Strip 2429 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2023-07-24
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
Dark plans fall like thunderbolts.
Quantum Vibe
A thousand years in the future, humanity has colonized worlds in nearly 100 galaxies, thanks to Quantum Vibremonic technologies developed five centuries earlier. Other new technologies have created various off-shoots of humanity and extended life expectancies five-fold. The story begins with how a mad scientist and his plucky assistant, along with their robot friend, brought humanity to the stars, and continues with the adventures of some unique people in fantastic places.
Not-Safe dot Kickstarter [ May 6, 2024 ]
The big news this week is that Scott is preparing to launch a Kickstarter for his other comic, the very much NSFW Not-Safe.Space.
This over-sized (8.5 x 11-inch), 48 page book contains Chapter 1 of this naughty sci-fi spin-off, featuring Eithne Lamdagan, who happens to be Alyss Roaz' 7th-great granddaughter, in case you didn't know.
The story picks up roughly 2 years after QUANTUM VIBE: Assimulation left off, as Eithne and her K'Tagon boyfriend Ralff, wander through the Galaxy of the Gamer Godz, playing as the CUSH Queen, working to re-balance a real-life RPG that her travelling companion Hugo Galvez left in a bit of a mess.
Only instead of Eithne's CUSH turning people into techno-zombies, as the Godz originally intended, Eithne wants to make them techno-Succubi/Incubi, spreading what she calls an "Erogene" factor rendering them too busy making love, to make war. And of course, Eithne gets wrapped up in her work.
The campaign will start on May 14, and the link for the pre-launch page is here.
Transcript For Strip 2429
Panel 1: Philomela looks at the caption above "seems like I got a bit more time"Panel 2: Philomela eyes closed and fingers raised proclaims in a solemn tone "the 2023 AI craze was caused by a denoiser marketed as "AI" but while it indeed used neural networks that did not give it basic abilities like learning from practice. But all it did was "fill in blanks"."
Panel 3: Philomela reading from a book: "College professors failed classes asking denoisers if they wrote their students' papers, the answer followed the question's framing not true knowledge, as it could not know. Lawyers got disbarred for requesting summaries but receiving made up answers based on the given patterns."
Panel 4: Philomela closes the book, a sad, solemn expression on her face "Artists' galleries were used to train denoising tensor patterns or checkpoints of this learning process with images seen as beautiful by the trainers. This process mimicked human learning as it was modeled after it on purpose, but in this process the denoiser had no ability to initiate learning or learn directly from previous usage."
Panel 5: Philomela shrugs with a sad expression: "a trained denoiser is "dead" and unable to learn, though it can be "frankensteined" with other models, or via embeds, long range spectrum models, and other things to "learn" new tricks... ...but the marketing included having researchers sign that they needed a pause or *"HUMANITY COULD LOSE TO A SINGULARITY EVENT!"* because "AI" was becoming *"TOO POWERFUL TO CONTAIN"* or similar snake oil."
Panel 6: Philomela pinches her... nose... for lack of a better term: "So. People diverting attention, having everybody hurt everybody else. I could use a punchline... ...But "survivor humour" isn't funny, if you aren't a survivor"
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