Dilbert: Did you design our robot’s 3-D pill printer? Wally: Yup. Dilbert: The design is brilliant, except for the part where the pill drops out of the robot’s butt. Why are you suddenly brilliant? Wally: Never had a reason before.
Source: Wally Engineers Something – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2015-10-09 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
Was it the pill that made Dilbert realize that Wally was brilliant, or did he have an epiphany regarding how brilliant the joke is.
The series over the last few days referenced IBM’s Watson prescribing a new set of medications for a human, and a comment was made about robots programming humans.
Mr. Smith was right when he said when machines started thinking for us it really became their civilization.
I’m a big fan of the Future Of Life‘s interest in preventing unforeseen negative consequences of the rush for Artificial Intelligence.