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No, Not the Dart

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Strip by: David Morgan-Mar, Andrew Coker

T-Rex: AlphaGo is an impressive piece of AI research.[1]
T-Rex: But what next?
T-Rex: Google is going to release a mobile version which runs on phones and tablets.
Utahraptor: That's impressive![2]
T-Rex: And I haven't even told you the best part!
Utahraptor: Which is?
T-Rex: The name!
T-Rex: Goggomobile![3]
T-Rex: G-O-G-G-O...[4]

The author writes:

[1] AlphaGo, Wikipedia.

[2] Since the current version of AlphaGo which is playing Lee Sedol runs on a cluster of supercomputers with 1,920 CPUs and 280 GPUs.

[3] Goggomobil, Wikipedia.

[4] Unashamed joke that only Australians of a certain age will get. See this old TV ad for details.