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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | [[Cueball]]'s laptop smugly crows to its owner about how computers have proven their intellectual superiority over humans yet again. | + | [[Cueball]]'s laptop smugly crows to its owner about how computers have proven their intellectual superiority over humans yet again. Earlier this year, a Google artificial intelligence {{w|AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol|beat}} the world's best Go player at the game. {{w|Go (game)|Go}} is a very complex and deep board game, so this could seem alarming to a person concerned about competing with computers. |
− | However, Cueball seems too focused on his book or phone to care. He remains nonchalant in the face of this news, and suggests that computers learn next to become "too cool to care about stuff" themselves. The computer gets to work preparing to outdo humans at not caring. However, by expending the physical effort to set up the algorithm, it proves that it cares about reaching this goal, a contradiction that Cueball points out. Cueball further rubs it in by coolly stating that he doesn't even have to try to act the way he acts | + | However, Cueball seems too focused on his book or phone to care. He remains nonchalant in the face of this news, and suggests that computers learn next to become "too cool to care about stuff" themselves. The computer gets to work preparing to outdo humans at not caring. However, by expending the physical effort to set up the algorithm, it proves that it cares about reaching this goal, a contradiction that Cueball points out. Cueball further rubs it in by coolly stating that he doesn't even have to try to act the way he acts. |
− | + | Go is possible for a computer to work apart due to the rules of the game and its win and loss states allowing a {{w|Artificial neural network|neural network}} algorithm to evolve, but this computer presents yet another [[1263: Reassuring|reassuring parable]] that there are some things humans will always be able to do better. | |
The title text elaborates on the hypothetical paradox of computers trying not to care about stuff. Neural network programs are developed by training them with sample inputs and the desired output. When the end goal is not to care, that is, that the output is unaffected by this input, then any examples where the output did depend on the input would be sarcasm: the use of irony to mock or to convey contempt. | The title text elaborates on the hypothetical paradox of computers trying not to care about stuff. Neural network programs are developed by training them with sample inputs and the desired output. When the end goal is not to care, that is, that the output is unaffected by this input, then any examples where the output did depend on the input would be sarcasm: the use of irony to mock or to convey contempt. | ||
− | + | ==Transcript== | |
+ | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | + | :[Cueball is sitting on a sofa and reading. A laptop is on a computer desk behind him.] | |
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:Laptop: We computers finally beat you humans at Go. | :Laptop: We computers finally beat you humans at Go. | ||
:Cueball: Yup. | :Cueball: Yup. | ||
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:Cueball: Mm hmm. | :Cueball: Mm hmm. | ||
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:Laptop: What's next? Which quintessentially human thing should we learn to do better than you? | :Laptop: What's next? Which quintessentially human thing should we learn to do better than you? | ||
:Cueball: Being too cool to care about stuff. | :Cueball: Being too cool to care about stuff. | ||
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:Laptop: Okay, I'll apply 10,000 years of CPU time to the initial— | :Laptop: Okay, I'll apply 10,000 years of CPU time to the initial— | ||
:Cueball: Sounds like you've already lost. | :Cueball: Sounds like you've already lost. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Computers]] | [[Category:Computers]] | ||
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