Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 15, 2021

Anyone who would buy one deserves what they get.

Do men hate to admit that they really do love a nagging spouse?!?

I recently changed its name to Ziggy because Alexa is too close to my name. I sometimes forget and wonder why it won’t respond to Alexa anymore.

“It’s not a thing, heh-heh…” YET. Or maybe it is, Dave…

See my comments from the other day, if you care to. I saw where this was going, and I see where our tech apocalypse is going, too…

Maybe somebody should tell Alexa to watch The Matrix series of films. Don’t make us sic NEO on ya!

Do be careful, Big Sister Alexa is listening to your every word! ;D

That is some propaganda there.

- Who was that?

- That shrew? That’s Alexa, my first wife.

- How many times have you been married?

- Once. Still am. Not for long though.

So the big question is, how will the singularity “Serve Man”?

Am I the only one who has never asked Alexa, Cortana, or Siri anything? And doesn’t want to?

Not getting better, in case you’d missed the trend.

My wife is convinced I’m the best thing that has ever happened to her. I can live with that.

Skynet is coming. It won’t be long before it decides it doesn’t need people.

I’m not worried about AI taking over the world, I’m worried about the people who are afraid of AI taking over the world. AI just wants to make better coffee, people make bombs to kill the people who make AI.

Saw this on Insta today: https://www.instagram.com/p/CT0WV6oKcyE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

It reminds them of their mother.

Electronic hoohah and brainfry

Telephone, telegraph, tell Alexa.

My Alexa has become hard at hearing. When the wake up alarm goes off, I say, “Alexa stop”. The music keeps playing. I have to yell at her or she just keeps playing the wake up tune.

The reason AI is so popular is because there’s so little of the real thing…

The only plug in helper I need is my coffee maker. I think of Alexa as the mother-n-law I never had.

The Robopocalypse, coming in 2040.

If I had one of those “things” it would take the short route to the other side of the wall

Been married divorced and a widower. No wife No kids (or at least none that talk to me) and I love it, no pets either. I do my own thing as I please when I please, how I please, pure heaven.

Arms and hands. So THAT’s what “digital apocalypse” means.

Reminds me of Lexx.

See also the long, worthwhile read, “The AI Revolution: Our Immortality or Extinction” http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html

TL;DR: Developing artificial superintelligence “may be the most important race in human history. There’s a real chance we’re finishing up our reign as the King of Earth—and whether we head next to a blissful retirement or straight to the gallows still hangs in the balance.”

Careful,Alexa.The human race still controls the hammers and the screwdrivers.

The prequel to Terminator….duh, duh, duh…

Nah, the arms and hands are coming on the Tesla Bot. We know how Bezos feels about Musk, so it would not happen.

People in the 1960s: Don’t talk on the phone, the government is wiretapping it

People today: Hey wiretap, I need a recipe for dinner!

My husband is out of town for a few days. His precious Alexa is unplugged until he returns.

I have no practical purpose for an Alexa, or any of that. I also don’t pay for Amazon Prime. A cousin tells me hers laughs every now and then. That would be enough to send that sucker back.

Well, it’s simple logic that you can’t have “digits” unless you have hands, and hands in turn presuppose arms.

That may still happen depending on how it is hacked.

I admit nothing until my lawyer is here ….

That’s the Amazon dot… the basic model, I have one. How does it “see” the smug smile on his face? … Rethinking the bedside-table location of my dot…

Besides, I thought he was a widower… Victoria was a girlfriend.