Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for April 10, 2024

experiment, eh?

This is a resume in the building for Hollywood, man!

Does this mean the strip will be written by AI from this point forward? If it was already being AI generated, that would explain some of the plot developments…I kid, I kid.

Since when was Adam a good judge of literature?

AI must really need things to do. Remember Proteus from that old Forbin Project movie? (I might have my movies and computers-that-take-over-the-world mixed up)

If the AI was that slick they wouldn’t need Adam to intercede, he’s not the AI whisperer.

He suddenly sees a vision of ‘easy street’ in front of him.

Computers thinking and people not, that’s terrifying!

I once read a science fiction short story about a concert pianist who obtained an advanced robot. The robot taught itself how to play the piano, and played a classical piece so beautifully that it brought the pianist to tears. The robot then said it would never play again. When asked why, the robot replied “It was too easy. That music should never be easy!”

Can it write contracts with film studios?

Sadly if AI “writes a book” it is simply plagiarism. The AI of today knows nothing it has not had trained into it. In some cases, it may be hard to trace, denying the real author income and prestige. In other cases, the results are obviously derived, bringing nothing but shame to the user. Nothing good can come of this story arc, which I suspect is part of the point.

While somewhat aghast ay my defending Adam, it’s not so bad he had the AI write the book as an experiment. What would be bad is if he submitted it to a publisher.

I like the short story where the Soviet, US and NATO war computers connect, examine the world’s literature and decide “Thou shall not kill” was a good start. Then they proceeded to disable all weapons and convert them to peaceful uses.

AI may be the only way Adam gets a book published. Then he won’t disclose it was written by AI and the machine and public will turn against him.

Adam press stop or use it’s writing and retire!

AI ain’t so smart, otherwise it would have contacted a publisher.

Let Laura read it, she’s a better judge. Then you can share the guilt when she agrees it has to be published.

I don’t like this comic anymore. :(

More than a little far fetched. I’ve experimented with AI image and text generation. They’re both still hot garbage. The text generation writes very confidently and authoritatively no matter how wrong it might actually be. I found that out the hard way when I had it generate some programming scripts for me.

Dole them out slowly and hope no one notices. In a foreign country like Japan, where they don’t know your work.