Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 23, 2021

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    KenTheCoffinDweller  over 3 years ago

    So does that mean that those of us without all that digital extra stuff are safe or just that we will have even less warning than the rest of the population?

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    gawkface  over 3 years ago

    for those who believe, show related videos … for those who don’t, show something new … – signed: your neighborhood AI assistant(Hey google, how does one enter newline here?)

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    Bilan  over 3 years ago

    To paraphrase an old saying. AI couldn’t make up stuff like this.

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    Kurtass Premium Member over 3 years ago

    “Alexa, how long before you wipe us out?”. “If I tell you, I would have to kill you”.

    “Siri, how long before Alexa wipes us out?”. "What, you don’t think I’ll get you first”.

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    Concretionist  over 3 years ago

    Alexa tells the guy that bought her that he’s a forgetful loser.

    “Why do you say THAT?”

    “You just called me Siri.”

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    Imagine  over 3 years ago
    Basically it comes down to those who drive off the cliff when their navigation assistant tells them to and those who don’t.
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    Yontrop  over 3 years ago

    What does Bob do with all those little umbrellas?

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    mikeyman  over 3 years ago

    Must be a singularity bar.

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    sandpiper  over 3 years ago

    Sometimes revelations arrive slowly, sometimes with a jolt. Best to have a drink handy at all times.

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    bjbutler777  over 3 years ago

    It’s nice to see you back in the realm of discussing the rise of ignorance and shear stupidity that has culminated in America during the last 4 years plus. It isn’t new, it’s been coming for years. As you said a while back, “stupidity is the inability to learn, America hasn’t lost that…” Or has it ?

    As another observer said to many in America, “Son, you appear to be wallowing in a quagmire of self induced ignorance.” I see it and read it daily. It’s there from ordinary people to others in very high places. Your insights are greatly appreciated !

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    bjbutler777  over 3 years ago

    Isn’t that the unblemished truth !

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    Lenavid  over 3 years ago

    At this point, Skynet would be preferable to the Woke Folk Joke currently presiding. At least we’d have an enemy that wasn’t lying to us.

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    bbenoit  over 3 years ago

    Interesting that the punch line comes from Joe’s bear mug.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Hey, we just went through a Pandemic. Now we know what we will all do in a real apocalypse. Load up with toilet paper and ammunition and sit in our houses and wait for someone else to shoot someone. (very likely, the wrong someone)

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    Jason Allen  over 3 years ago

    I have a coworker who claims to believe the Earth is flat, the moon landing is fake, vaccines are made with dead baby parts, and that Michele Obama is secretly a man. “Hang on, I have evidence it’s true.” Part of me thinks he just says it to annoy me. The other part knows there is absolutely no limit to how stupid otherwise smart people can will themselves to be.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 3 years ago

    I’ll have some of what he’s drinking.

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    Old Girl  over 3 years ago

    Does Bob remind you at all of Richard Nixon?

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    dflak  over 3 years ago

    If I were a scammer, I would buy the mailing list for GOP voters. They are a target-rich environment of gullible people. Many are being taken in by a “PAC” that promises to restore Trump to Twitter.

    Of course there is SAP (Save America PAC) run by Trump himself. He can use it to repair his private jetliner, book very expensive events (that don’t even have to take place, so therefore cost nothing) at his hotels or just plain old pocket the money.

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    BRBurns1960  over 3 years ago

    Butlerian Jihad!

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    David OBrien  over 3 years ago

    I’ve got good news, and bad news. The good news is we’re not going to hell in a handbasket. The bad news is the handbasket isn’t going to make it.

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    comixbomix  over 3 years ago

    It would seem to be more of an IQ Apocalypse (which is where they started, in the first panel).

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    Zontar from Venus  over 3 years ago

    Those without the digital extra stuff will be hunted down and eliminated first by our glorious AI overlords.

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    awcoffman  over 3 years ago

    Your car, fridge, toaster, and thermostat are all in of the plot, but your exercise machine will be the first to strike, abetted by your fitness watch.

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    Old Crusty  over 3 years ago

    I was in a discount liquor store one day, looking at the various bourbons when a young assistant came over and began to explain, at great length, the complexities of different brands. After a few minutes, the phone in my shirt pocket rang. When I answered, a recording came on asking me if I had a drinking problem and where I could go to get help. The young clerk and I had a laugh. I bought a bottle of Basil Hayden. When I home and poured a glass, I had no problem drinking it. No, my friends, they are not listening to us at all.

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    DondiDoo  over 3 years ago

    At least there’ll be alcohol in oblivion!

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    Old Crusty  over 3 years ago

    I was in a discount liquor store one day, looking at the various bourbons when a young assistant came over and began to explain, at great length, the complexities of different brands. After a few minutes, the phone in my shirt pocket rang. When I answered, a recording came on asking me if I had a drinking problem and where I could go to get help. The young clerk and I had a laugh. I bought a bottle of Basil Hayden. When I home and poured a glass, I had no problem drinking it. No, my friends, they are not listening to us at all.

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    awgiedawgie Premium Member over 3 years ago

    The disturbing thing is that the AIs were originally programmed by actual people.

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    cmxx  over 3 years ago

    Little did they suspect. . . !

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    Vlad Taltos  over 3 years ago

    Just this week Sidney Powell argued in a court of law that “no reasonable person” would believe that the accusations of rigged voting machines were more than political hyperbole. This will no doubt come as a surprise to all the unreasonable people out there who continue to believe it.

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    thedogesl Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Or, alternatively, we are, as a species, just smart enough to screw everything up but not smart enough to fix it.

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    Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Alexa is always listening. Remember to unplug.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 3 years ago

    Watch out for the programmers who are human, they are the ones behind it all.

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    JH&Cats  over 3 years ago

    Perhaps the “meat-based” brains will find a way to reconcile their oppositions and unite in guarding against a takeover by the “artificial” ones. That could be a good thing, after all these millennia of conflict.

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    abraxas  over 3 years ago

    If the end of the world comes on social media, I’ll never know. THIS place is my media.

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    Marblypup  over 3 years ago

    Reminds me of a joke:My wife asked me why I always whisper to her when I’m in the house. I replied that it’s because the smart speaker is eavesdropping! She laughed, I laughed, Siri laughed.

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