It’s very funny to me that the dominant Twentieth Century conception of AI was a slightly awkward nerd with an inhuman mastery of facts and logic, when what we actually got is smooth-talking bullshit artists who can’t do eighth-grade math.
@thedextriarchy
That Douglas Adams short story implying that Ronald Reagan was an experimental AI has never felt more appropriate

@comicsbyxan @thedextriarchy wait

i need to read this do you remember where it was published?

@trochee @thedextriarchy
It was called Young Zaphod Plays it Safe, and it's been published in a few collections I think