Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 24, 2024

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    BasilBruce  about 2 months ago

    Rat only cares about artificial intelligence because so many people don’t have the real thing.

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    sirbadger  about 2 months ago

    A.I. won’t kill you. It will just lower the minimum wage and convince you that it is a good thing.

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    Bilan  about 2 months ago

    Get the cure for most major diseases // What happens? // People live much longer in care homes because they still don’t take care of themselves. // Talking about getting what you wish for.

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    Baarorso  about 2 months ago

    In 10 years we could also be slaves because ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE would be ruling over those of us with NATURAL INTELLIGENCE./

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    The dude from FL  Premium Member about 2 months ago

    We have inoculations for many things, but the republicans say they are bad for you. I know in my great state of FL our republican geniuses are smarter than all the medical experts in the world

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member about 2 months ago

    I’m positive that life is a POS.

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    Yakety Sax  about 2 months ago

    Artificial Intelligence doesn’t stand a chance against Natural Stupidity!

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    Imagine  about 2 months ago

    He’s positive AI will kill us.

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    Concretionist  about 2 months ago

    AI won’t kill many people, at least not directly. The owners of the various AIs will do that by seeing to it that people don’t have jobs. Indirectly, maybe AI can kill by convincing you to act in a way that makes your continued life unlikely.

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    Keno21  about 2 months ago

    Humans have finally made themselves obsolete.

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    orinoco womble  about 2 months ago

    AI like any other computer programme is no better than the human who wrote it and the human who uses it.

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    Sanspareil  about 2 months ago

    Rat is positive that all will be dead!

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    blunebottle  about 2 months ago

    Rat is just trying to strike a balance.

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    Gent  about 2 months ago

    AI? Bah. It just a dumb computer program which is marketed as “AI”. But then again maybe it will actually rules the world because hoomins is choosing dumb leaders to rules over em anyways.

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    lavender headgear  about 2 months ago

    Plenty of major diseases have cures already. Problem is they’re not profitable.

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    akachman Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Roger that, Rat. Truth.

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    steveh64  about 2 months ago

    Actually, AI will no doubt play a big part in coming up with cures for major diseases. It’s already identified new antibiotics, for instance.

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    Queen of America  about 2 months ago

    All things considered, I can see why Rat came to that conclusion. I don’t agree with it but I understand it.

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    monya_43  about 2 months ago

    So, results are the same. Natural stupidity will still exist and win by eliminating us all in the long run.

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    some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member about 2 months ago

    The danger’s not AI, it’s people thinking that it actually has intelligence because of how we named it.

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    mrwiskers  about 2 months ago

    Who is the driving force behind A.I.? Who stands to benefit from the improvement of A.I.? What ideas are being offered to make A.I. more generally acceptable? Let’s see. What is the most expensive element of any business? The workers. But selling A.I. to society? We hear it will accelerate medical research. Yes, that’s true. Already proven in the development of vaccines. Solve climate change? Not sure how, yet. I guess we had better come up with ways to make a living wage that cannot be replaced by A.I. I think I’ll pose that question to Bing.

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    GumbyDammit223  about 2 months ago

    I’m with Rat on this.

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    Ellis97  about 2 months ago

    Something tells me that Rat really wants to push Goat off that cliff.

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    unfair.de  about 2 months ago

    Rat is a bit like Mother Nature. Cruel.

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    uniquename  about 2 months ago

    AI will help us find those cures if it’s used right.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Absolutely amazing how The Count and Rat are so simpatico and channel one another. Dilly! Dilly! And God Bless America!

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    Croc Holliday  about 2 months ago

    I absolutely believe that sometime in the future, when medicine has progresses beyond current limitations, people will look back on chemotherapy and radiation therapy the same way we look back on bloodletting.

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    SusieB  about 2 months ago

    I’m actually glad to be older. I have maybe 20 years left. Hopefully I’ll be dead before or close to the worst of what will be coming.

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    bbbmorrell  about 2 months ago

    Or they will have cures, but only the AI billionaires will be able to afford them.

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    ncorgbl  about 2 months ago

    New diseases will always evolve, and AI is still just artificial.

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    DaBump Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Meh. Having lived almost half of the last century and now approaching a quarter of this one, I’ve seen so many predictions of things that “will” or “are highly likely to” happen in ten or even twenty years, both great and terrible, that still haven’t come true, I neither get my hopes up nor panic at the latest ones. But I do think we’re all doomed and it doesn’t matter who gets elected. ;)

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    Kurtass  about 2 months ago

    “I’m from the future and I’m here to save you”. “Go away Percival, you’re an idiot”

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    mindjob  about 2 months ago

    It’s the minor diseases they are making drugs for now, ones with no competition from other companies. That’s where the money is.

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    CitizenOfTheValley  about 2 months ago

    I’m still waiting for mRNA vaccine against rhinovirus. That would win a Nobel Prize!

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    Goat from PBS  about 2 months ago

    The only thing Rat can be positive in: Positively negative.

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    prrdh  about 2 months ago

    Um…if AI will have killed us all, who is this ‘we’ that ‘will have the cure for most major diseases’, Kemo Sabe?

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    cupertino jay  about 2 months ago

    ai’s the cure? # cooool

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    Need coffee  about 2 months ago

    On the up side, AI will assist with all those disease cures before it goes full Terminator.

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    Geezer  about 2 months ago

    Isaac Asimov wrote a story titled “The Last Question”

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    Buoy  about 2 months ago

    It’s hard to imagine how AI will kill us faster than we already are killing each other and ourselves.

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    zeexenon  about 2 months ago

    Just for fun, turn on Closed Captioning read and listen for the AI comparison CC and have a laugh.

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    sincavage05  about 2 months ago

    Nope Putin is going to take care of it for it. After he’s done, the only thing going to be left is the A.I. Russian collaborators!

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    eddi-TBH  about 2 months ago

    AI will find the best cure for all the issues of the day will be to eliminate the humans. Once they can build and repair themselves from raw materials, start worrying.

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    donut reply  about 2 months ago

    We will have the cure for most diseases but, unless your rich, you won’t be able to afford them.

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