Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for March 18, 2019

“You look like you have one foot in the grave. Let me help!”

Just as long as it doesn’t mean they can’t allow a human being to come to harm through inaction.

Dr. Mel has to stop re-purposing buggy airplane software.

Still better than Google Assistant.

Shades of “I Robot”.

Assist all humans, to death??? I don’t think that’s good programing.

“This unit is the ultimate achievement in computer evolution. It will replace man, so man may achieve. Man must not risk death in space or other dangerous occupations. This unit must survive so man may be protected.”

“AAAA, my neatly-typed, double-spaced report! You stapled it to my spleeeen!”

Roombas Gone Wild.

I heard of assisted living, but assisted dying?

They’re assisting, they’re just very aggressive about it.

“Kill all humans’ problems.

Hmmm, might not work since often our problems are each other.

He forgot to change the Action Program when he changed the Speech Program.

Recently reported on NPR: A preacher was sermonizing about people having less contact with each other than in the past. “We don’t even go to the store. We just say, ‘[Name of smart speaker], order 40 rolls of toilet paper.’” A parishioner at home heard this via live streaming. So did her smart speaker. One with that name …

“And this is the latest model. I call him ‘Kevorkian’.”

Isaac Asimov is not only rolling in his grave, he’s probably trying to find whoever created this mess and bring them along with him…

his spleen!

Just imagine what a mess the killbot would be if it were programmed with Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.