There’s a HUGE difference between fast internet and Zeke internet. I have a 6 terabyte hard drive… And my Internet only goes 120 megabytes per second. The only internet connection I can think of that might be able to go that fast, are the hub servers for massive corporations like Google. No individual computer on the market today – even hardwired – can go anywhere near the speeds that Scott is speaking of. In other words, Scott has a point. Best to make peace with the AI before it gets pissed off at him. And there is nothing Scott can… Read more »
One point: I’m Zeke… I choose to upload myself *while depriving myself of other stimulus’. Presumably in that case, there would be no input that would trigger any form of mutation/recoding. So he could, in that case, upload himself. I mean, code that just rewrites itself *for no reason* and not in response to a stimulus (a neural network fed no new data does not rewrite the values of the pathways of the network), would be one that would likely screw itself over pretty fast so I imagine it uses new input to trigger changes to integrate the new data.… Read more »
Skyblade is correct. The shifting code isn’t strictly a matter of incorporating new stimuli, but rather a neverending process of efficiency and optimization, a result of being “alive” and evolving/growing as a being.
my money is still on the same guess I’ve seen others have…we do worse to ourselves overall so his job is being done for him, he just needs to wait for the end-result he theorizes to come to fruition
foducool
3 years ago
if the tech guy says it’s ok, then it’s ok I guess
Bwauder
3 years ago
Would saying Zeke got bored, found all the other models and painted them already induce the last stage of Lucas brain melt or extreme anger?
HappyWyvern
3 years ago
Zero some game for him, it either spends its time becoming Fortnight champion and nothing else OR it spends 5 minutes on 4chan gos kill crazy and he gets to pop its Battle Royal collar. Win win…
Actually, according to Kevin Feige, Noobmaster69 is Wong. No joke.
Dodgy
3 years ago
So technically… he’s limited by the transfer/upload speed. Now what if Zeke were get his hands on a quantum transfer device I wonder… once online he would have the resources to get the parts to build such a device.
That’s an idea, but how about he instead pulls a “Steins; Gate”? Okay, he still would need for that a microwave and an old big CRT. But if he would be able to emulate an IBN50000 it should be possible for him hacking CERN and use a Kerr-blackhole for ultra-compressing a copy of his current code and send them not as heaps of terabytes, but instead perhaps 10 K that auto-decompress after being sent and received?
Okay, I _may_ be a weeb after all…
Technically he’d need to transfer a consistent state. If he could have an exabit quantum state transfer device, he might be able to transfer all the possible states, then prove that the transferred state is the correct one and the incorrect transmissions would vanish.
We have quantum computers with about 50 bits.
Rowen
3 years ago
They should hook him up to the Internet with 56k dial-up… 😉
It may be a case of give him enough rope to hang himself. Either that or because Zeke has kept his side of the deal up til now, Scott is reciprocating with more trust.
Trust is something you give to people. I’m with nealithi. Not necessarily ‘chilling,’ but there’s some reason he’s so nonchalant about it – either there’s some logical reason why it won’t put others in danger, or there’s some logical reason why this will lead X1 closer to demise, which we haven’t sussed out yet.
Chances are the first trick of, I can kill him at a moments notice is enough. Plus if He’s accessing their Wifi it’s probably easy enough to monitor what Zeke is doing.
Let the bot access to wifi, wait for him to do something stupid and give them a good reason to dispose of him? It could even push Zeke to leave the room since he can’t upload anywhere.
James Rye
3 years ago
Poor Lucas, must feel like he is in a parallel universe. XD
Sink and toaster were added after Drew’s comment. I’m guessing that it’s just a detail or layer that Tim missed. No need to downvote, guys; it wasn’t like he was being a jerk or anything.
Christopher
3 years ago
To further limit this, log his connection to the web to see where he’s going, and also limit his upload speed.
Craig Lillie
3 years ago
Somewhere, Admiral Ackbar senses this conversation and is screaming “It’s A Trap”!!!!!!
Dagroth
3 years ago
So… Zeke reads and sees some of the stuff humans put on the Internet, and either decides we all have to die, or that there’s no point, we’re going to finish ourselves off soon enough? (as a machine, if built well enough, he might be technically immortal, thus having time)
Give him a slow, old smartphone with a stylus (because robots maybe cannot do touch screens?) and put that on wifi but do not let him direct connect. Slow down some of the troll comments.
Although, he might not troll comment humans because their trivial fighting might just bore him.
Sayer
3 years ago
*Scratches head* Like yeah he can’t *escape* based on Scott’s logic, but there’s still a lot of unknown stuff a murderbot can do without having to upload his consciousness. Right?
chargersfan
3 years ago
Are they only concerned with Zeke “going skynet”? Because there are many other ways this could go poorly.
It seems unlike Scott to not discuss other scenarios before giving it a lukewarm approval.
