An original, unusual and very funny glimpse into a corner of the semiconductor industry, presented in the pilot episode of a series conceived in 2009 and first published in 2012.
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https://twenkid.com/smartasses/2025/
Premiere of the colorized and enhanced version of the pilot episode of my satirical comic “Superumintsi” (2012) — cheerful adventures and absurdities from the semiconductor industry and from life:
https://twenkid.com/smartasses/2025/
Episode One: “Companions”
Concept, text, and pencil drawings: Tosh
(Idea and descriptions for several episodes / storyboard sketches: 2009; first fully realized large pilot episode: summer 2012)Coloring and enhancements of some of the drawings (12/2025): Tosh with Gemini, plus a few manual touch-ups (one horizontal flip was required).*
Some drawings from the draft were kept as they were or only lightly colorized, with the original outlines preserved. Overall, I aimed to follow the composition, shapes, and style of the originals, with exceptions where that wasn’t possible or where I preferred it as is. The original pencil-only version can also be seen via the links above.The story is inspired by a legendary company that was later acquired by Broadcom, after many years of close collaboration. Broadcom is now listed with a market capitalization of about $1.67 trillion; around 2008–2009 it was valued at $3–4 billion (they were later acquired for $37 billion in 2015, and then went on to acquire the other company in question in 2016 and adopt its name).
Did any colleague happen to be a “player” and buy shares in time?
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With more redraws or further refinement of the sketches, the characters could have been improved even more, but I didn’t feel like investing the extra effort— I only tried a few prompts, and they didn’t turn out well.
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According to my original ideas and designs and what was counted for an AGI, universal artificial intelligence, a thinking machine, capable to think and create at a single human/super-human level/speed/scale/performance/quality/complexity level (say - comparable to my versatile skills, breadth, performance*) - were "dreamed" to work on a quad-core PC with 32 GB RAM back in the early 2010s - equipped with sensors: one or several cameras, microphones, Internet and other sensors, used for bootstrapping - without pre-trained and existing modules which are now available, we may not count them in the requirements. :)
Ask if you are interested in these articles or search the blog in 2013-2014, Issues on AGIRI list, "What's going on - Everything", "The infrastructure" (now called Vsy, Jack of All Trades, Вседържец etc.)
* I.e such a machine is not required to be capable of generating photorealistic 4K videos in real time - this is vastly superhuman. It should be at least as fast as me or reasonably slower.
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