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Showing posts with label H.T. Webster. Show all posts

AI ’Toons


I want to share this H.T. Webster cartoon from 100 years ago before maximum relevance is lost.

Idea Dynamo connected to engine, ink dispenser, and mechanical hands drawing comic strip, while a man stands nearby making plans to go fishing, with caption 'In the year 2023 when all our work is done by electricity'

Webster’s “Idea Dynamo” automating the creation of new cartoons, drawn for
The New York World in 1923, looks amusingly — if not eerily — prescient given conversations we’re having in 2023 vis-à-vis artificial intelligence.