Diehard and maybe even not-so-diehard fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation may recognize Captain Picard talking to the Enterprise's IT infrastructure, either directly to the Enterprise's computer or to Data. Yet when recorded in the late 1980’s, human conversations with AI-like systems represented Sci-fi fantasy, not reality. Diehard and maybe even not-so-diehard fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation may recognize Captain Picard talking to the Enterprise's IT infrastructure, either directly to the Enterprise's computer or to Data. Yet when recorded in the late 1980’s, human conversations with AI-like systems represented Sci-fi fantasy, not reality. Read More DCIG Diehard and maybe even not-so-diehard fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation may recognize Captain Picard talking to the Enterprise's IT infrastructure, either directly to the Enterprise's computer or to Data. Yet when recorded in the late 1980’s, human conversations with AI-like systems represented Sci-fi fantasy, not reality.