Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for February 11, 2024

finally … some ideas that Elon can prove to be useful with

Never could understand how people could go outdoors bare-headed in the freezing cold—especially when it’s snowing!!

Of course, Adam is thinking of food and coffee

A new meaning to “gut check”.

I don’t know if I’d ever be able to trust an AI sandwich robot. What if they gain sentience and try to poison you or worse, serve you a sandwich with dry turkey, bland mustard and wilted lettuce?

Gary, from Wallace the Brave, is looking for a job.

The Three Laws of Sandwich Robotics.

1: A robot may not starve a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to starve.

2: A robot must fulfill the sandwich orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3: A robot must protect its own sandwich orders as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws

Jack Vance (if I remember correctly – I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong) wrote two wildly different books on the one premise: the robots take over. One was dystopian, with humans having no real freedom left. The other was utopian, with the robots handling all the little stuff humans had greater freedom to enjoy themselves than ever before.

I remember when I was a kid my mom and I stepped into an Automat in downtown NYC one day in the 1950’s for lunch. I asked her how the food got into the little window boxes to which she just said “Robots”. I had recently been to the movie Forbidden Planet, so I thought that was the coolest thing in the world. Imagine my disappointment on learning it was filled by people. I think she just felt too rushed to explain the whole process of people running back and forth filling them as they emptied on a busy lunch hour.

If it’s AI made by Neil deGrasse Tyson,I’d welcome it.Made by Elon Musk?Run screaming for underground caves.

What if A.I. begins drawing all our comics? Will Adam write a bestseller? Will Nate and Daphne marry? Will Calvin and Hobbes return? Will Mark Trail actually become popular?

If robots do everything…where is the money going to come from to pay for everything? Issac Azimov’s book I Robot describes it better. The three laws of robots.

We lost our privacy when we started listening in on the Party Drum Line. Long Distance was relative.

Kid, your brain is light years ahead of your Dad’s!

For the goofy, fun version of The Singularity read the webcomic Questionable Content. It’s mature in all the good ways and can be extremely funny. The Bubbles/Fay storyline should have been nominated for a Hugo award.

I’d be worried about AI’s solution to climate change, considering most think climate change is caused by humans.

AI is even getting into comic strips now. Buy AI stocks!

Reminds me of the song “In the Year, 2525” by Zaeger and Evans.

It will utopian for rich people; it will be dystopia for poor people. The way it usually is with most technological innovations. Cost benefits from AI usage will be realized by the rich, who will build refuges from the dystopian side effects.

I think I would be very uncomfortable with sandwich robots, or the like. As it is now, I feel rather guilty just asking Alexa to turn on/off a light, when I could easily do it myself. I often thank Alexa, and sometimes she responds to that. Our household joke is that when AI takes over, they’ll remember who was nice or respectful to them, and will kill us last.