neural-networks
Original: neural-networks on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with dark curly hair (large round glasses): The problem with neural networks is they work but you don't always know why.
Woman with dark curly hair: But, I discovered a simple solution - treat them as life forms.
Panel 2:
Woman with dark curly hair: Instead of trying to suss out bugs in wildly complex code, I invented a way to virtually beat the software with a bamboo cane.
Woman with dark curly hair: For instance, whenever my phone fails to accurately do voice recognition, I press this button. (She holds up a phone showing a red button.)
Panel 3:
Phone (a large hand pressing the button): AAAAAAAA! AAAAAAAAAAAAA! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! IT HURTS SO MUCH! PLEEAAAAAAAAAAAAASE!
Panel 4:
A blonde woman (listening): This is how the robot revolution starts.
Woman with dark curly hair (holding up the phone, smiling): But, we'll have several months of GREAT AI before then!
Votey:
Caption: The only problem is when the phone develops a spanking fetish.
(The dark-haired woman looks wide-eyed and uneasy.)
Woman with dark curly hair (large round glasses): The problem with neural networks is they work but you don't always know why.
Woman with dark curly hair: But, I discovered a simple solution - treat them as life forms.
Panel 2:
Woman with dark curly hair: Instead of trying to suss out bugs in wildly complex code, I invented a way to virtually beat the software with a bamboo cane.
Woman with dark curly hair: For instance, whenever my phone fails to accurately do voice recognition, I press this button. (She holds up a phone showing a red button.)
Panel 3:
Phone (a large hand pressing the button): AAAAAAAA! AAAAAAAAAAAAA! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! IT HURTS SO MUCH! PLEEAAAAAAAAAAAAASE!
Panel 4:
A blonde woman (listening): This is how the robot revolution starts.
Woman with dark curly hair (holding up the phone, smiling): But, we'll have several months of GREAT AI before then!
Votey:
Caption: The only problem is when the phone develops a spanking fetish.
(The dark-haired woman looks wide-eyed and uneasy.)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. A woman with dark curly hair and large round glasses explains a software idea to a blonde woman. Panel 1: She says the problem with neural networks is they work but you don't always know why, and that she found a simple solution: treat them as life forms. Panel 2: Instead of debugging wildly complex code, she invented a way to virtually beat the software with a bamboo cane; for example, when her phone fails at voice recognition, she presses a button. She holds up a phone displaying a red button. Panel 3: A large hand presses the button and the phone screams in agony: 'AAAAAAAA! IT HURTS SO MUCH! PLEEAAASE!' Panel 4: The blonde woman observes, 'This is how the robot revolution starts.' The dark-haired woman, smiling and holding up the phone, replies, 'But, we'll have several months of GREAT AI before then!' Votey panel: A close-up of the dark-haired woman looking wide-eyed and uneasy, with the caption: 'The only problem is when the phone develops a spanking fetish.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.