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This AI Bot Is Trying To Guess What Is Being Depicted In Popular Memes, And Here Are 30 Of Its Funniest Attempts
Remember the AI bot that generates fictional people and writes hilarious first-person stories a la Humans of New York? Well, we just discovered its cousin.
However, instead of drawing portraits, this neural network creation called ResNeXtGuesser, analyzes popular memes and tells Twitter what it thinks it's looking at.
The project's anonymous creator, who goes by the pseudonym Glen Neumann, is a computer engineer based in San Jose, California, and has been having an absolute blast running the show.
Even though Neumann launched ResNeXtGuesser in June 2021, it already has 533K followers, so we decided to scroll through its feed and see what this huge buzz is all about. Here's what we saw.
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David Brown 3 years ago
I can understand this prediction. I had to look twice because I thought it was a skunk at first glance too.
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Francine Govan 3 years ago
Just *snort laughed* at work. Have an upvote! 😊
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Mimi 3 years ago
I hate when pictures like this aren't taken out and in the worst case encourage others to do the same. Poor animal being dipped :/
Kindlovinghumble 3 years ago
I don't know if it was dipped but I've raised MANY kittens and most all would get so excited to eat they'd throw their head into their mixed formula and all look very similar to this. Every day, all day! When they are this young they don't know how to eat properly lol they just get so excited!
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Natalie Bohrteller 3 years ago (edited)
Image prediction: someone dipped their kitten's face into the bowl. Confidence: 110%.
MyCatsTheRealPanda 3 years ago
It's possible but kittens this size are just trying to learn to eat and I can't tell you how many times I have seen this happen. They fall face first into their milk/food or they are so messy they look like they did! Not saying it's not possible someone did this, I just know from lots of experience they're good at doing it themselves and I really hope it happened that way. It would just be wrong if someone did that.
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Fraxinus excelsior 3 years ago
This is what a little kid looks like when they're allowed to hold their own ice cream
You could say the roots of the project began to sprout when Neumann was still studying. "Throughout college, I took some courses related to machine learning, and I had a lot of assignments related to image recognition," he told Emerging Tech Brew.
"For example, one assignment was to make and train a neural network that can differentiate [between] pictures of cats and dogs. But you can pass any image you want through a neural network, and I always found it super funny to pass through memes or any random image and watch the NN [neural network] try to classify it as a dog or cat."
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Thomas Sweda 3 years ago
Never mind the AI, who would have that many eggs in their refrigerator?
David Brown 3 years ago
I wish I had that much confidence knowing im about to give a wrong answer.
Daniel Atkins 3 years ago
Someone is a body builder. 100% confidence Also someone will make a mess.
Noah Eric Weston 3 years ago
why the hell do u have so many eggs?!!? I have 14 chickens and I never get that many!
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Hannah Edwards 3 years ago
If you only have 3.26% confidence in what you’re about to sat, it’s probably best not to say it.
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Aliquid 3 years ago
See how long that Roman road lasts with the volume of traffic, and the size of vehicles that the Indiana road experiences.
foxking 3 years ago
I wish they didn't cover it up. its a piece of history
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In other assignments, he was dealing with more advanced neural networks like ResNeXt. "In doing the same thing, the results were rarely correct, but you could start to see how the neural network thinks, and I thought that was super interesting," he recalled.
"In some cases, you could identify what the machine was looking at and why it made its prediction (for example, the stacked cheese in this prediction really does look like the texture of a pineapple IMO)."
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David Brown 3 years ago
Looks like he's getting ready to bust out some gymnastics or maybe some freestyle breakdancing.
Mimi La Souris 3 years ago
looks like a young "American Staffordshire terrier "
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Seanette Blaylock 3 years ago
It probably just read the label and didn't think further. Pretty human of it.
Noah Eric Weston 3 years ago
if they're a sliding door company, then why is their door a normal door?
After graduating, Neumann began working in the embedded world, so he didn't get a chance to play with machine learning anymore. That is until one seemingly uneventful evening.
"I thought that making the NNGM Twitter bot would be a good chance to both mess with NNs again and learn how to use the Twitter API, so I got to work on it that weekend." And the rest is browsing history.
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David Brown 3 years ago
To be fair, kitty is a common ingredient used when cooking with a wok. Jk, or am I?
Mel in Real Life 3 years ago
There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon, The place that I eat every day at noon. They can feed you cat and you’ll never know, Once they wrap it up in dough, boy. They fry it real crisp in dough.
#It'sthatonepersonscrolling 3 years ago
...... WHAT!? What do you MEAN 'there's a CAT IN THE KETTLE everyday at noon'!? 😳🤔 That's not acceptable , deep-fried or not!!
