If you heard, burn one with wax, drag it through the garden and take it for a walk,

where are you most likely to be? The answer to that at the end of the show. My name's Tom Scott,

and this is Lateral. As usual, I am joined by three people who have volunteered to get weird and

wobbly with their thinking, so let's meet them before they fall over. We start with, from his studio in California where he is building many, many bizarre things for the internet. Mark Rober. Hello, good to be here. Welcome back to the show. This is your second time here. How are you feeling? Good. I'm feeling good. I'm embarrassed. I wore the same thing again, but I hope reviews are okay with that.

It's almost like we filmed these in recording blocks or something. It's amazing.

Next up, still isolating before her trip off to the Antarctic. Virginia shooting.

Hi, Tom. What are you

hoping to work on out there? What are you planning while you're on the boat? Oh, my most exciting thing

that I'm working up is like an editorial style fashion shoot at sea. I'm very nervous about asking for

permission to do shots on the ice. I don't think we'll get it, but that's what I'm getting for.

I'm really excited about it. And worst case, you're still on the deck of a ship in the Antarctic. This is true. And finally, joining us from his mysterious artificial intelligence bunker, we have Gibrales. What's up, Tom? How you doing? Thanks for having me. I'm doing well. I do have a question about the video we collaborated on, because I got to guess which of these things were AI generated and which weren't. And I was slightly above chance, but not much. Please tell me I wasn't the worst. You were not the worst. Okay. That's that's all I need to know. That's...

But you will find out your ranking. Okay. That's all I need to know. But you will find out your ranking.

I've got a series of clever questions that will hopefully make our guests' brains

explode with creative solutions.

Not literally, but we did make them sign a waiver.

So we start with this.

An audience has arrived to listen to a musical performance.

The entire orchestra starts to tune up, and the audience laughs.

Why?

I'll give you that again.

An audience has arrived to listen to a musical performance.

The entire orchestra starts to tune up, and the audience laughs.

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