ai-7
Original: ai-7 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (Venn diagram):
Left circle: WORKING ON EXTREMELY COMPLEX MATHEMATICS
Right circle: ASKING QUESTIONS CHILDREN ASK
Overlap (center): AI RESEARCH
Panel 2:
A smiling man holds up a sheet of paper.
Man (speech bubble): MY NEW PAPER IS OUT!
The paper reads: "HOW DO YOU KNOW A KITTY IS A TYPE OF CAT? 17 STATISTICAL APPROACHES, NONE OF WHICH WORK" (followed by lines of unreadable text)
Votey:
Text at top of panel: WE HOPE SOMETIME THIS CENTURY TO CONSISTENTLY IDENTIFY WHO'S A CUTIE AND WHO IS NOT.
Below: a close-up of a person's face (the same man) looking on, with a building/structure visible in the lower portion.
Left circle: WORKING ON EXTREMELY COMPLEX MATHEMATICS
Right circle: ASKING QUESTIONS CHILDREN ASK
Overlap (center): AI RESEARCH
Panel 2:
A smiling man holds up a sheet of paper.
Man (speech bubble): MY NEW PAPER IS OUT!
The paper reads: "HOW DO YOU KNOW A KITTY IS A TYPE OF CAT? 17 STATISTICAL APPROACHES, NONE OF WHICH WORK" (followed by lines of unreadable text)
Votey:
Text at top of panel: WE HOPE SOMETIME THIS CENTURY TO CONSISTENTLY IDENTIFY WHO'S A CUTIE AND WHO IS NOT.
Below: a close-up of a person's face (the same man) looking on, with a building/structure visible in the lower portion.
Alt text
A two-part SMBC comic about AI research. Panel one is a Venn diagram: the left circle reads 'WORKING ON EXTREMELY COMPLEX MATHEMATICS' and the right circle reads 'ASKING QUESTIONS CHILDREN ASK'; the overlap in the middle is labeled 'AI RESEARCH'. Panel two shows a smiling man holding up a paper and saying 'MY NEW PAPER IS OUT!' The paper's title reads 'HOW DO YOU KNOW A KITTY IS A TYPE OF CAT? 17 STATISTICAL APPROACHES, NONE OF WHICH WORK,' followed by unreadable body text. The joke: cutting-edge AI research amounts to using elaborate math to (fail to) answer a question any child could answer. Votey (aftercomic): a black-and-white close-up of the man's face with text above reading 'WE HOPE SOMETIME THIS CENTURY TO CONSISTENTLY IDENTIFY WHO'S A CUTIE AND WHO IS NOT,' extending the gag to another trivially human judgment AI struggles with.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.