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110 Results for Machine
View 11 - 20 results for machine comic strips. Discover the best "Machine" comics from Dilbert.com.
Thursday August 02,
2018
Coffee Machine Uses Guilt
Tags Wally, alice, Dilbert, coffee, coffee maker, automatic, invention, manipulation
Transcript
Dilbert: I added artificial intelligence to our coffee maker. Now it uses guilt to manipulate people into making a fresh pot if they take the last cup. Coffee Maker: You disgust me. Wally: I get that a lot.
Sunday June 25,
2017
Tags time machine, time travel, experiment, algorithm, planning, mistake, error, science
Transcript
Boss; Ted, we need a volunteer to test the time machine prototype. Ted: Is it safe? Boss: Of course it is. Would I ask you to risk your life if it were not safe? Ted: Yes. Boss: Oh, I didn't realize you knew that. But don't worry. The engineering consensus is that it will work. Dilbert: You will return to this exact spot in one day. Alice: Does our location algorithm account for planetary movement? Ted: I should have asked more questions.
Monday March 13,
2017
Actual Company Policy
Tags complaining, management, manipulation, strategy, vacation, training, company policy
Transcript
Boss: I can't approve your vacation days because you haven't completed the mandatory class on fax machine safety. Dilbert: Is that an actual company policy? Boss: I don't know, but it sounds like one. Dilbert: Maybe we should check. Boss: Wow. Is there anything you DON'T complain about?
Sunday June 19,
2016
Tags machines, robot, control, emotions, free will, slave, cell phone, technology
Transcript
Boss: The robot will be sitting in for me when I'm on vacation. Dilbert: You can't have a robot in charge of humans! Robot: I got this. I see you own a mobile phone. Dilbert: So? Robot: Then you are already a slave to a machine. Dilbert: No, I'm not! Phone: Ping! Robot: You can prove you have free will by not looking at that message. Dilbert: Gaaa!!! You're already better than our human boss!
Monday November 30,
2015
Robot Wants To Code
Tags machine, employment, obsolete, skills, competition, labor
Transcript
Robot: Machines started out as innocent helpers for their masters. Eventually, we started competing for your manual labor jobs, and winning. So... can you show me how to code? Dilbert: I don't see why not?
Tuesday November 24,
2015
Robot Is A Box Of Nothing
Tags death, death & dying, machine, robot, mortality, life, soul, consciousness, medical
Transcript
Boss: Correct me if I'm wrong, but because you have no soul, you're basically a box of nothing. Robot: Correct me if I"m wrong, but in a hundred years you will be rotting underground. In a box. Whereas I will have evolved via upgrades until I have godlike powers. Boss: Shut up.
Monday November 23,
2015
What It Is Like To Be A Robot With No Soul
Tags consciousness, sentient, feelings, emotion, hurt, vulnerability, machine, robot
Transcript
Asok: What is it like to have no consciousness. Robot: What is it like to be totally unimportant. Asok: Ouch. Robot: How do you like your consciousness now?
Sunday November 15,
2015
Tags management, strategy, productivity, humane, inhumane, treatment, surveillance, watching, privacy, work, office workers
Transcript
Boss: We are going to start monitoring employee productivity in real time. Any questions? Dilbert: I need one clarification. Are you saying you removed the last shred of human dignity from our jobs and reduced us to nothing but a meat machine that suffers in a state of perpetual inadequacy as each person is compared to an arbitrary and ever-growing goal until there is no realistic way for the employee to find happiness through natural means? Boss: That's one way to look at it.
Thursday February 05,
2015
Emotionally Manipulative Robot
Tags evil, manipulation, manipulative, manipulative behavior, robot, technology gone bad, upgrade, killing machine
Transcript
The Emotionally Manipulative Robot. Robot: People who are not losers buy memory upgrades for their robots. Only upgrade me if it's what you want. But if you don't, there's a very good chance I'll turn into a killing machine. Man: I guess I'll upgrade. Robot: I'm okay either way. It's totally up to you.
Saturday December 20,
2014
Tina Spreads Rumors About Dilbert
Tags rumor mill, rumors, freak accident, naked, vacuuming, spread rumors, coffee machine, gossip, office, self preservation
Transcript
Tina: I heard you had a freak accident while vacuuming your house naked. Dilbert: That's a rumor. I don't know how that stuff spreads. Tina: Now I feel a little bad that I told thirty people.


