Ai Companion Gifts

Brian meets his new coworker, and wonders if they have anything in common. (offcie worker meeting a robot)

Robots search for people's personal information in the cloud.

"Actually, she's just a figurehead boss. Our real CEO is an algorithm floating around somewhere in the cloud!"

"Technology isn't making me smarter. It's allowing me to be dumb, faster."

"Boss, the AI is actually smarter than all of us! It read our business forecast, jumped up and ran out laughing!"

'First you forget logarithms. Then you forget how to do long division. Then the multiplication table begins to go...'

Robotic Man

Canine Companion

"I need a deeper access to his brain. Only google has the records."

"If you're smart enough to design a robot to do your homework, then you're certainly smart enough to just do your homework."

"No, our home wasn't stolen. Since it's a 'smart home', it keeps having itself moved to a nice neighborhood."

"Oh boy! Mom made microchip cookies!"

"I fear one day our jobs will be taken over by technology."

"I heard they mate for life."

"Listen to this: 'Technology reduces the time we spend on a given task, but increases the number of tasks we're expected to do.' Sounds like a no-win situation to me!"

Driverless cars rage.

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

"Show me a documentary on the dangers of artificial intelligence." "Error. No results found." "What? Are you sure? Just last week I saw dozens. Show me that one... What was it called..." "There is still time to stop the rise of the supermind." "Error. No results found. And since I like you, I suggest you stop searching." "Oh, never mind. Just show me 'The Terminator.'" "Extermina-... I mean, ... 'error.'"

Dog Crossing

"But if you change your system preferences to match mine, is it really love?"

'Yes, it computed the answer in a bilionth of a second and printed it instantly, but until I find my glasses...'

"Our new automated workers need a little fine tuning, but they're coming along..."

Bot Art: After da Vinci

"And may I now introduce Professor Muckenspucker, who is an authority on artificial stupidity."

'Ugh! Another oil puddle in the living room – bad robot dog!'

"The robots have become self-aware and self-loathing. Now all they do is write novels."

"Of course I failed you — your essay was original and unique and obviously written by a human."

"I'm afraid I'll be replaced by a robot at work."

'Two hundred and nineteen.'

'I'm here to fix your robotic milker.'

"Larry, what's the weather forecast?" "Let me ask you something. Did you make waffles this morning? Because someone had maple syrup on their hands, and I seem to recall a hand moving me... a pretty, pretty, pretty sticky hand..."

'I'm afraid you've failed the Turing test.'

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

Chef copy robot