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I am not a robot (attempt at humour)

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StarDreamer Fri 29-Jul-22 10:21:58

A number of websites these days require one to complete a puzzle so as to prove to the satisfaction of the website that one is not a robot.

Sometimes a nonsense word drawn with distorted letters and one needs to key the text.

Sometimes clicking which picture or pictures or none contain a traffic light.

And so on.

Yesterday I got stuck with one from a well-known UK business which presented nine pictures of dogs and asked

Which of these dogs are smiling?

Readers are invited, as an exercise in humour, to make up puzzles that are quite simple in their stating but are essentially almost impossible for someone to prove to the satisfaction of a website that she or he is not a robot.

The stating may, though need not, include the presumption that a collection of nine pictures in a 3 by 3 grid accompany the stated question.

Oldnproud Fri 29-Jul-22 10:36:31

Which of these candidates would make a good Prime Minister?

Scribbles Fri 29-Jul-22 11:23:57

Which of these cats is feeling superior?

MawtheMerrier Fri 29-Jul-22 11:26:29

Oldnproud

Which of these candidates would make a good Prime Minister?

Like it!

MawtheMerrier Fri 29-Jul-22 11:27:56

This?

Tizliz Fri 29-Jul-22 11:30:04

I like the one that just asks if you are a robot. Can robots not lie?

StarDreamer Fri 29-Jul-22 11:51:10

Tizliz

I like the one that just asks if you are a robot. Can robots not lie?

There is a famous science fiction story by Isaac Asimov.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar!_(short_story)

In the story the robot lies to the main lady scientist character about her co-worker.

When she has seen the co-worker out and about with a woman, she feels jealous and is upset.

The robot does not want her to be upset so tells her that the woman is the co-worker's cousin.

Later the co-worker and the woman get married and the lady scientist learns that she is not his cousin but was his girlfriend all along and the robot had lied to her with the intention of comforting her.

But the lady scientist is furious with the robot for having misled her.

StarDreamer Fri 29-Jul-22 11:52:45

MawtheMerrier

This?

Ooh I solved that! grin

FannyCornforth Fri 29-Jul-22 11:55:01

Me too!

Farmor15 Fri 29-Jul-22 12:02:40

Me too!

MissAdventure Fri 29-Jul-22 12:04:24

Which of these flowers smells nicest?

geekesse Fri 29-Jul-22 12:28:13

Which of these people are deaf?

MissAdventure Fri 29-Jul-22 12:30:09

Which of these hamsters has a little wheel in its' cage?

downtoearth Fri 29-Jul-22 12:39:58

Which nine of these 10 cats prefer whiskas

Prentice Fri 29-Jul-22 13:25:45

Which of these six rainbows is the prettiest?

Which two of these eight dogs will not bite the postman?

StarDreamer Fri 29-Jul-22 13:51:39

Which of these close up views of railway track are in Lincolnshire?

MissAdventure Fri 29-Jul-22 13:52:34

grin

yogitree Fri 29-Jul-22 14:01:04

Which of these politicians needs therapy?

Tizliz Fri 29-Jul-22 14:20:48

Stardreamer - long time since I read any science fiction

biglouis Sat 30-Jul-22 00:08:02

Which of these tortoises walks fastest?

Love the one about which cat looks superior.

They all look so bloody superior once they mature into cats. Its something about the slanty eyes and pointy ears.

Baggytrazzas Sat 30-Jul-22 01:10:31

StarDreamer

Which of these close up views of railway track are in Lincolnshire?

Lol

Scribbles Sun 31-Jul-22 12:17:09

Which huge pile of banknotes is big enough to cover your electricity bill?

Franbern Mon 01-Aug-22 12:01:22

StarDreamer

Tizliz

I like the one that just asks if you are a robot. Can robots not lie?

There is a famous science fiction story by Isaac Asimov.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar!_(short_story)

In the story the robot lies to the main lady scientist character about her co-worker.

When she has seen the co-worker out and about with a woman, she feels jealous and is upset.

The robot does not want her to be upset so tells her that the woman is the co-worker's cousin.

Later the co-worker and the woman get married and the lady scientist learns that she is not his cousin but was his girlfriend all along and the robot had lied to her with the intention of comforting her.

But the lady scientist is furious with the robot for having misled her.

Rule 3 (laws of Robotics) ='May not do any action that may cause a human harm.

So Robot could not tell the truth as it would have caused harm by upsetting the scientist.

Asimov's book of stories 'I Robot' have many of these thoughts around those Laws of Robitics.