Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 01, 2018

How Skynet’s parent met up.

This is Colossus, this is the voice of World Control.

It all went wrong when robots figured out that humans were the world’s biggest threat.

Bring on the driver-less cars.

Bob, you silly ba###rd!

When AI takes over in the singularity, we are doomed.

They’ll start fighting with each other soon enough.

http://www.gocomics.com/speedbump/2018/01/30?ct=v&cti=1487153

And then the cat came in and knocked them both onto the floor into the water dish and saved us.

Do people Siriously rely on these apps. ?

When the robots get surly, I get out my baseball bat…

They better Google “electromagnetic pulse” before they fry themselves.

Reminds me of back when we still used answering machines. I got home from work one day just in time to hear my machine answer a call from a robo-sales auto-dialer. Mine beeps and clicks, theirs gives it’s sales pitch, mine beeps some more, theirs beeps a couple of times and hangs up mine beeps and hangs up and all I can think to say is “Whatever the hell you just bought I’m NOT paying for it!”.

They had a similar storyline to this w/ Brewster Rockit, I think.

I wonder how R. Daneel Olivaw and R. Giskard Reventlov feel about this.

I was offered a smartphone version of a household thermostat when mine needed replacing a few weeks ago. No thanks!

So this is how the world ends. AI taking over humans due to our own laziness and complacency.

Mr. Carleton from “Wings” would drive Siri crazy!

“Good Morning, Dave”

“Good Morning, Dave”

Good Morning, Hal.

Hehe, Wiley copied Speed Bump: http://www.gocomics.com/speedbump/2018/01/30?ct=v&cti=1984103

@Linguist: I will answer your question with another: How many people get lost or in trouble trusting their GPS?

Let Surly (from Diamond Lil) join in.

I have been wondering for the last half hour—what can you say to get Siri and Alexa to start talking to each other?

How to fight back: (courtesy of Star Trek). “Siri, everything I say is a lie. Am I lying when I say that?”

I just finished shopping for a new washer and dryer set. They now come with wifi and computer access for the smart phone. Aaaach!

I’m looking for the most basic washer and dryer that I can find; ones with mechanical twist nobs like 20 years ago. Are there any out there?

As long as a major corporation is behind them, these smart assistants will always have a “newer, better” version on the horizon, and a marketing push (perhaps even partially built in to the assistant itself) to promote it. Just look at the annual lineups to purchase the newer model of iPhone, for example.

Got a Kindle last year. I love it. Alexa, not so much. Give me google voice, anytime.

“Cortana, go jump in the lake.”

INTERESTINGLY (well, to me, anyway) I took a survey today asking how interested I was in Smart House technology. I gave it an “EXTREMELY UNINTERESTED”. I don’t like appliances that remind me of things; cars that talk to me or nag me; and I fer bloodyblueblazes sure don’t want a house doing that stuff.

Use a hand held phone while driving and they hand you a big ticket. I just spent 2 hours with a driver weaving all over the road trying to figure out her “Infotainment” system while driving. Those things are life threatening !! And you can’t even buy a car any more without them.

It seems that bots have largely taken over social media already.

I wonder if machines can produce mechotestosterone. That’d be one helluva bar fight. A different kind of Transformers!

Why do you want to plant these listening devices in your home?

As long as we Luddites can throw rocks and hide in caves there’s not to Worry…

But why would Bob have left the remote in the… wait.