Caption Contest Cartoon by Avi Steinberg

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The envelope, please. And the winning caption is . . .

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Why did the blogger cross the road? To vote in the caption contest.

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The finalists have taken their positions.

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Ludwig Bemelmans
Original spot drawing
The New Yorker, May 13,1961

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William Steig
Original art
The New Yorker, November 22, 1969

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William Steig
The New Yorker, November 8, 1969

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With a spot drawing of the Seine by FP and a drawing by Saul Steinberg

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" ... What Pavlick means, on the most basic level, is that large language models are black boxes. We don’t really understand how they work. We don’t know if it makes sense to call them intelligent, or if it will ever make sense to call them conscious. But she’s also making a more profound point. The existence of talking machines—entities that can do many of the things that only we have ever been able to do—throws a lot of other things into question. We refer to our own minds as if they weren’t also black boxes. We use the word “intelligence” as if we have a clear idea of what it means. It turns out that we don’t know that, either. ..."

The interesting point here is that AI doesn’t just raise questions about machines; it tells us how little we really understand about ourselves....

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know-either

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