Comic #7188: language-5

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Panel 1:

• Person 1: "I’m willing to believe AI will be smarter, but I don't think you'll see anything “emergent” beyond humans."
• Robot: "ARE YOU STUPID? IGNORANT?"
• Person 2: "Higher forms of communication already exist! They’re just not evenly distributed!"

Panel 2:

• Narration: "Imagine a being with Shakespeare’s poetic power, Wodehouse’s ability to tell a joke, Austen’s ability to write characters, Lem’s imagination, Newton’s clarity, Einstein’s creativity, Godel’s logic, and fluency in every language, including animal languages and languages it constructed specifically to express some concept AND it’s talking to other beings who are the same way, none of whom are distracted by hunger, anger, fear, or lust!"

Panel 3:

• Person 3: "Sorry, tuned out. Too much of words."
• Robot: "The only reason we don’t kill all of you is pity."

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