Happy Halloween! Here’s a funny vacuum story for you!
About 20 years ago, my wife used a 20 year old Rainbow vacuum. If you’re unfamiliar with Rainbows, they are water based. The motor sits atop a tank of water and the vacuumed dirt gets jetted into the water. The tank needs to be dumped and cleaned after every vacuuming. A gross job getting rid of five pounds of mud, but worth it because of how well a Rainbow cleans.
One day, a Kirby vacuum salesman came over to demonstrate what he said was the most powerful vacuum available at the time. So we let him in to see how a Kirby stacked up against our Rainbow on a deep pile carpet. His Kirby was an upright with a bag, and the hose could detach from the head to do upholstery. He also had a special attachment on the head that could accept 4" round filters for the demo.
For the first test, he spread dirt all over our carpet and had the Rainbow vacuum it up. Of course the Rainbow water was filthy. He then put a demo filter into his Kirby and told us that our vacuum couldn’t pick up all the dirt and that the Kirby would show what was left behind. After vacuuming the carpet, he was astonished to see that the filter was clean! He tried three more times with the same result, and with the last time he ran the vacuum over the spot for a good minute. He mumbled something about never having seen that before.
The second test was a reverse of the first where he spread the dirt around again and had the Kirby suck it up first followed by the Rainbow. He told us that we wouldn’t pick up anything because the Kirby got it all. So after a fresh water change, the Rainbow sucked up lots of dirt and the water was filthy from all the dirt the Kirby missed. The salesman was now getting nervous and was having trouble sticking to his script.
The third and final test was to put the Kirby’s and Rainbow’s hoses together with a piece of stiff cardboard between them to show which vacuum had the strongest suction. When he pulled th
I have dedcoded to best of abbility the moniters from several days, minus a hard to see monitor on one day in corner of room. enjoy. had to infer spacing since words dont seem spaced correctly.
text from oct 11panel 3it,s eto clea car?(either p or lit,sspar
panel 4 right moniterit,s timclean theit,s timesparkleit,s time the earthit,s time things
oct 12sparkle brightit,s time to savethe earth worldit;s time to set things righta.i. destroyedour world nowwe travel the unaning up a.i.
oct 15panels will go top left to rightisto spa r(i think)
cleanthe car(i thing)kpeth(only had top half of letter)
I am so out of the loop. I keep hearing about AI doing all these things but I think I’d have better luck learning to read Japanese than trying to understand this. I’m a millennial but I feel old. :(
I didn’t use to think that there was anything worse than social media. But AI has changed my mind. I read an article yesterday detailing all the ways that AI is ‘transforming’ business. Everything from chat bots to content creation… one organization thrilled because they could ‘save’ $2000 a week on freelancers and just use ChatGPT.
For one.. I really want to know what ‘news source’ that is so that I make sure I never go there. But two… AI not only steals all the information that is accesses but then lies about it because it does not know what is true.
The next article I read was some HR department claiming that use of AI wasn’t actually costing people jobs… well.. I’m betting the freelancers that used to write for that first company would disagree.
Well said cat. There many steenky long term implications. Steenky AI which ain’t really AI but just steenky marketing gimmicks by big corporations is notheeng but waste of time and resources. Not to mentions it gonna turns kids who use them into dumb zombies with zero creativity while severely hampering theirs intellectual developments and natural talents. Sure use em to autocorrect and grammars checking (as if they works properly in that in the first place). But using them to creating is just dumb theeng to do. And these steenky so called AI is help scammers and spammers to pollutes all over the internets even more than what they was before. Not to mentions killing orginal works, talents and creators. If only me could like this comic more than just once.
Just looks at this comic for example where the cartoonist is draws everything with her own hands. And colours everything with her own hands too. Now that is called talents, efforts, and dedication. Compares this to some lousy crooks using steenky “AI” bots and producing good looking steenky garbage en masse. It may looks good in first sight and most peoples in this low attention span era will no even observe much but closer inspection will reveals the steenk. And it well proven that original works was used by steenky AI to “trains” without permission or compensation to original creators or authors. And it not really “training” but just loading all that information on some steenky computer server and so called AI just some steenky complex computer program.
AI can’t “figure out” fingers because it can’t really conceptualize three-dimensional space. All it knows of reality is from being fed flat images. It “sees” fingers poking out from a sleeve or from beneath an arm, and it “decides” that fingers just like to poke out from things.
Ricky Bennett about 6 hours ago
Happy Halloween! Here’s a funny vacuum story for you!
About 20 years ago, my wife used a 20 year old Rainbow vacuum. If you’re unfamiliar with Rainbows, they are water based. The motor sits atop a tank of water and the vacuumed dirt gets jetted into the water. The tank needs to be dumped and cleaned after every vacuuming. A gross job getting rid of five pounds of mud, but worth it because of how well a Rainbow cleans.
One day, a Kirby vacuum salesman came over to demonstrate what he said was the most powerful vacuum available at the time. So we let him in to see how a Kirby stacked up against our Rainbow on a deep pile carpet. His Kirby was an upright with a bag, and the hose could detach from the head to do upholstery. He also had a special attachment on the head that could accept 4" round filters for the demo.
