know what love is? Can ProtoBot understand sentience? Can they understand emotion? Can they understand fear?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, Aug 24 (Reuters) \u2014 Legendary \u201cStar Trek\u201d actor William Shatner has been spending time exploring the new frontier of artificial intelligence. The actor best known for playing Captain Kirk on \u201cStar Trek\u201d talked with ProtoBot, a device that combines holographic visuals with conversational AI, and grappled with philosophical and ethical questions about the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}