Questionable Content 12: Artificial Unintelligence

[truemane]

It's said at one point that much of an AI's processing power is spent maintaining sapience, not on thinking. But it's also been shown with "Spookybot" that more powerful AIs do exist.

Yeah, I remember that. No "bootstrapping your way to omniscience."

[halfeye]

It's said at one point that much of an AI's processing power is spent maintaining sapience, not on thinking. But it's also been shown with "Spookybot" that more powerful AIs do exist.

Spooky-bot is something other. It may be that spooky-bot is the singularity, and the rest is noise. In canon, obviously.

[Kato]

There was that wondrous and terrifying moment in the film Her (where a man falls in love with an AI) that he finds out she's been having several thousand simultaneous conversations the entire time they've been together (and was, in fact, having several hundred conversations while they fought about this exact thing).

QC AI's don't seem to think any faster or better than humans, though, so maybe not.

Hm... I should really get around to watching that one..


New comic. Jeph is self aware the punchline being boobs again. Not entirely sure if it's still charming but.. OK, I don't want to be overly critical yet.

[Wraith]

I thought it was okay. It suggests that Marigold is more self-aware than her nerdy, proverbial "30 year old virgin" persona originally suggested, and I liked seeing her thinking candidly of something other than video games or being socially awkward. It required a certain amount of confidence that I don't think I've seen of her before

[Kato]

Nah, sorry. I might have sounded a bit more unhappy than I am. I'm fine with most of the comic, just the punchline isn't new. If I wanted to be harsh I could read it as Dale only caring for Marigold's melons, but that is clearly not what was meant.

[Shadow of the Sun]

Marigold is looking very rabbit-ish in the new art style, in my opinion.

And, well, I guess it's good that she's happy to flaunt her knockers rather than be embarrassed.

[Qwertystop]

The way I see it, the point here isn't the repeating joke – it's not a joke for the audience's benefit anymore, it's to establish that Dale and Marigold get each other. "You wouldn't rather have an orange" is not necessarily intuitively understood as an "apples-to-oranges" metaphor.

(or possibly just joking that they've spent too much time around May?)

[Max_Killjoy]

Not really a fan of the every-changing art styles in general, or of Marigold Rabbit in particular.

[The Glyphstone]

The horse clearly has not stopped twitching yet...

[Kato]

Well, it's not like this is a big surprise...
But multiple hours seems weird.. Why does Momo only call may now?

Also, more importantly : what was may doing?

[Temotei]

Time for the Maymo shippers to get all riled up.

[Wraith]

Also, more importantly : what was may doing?

It looked to me like some sort of Tai Chi-esque exercises? I think that would be a nice twist; May isn't just a sociopath who sits around playing with knives all day, but is taking an actual interest in martial arts or some kind of meditation exercises, now that she has a body to appreciate such things.

[Cikomyr]

Refractory period?

[Wraith]

Refractory period?

How long it takes for someone to get ready for a second round of sex after already having had one.

[Cikomyr]

How long it takes for someone to get ready for a second round of sex after already having had one.

So thats how its called in english...

[Wraith]

Please sate my curiosity - what do you know it as?

[Dorath]

Please sate my curiosity - what do you know it as?

The eye of the storm.

[Kato]

The eye of the storm.

What a beautiful language...

Also, somehow today makes me really angry at Pintsize. I can't quite say why I consider trolling and wasting the time of a total stranger worse than if he does it to his "friends" buy somehow this seems for more evil than just a bad kind of humor. Maybe I'm taking it to serious.

[Rodin]

What a beautiful language...

Also, somehow today makes me really angry at Pintsize. I can't quite say why I consider trolling and wasting the time of a total stranger worse than if he does it to his "friends" buy somehow this seems for more evil than just a bad kind of humor. Maybe I'm taking it to serious.

I'm trying to understand what the joke is. Is there any intended humor apart from "Pintsize brought a toaster to a date and is randomly firing it at her"?

It's more mean-spirited than he normally is and isn't particularly funny either. This being a Patreon filler comic may be to blame.

[Eldan]

Yeah, this just seems pointlessly mean, even for him. He usually only does it with people in his circle who know him and can fight back.

[Wraith]

I'm trying to decide if there is an innuendo at work here. Something about "shooting toast" maybe? "Firing breakfast"? Urban dictionary says that "toast" is either slang for a reposted image, or for guns, or a reference to the Soggy Biscuit game, but I don't see how any of that applies to a blind date....

The eye of the storm.

How very... confidant of you.

[Vinyadan]

I thought it was robocop doing a date with a toaster AI.

[Max_Killjoy]

That's not Roko, is it? It's just close enough that with the shifting art style (ugh, stop) it might be her, but I didn't see it until you said something.


Either way, there is literally nothing funny or entertaining about today's comic.

[Keltest]

Either way, there is literally nothing funny or entertaining about today's comic.

Cut Jeph some slack, its filler because he hurt himself. I defy you to be funny with a back injury.

[PhantomFox]

The text below says it was a filler comic from Patreon while he deals with a back injury.

[eee]

I can't tell if it's Roko or not... And while shooting toast at someone is... odd... let us not forget, this is Pintsize. Toasting is MILES ahead of what he could be doing.

Cut Jeph some slack, its filler because he hurt himself. I defy you to be funny with a back injury.

Hear hear. I hope he recovers soon. Perhaps he should put the strip on hiatus until he does, trying to be productive when all you want to do is scream in pain is a bit hard... I hope being at the ECCC, if that's still on, doesn't make it worse.

[Gwynfrid]

That's just Roko with a different hairdo and some... Is that eyeliner? Do AIs wear make-up? Anyway, a cue that it's her: knitting.

I found that comic not hilarious, but sort-of-funny in a typical Pintsize way: This absurd+offensive combination pretty much sums him up.

[truemane]

Cut Jeph some slack, its filler because he hurt himself. I defy you to be funny with a back injury.

I'm all about slack, but he didn't write this comic today, this is an old Patreon bonus comic that he printed. So not only was it written when he was (presumably) in good health, it was written for people who paid for it.

[Grey_Wolf_c]

I found that comic not hilarious, but sort-of-funny in a typical Pintsize way: This absurd+offensive combination pretty much sums him up.

Same. It's a mild "crosses the line twice" humour: initially offensive, because Pintsize is being an ass, and then funny, when it turns out that Roko has been putting up with it (rather than walking out after the first toast hit her) because it turns out to be merely the second-worst date she has ever had.

Not the best joke ever, but also not entirely unfunny. At least prior to explaining the joke, of course.

GW

[John Cribati]

I'm all about slack, but he didn't write this comic today, this is an old Patreon bonus comic that he printed. So not only was it written when he was (presumably) in good health, it was written for people who paid for it.

And this person likely paid for a comic of, if not this exact scenario, something akin to it.