For the first test, he spread dirt all over our carpet and had the Rainbow vacuum it up. Of course the Rainbow water was filthy. He then put a demo filter into his Kirby and told us that our vacuum couldn’t pick up all the dirt and that the Kirby would show what was left behind. After vacuuming the carpet, he was astonished to see that the filter was clean! He tried three more times with the same result, and with the last time he ran the vacuum over the spot for a good minute. He mumbled something about never having seen that before.
The second test was a reverse of the first where he spread the dirt around again and had the Kirby suck it up first followed by the Rainbow. He told us that we wouldn’t pick up anything because the Kirby got it all. So after a fresh water change, the Rainbow sucked up lots of dirt and the water was filthy from all the dirt the Kirby missed. The salesman was now getting nervous and was having trouble sticking to his script.
The third and final test was to put the Kirby’s and Rainbow’s hoses together with a piece of stiff cardboard between them to show which vacuum had the strongest suction. When he pulled th
azkfwecho Premium Member about 6 hours ago
That’s an interesting take on AI? Never heard this intrerpretation before. Oh, and Beatrix and Orazuzu toebeans! Yipee! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
poimen about 6 hours ago
I have dedcoded to best of abbility the moniters from several days, minus a hard to see monitor on one day in corner of room. enjoy. had to infer spacing since words dont seem spaced correctly.
text from oct 11panel 3it,s eto clea car?(either p or lit,sspar
panel 4 right moniterit,s timclean theit,s timesparkleit,s time the earthit,s time things
oct 12sparkle brightit,s time to savethe earth worldit;s time to set things righta.i. destroyedour world nowwe travel the unaning up a.i.
oct 15panels will go top left to rightisto spa r(i think)
cleanthe car(i thing)kpeth(only had top half of letter)
a,i. iour wo
yur frthorthim??lp
as afrien?to hel
oct 28wewanttohelp
comeinpeace
uncle snipe about 6 hours ago
Too many fingers spoils the Mona Lisa eh? Mickey Mouse is scary enough without 60 ears, and even worse with octopus fingers!
thelsrc about 6 hours ago
In Panel 1, Iggy is answering your question, Ora Zella.
andycat Premium Member about 6 hours ago
Anyone else notice how the Mona Lisa’s eyes are also askew in the second panel, much like Elvis and Puck’s?
Sue Ellen about 6 hours ago
Drumstick is rocking the chyron maker!
WelshRat Premium Member about 5 hours ago
Yay, the feed’s back! Burt, recruit this Raccoon!
Jungle Empress about 4 hours ago
I am so out of the loop. I keep hearing about AI doing all these things but I think I’d have better luck learning to read Japanese than trying to understand this. I’m a millennial but I feel old. :(
cat19632001 about 3 hours ago
Time to turn your BCN calendars for – SPACE GOO!
cat19632001 about 2 hours ago
Well … at least the AI didn’t add bunny ears behind Mona Lisa’s head.
Robin Harwood about 2 hours ago
AI does get a bit mixed up when it comes to fingers.
Calvinist1966 about 2 hours ago
Mickey Mouse has had 86 years so far.
conuly about 2 hours ago
AI also has a huge carbon footprint
betsypoe about 1 hour ago
I didn’t use to think that there was anything worse than social media. But AI has changed my mind. I read an article yesterday detailing all the ways that AI is ‘transforming’ business. Everything from chat bots to content creation… one organization thrilled because they could ‘save’ $2000 a week on freelancers and just use ChatGPT.
For one.. I really want to know what ‘news source’ that is so that I make sure I never go there. But two… AI not only steals all the information that is accesses but then lies about it because it does not know what is true.
The next article I read was some HR department claiming that use of AI wasn’t actually costing people jobs… well.. I’m betting the freelancers that used to write for that first company would disagree.
Gent 39 minutes ago
Well said cat. There many steenky long term implications. Steenky AI which ain’t really AI but just steenky marketing gimmicks by big corporations is notheeng but waste of time and resources. Not to mentions it gonna turns kids who use them into dumb zombies with zero creativity while severely hampering theirs intellectual developments and natural talents. Sure use em to autocorrect and grammars checking (as if they works properly in that in the first place). But using them to creating is just dumb theeng to do. And these steenky so called AI is help scammers and spammers to pollutes all over the internets even more than what they was before. Not to mentions killing orginal works, talents and creators. If only me could like this comic more than just once.
Gent 32 minutes ago
Just looks at this comic for example where the cartoonist is draws everything with her own hands. And colours everything with her own hands too. Now that is called talents, efforts, and dedication. Compares this to some lousy crooks using steenky “AI” bots and producing good looking steenky garbage en masse. It may looks good in first sight and most peoples in this low attention span era will no even observe much but closer inspection will reveals the steenk. And it well proven that original works was used by steenky AI to “trains” without permission or compensation to original creators or authors. And it not really “training” but just loading all that information on some steenky computer server and so called AI just some steenky complex computer program.
The Wolf In Your Midst 28 minutes ago
AI can’t “figure out” fingers because it can’t really conceptualize three-dimensional space. All it knows of reality is from being fed flat images. It “sees” fingers poking out from a sleeve or from beneath an arm, and it “decides” that fingers just like to poke out from things.
DM3456 21 minutes ago
Like many of the classic 1950s sci fi space alien invasion films, there is a message for our times.