I feel like all the subroutines he adds are just giving his program the ability to try these things out. He is limited by his programming, but at the same time the computers in Star Trek can learn things in a more real way than current LLM type AI. So he gave himself permission to draw, but he still has to learn how to do it.
The only thing I can think of that he was immediately good at without much practice was singing. And even then, he could not reach the levels that one alien race reached once he taught them.
I feel like all the subroutines he adds are just giving his program the ability to try these things out. He is limited by his programming, but at the same time the computers in Star Trek can learn things in a more real way than current LLM type AI. So he gave himself permission to draw, but he still has to learn how to do it.
The only thing I can think of that he was immediately good at without much practice was singing. And even then, he could not reach the levels that one alien race reached once he taught them.
Those twerps were stretching the program well beyond the ability of most, if not all, humanoids.
For the sake of writing, I just love that it created an excuse for Robert Picardo to show off his skillset.
The writers of Voyager were great for working in a parody of an opera song about Tuvok having Pon Faar in the episode where the Doc starts dreaming.
A favorite of mine.