A.i. Ponderer Gifts

"Shouldn't we hold off an artificial intelligence until we figure out actual intelligence?"

"The UWS association for the advancement of A.I."

"What's an imagination? It was something kids used to enjoy before they invented video games."

'As you know, some of us can't keep up with the pace of new technology.'

Idle parts

"Of course you can't put your finger on it. It's a hypothetical particle."

"My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick-boxing!"

"Today we'll examine that age old question of robot accomplishment: programming or processor?"

Progress?

"What if it's smarter than us?"

Time, Temp, Today's Neutrino Mass

Tracey Emin's Bed

Planetary Science. What do we call the study of gas giants in space? Gastronomy.

"I've never read such utter nonsense! There's a guy here reckons we're all living in some kind of computer simulation!!"

"Apparently, over two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water!"

Are you aware? The Higgs Boson was thought to exist even through no one had seen it!

"Well I think the Real question is..."

Robot Attack in Bath

'It's not working because it claims it can think and has decided not to.'

'Do you ever wonder about this whole 'money' thing?'

"You're right! It is much easier to explain it this way!"

Dr. McPhee discovers the Embarrassment Particle.

'It seems like a good invention now, but someday there'll be millions of these things, all crashing into each other.'

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars … Mercury … Um, Pluto? Charon? No, Pluto … or Eris? Ugh …

The mysterious world of ligand substitution

CREEPY AF AI

Six months later they would be sharing the Nobel Prize, but for now all they could do was stare in amazement at what they had discovered...two incredibly well preserved specimens from the styrofoam age.'

'The mind-body problem is best expressed in the formulation...OOf!'

A tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it.

How moons are born...

"Hello! - Have you ever thought about changing your energy supplier..?"

Physicists at the Fourth Grotschlov Conference assembled to determine once and for all if light is a wave or a particle.

"I want my job back."

Jupid/Jupiter/Jupidest

"They're some kind of robot, perhaps artificially intelligent."