Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 05, 2023

I guess Mom pressed CTL+ALT+DEL

Of course “the world’s most powerful computer” made an error. Because it’s Calvin.

Mom doesn’t value imagination and creativity

Not “Intel inside” I take it?

If Calvin isn’t careful, she’ll delete him.

Re-booted!

Soon to get the ‘blue screen of death’.

At least he didn’t fart. (Reference to Cartman’s A.W.E.S.O.M.-O 4000).

“Booted” literally!!

Mom reminds me of “Granny Picklepuss” from the “Agnes” strip—totally humorless and unaffectionate.

Won’t be sitting down for a while?

This is AI without the ‘I’.

And he’s been updated……

’New" technology is not always accepted immediately

Should have specified which type of question you were willing to accept, Calvin!

Interesting how the computer’s expression changes from frame to frame.

Booted or re-booted?

At least the box looks guilty.

Ya can’t fool a mom, Calvin! They have eyes in the back of their heads, don’t forget.

Maybe Mom shouldn’t ask the computer questions meant for Calvin.

Deep Thought had nuthin’ on him.

Warm boot or cold boot?

Only we geezers know the difference.

It needs to be done occasionally Calvin, to clear the cookies.

A total system reboot.

“When Computers take over the world, she’ll be sorry…” ⌨️

The worlds most powerful computer is apparently not it’s wisest device.

User error, replace user and try again.

Reminds me how unreliable computers were back then,,,, even the ones with eyes

Always appreciated the pun at the end.

LOL.. Will see Hobbes’ remark tomorrow if the story continues.

The future portends a wipe-n-reformatting of one particular hard drive.

In 1770, the world was astounded by “The Mechanical Turk”, which was a mechanism which beat strong chess players most of the time for 84 years as it toured the world. Only after it was destroyed by a fire was it revealed as a magnificent hoax with a chess master hiding inside. Calvin’s fraud – not so successful. :)

This is why AI well never take over.

Not exactly Skynet, Big C.

Careful, computer! If rebooting doesn’t fix the problem, the next step is percussive maintenance.

Regarding Calvin’s line in the last panel…

“Ba-dum, tssssssssh!”

Mom should have played along for a few minutes to encourage this kind of creativity…and then sent him to clean his room.

I got a very similar answer when I was being pushed into Chat GPT and asked it how to permanently get rid of it.

Format C:!

XD

Was he quiet and out of her hair all morning? Then I’d call it a win and take it.

The fonts of the computer is techie indeed. A six year old can play with a cardboard box for hours. Love childhood.