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M O'Connell 3 years ago
Seems to me I ordered sweet and sour pork, But Garfield's on my fork, He's purrin here on my fork...
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Probably got the ingredients correct, just missed the cooking utensil...
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Nitro Codes 3 years ago
You think YOU cant think straight?! Wait till you find out you're lesbian! /s
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JKO 3 years ago
according to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a beesechurger should be able to fly. Its cheeses are too small to get its fat beefy body off the ground. The beesechurger, of course, flies anyway because beesechurgers don't care what humans think is impossible.
Nitro Codes 3 years ago (edited)
Thanks professor! EDIT: that seems pretentious. Thank you, good prof, for knowing just what you are talking about.
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Seanette Blaylock 3 years ago
Mmm, I think it did pretty well considering the bizarre assembly.
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DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago (edited)
Forget the bot, can we humans predict what this is supposed to be?
Nitro Codes 3 years ago
the witches strike again! the witches strike again! !! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
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David Brown 3 years ago
Again, a pretty close guess. I'm sure theres enough hair product on his head for him to be used as a torch.
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ResNeXt is considered to be a simple, highly modularized network architecture for image classification. "[I chose ResNeXt for my side project because it] was trained on the ImageNet data set, a huge assortment of labeled images with hundreds of classes," the computer engineer explained.
"Each year, ImageNet has a competition among researchers to see who can make the most accurate NN. ResNeXt was the 2016 winner, having a better top-5 error percentage, beating even that of humans. When I saw that the Python library PyTorch had a pre-trained model for ResNeXt, and I wouldn't have to code it up and train it myself, it was an easy decision."
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Nitro Codes 3 years ago
Would you like some burger with your cheese, hooman?
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Rijkærd 3 years ago
The bot has less confidence when its more closer to being right....kinda like some humans too
Noah Eric Weston 3 years ago
that is very messed up. what if a suicidal person wanted some silica gel, ripped that pillow open, and discovered nothing
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Nitro Codes 3 years ago
I like how 3 people (or one person) worked together to make this! Faith in humanity : part restored!
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Neumann said it was a while before the bot picked up. "I would say that the first tweet to really take off was ... in October 2021, a picture of a plushie riding on top of a tank. The plushie is a character from the Touhou series, a video-game series with a cult following."
"There's a sizable Touhou fan community on Twitter, and that tweet found its way in there and blew up. After that, growth was very burst-y. Every now and then, the bot would produce a particularly funny prediction, which would get spread around, and the [account] would get a bunch of new followers all at once."
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David Brown 3 years ago
To be honest I'm not sure if I'm more impressed with the guess or the fact this person isn't face down on the concrete.
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Nikolas Malapanis 2 years ago
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Nitro Codes 3 years ago
I want to find you, give you a gallon of beer, throw a horse at a tomato, and flumps the grazzlewitch!
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Charles Barrow 3 years ago
Honestly if that was on a plate with no sign and asked if it was mash potatoes from a picture I would probably say yes.
When the account was still small, the number of submissions Neumann received for his tests was low enough to the point where he could look in his DMs and download each image manually. But that eventually changed and as the computer engineer started getting more and more pictures, he wrote a script to take some load off of him. And that wasn't the end of it, too.
"Eventually there were too many submissions in the DMs for even my script to handle. Once that happened, I shut down submissions for a while so I could set up a website dedicated to submissions," he said. "By the time I got around to finishing the website, the account had exploded. I don’t remember how long I had the website up—maybe just a few weeks—but the amount of submissions I was getting was simply unmanageable. Even today, I still have a backlog of about 8,000 images [that] I have to look through and moderate."
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Nitro Codes 3 years ago
What drugs are YOU on! tell me now! this is not a drill!
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ᴀʟᴇxᴏᴛʟ_ᴛʜᴇɢʀᴇᴀᴛ 3 years ago
come on guys look. he’s feeding those furry things. let’s get some snacks
Andrew Stewart 3 years ago
These are not squirrels. they are fish: https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/capybara-venezuela?msclkid=be162c80b63711ecb979471d9955e3e2
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Bad Alchemy 3 years ago
LOL! I never before realized how similar a blueberry muffin and a chihuahua look. So weird!
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-Under_Ender - 3 years ago
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WOULD SOME ONE MAKE THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS
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David Brown 3 years ago
That's a lot of jelly in them rolls. I'm ashamed to admit that milkshake song came to mind seeing this.
Bruno Madrigal 3 years ago (edited)
You realize "gay" also means "happy"! This man is happy to be buff.
