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Original: dev on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (header: AI DEVELOPERS A YEAR AGO):
A grinning man with his arms raised: "So for optimal computational efficiency at scale we're using a new approach to stochastic gradient descent, which should speed up convergence while..."
Panel 2 (header: AI DEVELOPERS LATELY):
The same man, now standing slack-armed and blank-faced: "Can machines feel pain? Are they beings? What even is being? Are we conscious of consciousness? Is it all a dream within a dream?"
Caption below the panels:
My level of anxiety about the future is directly proportional to how existential Sam Altman sounds this week.
Votey:
(I used Bing to generate the techno-gibberish and have no idea if it is meaningful)
A grinning man with his arms raised: "So for optimal computational efficiency at scale we're using a new approach to stochastic gradient descent, which should speed up convergence while..."
Panel 2 (header: AI DEVELOPERS LATELY):
The same man, now standing slack-armed and blank-faced: "Can machines feel pain? Are they beings? What even is being? Are we conscious of consciousness? Is it all a dream within a dream?"
Caption below the panels:
My level of anxiety about the future is directly proportional to how existential Sam Altman sounds this week.
Votey:
(I used Bing to generate the techno-gibberish and have no idea if it is meaningful)
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1, labeled 'AI developers a year ago,' shows a cheerful bald man with his arms thrown up, mid-explanation: 'So for optimal computational efficiency at scale we're using a new approach to stochastic gradient descent, which should speed up convergence while...' Panel 2, labeled 'AI developers lately,' shows the same man now standing limp and blank-faced, asking a string of existential questions: 'Can machines feel pain? Are they beings? What even is being? Are we conscious of consciousness? Is it all a dream within a dream?' A caption beneath reads: 'My level of anxiety about the future is directly proportional to how existential Sam Altman sounds this week.' The votey (bonus panel) is hand-lettered text in a box: '(I used Bing to generate the techno-gibberish and have no idea if it is meaningful).'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.