Class Reunion

I wonder if the creepy, invasive, customer tracking AI is going to become a character?

OldGoat

Yay! is one node of a distributed AI (Spookybot). I think Team Fruit were an attempt to create a distributed AI, that failed in an interesting way. If Yay! is actually a deliberate creation, they are probably an improved iteration of Team Fruit, rather than the reverse. But that even the senior AIs don't know what Yay! is, that would suggest they are emergent or even imposed externally. They are clearly compatible with current charging tech etc though.

David Howe

Jeph I would 100% read Robot College. You need to get with Dave Willis on that collab.

Brian

I wonder, and I ask this seriously, is Lemon and all of her fruit sisters merely another iteration of Yay!, maybe Yay! 2.0? All the same multipurpose competence, none of the creepy manipulative androgyny.

z

Seems to be events/comments that remind Roko she’s an AI driving a robot body, instead of a person. She is a person, of course, but it’s the reminder that does it. Like us thinking of being a wet blob of fat swimming in chemicals.

Desy

What triggers the disassociation?

Alex

Robots with Railguns?

Leak

Well, Lemon knows exactly what needs to be done in this instance. She may be annoyingly chipper, but she is competent.

OldGoat

Ive never heard of Dumbing of Age, what is it?

Diana

I’m thinking the Venn Diagram of QC patrons and DoA patrons is quickly becoming a perfect circle.

Populuxe

I wonder if she also makes fresh scents? :D

Summer Sudbrink

Love the crossover with Dumbing of Age!

Gemma Hentsch

Only if they cranked up the CPU cycles. Learning isn't about memorizing a list, you have to integrate the knowledge. Since they largely operate on the same time-scale as a human... I think their main perks would be enhanced reading speed and recall... and not needing sleep. That might be enough of a boost to finish a 4-yr degree in actually 4 years...

Ardent Slacker

Way below spookybot's pay grade

Todd Ellner

Now I wonder about Spookybot and the creepy, intrusive customer tracking software

I think people's reservations come from the fact that last time she talked to Roko she seemed to make it a lot worse

Solomon Garland

For all the Lemon haters from the yesterday's comic - look, she's competent and not a "joke character". It's sad to see that even in this comic about acceptance and inclusion person is easily written off as "annoying and incompetent" by some fans only based on some personality traits. Lemon works with nuclear power plant AI, and given that there were no meltdowns - it seems successful. Would she be even allowed to do so if she were an incompetent ditz? Quirky but competent persons deserve respect too!

Evgeniy Semyonov

Seems like a good first step

Bagge

AFTER they have paid, or better yet; made sure they signed on the dotted line guaranteeing repayment w/ appropriate marked up percentage cost post tuition fees, of course.

Shawn K. Younkin

Just gonna go ahead and headcanon that robot college is four simulated years' worth of socializing in the cloud, and on graduation day they upload an entire degree worth of knowledge as they resume inhabiting their usual bodies.

Jane the Inscrutable

Facebase, brought to you by Mark Zuckerborg

Simon Green

Do they have interstellar travel in the QC universe?

Simon Green

"creepy, invasive tracking software"?!? They're JUST LIKE US.

Andrew Mitchell

Dumbing of Evolution!

Andrea Andrew

To avoid having Robot House put on quadruple secret probation, Beeps and Lemon snuck into the Dean's office and reprogrammed him into a party robot.

Dean Reilly

Maybe a "Robots with Gauss Rifles" version of "Girls with Slingshots"?

Matt Grayson

The “distress” bad-registration makes sense, but as someone who used to strip up plates on a light table...IT’S DRIVING ME INSANE.

I mean, with the sliding time scale and slow pace, if we don't wipe ourselves out in the next couple decades, he'll eventually have to add robots to DoA to make it current ...

Peter Jensen

"ROBOT HOUSE! ! !" -Dean Vernon

Ron Edens

I think the term that was used for the Schlock Mercenary AIs was "growpram", since they're not really programmed, but "grown" into the hardware they run on.

Peter Jensen

So, Dumbing Of AI.

Karel P Kerezman

Faye would be Billie, and Bubbles is obviously Ruth. Marten is Walky, and Steve is Joe. Claire is definitely Dorothy! Marigold would be Amber. I guess Dale is Danny (Though a lot less of a douche bag). Not sure if Tai or Dora would be Becky. Roko is Sal, and Beeps is Marcie! There really isn't a Joyce analog, though.

Grace Kieser

Try their other products, "Easily hacking your AI's webcam' and "Did you REALLY Google THAT last night??"

Shawn K. Younkin

Yay snorts in derision "they need software to invasively keep track of their clients? Amateurs. Of their 14,258 clients, 17 are having worse problems than Roko right now. Of course, 12 of those have been explosively dismantled."

Matt Grayson

Likely as not, no. But who else monitors things like that as a matter of course?

Michael Boettger

I am both horrified and fascinated. Nope - just fascinated.

Matt Grayson

Something tells me the creepy, invasive tracking software is going to have a Yay-shaped problem very soon.

Anthony Gaglianese

robot dumbing of age has the WEIRDEST slipshines

Another great product from Creepy Invasive Systems Inc.

Matt Grayson

I love that Lemon admits it’s creepy and invasive, and then suggests getting away from it.

Thisguy

Maybe its affiliated with Smif or Amherst.

Michael Boettger

I just really love the little detail of Roko's lines/colors being slightly off kilter as this scene has progressed. It is just such a perfect little indicator of her distress and emotional state.

Anton

I would pay $100/mo for the Jacques/Willis Robot College as Dumbing of Age but with Robots crossover.

Populuxe

She is better at her job than most would give her credit for.

Michael

Roko: um, guys?

Michael Boettger

But that’s what we do best!

Miyaa

So, will this creepy, invasive tracking software be what puts May back in robot jail? Gosh I hope not.

fluffy

But it's nice to know they're old college chums.

Michael Boettger

have you seen where she works? she definitely needs a degree for all that screaming!!

Kurt Lewis

Also… did Melon go to college, or at least clown college?

Miyaa

Oh, yeah, like that last comment isn't going to get people off on a tangent...

Joseph Houk

Getting away from the creepy invasive tracking software is a pretty solid plan

Robot college? Plug in, 10 minute download and done?

Michael Boettger

Now I want robots in DOA...

Bonnie Fiddis

At Dave Willis 😂😂😂

doorbender

Wow! Lemon makes sense!

Matt Grayson

Okay, I want a Patreon only spin-off webcomic about robot college. With Tai as the head librarian.

Miyaa

I imagine AIs being like HAL9000, you less program, them more teach them.

Nicholas A Wagner

I'm waiting for her to just scream until she breaks something.

BioYuGi

You go Lemon, you got this!!

Shawn K. Younkin

Dumbing of age!!! Love that!

Daniel Mann