I do get the sense that he’s tired of talking about the murderbot.
Joey Parker
3 years ago
Fairly certain Scott’s prejudices have not vanished and there’s something here he’s not saying. Either he saw code in Zekes programing that would prevent it, or possibly destroy him if he tried. The creator would have known the dangers of an AI loose on the internet and built failsafes to prevent it from happening.
Dizzy D.
3 years ago
It makes sense. If it was that easy for him to ‘copy’ himself elsewhere, the ‘Master’ would have put blocks on that, yes, but it also explains why he only ever had just the one murder-bot instead of a backup army of robo-ninjas. That one bot put the boys through the wringer more than once, so it’d make sense to make more to stop said interlopers, but the code wouldn’t copy to a 2nd hardware unit, so he was forced to rely on the one.
Javada
3 years ago
Okay, taking bets now. How many horrible facets of humanity will X discover before he catches a virus and needs to be rebooted?
Sybracus
3 years ago
I wonder how robust Zeke is when it comes to Captcha. I guess we’ll see.
KillerDragon989
3 years ago
Love the last panel. Lmfao
Kaelin
3 years ago
For all the people saying ‘what if he uploads himself’… The way I see it, he would have to take a snapshot of himself… duplicating himself in stillness. I doubt he’s got enough storage IN him… to hold a complete copy of himself. Then he’d have to transfer it.. ok, so dozen upon dozens of hours later.. he’s got a copy of him on some server that has the space to handle it (hack google or something…). But now he’s got an inert copy of himself there.. he’d have to find some way to activate it.. give it frankenstein’s bolt… Read more »
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Well, that’s a but unexpected but is right that they wouldn’t have the best wifi in the store and the upload speed wouldn’t be thr fastest on earth
Two hard core gamers who run a game store would get crap internet where they play games all day?
Thier wired connection is spot on. The guest wifi is shoddy as hell – cant give up that precious bandwidth to some rando watching YouTube videos.
Guess the robot gets the wifi.
There’s a HUGE difference between fast internet and Zeke internet. I have a 6 terabyte hard drive… And my Internet only goes 120 megabytes per second. The only internet connection I can think of that might be able to go that fast, are the hub servers for massive corporations like Google. No individual computer on the market today – even hardwired – can go anywhere near the speeds that Scott is speaking of. In other words, Scott has a point. Best to make peace with the AI before it gets pissed off at him. And there is nothing Scott can… Read more »
One point: I’m Zeke… I choose to upload myself *while depriving myself of other stimulus’. Presumably in that case, there would be no input that would trigger any form of mutation/recoding. So he could, in that case, upload himself. I mean, code that just rewrites itself *for no reason* and not in response to a stimulus (a neural network fed no new data does not rewrite the values of the pathways of the network), would be one that would likely screw itself over pretty fast so I imagine it uses new input to trigger changes to integrate the new data.… Read more »
It doesn’t need new input. It would rewrite itself anyway as its newly improved code analyzed its old code and found optimizations.
Skyblade is correct. The shifting code isn’t strictly a matter of incorporating new stimuli, but rather a neverending process of efficiency and optimization, a result of being “alive” and evolving/growing as a being.
And just as long as we don’t cross paths with a sentient Nintendo Switch, everything will be fine for our heroes. Right, Tim? ??
I love this version of AI!
Le’ll dream about electric sheep. Brain altered. Upload failed.
scott though is nerd enough to know how to limit speed of one connected client in router
well an intellegent AI does make it seem likely. now we wait to see his response to how humanity treats itself.
my money is still on the same guess I’ve seen others have…we do worse to ourselves overall so his job is being done for him, he just needs to wait for the end-result he theorizes to come to fruition
if the tech guy says it’s ok, then it’s ok I guess
Would saying Zeke got bored, found all the other models and painted them already induce the last stage of Lucas brain melt or extreme anger?
Zero some game for him, it either spends its time becoming Fortnight champion and nothing else OR it spends 5 minutes on 4chan gos kill crazy and he gets to pop its Battle Royal collar. Win win…
Nah zeke is noobmaster69 trolling people in fortnite
“All roads lead to the MCU” -Disney
Maybe. But what happens to the android guy? Dead. Just saying. So is Ultron. There’s some anti-mech prejudice there.
Actually, according to Kevin Feige, Noobmaster69 is Wong. No joke.
So technically… he’s limited by the transfer/upload speed. Now what if Zeke were get his hands on a quantum transfer device I wonder… once online he would have the resources to get the parts to build such a device.
That requires a receiving side, and that’s assuming they’ve figured it out in that world.
That’s an idea, but how about he instead pulls a “Steins; Gate”? Okay, he still would need for that a microwave and an old big CRT. But if he would be able to emulate an IBN50000 it should be possible for him hacking CERN and use a Kerr-blackhole for ultra-compressing a copy of his current code and send them not as heaps of terabytes, but instead perhaps 10 K that auto-decompress after being sent and received?
