Maybe an obvious detail but Nya actually comes out of the same glass of water Kai knocked over, so in a way, Jay was actually right -- that water did bring him closer to Nya.
"where's Zane?"
Quick Jay, think of a convincing lie.
"over there!"
i literally hate this guy so much vex says bull like "my emperor your army grows restless i humbly advise you provide them with something to occupy them..... (evil conquest connotations)" and ice emperor is like "they need..... entertainment??" and then slowly dramatically rises from his throne and because that accursed song is the only thing hardwired into his programming for some reason he just starts jiggin and singing and vex is like "my liege respectfully what the hell is wrong with you" but he just keeps going at it having the time of his life and when hes done the ice samurai all start clapping and cheering because it was the coolest thing theyve ever seen in their lives and ice emperor does a bow to the audience resulting in more uproarous applause and everyone is ignoring vex who is flabbergasted and doesnt get it
Zane's detective LARPing in prime empire has the same vibe as crude generative ai, in that he's cramming in a ton of material to achieve a likeness to fictional detectives without taking into account how the specifics of the situation may render his emulation unwarranted and seemingly surface level.
Humans and more sophisticated ai models are a lot more shrewd when it comes to processing and selecting data for particular insights.
Do you think Zane learns like a human or like an ai?
To draw a human face, a human has to learn the proportions and proper usage of the drawing tools or materials, and even then it usually ends up somewhat stylised. An ai only has to look at many many images so it can produce a new image that most closely represents the references. A human cannot do that.
Maybe he has a mixture of both, maybe he can fluctuate between the two, I can't decide.
I do, however, like to imagine that if he did learn like an ai, he'd still go through the steps a human needs because they bring him comfort. Even though he can produce near-perfect results, he still makes himself go through the trial and error of human learning, he purposefully gets stuff wrong so he can feel improvement.
It can't be fun to be perfect, right?