Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part III: Life, death and AI

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Next up in our bots series, we explore a growing field of AI: immortalizing the dead through predictive AI text. We talk to two individuals who utilized this tech in different ways, and discuss how these bots can help us improve our understanding of grief.

****** Credits: This episode was written and produced by Megan Cattel. Mixing and sound design by Paul Vaitkus. Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson are the co-hosts.

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0:51.3	It all started with a love story.
0:54.7	My name is Joshua Farbo.
0:57.2	I live in Bradford, Ontario, and I'm a writer and I'm a professional dungeon master who runs
1:05.0	games of Dungeons and Dragons for people all over the world.
1:08.3	Joshua lives with his border collie German Shepherd mix, Chancy.
1:12.5	Chancy, what do you want?
1:15.5	Here, I have a treat.
1:18.7	You might hear Chancy a little bit throughout this episode.
1:21.9	12 years ago, Joshua was going to an adult high school.
1:25.5	That's a more popular alternative in Canada to getting your GED.
1:29.2	And I was going to an adult high school because I had dropped out of high school years
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