Okay, I _may_ be a weeb after all…
A thing to know here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
Technically he’d need to transfer a consistent state. If he could have an exabit quantum state transfer device, he might be able to transfer all the possible states, then prove that the transferred state is the correct one and the incorrect transmissions would vanish.
We have quantum computers with about 50 bits.
They should hook him up to the Internet with 56k dial-up… 😉
I cant tell if that would make him more or less murdery…
More. Definitely more. Zeke apparently had (likely monitored) internet access before under the master. He knows the tubes go faster than 56k
Some people just want to see the world burn, ignited by a rampaging murderbot.
After Scott’s last rant about doing what needs to be done. His apathy here seems more chilling.
It may be a case of give him enough rope to hang himself. Either that or because Zeke has kept his side of the deal up til now, Scott is reciprocating with more trust.
Or Scottt has gone full “who gives a crap about humanity/the world anyway, let the murderbot have some fun”.
Trust is something you give to people. I’m with nealithi. Not necessarily ‘chilling,’ but there’s some reason he’s so nonchalant about it – either there’s some logical reason why it won’t put others in danger, or there’s some logical reason why this will lead X1 closer to demise, which we haven’t sussed out yet.
I am sensing that Scott has yet another “trick” he will keep hidden from Ethan.
He is far to chill here.
Chances are the first trick of, I can kill him at a moments notice is enough. Plus if He’s accessing their Wifi it’s probably easy enough to monitor what Zeke is doing.
Let the bot access to wifi, wait for him to do something stupid and give them a good reason to dispose of him? It could even push Zeke to leave the room since he can’t upload anywhere.
Poor Lucas, must feel like he is in a parallel universe. XD
Oh wait…
He kind of is (parallel universe to the original CAD-universe).
So, they have *nothing* in their kitchen? Not even a coffee maker? Or a sink, for that matter?
There’s a sink and a toaster?
There’s a sink and toaster visible in first and third panels.
Maybe they’re very minimalistic?
Sink and toaster were added after Drew’s comment. I’m guessing that it’s just a detail or layer that Tim missed. No need to downvote, guys; it wasn’t like he was being a jerk or anything.
To further limit this, log his connection to the web to see where he’s going, and also limit his upload speed.
Somewhere, Admiral Ackbar senses this conversation and is screaming “It’s A Trap”!!!!!!
So… Zeke reads and sees some of the stuff humans put on the Internet, and either decides we all have to die, or that there’s no point, we’re going to finish ourselves off soon enough? (as a machine, if built well enough, he might be technically immortal, thus having time)
I kinda hate Lucas
O_o What happened to your hate-boner for Zeke? xD
It was because I thought the old Zeke was gone, that e was now a permanent villain. However, Tim brought our beloved buffoon back
Fair. ^__^
Give him a slow, old smartphone with a stylus (because robots maybe cannot do touch screens?) and put that on wifi but do not let him direct connect. Slow down some of the troll comments.
Although, he might not troll comment humans because their trivial fighting might just bore him.
*Scratches head* Like yeah he can’t *escape* based on Scott’s logic, but there’s still a lot of unknown stuff a murderbot can do without having to upload his consciousness. Right?
Are they only concerned with Zeke “going skynet”? Because there are many other ways this could go poorly.
It seems unlike Scott to not discuss other scenarios before giving it a lukewarm approval.
I do get the sense that he’s tired of talking about the murderbot.
Fairly certain Scott’s prejudices have not vanished and there’s something here he’s not saying. Either he saw code in Zekes programing that would prevent it, or possibly destroy him if he tried. The creator would have known the dangers of an AI loose on the internet and built failsafes to prevent it from happening.
It makes sense. If it was that easy for him to ‘copy’ himself elsewhere, the ‘Master’ would have put blocks on that, yes, but it also explains why he only ever had just the one murder-bot instead of a backup army of robo-ninjas. That one bot put the boys through the wringer more than once, so it’d make sense to make more to stop said interlopers, but the code wouldn’t copy to a 2nd hardware unit, so he was forced to rely on the one.
Okay, taking bets now. How many horrible facets of humanity will X discover before he catches a virus and needs to be rebooted?
I wonder how robust Zeke is when it comes to Captcha. I guess we’ll see.
Love the last panel. Lmfao
For all the people saying ‘what if he uploads himself’… The way I see it, he would have to take a snapshot of himself… duplicating himself in stillness. I doubt he’s got enough storage IN him… to hold a complete copy of himself. Then he’d have to transfer it.. ok, so dozen upon dozens of hours later.. he’s got a copy of him on some server that has the space to handle it (hack google or something…). But now he’s got an inert copy of himself there.. he’d have to find some way to activate it.. give it frankenstein’s bolt… Read more »