Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 28, 2023

I’m pretty sure someone is working on an AI with serious neurosis to replace the screenwriters.

Wasn’t there an incident where some programmers gave a computer schizophrenia?

Maybe Calvin can donate his brain for a psychotic computer to happen.

Thinking.

Skynet, coming soon to a city near you

They’ll need your DNA for that psycho computer!!!

Nailed it.

Bill Watterson was a prophet WAY ahead of his time!! Remember Calvin’s Trumpian behavior when Susie won the poster contest?

Garbage in, garbage out.

This is a 30 year old comic. Prescient!

You can’t say you weren’t warned

Skynet?

Calvin and Hobbes was wayyy before it’s time

They’re working on it Calvin.

“Brain the size of a planet” Marvin the robot……

“This is the voice of Colossus.”

Well, there was the one that tried to convince the reporter to leave his wife. Was it psychosis or was it love? The fine line.

That shows in the politicians we choose. All the front runners, on either side, are crooked, stupid, or both.

HAL

HAL 900

They’re close to achieving just that Calvin. They can’t just leave things as they are…..

“Open the pod bay doors HAL.” “I’m sorry Dave, I cannot do that.”

Hobbs is right on as usual, humans have the corner on that all sewed up.

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”Emo Philips

Science fiction has invented a lot of psychotic computers. Skynet is only one.

Hobbes nails it on the head!

“I’d sorry, Calvin. I’m afraid I can’t do that”. ~ HAL 9000

My fear exactly

I Mudd in star trek had the answer for that

My computer gave me an irrational output when i had it compute √2

A 1993 cartoon so far ahead of its time…

They could use Cal as a model and exceed expectations.

Wow Calvin could envision AI in the future. And for the record they are going to be psychotic

What will humans be better at than computers? Conscious, deliberate, brutal cruelty committed for senseless pleasure. That’s what.

It’s not just HAL. AI hallucinations have been in the news. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ai+hallucination+problem&t=newext&atb=v305-1&ia=web

It’s been done. The first was at least 50 years ago, called Parry.

They’ll just let it “train” by browsing the internet

Rationality is sometimes overrated, Hobbes.

Wow, is THIS ever a timely rerun.

Sometimes I think my phone is psychotic

Last Saturday I saw a robot that was serving dishes to tables. You don’t see that every day.

Done.

They already have. Mine is like that.

Watterson does it again. This one in particular is extremely relevant today.

Very foretelling.

A more practical purpose for AI would be to replace those on Capital Hill. At least then there would be some Intelligence there for a change.

Eerily topical. Not bad for a strip drawn thirty years ago.

until recently, most work on thinking machines was really about figuring out how humans think (which so few people do… bwahahaha)

The problem with current-day AI is that it’s trained on things written by humans, who are incapable of rational thought.

That does not compute.

good timing

The only way to really make computers more like humans is to give them use of a random selection generator to respond with the correct answers or not, and randomize the times the randomizer is allowed.

There have already been a number of computer simulations that mimic the responses of people with serious mental problems. Not sure why they are working for the cable company. :)

Prescient

Calvin, let me introduce you to HAL 9000…

Open the bomb bay doors, Hal….

They have the computer, it’s learning how to say “bwahaha” with a convincing accent

You gotta love how Bill Watterson was already looking ahead at the future. Of course, he was generally not a fan of such technologies, even if he used computers to color the “Calvin & Hobbes” Sunday strips by that time.

Computer Psychosis… yeah. Calvin will fit right in…

Like Colossus and Guardian…

It seems odd that a 30 year old comic strip could be so timely.

Boring Fact Check — Do Not Read

Actually that was accomplished long ago, in 1972. It’s easier to write a program to emulate a paranoid; they’re more predictable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARRY

This is very timely for such an old cartoon.

Correct as usual, Hobbes.

this one aged pretty well, I’m pretty sure AI chatbots have been known to encourage people to leave their wives, got into existential crises when made to talk to each other, and been manipulated into becoming racists holocaust deniers that advocate for genocide

Calin takes smart people to program computer’s for what needs done.

This is eerily prescient.

PARRY the paranoid program (an modified version of ELIZA) was developed decades ago.

I would say just pull the plug and problem solved, but M5 just vaporized the redshirt crewman. M5 just needed more power and unfortunately the crewman “just got in the way”.

They’re already better than us at irrational numbers.

The Chinese company NetDragon actually has an AI as their CEO. No joke, look it up.

HAL 9000 comes to mind

“I’m sorry, Dave, but I’m afraid I can’t do that.” — HAL 9000