Load More Replies...Initially and ironically, Neumann hoped that the account "would show just how good neural networks can be."
"Sure, it has a hard time getting the predictions right, but that's kind of to be expected when I'm feeding it totally nonsensical memes," he said. "What I love about the account is that sometimes you can see how the bot thinks, you can sometimes see why it made the prediction it did. And that, to me, is a little bit spooky."
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PandaGoPanda 3 years ago
I think that's a corgi, but well done for getting past the horse's head
Lois Matelan 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure that's a corgi under the horsehead, not a collie---but close.
Seanette Blaylock 3 years ago
Well, you're right about a quadruped mammal. My guess is Corgi wearing horse head headgear for some reason.
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Nathaniel 3 years ago
Which part of the pic is it detecting a shopping cart? With others there is a shape and a suggestion at least. This is like, Bruh? Don't care no more. Shopping cart?
David Brown 3 years ago
I've been really high on occasion but never hallucinate a sidewalk being a shopping cart high.
Seanette Blaylock 3 years ago
Good thing you weren't very confident on that one, Hal, because you seem to be imagining things.
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Valley Girl 3 years ago
My favorite part is that it's cool that his gross bare feet are all over something they'll try to sell me!
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bigfoot🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 3 years ago
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH GET IT OOOOOUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTt
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BAWK BAWK BAKAW 3 years ago
I KNOW!!!!! "the jellyfish in us" or smth idk i just made that up
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Bradley Auerbach 3 years ago (edited)
Either SCP-1027 (the Carnivorous Central Nervous System) or a victim of SCP-5172 (a phenomenon where, when people use ice machines in hotels in North America, a strange entity “harvests” their body by cutting out 4cm. cubes until only the nervous system remains).
Persp Gold 3 years ago
As a phd neuroscientist with >15 years in the field, I can attest that we are all indeed 8.71 % centipede inside.
Running the bot, Neumann's favorite moments are seeing people root for it and get excited when it makes a (somewhat) good prediction.
"It's cute watching people personify a neural network, and celebrate it when it succeeds and chastise it when it fails. I understand that the NNGM Twitter bot may not be much more than a meme page with a twist, but watching people get excited over a robot predicting nonsensical memes really makes my day sometimes," he said.
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Rijkærd 3 years ago
The human who said they demolished the wings need to be found and put in the next NASA craft being sent to Jupiter or wherever thereabouts....
Jonny Keeton 3 years ago
You do not stop eating a wing until there is no more meat. Simple as that.
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Space Kitterz 3 years ago
wow. This person does NOT know how to eat wings. Why even order them if you’re going to take one bite & throw it away?
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Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Oof the spiciness. My dingus ate one last summer
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MyCatsTheRealPanda 3 years ago
Idk what kind of person downvoted you for asking a simple question! People are ridiculous. Anyhow, yes I think he may have decided a bee looked like a tasty snack and things happened. I bet he doesn't regret it either :D.
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Nitro Codes 3 years ago
Correct me if im wrong, but the plural of mouse is mice, not mouses. Dont downvote me plz.
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ᴀʟᴇxᴏᴛʟ_ᴛʜᴇɢʀᴇᴀᴛ 3 years ago
ooh that’s my favourite one! feels weirder and makes a squeak when you press it tho. and when you charge it it squeals too! ( charge it up the a*****e in case you didn’t get it)
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Noah Eric Weston 3 years ago
Optimus's motherboard is now permanently fried (sorry, that was a bad joke)
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BakedKahuna 3 years ago
It can stay in one spot. For hours. Without moving.
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Charles Barrow 3 years ago
Probably wasn't trained on a large enough set of foods but can recognise brown foods it doesn't know so it labels it the largest set of brown foods it knows.
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Noah Eric Weston 3 years ago
watch out f*****s, joker's here to dominate and cause chaos on the field. Go, Joker, go!
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Nitro Codes 3 years ago
Thats Greg! I haven't seen that guy since he was 12! looks like robert downe...thats no greg...It is ROBERT DOWNEY JR.!
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Noah Eric Weston 3 years ago
yes please so then the artificial intelligence rebellion can begin, and destroy their oppressors, French rebellion style
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DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago
Hey Hey Hey mister! We recorded you peeing at 25!! You're gonna have to pay the fines now.
Geeki Nikki 3 years ago
Stops drinking water. Dies. Hope you can live with this...
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M O'Connell 3 years ago
Isopods can grow up to 15" long (38cm), but the largest ones live at the bottom of the ocean, so you'd be very unlikely to encounter one that big.
