Class Reunion
putting the ass in class
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I wonder if the creepy, invasive, customer tracking AI is going to become a character?
Jeph I would 100% read Robot College. You need to get with Dave Willis on that collab.
I wonder, and I ask this seriously, is Lemon and all of her fruit sisters merely another iteration of Yay!, maybe Yay! 2.0? All the same multipurpose competence, none of the creepy manipulative androgyny.
Yay! is one node of a distributed AI (Spookybot). I think Team Fruit were an attempt to create a distributed AI, that failed in an interesting way. If Yay! is actually a deliberate creation, they are probably an improved iteration of Team Fruit, rather than the reverse. But that even the senior AIs don't know what Yay! is, that would suggest they are emergent or even imposed externally. They are clearly compatible with current charging tech etc though.
What triggers the disassociation?
Seems to be events/comments that remind Roko she’s an AI driving a robot body, instead of a person. She is a person, of course, but it’s the reminder that does it. Like us thinking of being a wet blob of fat swimming in chemicals.
Well, Lemon knows exactly what needs to be done in this instance. She may be annoyingly chipper, but she is competent.
I’m thinking the Venn Diagram of QC patrons and DoA patrons is quickly becoming a perfect circle.
Ive never heard of Dumbing of Age, what is it?
Love the crossover with Dumbing of Age!
Now I wonder about Spookybot and the creepy, intrusive customer tracking software
Way below spookybot's pay grade
For all the Lemon haters from the yesterday's comic - look, she's competent and not a "joke character". It's sad to see that even in this comic about acceptance and inclusion person is easily written off as "annoying and incompetent" by some fans only based on some personality traits. Lemon works with nuclear power plant AI, and given that there were no meltdowns - it seems successful. Would she be even allowed to do so if she were an incompetent ditz? Quirky but competent persons deserve respect too!
I think people's reservations come from the fact that last time she talked to Roko she seemed to make it a lot worse
Seems like a good first step
Just gonna go ahead and headcanon that robot college is four simulated years' worth of socializing in the cloud, and on graduation day they upload an entire degree worth of knowledge as they resume inhabiting their usual bodies.
AFTER they have paid, or better yet; made sure they signed on the dotted line guaranteeing repayment w/ appropriate marked up percentage cost post tuition fees, of course.
"creepy, invasive tracking software"?!? They're JUST LIKE US.
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Dumbing of Evolution!
Maybe a "Robots with Gauss Rifles" version of "Girls with Slingshots"?
Robots with Railguns?
"ROBOT HOUSE! ! !" -Dean Vernon
To avoid having Robot House put on quadruple secret probation, Beeps and Lemon snuck into the Dean's office and reprogrammed him into a party robot.
So, Dumbing Of AI.
Something tells me the creepy, invasive tracking software is going to have a Yay-shaped problem very soon.
Yay snorts in derision "they need software to invasively keep track of their clients? Amateurs. Of their 14,258 clients, 17 are having worse problems than Roko right now. Of course, 12 of those have been explosively dismantled."
robot dumbing of age has the WEIRDEST slipshines
I am both horrified and fascinated. Nope - just fascinated.
Another great product from Creepy Invasive Systems Inc.
Try their other products, "Easily hacking your AI's webcam' and "Did you REALLY Google THAT last night??"
I love that Lemon admits it’s creepy and invasive, and then suggests getting away from it.
Do they have interstellar travel in the QC universe?
I just really love the little detail of Roko's lines/colors being slightly off kilter as this scene has progressed. It is just such a perfect little indicator of her distress and emotional state.
I would pay $100/mo for the Jacques/Willis Robot College as Dumbing of Age but with Robots crossover.
Faye would be Billie, and Bubbles is obviously Ruth. Marten is Walky, and Steve is Joe. Claire is definitely Dorothy! Marigold would be Amber. I guess Dale is Danny (Though a lot less of a douche bag). Not sure if Tai or Dora would be Becky. Roko is Sal, and Beeps is Marcie! There really isn't a Joyce analog, though.
Roko: um, guys?
So, will this creepy, invasive tracking software be what puts May back in robot jail? Gosh I hope not.
Likely as not, no. But who else monitors things like that as a matter of course?
But it's nice to know they're old college chums.
Also… did Melon go to college, or at least clown college?
have you seen where she works? she definitely needs a degree for all that screaming!!
Oh, yeah, like that last comment isn't going to get people off on a tangent...
But that’s what we do best!
Robot college? Plug in, 10 minute download and done?
Only if they cranked up the CPU cycles. Learning isn't about memorizing a list, you have to integrate the knowledge. Since they largely operate on the same time-scale as a human... I think their main perks would be enhanced reading speed and recall... and not needing sleep. That might be enough of a boost to finish a 4-yr degree in actually 4 years...
Now I want robots in DOA...
I mean, with the sliding time scale and slow pace, if we don't wipe ourselves out in the next couple decades, he'll eventually have to add robots to DoA to make it current ...
At Dave Willis 😂😂😂
Wow! Lemon makes sense!
Okay, I want a Patreon only spin-off webcomic about robot college. With Tai as the head librarian.
Maybe its affiliated with Smif or Amherst.
I imagine AIs being like HAL9000, you less program, them more teach them.
I think the term that was used for the Schlock Mercenary AIs was "growpram", since they're not really programmed, but "grown" into the hardware they run on.
I'm waiting for her to just scream until she breaks something.
You go Lemon, you got this!!
She is better at her job than most would give her credit for.
Dumbing of age!!! Love that!