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Extremely far. Not very far from the ship computer. It doesn’t seem sentient but it has a voice interface to all operational data/stats plus a snapshot of all known knowledge at the time of departure from space port.
When dealing with LLMs and prompt engineering to get CAI to do what I needed to do, I am reminded of the scene from TNG where Geordi is continuously rephrasing and readjusting his requests for the computer in the holodeck (especially around 3:30 timestamp):
That episode is almost uncanny. So accurate seeming and foresighted.
I had not considered the ship computer, indeed feels more close to current progress. Having said that, I started rewatching TNG recently and it is quite fascinating to compare Data to the current voice models.
It's hinted at that Data has a voice model as subsystem. :) He allegedly can't use contractions IIRC. (Then of course he does eventually, because what actor could keep track of that, but anyhow.)