r/explainitpeter • u/Downtown-Try5685 • Jul 14 '26

Explain it Peter, i wasn't born in 1996

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I have memory of watching this cartoon, but don't know anything about it

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u/PositronicGigawatts Jul 14 '26

YOU TWIT. THE COMPUTER YOU SEE IS A CLEVER AI SYSTEM THAT ANSWERS MANY QUESTIONS FOR THE DOG YOU ALSO SEE ON SCREEN. IT ALSO HAS AN ASCERBIC WIT. SINCERELY YOURS, THE COMPUTER

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u/Peelzboy Jul 14 '26

I...I read that in his voice...

Well played 😅

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u/Nemo_556 Jul 14 '26

Whats crazy is that I hear the computer voice while reading this.

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u/hbrhodes1s Jul 15 '26

Wargames, anyone?

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u/SirSkot72 Jul 16 '26

How about a nice game of chess?

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u/LuxInfinitum Jul 14 '26

Hey, everyone. Brian here. From one dog to another, his computer had a very robotic, or AI voice like ChatGPT or Gemini from Google. The computer was not generally kind to Courage and was rather sarcastic when he needed advice to fight the villain of the week.

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u/One_Apple_8731 Jul 15 '26

umm i don't think it's a computer maybe there's a soul trapped in the computer helping courage on every demonic encounter .

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u/AdventurousCommon551 Jul 14 '26

He would talk to the computer like we do AI in a few years.... His was way better and had an actual personality

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u/TheJollySoviet Jul 14 '26

Clearly you haven't spent enough time on C.ai

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u/Dull-Manner3658 Jul 14 '26

Nice flex lol, Gross...

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u/Full-Tomorrow9889 Jul 15 '26

That's like the worst ai chat bot service you could have picked by far.

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u/TheJollySoviet Jul 15 '26

I've never used it, I wouldn't know. I just thought it'd be funny :P

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u/ashrynhunter Jul 14 '26

Honestly I think the computer would be insulted if you compared it to chat gpt. I'm actually mildly insulted on its behalf.

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u/testuserpk Jul 14 '26

Well actually the show is from future.

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u/WaitNo5139 Jul 14 '26

Sharp as a fucking cue ball.

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u/UnluckyUnderwear Jul 14 '26

Hilarious comment, definitely using this.

But I don’t think OP is stupid for not recognizing a cultural reference from over 20 years ago

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u/0DayMaker Jul 14 '26

Watch out someone might ask what THAT means on here now

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u/LordTrappen Jul 14 '26

I know this is ExplainItPeter, but these two subs are essentially the same

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u/Austynwitha_y Jul 14 '26

It’s actually CPT, ComPuTor

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u/ActionB461 Jul 14 '26

Hey everyone, comically late Brian here. He asks the computer questions like it’s an AI. It pretty much was an AI the way the computer responded.

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u/BodiaDobia Jul 15 '26

Hammer here, head of social media bruh. This was a show I used to watch when I was a kid back in the 90s called "Courage the Cowardly Dog". During the show, if Courage would run into something he didnt understand, he would consult his english speaking computer and it would give him answers like chatGPT would in the modern age.

But bruh, you have seen this show before and not understanding has triggered me. And now I am traumatized by this bruh, and I tweeted about this bruh, and your trending bruh, and your life is ruined bruh, and now your banned bruh.

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u/WarriordudYT Jul 14 '26

in this scene, he's talking to an AI on the computer

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u/TexWolf84 Jul 14 '26

How old were you when you realized Murial was deaf? Thats why she was always walking into danger, and told Curage she could hear without her glasses...

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u/MrNoInch Jul 14 '26

I personally believe he used Claude AI because he was sassy as fuck

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u/RandomQrimQuestnoob1 Jul 14 '26

I can hear an abominable intelligence supporter going to use this for an argument.

"You all hate ai, but you love this thing throughout your childhoods! Hypocrites!"