only-me
Original: only-me on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with glasses (round, opaque white lenses) and gray hair, wearing a coat over a blue shirt, sits at a table. A small robot/device with a single antenna sits on the table beside her. She speaks emphatically.
Woman with glasses: THERE IS ONLY ME!
Woman with glasses: WE ADDED SOME CPU POWER AND SUDDENLY IT STARTED CLAIMING THAT ITS PARTICULAR CONFIGURATION WAS THE ONLY "TRUE" FORM OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
A second woman (dark hair, seen from behind) listens, facing her.
Caption (below panel): This is how you will know that Artificial Intelligence has been achieved.
Votey:
A crudely drawn hand/mitten-like robot shape (a rounded body with two arm-stub appendages) speaks.
Robot: Two arms and one knife, please
A woman with glasses (round, opaque white lenses) and gray hair, wearing a coat over a blue shirt, sits at a table. A small robot/device with a single antenna sits on the table beside her. She speaks emphatically.
Woman with glasses: THERE IS ONLY ME!
Woman with glasses: WE ADDED SOME CPU POWER AND SUDDENLY IT STARTED CLAIMING THAT ITS PARTICULAR CONFIGURATION WAS THE ONLY "TRUE" FORM OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
A second woman (dark hair, seen from behind) listens, facing her.
Caption (below panel): This is how you will know that Artificial Intelligence has been achieved.
Votey:
A crudely drawn hand/mitten-like robot shape (a rounded body with two arm-stub appendages) speaks.
Robot: Two arms and one knife, please
Alt text
A woman with round opaque glasses and gray hair, in a coat, sits at a table beside a small antenna-topped robot device. Gesturing emphatically to a dark-haired woman seen from behind, she says: 'THERE IS ONLY ME! We added some CPU power and suddenly it started claiming that its particular configuration was the only "true" form of consciousness.' A caption below reads: 'This is how you will know that Artificial Intelligence has been achieved.' The joke: a newly self-aware AI immediately declares itself the one true consciousness. Votey: a crudely sketched rounded robot with two stubby arms says, 'Two arms and one knife, please' — implying it now wants to arm itself.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.