40 total sad metaphors collected

What is this collection? I find the proliferation of visual representations for artificial intelligence as humanoid robots to be unimaginative. Why? Rant on...

Sadly Robotic Metaphors for AI
Sadly Robotic Metaphors for AI
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An open site for sharing the worst cliche AI Generated images as representing AI- you know the humanoid robots, the electronic brains, all the blue glowing screens. As a SPLOT anyone can submit and take credit (or not) for sharing another sadly robotic metaphor for AI.

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A SPLOT on the Web: Sadly Robotic Metaphors for AI.

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Graphic style image with large figure sitting on chair with an out of proprtion large head, exposing a brain with illegible words on lobes, behind the hed like long hair are more gibberish words that shed off the ends. In front is a white m,ain and girl standing in front of a micrphone. Behind is an african american man sitting on a pile of books reading one, and a large stack of books on the other side

Giant Blue Brain LLM Shredding Words with Singers at the Mic and Man reading books

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

This is the feature for an article about the United Arab Emirates plans to create an LLM “inspired” by China’s DeepSeek.  Faisal Al Bannai, the driving force behind the UAE’s…

GenAI graphic of a spherical orb emmitting blue rays outward to the ldeft, atop a square base with dial lights sitting on a shiny table. Behind are charts and small display screens with AI and Higher Education repeated a few times, not even mispelled.

The Blender/Scanner for Higher Education

(1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

This is another one of Bryan Alexander’s rich substacked posts on AI and higher education: notes from early 2025 including what he is scanning and seeing in this area. …

A plastic humanoid robot awash in a glow of blue screen sits at a desk and stares somewhat dully at a computer screen on the left It has one hand resting on a keyboard.

Devin, the Pathetic AI Software Engineer Codes with 4 Fingers on the Keyboard

(1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 5)

This image tops a “story” awash in verbiage that I would bet is AI Generated is called “Devin, the First AI Software Engineer, Said it Can Write, Code,…

Cartoonish image of a robot sitting at a desk reading a book with nearby a cup of pencils, more books standing up, and for some reason a beer glass. Behind is a chalkboard covered with illegiable words, equations, and what looks like post it notes.

Robot Scientist with Only a Chalkboard, Book, and Beer Mug

(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

The lead/featured image for VentureBeat’s (interesting) piece on OpenScholar: The open-source A.I. that’s outperforming GPT-4o in scientific research Scientists are drowning in data. With millions of research papers…

Search engine site Lexica where the search is for -- ai -- the results are hundreds if not thousands of robot heads

Lexica is Robots All the Way Down

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

I’m looking for wide representation of AI Imagery and tried the search site Lexica, which apparently does that (it lacks an About Page). The results for a search on…

A svelte plastic clad robot appears to be gazing at economic data on a large, computer screen

Robot Economist Deluxe

(1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

Here is another one from Bryan Alexander’s AI, Academia, and the Future news letter  from the one titled Bubble or Not? where Bryan discusses in wonderful depth, the…

Draft with AI website titled \

Ask an AI Generator to Generate a Metaphor for Itself

(1 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)

I asked the AI Metaphor Generator to generate a metaphor for “Artificial Intelligence” to which it spat back this text “Artificial intelligence is like a digital brain, constantly…

A visualized human brain with blue light effects

The Blue Brain

(1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 5)

Dom a relevant discussion about AI metaphors “AI as a flying blue brain? How metaphors influence our visions of AI“ Why is Artificial Intelligence so commonly depicted as…

Back of a classroom view with diverse students in rows all focused on computer screens. A humanaid shaped robot teacher figure stands in between the rows, with arms out, not doing much. The front board is a high tech glowing screen full if colored circles and digital readouts.

Shiny Robot Teacher with Big Feet

(2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

This image is the featured image for Unite.AI’s story “10 Best AI Tools for Education (September 2024)“: Most of the conversation surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) tools is often…

On the left a metallic robot figure five times a human gestures as if instructiong a man seated at a desk, behind is semi circular wall full of screens and displats

Our Robot Overlords

(1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

This is from Bryan Alexander’s very detailed and interesting Substack piece Generative AI as simulation runner The image is typical blue screen hue, but is showing a but…

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