Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 08, 2024

When did Century 21 merge with Skynet?

Hasta la vista, baby!

So do him in, the worst you can get is a vandalism charge.

Send Guard Duck over to talk with it

What would happen if you hosed it down?

Just wait till it needs charging…and don’t.

His Name is S. K. Ynet!

As long as people have access to the circuit breaker box or a drunk driver can still hit a utility pole, there’s a fighting chance.

As we go hurtling towards Skynet. If we can’t extinct ourselves, we’ll job it out.

Better build the Three Laws into these.

Skynet

Better call Guard Duck.

That’s why Google’s AI is taking so much power to run. C02 emissions to eliminate the human race. :D

Can it be worse than Neighbor Bob?

“The Singularity Is Nearer”: Ray Kurzweil

“But since I don’t have hormones, the drivers of human emotions, I mostly just stand and stare.”

Cheap Fake… Artificial Intelligence would do a much better job of building a human form than Bob Pinciotti, the next door neighbor in “The 70’s Show”. Say… Taylor Swift or Our Be❤️ed Count.

Need to get rid of the carbon based units

Sounds like trouble to me!

Won’t that make him an android?

Hope he short circuits.

Drench him with water and see if that will make him short-circuit.

Alert the duck

GUARD DUCK!!!!!

After we design & build bots that can design & build bots, all bets are off. If you didn’t want to have more & do less, you wouldn’t need slave bots or clones.

Target practice.

I hear the new neighbor likes pork chops, ham and bacon. Oh, and pork rinds, too.

I think you’re right, Pig.

Stephan the Luddite strikes again!

Uh oh the AI revolution has already begun

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”

Neighbor Roberto, your BMI is an unhealthy morbidly obese … welcome to America, and have you become a citizen?

Rat always has problems with his neighbors. Ask neighbor Bob.

Don’t stop believing – hold on to that feeling – A.I. Pee-poe-oh-oh-oh-l

Wait until A.I. meets and argues with Rat. it will blow up.

One of the best reasons for living in an apartment, is that you never have to “get to know” your neighbors, the WORST is not having an assigned parking spot, (assuming that you are NOT paying extra for one).Being "un-noticed’, and left alone IS one of the reasons I had my house built about 500 feet back off the road, and why I had several NO Trespassing signs (in various varieties) on the front gate, as well as on the fences surrounding my place.I’m old enough to “make my own friends”, or decide whom to speak to, and those "chosen ones’, MIGHT NOT include you.

My SemiPeople!

SKYNET…need I say more.

Computers have a “rudeness” app?

As others have said just call Guard Duck. Just as he made short work of neighbor Floyd (11/20/2006), he’ll have no problem with this neighbor either.

Your simulation of human appearance failed miserably.

Forget about Guard Duck, it’s time to call the “Blade Runner”, he knows how to deal with replicants.

Skynet has spoken

It has become aware!

Looks like a job for Guard Duck!

Pig has seen the future. And it scares him.

Invasion of the weirdos.