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Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry? (garymarcus.substack.com)
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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 124 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Relevant XKCD:

[–] jflorez@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why not post a link to the actual XKCD comic and give the author the views instead of a random site?

[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 57 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The random site is their lemmy instance's pictrs. Randall doesn't care about reposting, and this is nicer since you don't have to leave lemmy

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In fact he doesn’t care about reposting so much that he Creative Commons licensed his whole comic.

[–] RandomStickman@kbin.social 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah but the alt-text. Now I have to look up the comic page for it.

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Search explainxkcd for the words in the image

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So much for "nicer since you don’t have to leave lemmy"

The alt texts are one of the best parts of xkcd

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

It turns out a lot of people (who aren't otherwise interested in xkcd but would like a relevant one in the moment) really don't care about the alt-text and titles.

I'm with you, but more often than not in the "relevant xkcd" moment, people lack interest for the alt text.

[–] jflorez@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

Today I learned :)

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aw man I've been making this joke thinking I'm clever for years but I read xkcd pretty frequently. I must have inadvertently stolen the joke from Randall.

[–] wombatula@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's probably an XKCD about that.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] wombatula@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Haha good stuff ty.