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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by a BATTLE ALEXA. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | [[ | + | [[Science Girl]] thanks [[wikipedia:Siri|Siri]] on her smartphone for setting an alarm. In the next panel, she asks [[Cueball]] "Is Siri alive?", since AI assistants can seem to be almost human on a very superficial level. Cueball answers "No", since Siri is just software, and we don't generally attribute life to computer programs (the closest might be [[wikipedia:computer virus|computer viruses]], since they replicate). |
− | + | Then Science Girl asks "How did she die?". She may have already been treating Siri as alive because she could talk to 'her', and treats this lack-of-life as a new state of being. So rather than interpreting the answer in a philosophical sense of whether Siri is something that ever ''can'' be alive, which might normally have been presupposed, she treats it as meaning that Siri had (just) expired. This may require a credulous certainty of 'facts' taken literally - it is not clear what could then be understood if Siri were 'proven' to be alive and talking again, afterwards. | |
− | Or perhaps she thinks that the software Siri is a software embodiment of an actual person | + | Or perhaps she thinks that the software Siri is a software embodiment of an actual person, and Cueball was talking about the original person. We don't currently have the technology to upload a person's personality into a computer,{{Citation needed}} but it's a popular science fiction trope and many scientists think we will eventually be able to do this.{{Citation needed}} |
− | + | The title text explains that Siri died in a battle with [[wikipedia:Amazon Alexa|Alexa]], another personal assistant, hinging on their abilities to set alarms. Of the many actions that these programs are able to perform, this is probably one of the more trivial, so it's not very comprehensible, at least to those not themselves living as digital assistants, that it would be the chosen method for a duel to the death. | |
− | + | ==Transcript== | |
− | + | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
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− | + | :[Science Girl is standing and holding a phone.] | |
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:Phone: ''Your timer is set.'' | :Phone: ''Your timer is set.'' | ||
− | : | + | :Science Girl: Thanks |
− | :[ | + | :[Science Girl is talking to Cueball, who is sitting at a desk using a laptop.] |
− | : | + | :Science Girl: Is Siri ''alive?'' |
:Cueball: No. | :Cueball: No. | ||
− | :[ | + | :[Science Girl is standing on her own again.] |
− | : | + | :Science Girl: Oh, ok. |
− | :[ | + | :[Science Girl is still standing on her own.] |
− | : | + | :Science Girl: How did she die? |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Comics featuring Science Girl]] | ||
[[Category:Smartphones]] | [[Category:Smartphones]] | ||
[[Category:Virtual Assistants]] | [[Category:Virtual Assistants]] | ||
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