Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for June 26, 2023

Later…where did all the people go?

To quote someone from Storage Wars, “Yuuuuuuup.”

You left out credit cards, ATMs, BitCoin.

Social media? That more like mainstream media

Take that logic backwards far enough, and electric lights might seem like a bad idea.

This just in: Majority of people have the memory of a goldfish, never learn.

Sports section: Local sports team wins, everything is good again.

This just in: Majority of people have the memory of a goldfish, never learn.

Sports section: Local sports team wins, everything is good again.

This just in: Majority of people have the memory of a goldfish, never learn.

Sports section: Local sports team wins, everything is good again.

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The answer is NOTHING. Just ask AI.

“What’s the worst thing that can happen?” is a question sure to test the limits of your imagination. (As the US worked on the atomic bomb they weren’t sure what might happen – if it even worked – but one scenario was that once started the bomb would keep expanding in power and destroy the world in a ball of atomic fire. They decided to test it anyway. Hey, at least Japan and Germany would have also gone up in flames.)

“Hmm why are there robot skeletons outside my home?”

FRN*

Do you think private enterprise really thinks about the negative implications of new technology or are they counting on them to make money?

“Do you sense a pattern, Mr. Spock?”

AI will be the death for us all. Okay Hal please open the bay door now

I think that Asimov’s three laws of robotics should be applied to any usage of AI – robot, computer, cell phone etc. (The first law regards causing no harm to a human being.)

1996…I had a ARPANET account before the Internet. I remember the moaning and wailing when the first advertisements hit the ’net.

GIGO

The worst that can happen? No matter how bad it is, it could be worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AFf0ysgNiM

so many ways to go right, but we only have to get this wrong once.

AI takes over your persona and eliminates you.

We are lucky feminists don’t read comics, are we?

Forgot about how, in the mid 1980s, robots were “going to take over everybody’s job” when they were installed in factories… although the only jobs they took were precision and / or repetitive jobs that freed workers to do more skilled jobs…

When the computer revolution started in the ’80s, people said it would cut down on labor and people could work fewer hours. It did cut down on the hours, but they just laid off people and kept the money.

Now they’re making the same claim about AI.

Never say that Murphy takes it as a challenge.

Plenty of AI in the D.C. area…!

I use a 4g flip phone, the GPS is off, and my ANTIVIRUS is running well …

Was just noticing the placement of the hands in the first and last panels. I see as nasty case of carpal tunnel in the making.

Never Ask That Question!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSD75pPsquM