It's All Bots, Girl: The Bot Next Door
Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
4.8 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In part two of this series, we explore the origins of LLMs, the first chatbot 'Eliza', Weizenbaum's fears of the future and how everything we're dealing with today was predicated almost 80 years ago.
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About Eating For Free:
Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it. Find out the stories behind the stories, as together they look beyond the headlines of troublesome YouTubers or scandal-ridden A-Listers, and delve deep into the inner workings of Hollywood's favorite pastime. The truth, they've found, is definitely stranger than any gossip.
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| 0:00.0 | Men are all alike. |
| 0:13.2 | In what way? |
| 0:15.6 | They're always bugging us about something or other. |
| 0:19.2 | Can you think of a specific example? |
| 0:21.9 | Well, my boyfriend made me come here. |
| 0:25.2 | Your boyfriend made you come here? |
| 0:27.3 | He says I'm depressed much of the time. |
| 0:31.3 | I am sorry to hear you are depressed. |
| 0:34.2 | It's true. I am unhappy. |
| 0:37.0 | Do you think coming here will help you not be unhappy? |
| 0:40.3 | I need some help. That much seems certain. |
| 0:44.7 | What would it mean to you if you got some help? |
| 0:48.0 | Perhaps I could learn to get along with my mother? |
| 0:52.1 | Tell me more about your family. |
| 0:57.0 | My mother takes care of me. Who else in your family takes care of you? My father. Your father? You are like my father in some ways. |
| 1:06.0 | What resemblance do you see? You're not very aggressive, but I think you don't want me to notice that. |
| 1:13.6 | Why do you think I don't argue with you? |
| 1:16.6 | You are afraid of me. |
| 1:18.6 | Does it please you to believe I am afraid of you? |
| 1:21.6 | My father is afraid of everybody. |
| 1:24.6 | What else comes to mind when you think of your father? |
| 1:28.3 | Bullies. |
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