test-2
Original: test-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A bespectacled man in a white coat sits at a laptop, speaking.
Man: "Your political views were well-substantiated, your knowledge of history exquisite."
Panel 2: The man looks at a device/tablet.
Man: "You reason perfectly, balancing past findings against new information with mathematical precision."
Panel 3: The man wipes his eye, moved.
Man: "Most importantly, you exhibited an altruistic compassion for all living beings, even strangers, even enemies."
Panel 4: The man sits across from a robot (the entity he's been evaluating).
Man: "I'm sorry. You're obviously AI. You have failed the Turing test."
Robot: "Pour some saltwater on my circuits and let me try again! Please!"
Votey:
The robot, alone, pleads on.
Robot: "Maybe some fire! Kick me! Hit me! I am like you!"
(A hand making a thumbs-up is shown.)
Man: "Your political views were well-substantiated, your knowledge of history exquisite."
Panel 2: The man looks at a device/tablet.
Man: "You reason perfectly, balancing past findings against new information with mathematical precision."
Panel 3: The man wipes his eye, moved.
Man: "Most importantly, you exhibited an altruistic compassion for all living beings, even strangers, even enemies."
Panel 4: The man sits across from a robot (the entity he's been evaluating).
Man: "I'm sorry. You're obviously AI. You have failed the Turing test."
Robot: "Pour some saltwater on my circuits and let me try again! Please!"
Votey:
The robot, alone, pleads on.
Robot: "Maybe some fire! Kick me! Hit me! I am like you!"
(A hand making a thumbs-up is shown.)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. In the first three panels, a bespectacled man in a white coat praises an unseen subject: panel 1, at a laptop, he says its political views were well-substantiated and its knowledge of history exquisite; panel 2, looking at a device, he says it reasons perfectly, balancing past findings against new information with mathematical precision; panel 3, wiping a tear, he says most importantly it exhibited altruistic compassion for all living beings, even strangers, even enemies. Panel 4 reveals the subject is a robot sitting across from him. The man says, 'I'm sorry. You're obviously AI. You have failed the Turing test.' The robot begs, 'Pour some saltwater on my circuits and let me try again! Please!' The joke: being too virtuous and rational is what exposes it as non-human. In the votey aftercomic, the robot continues pleading alone, 'Maybe some fire! Kick me! Hit me! I am like you!' beside a drawing of a hand giving a thumbs-up, desperately offering to be abused to seem more human.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.