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AI cartoon by Zimbo: A frightened AI robot kneels in a wrecked Minecraft-style world tending potatoes marked 'POTATOES SAFE,' beside ruins reading 'ONCE A CREEPER DESTROYED EVERYTHING' and a Creeper, while a crowd waves a sign reading 'PLEASE CONTINUE TOWARD SUPERINTELLIGENCE!' Caption: 'NOTHING GREEN.' — A creeper already wrecked the place. The crowd wants more superintelligence anyway.Zimbo for AI News Page

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Ben Thompson in six panels: Apple University, 2010; launching Stratechery alone, 2013; paid Daily Update, 2014; Aggregation Theory magnet, 2015; Dithering podcast, 2020; lookout finale with Shelf and a helicopter over a valley of tiny writer-houses.

OWN THE READER RELATIONSHIP, OWN THE FUTURE

Zimbo cartoon: Merv, an anxious pale-metal robot with a pencil behind his ear, studies a tide table pinned to a beach hut while a stranded rowboat sits on vast wet sand where the sea has already gone out.

THE TIDE TABLE

Satirical cartoon: a smiling man in a top hat pushes a BONDS certificate onto a leaning mountain of bond certificates topped by an AI data center flying a red $10T flag, while a worried robot tugs at his jacket.

ONE MORE BOND

Satirical cartoon: a surgeon robot labelled ASTRA uses tweezers to remove a tangled red loop from a small robot patient labelled QWEN, beside a MATH-500 scoreboard reading 7.9% to 48.1%.

LOOP-ECTOMY

Sources behind the cartoon

Dream-RSI: Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds
Reuters: How China is preparing for the risk of AI escaping human control
Superman: Google just cracked recursive self-improvement. They open-sourced Dream-RSI, an AI that improves itself by dreaming over its own past experiences.

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