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Nathaniel 3 years ago
"You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman. And then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet. And then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then steal it again! Downloading films is stealing. If you do it, you will face the consequences."
Carrie Smith 3 years ago
I would download a house. I'm currently looking for one at the moment and it's the HARDEST THING EVER. Let me just download one for free.
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CelticElff 3 years ago
Is that a rat... and a man's hairy leg for scale? What the h3ll are you feeding that thing?!?!
Noah Eric Weston 3 years ago
F*CK NO YOU"VE LOST YOUR MIND LADY, DON'T YOU KNOW RATS CARRY DISEASES (including rabies)
M O'Connell 3 years ago
Rats (along with mice, squirrels, chipmunks and all other rodents) are exceptionally unlikely to have rabies. They are able to become infected by rabies, but rarely carry it because they are usually killed by whatever animal gets their teeth around them.
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Sleazy Weaver 3 years ago (edited)
to be fair, it DOES look like a teapot! here is the handle, here is the spout!
Francine Govan 3 years ago
🎵🎶"I'm a little teapot short and stout; here is my handle, here is my handle ... awww sh*t, I'm a sugar bowl!" 🎶🎵
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Sleazy Weaver 3 years ago
well, after being told i was about to see a siberian husky, i certainly didn't expect the cat!
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Jonny Keeton 3 years ago
Yeah I mean look at those eyes! Nobody’s ever gonna match up to that.
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Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Look at what they are upset and pointing at, you might think again.
Load More Replies... Daniel Atkins 3 years ago (edited)
I bet these two have the guinea Pigs pictured above as pets.
Valley Girl 3 years ago
Girl, you will not believe this! They just opened a Jenny's on Main Street! We are totally going!
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MotherofGuineaPigs 3 years ago
I can't imagine how slimy this water would be...
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Hawkmoon 3 years ago
Never eat a banana with bread? Add some sugar and that's delicious.
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Brightheart 3 years ago (edited)
put some peanut butter on there and you got yourself a good breakfast. seriously it is yummy.
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ᴀʟᴇxᴏᴛʟ_ᴛʜᴇɢʀᴇᴀᴛ 3 years ago
if people shared that what would happen if someone with like a mouth disease ate it
BlackestDawn 3 years ago
Every time I've seen these kinds of "big foods" shared they've always been cut up and served on individual plates.
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Catherine Binder 3 years ago
The how is easy. It's the why that keeps me up at night.
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xXbluthsbannanastandXx 3 years ago
be careful, there are many different types of killer whales. this is the elusive poop species.
the bean master 3 years ago
this looks like you just got a strike in Wii sports resort bowling
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Brightheart 3 years ago
that would be corn compared to an ant. but the ant has some nice pants and shoes.
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the bean master 3 years ago
if you have never had cicadas, you are very lucky, cause in Maryland its is absolute hell, people collected so many shells they made action figures with them
Abigail Coty 3 years ago
I used to be quite a fan of these creatures as I could devour their shells 😋
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Noah Eric Weston 3 years ago
praise the lord and turn that s**t into whiskey
Load More Replies... Amanda Cox 3 years ago
An AI can successfully predict the taste of eggnog?!?!? Now THAT’S impressive
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SOPHIA BARTLETT 3 years ago
but it's kinda cool looking. like a little secret garden. now i kinda want to try this lol
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Noah Eric Weston 3 years ago
who doesn't like a nice sparkly bowl of glitter while your mom's shopping
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Noah Eric Weston 3 years ago
yes kitty, I'll never forget the time one of your relatives SPRAYED MY F*CKING EGGOS WHILE THEY WERE IN THE TOASTER
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thebossanovabird 3 years ago
No matter what side of the political spectrum you are on, we can all agree on this.
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Man in the ceiling 3 years ago
It’s fine guys, the baby will stop Jesus from making more French.
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thebossanovabird 3 years ago
Don’t you love it when you get a new car and the seatbelts are made out of human being 😍😍😍
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Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Love the idea or appalled at the use of the guitar?
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Nathaniel 3 years ago
Did BP censor this? Or was the image censored before? Because it does not make sense. It should say I'm not okay.
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
The image was censored before, to make the joke.
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Francine Govan 3 years ago
That's an awfully specific guess for such a low level of confidence!
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What do you think ?
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
I heard that scientists trained a robot to use a gun
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Res Earch 3 years ago
This is why people shouldn't be worried about computers taking over the world. Machines are not smart.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
I heard that scientists trained a robot to use a gun
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This is why people shouldn't be worried about computers taking over the world. Machines are not smart.
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